How To: C8A restoration in Holland

[Jonathan Moore]

Hello Pieter,

I hope that all is well, how is the HUP coming along, any progress?

Jon

[8threcce]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Moore

Hello Pieter,

I hope that all is well, how is the HUP coming along, any progress?

Jon

Jon
Thank you for your message.
The HUP is coming on very slowly, Im now working on the body but the shed is too cold to work in.
Due to my accident earlier I lost the whole of 2018 and a great part of 2019 for physical recovery... the HUP was just getting too heavy for lifting parts etc .. and my neck and muscles couldn't handle it.
To not go nuts I spend time in assembly of a GPW , much lighter parts ..but it also helped as a sort of therapy..
The jeep is almost finished..deadline April this year..and then move on with the HUP..I think in 2020 we will place the body on the chassis..cross fingers

Regards
Pieter

[Jonathan Moore]

Pieter,

It's great to hear that you are ok, the HUP will get restored eventually, your health must come first.

Look after yourself,

Jon

[8threcce]

Hi everybody,

Again it has been a while but step by step I'm getting there.

I moved the chassis out of storage and last few weeks we rundown all the items that needed to be fixed and all where dealt with.
The Chassis now has breaking power, emergency brake is working and we fitted the oilfilter to the engine brakes and made some oil lines.
The both drive shafts where redone , completely balanced and one got a new tube (super job).

Main progress on the body.
Side panels are added to the frame and we are now working on the roof and specially the hatch opening.

I managed to reproduce the hatch structure and we are now in the progress of adding the hatch frame to the roof.

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some more pictures

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[Hanno Spoelstra]

Hi Pieter,

Great to see all the sheet metal work. Impressive project, hope to see it on the road sometime!

[8threcce]

Yesterday we entered the final stage of mounting the roof of the C8a

The piece that we mounted is the rear of a C60 Cabin roof cut to fit the C8a
In width we didn't ajust anything it just fits like a glove.

The hardest part of the body is now over and we get into the nitty gritty of grinding and detail work.

All sheet metal is Zinc coated