A few more boxes of bits arrived today, so having cleared a bit of space in the garage at home, it was time to load up the van, hitch up the race shuttle and bring the rolling chassis and the boxes back for sorting out.
This being production chassis number 2, and the first to leave the factory intended for a home build, was always going to be a bit more of a challenge than taking a modified Beetle chassis that had been the basis upon which the cars had been built for years.
What was a shock was that there was still no build manual or high level build guide available. The parts were randomly packed in boxes and there was no simple way to cross check the packing list/bill of materials to what had been shipped. Sadly it took me about 3 hours to work this out and all I ended up doing was segregating parts into new plastic containers grouped by what I assumed were sensible collections, eg. Body, chassis, electrical, interior, etc.
Some of the parts also looked to be sub-standard quality, for example the fuel tank was scratched and the chrome plating was peeling off the insides of the hubs. In terms of shortages, it was impossible to say what I haven’t had that I should have at this stage although a pair of driveshaft would certainly be handy!
A call to the factory tomorrow will be high on the agenda.
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