Paint Time!

It's been a long few weeks of prepping the shell but this is where it all pays off (apparently). The Bug was taken down to Mark @ Petes Signs of Lincoln to be painted.

The outside was masked up carefully to allow Mark to apply the 'Hellrot' Orange direct gloss to the inside including the rollcage. Every square inch was thoroughly panel wiped and cleaned to ensure no dust or grime was left on the primer.

Once clean, we left Mark to it and took some photo's through the window as he applied the first of the colour.

a coat of direct gloss on the inside


then masking up the interior to apply the base coat and lacquer

It's all in the prep....

So everyone told me. However it's only once you actually paint a car that you realise just how true this is! This blog will will only hint at the amount of work that has gone into prepping the Jagerbug for paint. Trust me, it's been hours and hours, days and days of sanding and spraying and sanding again. It'll all be worth it in the end.

Once we got the Bug back from RNJ Motorsport with our impressive roll cage fitted it was time to crack on with getting ready for paint.

The final filling was done mainly around the roof chop areas.

It was all hands on deck filling and sanding until we were 100% happy with the finish.

With all the filling done and sanded back it was time to apply a good coat of primer then a guide coat. This was sanded back and the whole process repeated several times over the entire car! Literally hours were spent getting the body as straight as possible in the time left.

Fast forward several exhausting days later and the Jagerbug was treated to it's final coat of white primer. Much to the relief of the sanders!

After another coat of guide coat and rub down (told you there was a lot of prepping!) the body was reunited with the floorpan to transport it to the paint shop

Roll Cage

Ok folks, a quick update from Team Jagerbug

It's taken me a while to get to writing this blog entry but last week we visited Rob Judge aka Judgie of RNJ Motorsport to have our roll cage built. We supplied the regulation tubing and Rob provided his time FREE OF CHARGE! We can't thank him enough as he's done a fantastic job in a very short space of time. Anyone looking to get a cage built would be wise to give the man a call on 01604 813702

After a lot of careful measuring and double checking Rob's awesome pipe bender made light(ish) work of the 42mm cds tubing and it wasn't long before our first hoop was bent and trial fitted in the car. The first hoop is the most vital as virtually all the other tubing is attached to it.

Piece by piece the cage was built up, each join being fishmouthed using this impressive bit of kit

The cage grew into a 17 piece 10 point cage!

Once all the pieces were cut to length it was down to Rob to expertly weld them all into position

It may look like a huge game of kerplunk but this little lot should hopefully keep any driver safe in the event of an accident. It also stiffens up the shell incredibly so should give the car a much more rigid feel.

It was a long 2 days but as Rob neared the end it was starting to look pretty impressive inside the Jagerbug!

The end product is a 17 piece, 10 point cage! Should be plenty good enough for the speed we'll be going. Let's hope we never have to use it