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TC, check this out.

FM Former Member
The long-term project that followed mine was this street-drivable '65 sunroof Beetle turbo dragster. It's been a whole lot of fitting and testing, changed welds, grinding, tubing bending and such, but that chassis finally left for the sandblaster guy this week with all of its brackets and wire chases done.
As soon as it was cleaned up by the sandblaster guy, it went to the powdercoat guy. For the money (maybe $600, combined with a few favors), it looks good.
Now it goes for paint (maroon over cream in the standard VW combo for a two-tone) and then we'll be helping Kevin hang all of his goodies back inside.
He's not as happy with the finish as he could have been -- there are a few fisheyes and boogers in the interior where the sprayer tip probably dripped a bit -- but overall it's light years ahead of what it looked like last week.
Thought I'd share this:

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FM Former Member
The long-term project that followed mine was this street-drivable '65 sunroof Beetle turbo dragster. It's been a whole lot of fitting and testing, changed welds, grinding, tubing bending and such, but that chassis finally left for the sandblaster guy this week with all of its brackets and wire chases done.
As soon as it was cleaned up by the sandblaster guy, it went to the powdercoat guy. For the money (maybe $600, combined with a few favors), it looks good.
Now it goes for paint (maroon over cream in the standard VW combo for a two-tone) and then we'll be helping Kevin hang all of his goodies back inside.
He's not as happy with the finish as he could have been -- there are a few fisheyes and boogers in the interior where the sprayer tip probably dripped a bit -- but overall it's light years ahead of what it looked like last week.
Thought I'd share this:

FM Former Member
My thought was to unhang all the parts of your Ghia and have it treated. It might not be a terrible idea, and it wouldn't break the bank. I thought the results might be of general interest to you and a few other folks here as a viable and inexpensive alternative to painting the metal chassis parts.
Also of possible interest, the green fiberglass filler that was on the sides of the front fenderwells was pretty resistive to the sandblaster. It came back textured, but it was still there and held up to the temperatures of the powdercoating process, too.
The only discoloration in the entire chassis are from those little spots where not all of the black rubber sealer was scraped out of the nooks and crannies.
I don't know how you'd get all that stuff out of a car with a cage in it. It seems like there were some pretty hard spots to reach in there.
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