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Bugly's progress is slow and steady, but not it is finished completely. I'll start by telling you how we started our restoration process.
It began in the winter (February, 1998) when we brought it up to Dan Baudoux of "Dan's Off Road" now Dan Baudoux Motorsports. We wanted an off-road vehicle and that's what we got. Dan built "Bugly" for off-road and made it structurally sound.
The next step...we traveled to Dan's, got "Bugly" and brought it to Larry Woods, our friend and body man, for the finishing touches. Larry has had many fabricating challenges to figure out (i.e. how to mount the back seat, so the kids would have leg clearance). This was a problem, since the original seats were trashed and new front buckets added. These new buckets were bigger and had to rest closer to the back seat leaving no leg room. Once Larry got that fixed the doors wouldn't align properly and he had to fix that -- whew!!! Larry then finished priming, sandblasting and painting. His hope was to have it completed by the end of October, but we got it around Christmas. Larry's friend, Gerald Kamyszek has been helping with the bodywork too! Thanks guys for all the hard work.
The paint we chose for "Bugly" is beautiful (yet costly) called "Rainbow Extreme." This paint has about six different colors that it can change to depending on which angle you are looking, sometimes it looks cranberry, sometimes blue, sometimes purple, sometime rust/gold, etc. The paint job is beautiful. Now it is so fancy...will Dave want to go off-roading and possibly get it scratched up? Well Dave's reply is "if it gets scratched, we personally know the bodyman." Now Larry...hear that?
Although these pictures are good, they don't do the car justice. See the next page for continued progress.
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