"This picture is of the
schwimmer with all the parts inside, this was the day I bought the sch'm, (great
day)."
Treatment of the body and
painting.
"As for my schwimmwagen it is
finished. I am still missing the hood but I have tracked one down for a fair
price. I was missing the fuel tanks but I made two, there not orignal but they
will do the job and the drive from the engine to the body for the propeller is
missing but I managed to find one to copy so I'm making one assembly at the
moment so it wont be long before its going into the water!!
When I say its finished, I still have some work to do but it
drives, all the electrics work and it has just passed the British MOT, all I
have to do now is register the schwimmer with the DVLA, (Give it a UK number
plate) and I'm on the road!!"
"My friend is painting the
underneath, hope it never ends up this way again????"
"The day I loaded it on my 1978
vw pick-up and I painted the rest of the body where you see it (On the back of
the pick-up)!!!"
"Picture is of the front axle
just before I attached it to the body. I did it on my own, I didn't realize how
heavy it was it took me a very long time to fit it!!!."
Restoration completed 2004! The
result is very nice.
Words from the owner:
"I have the certificate from wolfsburg and it was built on the 31/12/1943 and
left the factory on 5/1/1944 and went to Erfurt.
The chassis number is 7008777, body number on the engine lid hinge is 8188.
One last thing, I took it to its first Volkswagen show called peppercorn on the
11/12 July this year and I won best of show ,so I was very happy!! Unfortunately
I didn't take to many photo's when I was putting the schwimmer together, I put
it together quite quickly! The Engine number is; 7-044 687 and its country of
destination was; Heereszeugamt, Erfurt/Germany. One last thing, I was very happy
when I saw the message on your site from a man in England (Adam wise) saying he
had rode in my schwimmer, I'm not sure who he was but it really made my day!!!!"
I thank the owner for his
nice story.
After restoration:
