Up and up

While we used just the front and rear part of the body lift for the first pictures of the "assembled" Sand Scorcher, we now have the completed steel frame available. Therefore we had to weld the four pieces of the Empi kit together. Because of the body lift the Beetle shell will sit around 7,5 centimeter (3 inches) higher than before.

Franz and Konrad are mounting the wings to the body, checking the clearance of the huge tires.

Now you get a first impression. It doesn't look as spectacular as we expected, after all everybody has seen a Baja Beetle before. But Walter believes in it: "That car will be different to every Baja you have seen so far!"