DKW 1938 restoration Part 2
The work is moving on with the DKW, and the majority of the external body panels for the rear are done.
Now is the time to build the bottom of the trunk. Since this is a car with a rare body type, we haven't been able to find any documentation about how the panels are suppose to look.
Bodywork on the 1938 DKW
DKW is one of the forerunners of the modern Audi automobiles in conjunction with the Wanderer project described in one of my recent articles. The four rings of the Audi logo comes from the Auto Union. The modern (post WW2) Trabants and Wartburg autos,
The Jeep FC 150
This Jeep FC 150 needed som help with a apparently common rust issue on the rear right corner of the cabin. It is right below where the battery is situated, and this corner have a tendency to rust due to acid leakage from the battery.
Restoring a Wanderer from 1938
(image is only for illustration, not the actual car)
Wanderer was a german car manufacturer that became part of Auto Union together with Horch, Audi and DKW, witch then merged into what we now know as Audi. This is where the four rings originated from. The history can be found on wikipedia.
This Wanderer have been in storage for at least 20 years and have therefore not deteriorated much, and now the owners widdow wants it to be restaured. These are quite rare cars today and this one is probably the only one in Denmark right now. The Wanderer was a pricy and very well build car, but not as expensive as the Horch.
Some of the paint job is done
Well, now the car body has got its final color, and now it's the doors and hoods that are next. The most correct way to paint a car is to paint all the parts one go. This is sadly not possible in my workshop, so I have to make it in iterations.
One could argue that a specialist should do the paint job, and that would be a very good solution in most cases. On the other side, I save a lot of money by doing it myself and I like the challenge of doing it myself. The other advantage is that I have control over how the details are painted and also how the masking is done.
This color came out nicer than expected
Well here it is, the underside of the car is now done and ready for some parts.
Trying a new product
Now that the interior of the body shell is painted, we need to make sure there will be no resonance from the sheet metal panels when driving. We can dampen the noise in the cabin with different materials. One of the products is sheets of self adhesive bitumen dampening plates. This is one of the products that are used by the factory. These sheets come in different thicknesses, and range from approximately 1mm up to 5mm in thickness.