HOLLY HELL!!!!!!!!
I absolutely LOVE that car!!!
PLEASE please PLEASE do a build up thread? I want more pictures.
I painted a couple of those back in the day. Full metal cars. Nice stuff.
Don't really have a build up thread, since it's not my car. I also don't want to thread-jack but I'll quickly post up what I've got.
Here's where it was when I first started working for this guy- well, actually it was in primer but we painted it soon after. The body work prior to this was extensive. The owner bought it in Mexico, some crazy Mexicans had hacked up the doors to put in power windows (

) and there was prior bodywork where they had cut the front of the car off and nearly cut through the serial number. Amazingly the engine was still there.

Later details:

It somehow still had the original badges so we cleaned them up and re-used them.

Carreras' had dry-sump oiling from the factory.

And bigger front drums.

Original gauges!

(notice the '65 in back)
Sadly, we aren't building the engine for this one, the owner has his own engine guy. He's got almost $200K!!! in the engine alone. The Carrera's had the crazy 4-cam aircooled engine, not the typical pushrod Beetle-like engine. (though they were not the same) The Carrera engine had roller bearings, shaft-driven cams, dual distributors, dry sump oiling, etc... pretty high tech. The car will be worth upwards of $700,000 when it's finished.
Sorry to moT, I don't want to take away from your post, if you want me to take down the pics, just let me know.
Brendan