Apparently, the stage in the manufacturing process where the body and the chassis were united used to be referred to in the Goggomobil factory as ‘The Wedding’. After more than 30 years of matrimony, my Goggo was about to go through a rather messy divorce.
Removing the body from the chassis was made much easier because I had cut away and replaced most of the body panels. Nevertheless, there were still a couple of areas where I needed to get the angle grinder out and undo some of the more exotic repairs that had been made by the previous owner. I also needed to remove the row of bolts along the front of the car. Access here is difficult and in the end I used the angle grinder again to chop off the heads of the bolts. Eventually everything was freed up and, with the help of my long suffering wife, I was able to lift the body away and attach it onto a temporary frame that I had built.
Now I was able to see the chassis it all it’s glory but, before I started work there, I still had a couple of panels to replace around the body.
Rear panel under the ‘boot’
The front panel under the ‘bonnet’
Both rear corner sections
By the time I had finished I had just about worked through all of the repair sections in the spare parts catalog. The entire lower section of the car was now shiny new metal….. all more or less in the right place. The welds were rather messy in places but I was going to have to grind them all down later anyway. I sprayed everything with zinc spray and moved on to the chassis
