Guanchita´s story starts when Elio Reyes (a good friend & great VWs fanatic) was looking for a Doka. When he started it was only one, but soon he realized he had bought 3 dokas and a bus, too much. So he sold Guanchita to Jesus El_Gofio who got her. This was the Doka as a daily-driver vehicle:
Soon afterwards, Elio started dismantling everything to get to the bare body...
The engine was brought down for a serious re-building:
And later, she was taken to a lonely junkyard to be sandblasted...
The task was done by a kind of Darth Vader´s newphew (in Elio´s own words):
And after sandblasting her to the bone and do some minor welding repairings, she was primmed to be painted and re-assembled again (at this point Elio got a nice perfectly preserved doka and abandoned the project which gave Jesus the opportunity to buy her) :
Jesus (our Gofio Man) took things easy and a long process of body painting and engine re-building and painting started: (Here are the engine tin parts hanging from a rope ready to be painted)
The final results ( a bit scary for some of us but "cool" for him):
The cargo doors were carefully repaired ("with love"), primmed & painted too:
The back cargo door gave some problems rejecting one and again the paint, which made him repeat the process at least three times:
Then the colours were fixed to the body: first light silver in & out and later that strange "caramel surprise"...
Windows, lights and uphostery were patiently put back into her...(here we can see Kiko helping Jesus)....
Engine lid and tail lights in their place...
You can see this man is in love....he, he ...
And Guanchita as she is now, a joyful, gorgeus Doka looking forward to go for a ride!!!
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