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Pre Paint-1

thefordhams — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 08:59:33 +0000

Final touches before painting.

We stripped the bus and then shipped her to the Raleigh NC.

http://www.transporterwerks.com/index.htm

Also whilst sorting out the locks to be a one key affair the following people were extremely helpful;

http://www.steveslockshop.com/

& John Harper of Performance Logistics for the deluxe cargo doors.

Some of the work by the guys at transporterwerks;

Tidy up welding to driver rocker panel

Safari windows

Schofield rocker panel

Welded bulkhead to replace the PO speakers

Welded rear valence to repair the PO cuts

Seat belt upper anchors for front seat passengers

Also acquired a correct 67 yr 2/3 middle seat with some black knob switches, middle seat kick panel and some armrests. Score.

Off to the blasters for paint strip and repaint.

Driver's Sill

thefordhams — Tue, 29 Jul 2003 13:25:54 +0000

Repair work to Driver side

So with a Schofield book in hand we begin the ‘what panels do I need? stage.

Fully recommend getting a Schofield book as a guide plus the fit and quality of his panels are superb;

http://www.ahschofield.co.uk/home.htm

Jamie cold chisel in hand;

Grandad inspecting note pint in hand

Small local repair to floor partition panel;

Nice series of shots showing removal of metal and building up again.

This is with outer removed – plus some help from a little person

Inner sill fitted;

Outer sill fitted;

Passenger Sill

thefordhams — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:42:18 +0000

Repair work to Passenger Side

This is what it started as;

Same deal as the drivers side. Cut it out, weld an inner sill

But the floor baffled us, either localised repair or a new section?

Purchased a replacement VW floor at great expense from Schofield

This is what it ended up like;

Small localised repair to the rear suspension tube carrier;

MOT’d in a hurry, registered her, surrendered the CA title, packed up her up on the RoRo ferry as we’re off to the new world of North Carolina USA.

We then thought long and hard about what to do with the bus, use her as is or get some more repairs done and then paint here to be nice. With all the hassle of titles in NC we decided to get her painted.

Assessment

thefordhams — Fri, 30 May 2003 05:00:00 +0000

The Start

Do we drive it or ‘just’ do a light restoration to the rusty bits. The rusty bits were the outer sills – or so we thought. The outer sills turned into inner sills and partial floors too.

As collected from the Thames port

The rust?

Introduction – our first real vw bus

thefordhams — Mon, 06 Jan 2003 13:09:14 +0000

Although this is not where it all started this is where pictures and detailing what we’ve done maybe started. So here goes, we wanted a bus, something to move more than 5 people, was cool, was old… so after an aborted attempt with a (hindsight) really nice SO-42 split screen we arrived at a vw split screen that had seats. Onto the Samba.. we eventually found one - a super correct 67 deluxe with all the right parts.

This is where we started in 2002;

Once again the Samba came to our rescue but this time we took some time and chose more of what we wanted;

Original

Bus with seats

Deluxe

Not much welding

Owned and driven by the guys who run Hannoverwerks – now a defunct website but they were all over the scene in the late 90′s.

The original ad pics from Samba;