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Tag Archives: VW
Karmann Ghia
One previous owner 66 Ghia, originally a Californian dry car. We bought this fine car through the Samba Feb 04. We rebuilt the engine, flushed the gas tank, retrimmed interior with TMI covers, sewfine carpets, rebuilt the horns, painted the … Continue reading
Driver's Sill
Repair work to Driver side So with a Schofield book in hand we begin the ‘what panels do I need? stage.
Passenger Sill
Repair work to Passenger Side This is what it started as;
Assessment
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.
Introduction – our first real vw bus
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 … Continue reading
Paint – 3
Post paint and before final polishing;
Paint – 2
Delivered to Terry’s. By this time we were having serious doubts over the colour. Luke convinced us that the bright blue was not the right colour. His words ‘Nah that won’t look right, what you want is a nice pastel … Continue reading
Paint – 1
This is the point at which we started to question the Brunswick colour paint. The paint was matched and supplied by the Bus Station btw. http://www.thebusstation.co.uk
Gearbox
Before the body was delivered to Terry’s Beetles (actually while waiting for my slot to come up) I thought I’d do the gearbox and return the rideheight to what I thought would be normal.
Body Prep – After Blasting
Soda blasting is something best done either in a very well extracted booth or in a very open space – neither of which applies to a garage outside your home. Basically when used dry the dust from the soda is … Continue reading