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cb john Wolfsburg Wizard

470 posts · joined Jun 2007 ·

#618568
After full four days of work windscreen frame in stainless steel is finished.Came up pretty good...now I'll have the glass cut , fit it in and start on next panels...

Craig Torrens 6 times Australian, 7 times State Hillclimb Class Champion

8,040 posts · joined Jan 2003 ·

#618570
cmon show us a photo !!


cb john Wolfsburg Wizard

470 posts · joined Jun 2007 ·

#618571
I only have a few pictures of progress, final photo after fitting the glass in..

Craig Torrens 6 times Australian, 7 times State Hillclimb Class Champion

8,040 posts · joined Jan 2003 ·

#618605
teaser 👍

Will come around this week and have a look.


cb john Wolfsburg Wizard

470 posts · joined Jun 2007 ·

#618716
Since fitting of the glass is a little distant, here is the photo of the frame..


ztnoo Insano Dub Head

730 posts · joined Aug 2007 ·

#618731
John,
Very,very nice work!
👍
You are THE MAN when it comes to CB body parts restoration!

What's next on the list?

Regards,
Steve

Fine tuning the proper daily ratio of Maxwell House to Bacardi 151.........

* Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia !

cb john Wolfsburg Wizard

470 posts · joined Jun 2007 ·

#619892
Front apron finished today.

cb john Wolfsburg Wizard

470 posts · joined Jun 2007 ·

#620178
To support my previous statement, here are some pictures...





58camper Wolfsburg Wizard

591 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#620180
John,
Great work, even down to the correct recess for the number plate. Having seen the original front apron at the workshop- the new one is a gem.
Sorry I missed you the other day.
Countrybuggybill.

Craig Torrens 6 times Australian, 7 times State Hillclimb Class Champion

8,040 posts · joined Jan 2003 ·

#620183
put me down for one 👍


cb john Wolfsburg Wizard

470 posts · joined Jun 2007 ·

#620185
Thanks Bill, your appreciation means a lot to me...perhaps we'll meet some other day...

Craig : no problem, but you'll have to get your own light buckets..

Craig Torrens 6 times Australian, 7 times State Hillclimb Class Champion

8,040 posts · joined Jan 2003 ·

#620191
That's ok, they're just early beetle ?


cb john Wolfsburg Wizard

470 posts · joined Jun 2007 ·

#620196
yes..

ztnoo Insano Dub Head

730 posts · joined Aug 2007 ·

#620205
John,
How close are you to having all the panels fabricated you need for your project?
What else is still in the works before you begin to weld the body?
When that times comes, I hope you will share pics with all of us of the final assembly of your CB body, and also provide text descriptions of how you will go about the work, problems you encouter, and your solutions to those problems
You have done a remarkable job so far. I'm sure the final product will be just as impressive.

Regards,
Steve

Fine tuning the proper daily ratio of Maxwell House to Bacardi 151.........

* Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia !

cb john Wolfsburg Wizard

470 posts · joined Jun 2007 ·

#620251
This is a little OT, but speaking about impressive product, this is THE ONE. Formula Vee, which just out of box won two National tittles.

cb john Wolfsburg Wizard

470 posts · joined Jun 2007 ·

#620528
ztnoo wrote:John,
How close are you to having all the panels fabricated you need for your project?
What else is still in the works before you begin to weld the body?
When that times comes, I hope you will share pics with all of us of the final assembly of your CB body, and also provide text descriptions of how you will go about the work, problems you encouter, and your solutions to those problems
You have done a remarkable job so far. I'm sure the final product will be just as impressive.

Regards,
Steve
Steve,
this is going to be a bloody long project even though I'm putting all my spare time into it.
Front end is getting close to completion but there is still a lot to do.Next will be dashboard and partitions for glove box and instrument cluster,cover of the steering column , bracket for brake fluid reservoir etc..

Before any assembly I need to finish the pan in the order of starting placing components in the right places.The sequence of assembly is still to be worked out, I dont want to get caught by incorrect move...

This morning I've tried a dry assembly of the front parts, just to verify the fit and to see differences between beetle tank surround which I've bought just for this reason.
I can use some parts of it, but as most of aftermarket repair panels this is a piece of crap,so I will make my own..

Thisi is an update to this day , will keep you in the picture..

John


ztnoo Insano Dub Head

730 posts · joined Aug 2007 ·

#620541
John,
Remarkable......truly remarkable!
What a determined and focused fabricator you are, and what an ambitious project you have undertaken.
Great pic...........but not ever having seen the guts of a CB myself, I'm not quite sure what I'm looking at in the pic.
Enlighten me, if you would.


So.....is your plan to stop and work on the pan shortly, or are you going to continue on with body panel fabrication for now and attack the pan later?

Any wild idea how long your restoration will take to complete???

Regards,
Steve

Fine tuning the proper daily ratio of Maxwell House to Bacardi 151.........

* Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia !

ztnoo Insano Dub Head

730 posts · joined Aug 2007 ·

#620542
John,
I just found the flat4.org site and saw the rest of the "dry assembly" pics.
Wow. great stuff!
Is that a Czech website or just a menu option to display the text in Czech?

Regards,
Steve

Fine tuning the proper daily ratio of Maxwell House to Bacardi 151.........

* Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia !

cb john Wolfsburg Wizard

470 posts · joined Jun 2007 ·

#620543
Steve,you're looking at upside down view of the front assy.You can see left inner guard,tank surround brackets / in black / and right inner guard.I'll post some more pictures of partly assembled front..

cb john Wolfsburg Wizard

470 posts · joined Jun 2007 ·

#620544
Yes,it is a Czech site where I'm home and I'm using their photo gallery to post my pictures on Aussieveedubbers.

ztnoo Insano Dub Head

730 posts · joined Aug 2007 ·

#620547
After veiwing your Projekt Country Buggy thread and seeing what you started with, I have an even deeper appreciation of what you are doing.
👍

Fine tuning the proper daily ratio of Maxwell House to Bacardi 151.........

* Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia !

cb john Wolfsburg Wizard

470 posts · joined Jun 2007 ·

#620548
Thanks Steve,the problem is, that I've spent a lot of time on the Formula Vee project / picture above /, which made a progress on the CB project a little slower...