Give me a call, I can get you onto a set of 54 guards in glass. The glass ones are moulded from my 54 steel mint originals. i might be persuaded to sell the steel ones.
Interestingly I sampled Stratos silver for my beetle also. It is a lovely colour, very dark in the shadows but can sparkle to a light purple silver in the sun. Have you tested it on a guard yet?
Do it before you paint. You'll be suprised.
T54
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C'mon kids gather round,
there's a new sensation hitting town,
It's moving straight, low to the ground,
it'll pick you up when your feeling down.
Looking great mate, good work on the rust repairs. Love the Vintage Speed exhaust, good choice.
Matt Berry Motorsports...air cooled advice, repairs and mods Ph 0408 704 662
OFF-ROAD,CIRCUIT,DRAG,STREET,ENDURANCE
Looking fantastic, good work, im 14 to and just finished restoring a Historic Formula vee for Historic racing. I know the feeling of not having the money and not being able to earn much
🥲 but it'll get there. POR 15 is great stuff, i coated my whole chassis and suspension in hardnose blue and sterling silver, it gives a great finish cannot reccomend it enough.
Follow link for pic of my car at rob roy hillclimb in may this year (me driving) :
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d164/chequer57/_MG_0516_LOWRES.jpg
cheers, Grant
🙂thanks everyone, oh yeah that exhaust system sounds the bomb!
thanks grant, you FINISHED it by the time you were 14? wow👍, that thing looks like so much fun 👍 its a 1200 right? man top job on that, and yeah about the money thing.. or should i say the lack of, its alright though i have a channel on youtube which has ads around the video which makes me money $$$ around $50 a week plus the money i earn weekly, so money isn't really a concern i just love the metal work aspect of this build..
POR 15 = great shit, i dream about the day i have the chassis coated with it and a whole bunch of parts ready to be fittted haha
cheers,
-Blair
Yep 1200, geee i should start finding a way of making more money than just washing the odd car or seven! The 1200 is only blueprinted, balanced, lightly ported, and finely tuned to get every bit out of it (the regulations are very strict) But they still get around Eastern Creek in 1:57's and Phillip Island i suspect maybe breaking 2 min (the better drivers among us though) What carbies are you gonna run and how much lift do you have on the cam?(if ya can remeber! lol) Good luck with the rest of the build, keep us posted......
Cheers,
Grant
😁😁😁😁
Well done on getting to the end of the body work.
What a mission. Kudos
Well done x2, fantastic job, very impressed with the quality of your work. I must say though Marcus, the end of rust repairs is still a long way yet to the end of the bodywork, but a milestone none the less. 🙂
Matt Berry Motorsports...air cooled advice, repairs and mods Ph 0408 704 662
OFF-ROAD,CIRCUIT,DRAG,STREET,ENDURANCE
good on you for persisting through rust repairs.👍👍
Many kids your age would have given up by now.
Now the repairs are done, it's time to get the body straight. You going to file finish?
Cheers
D
Congratulations 👍
Futue te ipsum!!!
That is great!
Looking the goods so far, can't wait to see this with the Type 4 in!
This whole thread is great, just read it through again and am genuinely glad I did.
Flintstones is right, many "kids" would have given up on the rust repairs, but you, you repaired them wonderfully!
thanks everyone, i still havnt finished the rust repair sections, there are a few little spots but thats it,
i cant express how many times i have thought of giving up, so many barricades. but hell, once this thing is done, im sure it will all be worth it.
i want to give the blasting business (stripped bare soda blasting perth) some credit, i walked away from that car knowing its in good hands, sure enough it was a fantastic job
well guys, im gonna stop talking, drink a coffee chill, clean the shed and then get back to work on it
Flintstones wrote:good on you for persisting through rust repairs.👍👍
Many kids your age would have given up by now.
Now the repairs are done, it's time to get the body straight. You going to file finish?
Cheers
D
thanks man, file finish? sorry dont understand
Nice work mate! Will be great to see some colour on it 🙅
DieSchnelleKafer wrote:Flintstones wrote:good on you for persisting through rust repairs.👍👍
Many kids your age would have given up by now.
Now the repairs are done, it's time to get the body straight. You going to file finish?
Cheers
D
thanks man, file finish? sorry dont understand
It's the art of using a dolly and hammer to adjust the panel and using a body file to let you know if you have adjusted it enough to make the panel straight.
This way you don't have to use bog (plastic filler) to fill in area's that should have been adjusted.
Hope I explained it clearly for you.
Cheers
D
ohh, well i dont think this car will require "thick" amounts of filler, just lots of small areas with thin filler on it, because someone has already dollied out the dents, and they did it to a good qaulity so i will just re apply the filler in the areas needed.
Love your work!!
This is going to look amazing once its done. Props to you
Custom doesn't come in a Box
Hey mate,
I really like your thread and your bug. Cant wait to see it finished!
Are you going to be using semaphores? if so do you think you'll put other little blinkers?
Just wondering if it's legal to just use the semaphores.
cheers
Hey Mate, looks great.
You should Test the Stratos Silver on a test panel before you paint your whole car in it.
I tested it and it looks great in the sun but personally thought it hides the great lines of an early beetle in the shadows. Just a thought.
Also what are the gaps on either side under the backseat inbetween the guard inners and where the firewall comes down. Never seen this before.
My oval joins the bottom section of the firewall to the guard inners.
Anyway, keep up the great work.
T54
C'mon kids gather round,
there's a new sensation hitting town,
It's moving straight, low to the ground,
it'll pick you up when your feeling down.
i am learning away from strato, i want something allittle more badass. and with them gaps, i cut the rust out, and that included them sections, i am actually looking fo them repair bits from a donor car
patina wrote:Hey mate,
I really like your thread and your bug. Cant wait to see it finished!
Are you going to be using semaphores? if so do you think you'll put other little blinkers?
Just wondering if it's legal to just use the semaphores.
cheers
i will be putting some blinkers up front and back and have a switch to switch from flashing blinkers to semaphores so i can spare using the semaphores if i dont want to
it is legal to just have semaphores as it was orginally equipped on the car
Nice work dude 🙂
You should look up KBS. It's Oz version of Por15 and just as good yet a fair bit cheaper. Did my floorpan in the stuff and it's great 🙂
madness is in the eye of the beholder 👍
Hi mate, I have been watching your build on here and on NoH2O also..... A sweet car in the makings, no doubt about it.
Your metal skills are very impressive for a dude your age... I did my first bug at 17 with my old man and none of my welding was as good as yours.
You still looking to sell the 59 ?
Doug Sweetman wrote:Hi mate, I have been watching your build on here and on NoH2O also..... A sweet car in the makings, no doubt about it.
Your metal skills are very impressive for a dude your age... I did my first bug at 17 with my old man and none of my welding was as good as yours.
You still looking to sell the 59 ?
thanks Doug! merry Christmas as well man
i am going to invest in a tig welder in a few months time, lets see how that works out
🙂
The 59 is still here, going cheap but its a little rough
thanks
-Blair
Merry Christmas also, hope Santa brought you a TIG welder and time to use it 🙂
You have pm re the 59.
Hi, I can't find the replacement panels on the site you listed, do you know the part number or did you contact him and have the rear quarters and apron made. Thanks t54
C'mon kids gather round,
there's a new sensation hitting town,
It's moving straight, low to the ground,
it'll pick you up when your feeling down.
For the rear cargo area you'll have to make them yourself. Far as I'm aware the cargo/bulkhead panel comes as an entire panel.
Try VW Heritage in the UK as they have a full listing of all Beetle parts. If they don't have it then no one will, well maybe West Coast or CIP1 but thats about it.
Quite easy to make tho. Bit of 0.8mm steel and make a cardboard template. For the lip that goes up the rear arch you just pie cut and bend it up and then weld the pie cuts back together. Also means you aren't using 0.6mm brazilian crap. 🙂
madness is in the eye of the beholder 👍
hi t54, the rear apron was made by a man by the name of wolf. you can now find them here
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1020614
the rear qaurters were made by a company called kdf parts, tho i would recommend these ones:
http://www.wolfparts.com/shop/index.php?cPath=21&sort=4a&page=2&osCsid=b3cb185ea2433e2e0fa77c268f7a3729
because i found that kdf parts one had a bad fit, to hard to explain
hey psimitar, a good fellow has cut them out of his car and sent them to me, better original metal
🤘
