ha ha, 22 QUID, I've got 20 years on you and I stopped saying that years ago, I'll have to start again, it sounds more Ausie. 👍 looking good by the way and yes machining drums is still good.
I dream of a day when a chicken can cross a road without being asked for it's motive!
finished the cab floor today and underneath, going to go with 3mm sheet steel for the tray as in picture and played around with the instrument panel for gauges.....
more work tomorrow 🙂
mr fabricator today, and finally tore down the CV joints and marked as good as I could. Are they difficult to put back together? ..do I need peace and tranquility when doing it
Just wish he told me about the rust when i asked before buying , this is the first n last time I will by sight unseen. If he told me the truth then I wouldnt be so pissed but meh, at least after I'm done I know it will last 🙂
hope to have the batt tray and opposite in tomorrow and then it is on to last part of sanding and priming for top coat.
repacked CV's,new boots and a tinge of green....
welded in the battery tray and opposite
had a lunch curry
remade the rubber lip sills for engine lid and treasure chest
took a leak had a coffee
made some phone calls
installed CV's
installed GR 2 shocks on the rear ass
drank beer......
took off workboots
Good stuff Ian, mmmm green. Is that left over from the wagon? 😂
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^^^^^^ you guessed it, such a good shade of green I had to use it somewhere.
you are definitely a man on a mission, good work mate😎
1 1963 356b porsche coupe
2 1960 karmann ghia cab
1 1965 karmann ghia cab
1 1966 karmann cab
1 1961 split ute
1 1967 split p/van
1 1952 standard bug
1 1963 ragtop
1 1960 ragtop
2 1954 ovals
1 1956 oval baja project
1 1957 oval flying flea
been doing a lot of panel work lately and now finally getting closer to putting on the color.
Got all the panels to my liking and hit some this arvo with a final putty/primer coat, tomorrow is 400 dry sanding and then its on to the color
Nice
^^^^^ cheers bloke, put some more primer on today but still not happy with one panel so spent way too long trying to get it spot on I didn't get a chance to put color on today.
tomorrow is a goer though, so I hope to have some pics up by tomorrow nite with color.
got my webers and balanced fan delivered today too!!!!
Good on you Ian
Great progress on your short break from the work day drag 🙂
finally got color on today, only had one hiccup with paint, got one run right in the bloody front nose!!! couldn't believe it but ohhh well.....
and my new favourite tool is those hole drills, those things rock!! I usually use a die grinder but not anymore.
Drilled out all my holes for 25 mm grommets to allow all the power from doors to cab and later tonite the dash n all bits are going in
more pics
Wow Ian, your fly'n, what, just one run ? 😂
Those drills sure do the job for large holes in panel steel. 👍
I have to ask tho, new paint, but is the welding of the tray and rear window finished?? You going to glue them on?😂
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hey bloke, I'm rethinking the sheet steel now hence not putting it on. I'm now leaning towards treated marine ply with rubber matting over it and some nice rows of aluminium runners that meet up to a gullwing toolbox. Cheaper and faster to just weld in a tradie box where I was going to extend the cab and make it look as if it is part of the cab. Just sux ass if whoever buys the ute as they can't take off the gullwing....
And now I'm trying to hunt down a complete Triton GLX-R rear power window unit, I am hoping a wrecker will have one and I want to actually cut out the complete window and some of the frame and graft it into the bus so it's just one complete package... one of a kind 😁
anyone know of a new wrecked triton waiting to be hacked up?
Just finished running all the new wiring for power windows/central locking/ sub and amp/set of tweeters and 6 inch speakers....
and BTW,, just kampers and The bus stop are fuggin awesome!!! the despatch is super fast and had no dramas at all with order. Just kampers are doing free freight so I rang them for some help and just to make sure that it was free freight but the dude wasn't available so I left my number and FMD he actually rang me back to help out, you don't get that kinda service much these days...............
Cool mate. People always seem to be happy with Just Kampers, price and service, I'd avoid the other shop tho. 😉
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hey Ian, lookin good mate, & nice to have some personalized custom designs goin into it bro
are you riding still/much???
Matt
TheMiniMan wrote:hey Ian, lookin good mate, & nice to have some personalized custom designs goin into it bro
are you riding still/much???
Matt
Hey bloke, cheers for that. Yeah the rear window is going to be sweet as long as it all works out.
I haven't ridden DH for a while now man.. the scene is pretty fucked now and I can't justify paying close to 100 bucks a race + travel. It's a fuggin joke!!.....
Turner and DHD parted ways so that dried up and now I mainly commute to work on my tricked out Jamis Parker or do a lil bit of XC riding. I still have a Turner DHR though and still think they are one of the best race bikes out there.
Did Whistler twice in the last 3 years and going back again next July for a month to ride with some of the boys. We normally hook up with Kram when we go over there which is pretty sweet.
How bout yourself, I bet you are doing more surfing and relaxing than riding these days too!!!!!
😂
Hey, you wouldn't have a moustache bar in all your parts laying around would you?. I need one to finish off my engine build and get that damn upright engine bolted up. I posted up here and thought someone would have one laying around but no luck just yet.........
cheers Ian
had one of those "feeling like I'm getting nowhere" days today
Redid my dash cluster panel because when I went to put it in this morning it looked like SHIT so I redid it and this one looks way cleaner and fits all the gauges well.
Put in most of the carpet and threw in the gear shift, you can't really tell but I sanded back the handbrake and hit it will a bajillion coats of clean, yes I said a bajillion and it looks sweeeeeet with the gearshifter.
beers tonite and no work on it, need some time out 😂
Nah, i havn`t ridden for a couple of years, i got my hillclimb car running & went racing again
sold my Da-bomb a few weeks ago (sad day) but it was just sitting there doin nothin
I had a heart attack 4 weeks ago, died a couple of times just to see what was on the other side
it`s over rated really, breathing is far far better, so i came back :-)
now i`m doing diddly squat waiting for the damn heart to heal so i can go racing again :-)
in this thing-->
& my tow car--> Quad-cam 32v injected alloy V8 power :-)
& sorry, i have sold all my old Vee-dub sh!t/bits (except the duel-cab Zombi of course)
cheers man & good to see you are still doin it, say hi to Mark & all the boys for me whenever you see them next K???
^^^^^^^ is that a screwdriver near the steering wheel?
Heart attack,,,,FARK man!!!!... glad you are still around, yeah I'm sure the other side is real shit!. I hope I don't visit it anytime soon 😁
check ya laters
hee hee,,, yeah it`s my sequential gear-shifter,,, no expense spared hey>??? :-)
& """the other side""" is quite peacefull really, very pleasant & relaxing, no more chest pain you see :-)
after i died in the Byron hospital i saw the white light with a pinky swirl above me & started heading that way
actually hovered above & watched while they were pounding my chest doin the CPR thing,
broke all my ribs & seperated heaps of the cartilage, & dislocated all the rib joints, pretty painful & still is.
i watched the docs from above Zap me with the jumper leads a few times before i figured enough was enough & came back
I died again in the ambo on the way to the next hospital (John Flynn at the Gold Coast)
& then was on the way out again as they put the first stent into my heart
My Left main Artery was 100% blocked & the right main is still 90% blocked & lookin like another stent going into that one soon
Apparently this left blockage at %100 is commonly called "The Widow Maker" because very few have actually survived it 100% blocked,
& extreamly rare to be resussed after cardiac arrest
& they say that any surfers copping this out in the water don`t make it back to the beach, i`m a lucky little prick :-)
Now i`m the talk of 4 cardiology depts :-)
My recent research suggests staying away from eating animal products
the last nurse that took my last set of blood tests said that i have "Pushed the Devil off the shovel 3 times"
apparantly means i`ll be living a happy healthy long life from hear on in :-) i can only hope so, i have more buggy racing to do :-)
cheers mate & get that kombi ute running so we can go play Kombi ute racing :-)
like this--->
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaKsdgtK0Co
:-)
had a mate come round today and help with the hoodlining, came up a damn treat...really happy with it. Almost finished with interior, windscreen in tomorrow then off to trimmers for new seat upholstery and taking those awesome jellybean rims for a polish and new 205 rubber to be slapped on.
shit day today........
took my seats to upholsterer... baaaaa bown $800 later , I couldn't part with that kinda coin
fitted my windscreen ... baaaaa bown cracked it $170 later
started to drink beer
And things were going sooooo well.
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Try Carmans auto trimming in Slacks Creek.
Tell him I sent ya (and that my last name is Vass): he is a mate of my big brothers.
How did the 2/3 seat clean up??
thanks Marcus, seat was in pretty bad shape when I stripped it, about 6 springs were shot.. as in rusted away, the top main horizontal bar was rusted and gone... thats when the upholsterer laughed and said $600 for the 2/3rd seat. It was at that point I walked away. The drivers I picked up isn't that bad but it was going to be $800 all up..........
Marcus, I'm not having a whinge about the seat it just killed me when I heard the cost, I knew it was not in best shape but maybe I'll take a class in industrial sewing. I mean shit, at work I got an industrial sewing machine and I supervise fashion techs,I may just hit them up to do it...😁
ahhh the joys......
Ian, Marcus' dude did his whole camper for less, if I remember correctly.....
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yeah , I'm going to give him a call tomorrow and see what we can sort out ......
today I polished up all the rims and got new rubber on, went with narrow and I'm happy with the look.
Hows that steering wheel eh, bet you want one don't you.... it's going to have to stay till I get more cash to splash, more important things to buy first.
Ian, I heard some guy had that seat outside for a couple of months ... 😊
