Thanks Carl, a little more done today too. I'll take some more pics
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Photobucket now happy to take my uploads so here's the next set of up date pics.
With the front apron fitted, there were a few detail repairs required in the rh rear wheel arch and rh front around the fuel filler. The rear then got primed
Then the body work recieved a skim of filler to fine tune the steel work
On to the front 1/4 panel
And now primed
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nice work and lovely car
What colour is it going to end up??
Futue te ipsum!!!
She's not a respray, just repairing the damaged and corroded area's and blending paint.
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Looking great!
Thank you yet again.
Have a blast at warrick Matt.
A quick update of pics
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My last update was missing a few pics to be true to the time frame due to issues uploading to photobucket. I'll post up the latest but consequently the order is a little over the shop
Before (well actually after some cutting and pulling)
After
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wow great work!
Thanks guy's, the credit really goes to Max my panel guru.
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So,..
With the end of the body work in sight I thought it appropriate to post alittle word about the one that didn't make the cut.
Take your hats off people and bow your head.
It's probably still there, and has probably sunk alittle deeper into the dirt. 😢
You may have read in one of the first posts in this thread that on our holiday down south. ( or north, or east, or west for you depending on where you live.🤪)
Canberra
We went to look at a bug.
Looks better than ours right?
But actually it is in worse condition rust wise than ours. (rust in the door pillars.)
The floors are pushed upwards,
Damaged rear. Dents in passenger side.
What we did like about it was that it has a red interior which I haven't seen alot in a 1500 bug. And is nice and original.
Anyway, Enjoy your volkies people. Look after them, keep them out of the weather. They are falling off the perch faster than we realise.
but of course if you are looking for a 1500 bug project here's an option for you, go for it.
2 really is our limit.
It's a shame the previous owner didn't see fit to keep this one alive.
Time to go for a drive in our 62.👍
So Matt,..
Has anything happened with blue 2?
I know you've be busy with a certain blue car of your own.👍
Hi Carl, I hear you loud and clear, presently Blue 2 is in a holding pattern due to space restrictions on the runway. Max has been kept busy on the '60 ragtop, and we have a few type 2's that have crash landed into the runway (workshop). We are hoping to split body and pan as soon as we have some room. 🙂
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Fine with us Matt.
Just curious that is all.
As you know no rush.
Just when you feel so inclined. 😁
We have a volksie to drive so we are fine.😉
Look after those pour souls who only have one and need their vw back asap.😂
Sounds like we need to have a chat (when the time comes.) if you've decided to go down the split body and pan route. i.e. what else to do when they are apart. hmm,..
wow great stuff!
Big movement forward during the last few weeks.
The decision was made to split the pan and body.
Once repairs have been completed pan will be sent off to powder coat in the factory colour.
Then the process of putting this bucket of bolts back together can begin.
I've been doing a little of the cleaning and prep myself.
I don't think Matt and Max believe me when I say I find it quite satisfying, and actually quite enjoy it.🤪
Grease, dirt and grime, wire wheeling, body seal goop,etc,.. fantastic!!
👍
Keep at it. 🙂
Thanks for the update pics Carl. Here's some more. The first one is showing the repairs to the passenger door. A few bubbles in the paint can become quite a bit of the panel being replaced once properly investigated.
We cut out any thinning metal and visually check inside the panel in all the nooks and crannies.
Thanks Carl for your help knocking up the set of stands for the body on parting day.
And as usual, there's always a surprise, a sneaky hole in the heater channel that was directly under the pan seal will need repair.
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So the last welding jobs are near completion.
The pan has rust in the LH floor and inside the tunnel the clutch tube was broken away from it's mountings and snapped in two pieces in the centre, all of which needed repair.
here's the broken clutch tube at the rear
and at the front
and in the centre, snapped and no longer mounted
Here is the centre repaired and remounted
and front and rear clutch tube repaired
Then the access holes got repaired
So the LH pan 1/2 ended up being rusty and requiring replacement
spot welds drilled and pan removed
weld through primed prior to welding
New pan 1/2 installed
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Looks great!
Whereabouts do you source your pan halves?
Cheers,
Ben.
1967 VW Beetle Deluxe
Hi Ben, I was blown away by that pan 1/2. It's quality is so good, you could mistake it for original VW. I try for the best available and when I don't know better, ie. used myself, I go to the guy's who do know, straight to Vintage. Not cheap, but you get what you pay for, and proof was during the installation, brilliant!
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Yeah it looks great!
Thanks.
1967 VW Beetle Deluxe
I have found it easier & quicker to remove the pans halves by cutting close to the spline edge and removing the rest with an air chisel and grinding the spot welds back to flat.👍
My2c
Customer service is not dead in Australia.
Always after HAZET & MATRA & VW factory tools
Any update pics Matt?
No pics yet Carl, been back onto it this week. The OG paint has been colour sanded and buffed and has come up a treat. Pan and suspension components have returned from the powder coaters too, it's looking great in the charcoal, just like the OG colour 🙂. I'll get some pics posted soon.
ps. Engine bay looks like new, og tar boards have tidied up sweet
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So,...
A little update.
Wagged work for a morning this week and went and saw Matt.
It's getting very close to putting colour on the repairs.
Rather than simply getting the paint made to code. The new paint will be colour matched to what the car actually is now.
So to do that it had to be cleaned up.
Very difficult to photograph, and looks so nice in person, but you get the idea where this is going.
Mmmm,.. shinny.
It was a nice sight to see our little bucket of bolts surrounded by some high class machines. Matts awesome blue to the front , and a certain yellow bug to the side. (I know who you are mr yellow bug owner,.. I bought my very first bug from you way back in the beginning of time, if you are on here how about a thread on it? I like it, and am sure others on here would appreciate it too.)
The pan also has returned from the powder coater.
Pics of that once it comes out from where it is stored.
Hope you enjoy.
Nice update Carl, thanks. I'm glad you like the way the paint has come up. your right tho, hard to get the finish in a pic.
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Yes Matt, may I suggest a light stage for photography when Berry Motorsports Headquarters expands.😁
When not in use you can park bluey in there under lights 24/7 with a nice big glass wall from the workshop.
Mmm,.. dream on.😂
^^ me like alot 😍😍
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Well to bring you up to date, all rust repairs have been completed, all the panels have been resurected yet we've retained as much original paint and patina but metal prepped and painted underneath and the edges where the surface rust had become a little more 🙂
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