theres alot more paint on there now than there ever would have been applied in the factory
damn its good to see these pics again....
.... makes me realise how much work has gone into it and how far its come
Kim, its looking great. Cant wait till I see that on the road, and almost do my neck turning my head saying to myself "f#@k, look at that!"
Good stuff. N!
damn that is the shiniest underbody i've seen!
very nice and throrough!
Jon
yeah its looking pretty good so far
good guess on the color alan
more pics soon
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sooo shweet, love to see a resto like that looks sooo shweet,
Respect!
A
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here are some of the shots of the interior, areas that are gonna keep the paint exposed
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back seat
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and some more of the interior
i wanna keep the areas that run along the inside of the roof gutters that are usually covered by the headlining exposed, and also along the front above the windscreen
gonna have to tuck the trim that will cover the ragtop assembly into this area somehow
should be fun!
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and yes jim, you were right about the larger holes for the speaker/speedo area
i have been working on some templates for the dash that i have now completed in peruvian walnut (this was the best timber that i could find to match the flat4 steering wheel and eliminator shifter)
here is a picture of the templates in original form (5mm MDF) which i cut out with a jigsaw and them spent hours filing back to get the profiles to match the dash
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thanks at this juncture go to nick for letting me cut the dash out of a wreck so that i could spend the next 3 weekends sanding up the templates
anyways, once they were sanded, the services of another mate (carpenter, not aussieveedubber) needed to be employed. thanks dave.
together we used the templates and some pretty trick attachements to his router and plunger and cut the walnut to the exact same shape as the mdf
(damn - i thought i had uploaded this pics of the walnut)
anyway, i will sign off for the night with my fav picture so far, from a few months back.
this is when the underside was painted but before it was fitted back to the pan and ready for topside painting in the booth
next update i can show some pics of dash (walnut not MDF) and the car assembled prior to painting in the booth
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Lookin good Kim!
Sweet ride, should come up a treat.
awesome stuff i cant wait for the next set of pics :thumb
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Youve come along way brother xlnt work proud as punch to say that that car is a Oildripper.
Wow that last pic is impressive......Kim it's gunna look so sweet...
The workshop is so clean n tidy!!! Can't get over it...
time to post some more pics.
I havent seen it for a while, cos i ve been interstate
got back to melbourne to find some parts i d ordered had arrived in the mail, so i gotta go and put them on soon
thanks to classic vee dub (pacific) for the parts.
pics to follow
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ok:
as promised, here are pics of the walnut dash.
you cant tell from these how dark it will be.
i have stained it since then.
guages mount up to fit flush, with chrome surrounds
i will put in a standard speedo i think for RWC and rego etc, but im toying with the idea of fitting a t3 orange needle (kms) speedo to suit the other VDO guages i have.
i think that the orange needle would add some consistency to the look of the dash.
.... anyway, just dreaming now.
here are the pics of the dash prior to staining. i sat them up to look like it will when finished
hope they worked, its been a while since i posted pics
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will also be keeping the original chrome and attaching it to the dash to continue the horizontal line that i like so much about the flat screen bugs.
i have had the central bit of chrome shortened and rechromed to fit, cos the guages meant that it was about 15mm too long
also got some billet dash knobs to fit up too
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oh, and changed the horn button to black
blue would have look out of place in there!
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now the momentous occasion:
BODY ONTO PAN - PRIOR TO PAINT
from this:
to this:
seems like so little, but it was a milestone for me to get the body back onto the pan and know that it was there for good
:party
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more pics of the body on the pan:
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then more rubbing and lots of careful fitting off (thanks sasha) prior to painting.
all the hang offs were fitted up as a check prior to being pulled off and painted seperately. doors were painted on the car.
here it is prior to colour going on
keep in mind that i am a slow mover when it comes to posting these pics, and all this work was done some months ago.
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and the rear view
notice that w lid.
steel not fibreglass - thanks again to sasha - this came up better than i thought and it has nt got those vents that some many people like
(sorry, but i dont)
anyway, another minor difference to most that makes all the difference to me
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you can see from the last pic that the T bar on the Eliminator shifter is too close to the stereo box.
this has been modified since.
just another of the problems when doing everything a little different
thats it for me tonight
next update: paint is on!!
:party
(damn that means uploading more pics)🙁
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Awesome stuff Kim....it certainly is a monentous occasion getting that body back onto pan and one that I can't wait for!!
Just out of curiosity, why is the body being painted on the pan (considering the need for masking up etc)? I'm sure there is a good reason!
Cheers
Alan
very nice work... keep em coming
looking good Kim, real good!
Gets better every time I look at this post. She's gunna be one sweet ride.
very nice.
should be great once its painted completely
Jon
