Project GTO

Flintstones · 2008-02-10T12:13:52+00:00

Hi All, Though it about time to post my Oval after following closely some awesome builds that have been shown here ie. Dasdubbers ex63 ragtop, nbturbo's yellow oval etc. A fair few of you all would have seen my oval in the latest issue of VWMA under "Censored - Bare Metal Oval" so I though I'd share with you in detail the build up. I'll start with the pics of what I started out with all those years ago. It isn't pretty, in fact it was pretty rough. So rough in fact that if I had build another oval again, I would've walked right past it and kept looking for a better body. The whole lower part of the car has been replaced now. The pan halves were classic Flintstones style. If you were to have stepped into the car, you'd be standing on the garage floor again as the pan was so badly rusted there literally was no floor to the car. Not that it really mattered for me as I had other plans. And for those of you wondering what the relevance of GTO is, it stands for Grand Touring Oval Caio for now Cheers

nbturbo Veteran Volks Folk

2,171 posts · joined Dec 2002 · 13 Jan 2011, 8:16 pm

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Dino,that's unreal.Looks like your pretty handy with the Mig.Did you do the roof yourself?

Flintstones Custom Title Time!

1,077 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 13 Jan 2011, 10:16 pm

#821459

Thanks guys

Will do Paul

Gary, yep did the roof myself with my mate. We're just a couple of amateurs not afraid to give things a go.
FYI most of the body was oxy and some tig.
Have to give my mate Jason the credit for the welding (I'm ok with the torch, just no where near as fast as he is) which work out good cause as he is oxy welding, I'm beating the panels.

nbturbo Veteran Volks Folk

2,171 posts · joined Dec 2002 · 13 Jan 2011, 11:11 pm

#821464

Did most of my roof myself-got a mate to tighten up the distortion creases from the welding.Just Tek screwed it into position,did the plug welds,then welded up the Tek screw holes.I plug welded the back half of the frame,where it was originally glued to the roof.I have picked up another one for a future project.You have obviously worked out how to do all the adjustments.I love mine,and it slides better than when it was new.