hey
well been a long coupla weeks but finally a fresh lick of paint the orange is nearly a safety orange (pics dont do it justice) so i can be found if lost :P
i am lowering it and a set oif mags to come but this is it know
chers
rhys

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I wear my sunglasses at night.........


looks sweet!

kkk

looking good!

how did you respray it? did you respray the top half white as well?

i looveee orange

lookin sweeet as should look even better when it's lowered
cheers
ron

hey
yer the top half was resprayed white!!! 6yer it turned out quite well considering this was my first paint job on a kombi!!!
cant wait to be driving it again!
cheers
rhys

wow you painted this yourself? you didn't just do it in the garage did you?

my beetle would need a respray sooner or later. it has 3 coats of paint right now, I only want one. I would love to go for 2 tone, possibly white on navy blue

orange would look nice too

great job, congrats:thumb

looks good... so you got the beam ok?..

hey
yer painted it with 2 pac in the garage had breathing shit so no worries but yer shes a backyard job!!
come up better then expected!!!
thanks heaps for stuffing around and going out of your way ryan muchly appreciated!!! my uncle is bringing the beam down this weekend !!!
thanks for your comments all!
cheers
rhys

if you have too much time one day... you are more than welcome to fly up here and give me a hand with mine!

Awesome.

Andrew

hey Rhys! what colour is that? i am planning on doing mine 2-tone, was thinking GM Chevvy bright orange (like you see on hte hotrods) but your colour looks pretty mad as well. is the top pure white or tinted?

hey
i used paints my dad uses on the bottom of boats the manufacturer is Altec (industrial paints) so with this i had a limited choice of colours i chose a colour they call trinidad (will get correct speeling when i get home) and as they are industrial paints every time they mix a batch it can differ a little.
i used pure white for the top was gonna use a white with a greyish tint in it but thought just pure white will do!
i wanted it to be factory colour "marine gulb" but this is the only real orange i could find!!
its a great colour to cause it looks bright in the dark and dullish in the bright!
cheers
rhys

did you sand the old paint off, or you just painted over it?

omg, how did you know orange is my favourite colour? you better watch out, i might just steal that
that is be-ewe-diful!!!

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Top job champ, I know how much mucking around is involved with spraying a kombi, the roof is a real bitch to do. Graet job, cant wait to see the end result.:beer

hey
yer sanded it down using 120grit sand paper which took most off anyways!!! got most lights on know put the windows in tonight hopefully
then just mags and lowered
cheers
rhys

bus is looking sweet as mate

do you have the slidey windows for it ?? even if you dont you might be able to help me....how do i take em out ?? :duh and obviously putting em in is the opposite but yeha i dont know how to do either

i do have them and will be putting them in tomorrow!?!?!? they use the same window rubber as the rear window??? but yer should have the same principle as pulling out other windows???
never done it before but
cheers
rhys

looking great. (almost as good as the fasty). Got your beam packed in .

sweet as!! when u arrive?
cheers
rhys

G'day Rhys,
Bus is looking great, love the colour, you've done a great job on it, looking forward to seeing the finished product. What sort of mags are you putting on. You getting rid of the Ford rims?
Cheers, Ian.

Nice bus matey. How cool to be able to paint your own bus.
Can't wait to see the finished machine

I love this colour sheam for a kombi, I used to see heaps in this colour in England as a kid but many got resprayed over the years as the orange was too "retro" now retro rocks.
Was thinking of it for my 78 but have settled for another colour for now.

Keep up the good work!!!

nIck