hello all,here's my new project bus,it's a 67 bought from highet in melbourne a few yerrs ago and sat ever since,well it's been movd around about ten times just waitng to be brought back to life,so let the magic begin it's time to get grindn

had a bit of fun with hammer and chisel and got that rusty floor out of the way,only to see that the outriggers that i thought to be good, were well and truly rustn away.so i've chopped out all the outriggers,floor and jacking points,all ready to be sandblasted hopefully ths week if the sun stays out

had a chat to mr sandblaster and was advised to strip the paint from all the larger panels (warpage)so out came the paint stripper (bad stuff) ,gets the job done though








bare metal inside,out and underneath

the sandblaster did a sweet job,good price to,only took him 4 hours to do









cleaned up the bits left over from paint strippn with a paint strip disk,they're a bit pricey but don't heat your panels as mutch as a sanding disk,also doesn't leave scratches in the steel









next mission is to get the inside and underneath in 2k primer

Cool looking ride.

On a side note. If you put [img] before your picture link and [/img] after then the image will display in your post. You can also just click the little picture icon in the post template and it will allow you to enter the link in and then do it for you.

I have done it to your first post to show you what happens.

Everyone love pics

thanx heaps for the tip brad

it took me long enough to get them on the site,not to good with computers

pictures are a little on the large side,is there any way of makeing them smaller after they've been posted

all primed up



i tell you it's a bitch of a job doing the underside without a rotisserie

it's always good to see an old veedub come back from the grave...good on you

looks like your working up a storm, doesnt look to bad keep up the momentum ,thanks for the pics

yea, it's good to finally see the bus come back to life, im pretty sykt on this project things are movin along nicely so far hopefully i can keep it up

i'v got this picture in my head of the finished product that keeps me crankn


dumped on chrome raders

dove blue

safaries

deluxe interior

hell yea

well it's time to start puttin some metal back in,since i've cut most of it out

think im going to start on the floor first



heres a few supports i fabed up

is that pallet racking you are welding in there ?

no pallet racking here,only wolfsburg west repair panels

got the left hand side outer sills in,tested the door for gap at the bottom and alls good

outriggers and jacking points in and sitting flush with the bottom of floor,starting to get a little structure in the floor it's lookn sweet

front crossmember in

was a little to wide,suprised, thought wolfsburg west would be sweet so i stretched out the end folds a little on the anvil

had to make up a section for the rear crossmember as it was rusted out in the corner

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while i'm waiting on the outer sill to start the other side of the floor,i cleaned up yhe rust at the bottom of the window sillls

was mainly the passengers side that was rusted out,drivers only had a little in the corner

cut it out and cleaned it up,made up a new section to put in

tacked a straight edge along the face,so it doesnt bow in when i weld it up

all welds ground back and smoothed out with a sanding disk

was a shit of a job to grind back, specialy in the corners,glad it's done

got my outer sill and some other autocraft pannels the other day so get weldn on my floor again

got the inner sill clampt in so i can get the right hight for the outer sill to sit in nicely,then ill tak in the outer and take out the inner so i get at it easier to dolly up



all welded up and ground smooth

now i can start oin the outriggers and jax









nearly all done just got to put the stifeers bak on the side panel and then i can put the floor in

Well done
Cant wait to see it finished Love a splitty panels

hellalulia,we have a floor again just got to grind up the welds and do the plate for the bottom latch,smudge some seam sealer in there and were done

pics still loding

man got skills very nice work. gas or gasless? im assuming gasless nice welds

Gasless by the smudges on the spot welds. Very nice construction work. Will look very Shmick