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cb john - October 28th, 2007 at 07:14 PM

After full four days of work windscreen frame in stainless steel is finished.Came up pretty good...now I'll have the glass cut , fit it in and start on next panels...

Craig Torrens - October 28th, 2007 at 07:16 PM

cmon show us a photo !!

cb john - October 28th, 2007 at 07:21 PM

I only have a few pictures of progress, final photo after fitting the glass in..

Craig Torrens - October 28th, 2007 at 10:00 PM

teaser :yes:

Will come around this week and have a look.

cb john - October 29th, 2007 at 07:18 PM

Since fitting of the glass is a little distant, here is the photo of the frame..


http://www.flat4.org/galerie/albums/userpics/10083/DSC02511.JPG

ztnoo - October 29th, 2007 at 08:39 PM

John,
Very,very nice work!
:tu:
You are THE MAN when it comes to CB body parts restoration!

What's next on the list?

Regards,
Steve

cb john - November 6th, 2007 at 09:30 PM

Front apron finished today.

cb john - November 8th, 2007 at 07:42 PM

To support my previous statement, here are some pictures...


http://www.flat4.org/galerie/albums/userpics/10083/DSC02542.JPG


http://www.flat4.org/galerie/albums/userpics/10083/DSC02544.JPG

58camper - November 8th, 2007 at 07:55 PM

John,
Great work, even down to the correct recess for the number plate. Having seen the original front apron at the workshop- the new one is a gem.
Sorry I missed you the other day.
Countrybuggybill.

Craig Torrens - November 8th, 2007 at 08:01 PM

put me down for one :tu:

cb john - November 8th, 2007 at 08:11 PM

Thanks Bill, your appreciation means a lot to me...perhaps we'll meet some other day...

Craig : no problem, but you'll have to get your own light buckets..

Craig Torrens - November 8th, 2007 at 08:25 PM

That's ok, they're just early beetle ?

cb john - November 8th, 2007 at 08:36 PM

yes..

ztnoo - November 8th, 2007 at 09:44 PM

John,
How close are you to having all the panels fabricated you need for your project?
What else is still in the works before you begin to weld the body?
When that times comes, I hope you will share pics with all of us of the final assembly of your CB body, and also provide text descriptions of how you will go about the work, problems you encouter, and your solutions to those problems
You have done a remarkable job so far. I'm sure the final product will be just as impressive.

Regards,
Steve

cb john - November 9th, 2007 at 10:54 AM

This is a little OT, but speaking about impressive product, this is THE ONE. Formula Vee, which just out of box won two National tittles.

http://www.flat4.org/galerie/albums/userpics/10083/checkmate.jpg

cb john - November 11th, 2007 at 09:07 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by ztnoo
John,
How close are you to having all the panels fabricated you need for your project?
What else is still in the works before you begin to weld the body?
When that times comes, I hope you will share pics with all of us of the final assembly of your CB body, and also provide text descriptions of how you will go about the work, problems you encouter, and your solutions to those problems
You have done a remarkable job so far. I'm sure the final product will be just as impressive.

Regards,
Steve


Steve,
this is going to be a bloody long project even though I'm putting all my spare time into it.
Front end is getting close to completion but there is still a lot to do.Next will be dashboard and partitions for glove box and instrument cluster,cover of the steering column , bracket for brake fluid reservoir etc..

Before any assembly I need to finish the pan in the order of starting placing components in the right places.The sequence of assembly is still to be worked out, I dont want to get caught by incorrect move...

This morning I've tried a dry assembly of the front parts, just to verify the fit and to see differences between beetle tank surround which I've bought just for this reason.
I can use some parts of it, but as most of aftermarket repair panels this is a piece of crap,so I will make my own..

Thisi is an update to this day , will keep you in the picture..

John


http://www.flat4.org/galerie/albums/userpics/10083/DSC02562.JPG

ztnoo - November 11th, 2007 at 10:25 PM

John,
Remarkable......truly remarkable!
What a determined and focused fabricator you are, and what an ambitious project you have undertaken.
Great pic...........but not ever having seen the guts of a CB myself, I'm not quite sure what I'm looking at in the pic.
Enlighten me, if you would.
http://www.flat4.org/galerie/albums/userpics/10083/DSC02562.JPG

So.....is your plan to stop and work on the pan shortly, or are you going to continue on with body panel fabrication for now and attack the pan later?

Any wild idea how long your restoration will take to complete???

Regards,
Steve

ztnoo - November 11th, 2007 at 10:42 PM

John,
I just found the flat4.org site and saw the rest of the "dry assembly" pics.
Wow. great stuff!
Is that a Czech website or just a menu option to display the text in Czech?

Regards,
Steve

cb john - November 11th, 2007 at 10:43 PM

Steve,you're looking at upside down view of the front assy.You can see left inner guard,tank surround brackets / in black / and right inner guard.I'll post some more pictures of partly assembled front..

cb john - November 11th, 2007 at 10:47 PM

Yes,it is a Czech site where I'm home and I'm using their photo gallery to post my pictures on Aussieveedubbers.

ztnoo - November 11th, 2007 at 11:04 PM

After veiwing your Projekt Country Buggy thread and seeing what you started with, I have an even deeper appreciation of what you are doing.
:tu:

cb john - November 11th, 2007 at 11:10 PM

Thanks Steve,the problem is, that I've spent a lot of time on the Formula Vee project / picture above /, which made a progress on the CB project a little slower...

MikeM - November 12th, 2007 at 11:40 AM

Found it.

More pics here:

http://www.flat4.org/galerie/thumbnails.php?album=898