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| posted on October 4th, 2003 at 09:15 PM |
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To split or not to split?
As most of you know well probly very few know i have a 57 beetle with an oval of course and i want to make it into a commander wagon from teh 2nd
world war, should i split window it to give it a more authentic feel and be truer to the wagon or just leave it as an oval, people have tole me that i
will get majorly shunned if i do acculy split it because it dident come stock, so does anybody have any thougts that might help me decide?:thumb
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| posted on October 4th, 2003 at 09:19 PM |
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Well I'm a stickler for keeping a VW as it left the factory, especialy Oval's, they are getting few and far between now, and we should be
saving as many as we can, not chopping them up, and loosing them forever!
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| posted on October 4th, 2003 at 09:31 PM |
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Yeah i want to keep it an oval but i want a propper commander wagon but i dont want to kill it so im stuck
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| posted on October 4th, 2003 at 09:52 PM |
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Why not get an oval roof section and modify it rather than permanantly scarring a whole car?There are a few roof cuts around.
- [size=4]Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY--- [/size]
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| posted on October 4th, 2003 at 09:54 PM |
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Not!!!!!! |
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| posted on October 4th, 2003 at 09:58 PM |
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But by doing that itl like ruin the semaphores and i dont want to chop it that much, and i dont have the money to buy a new roof, cuase i have to buy
a beetle to transplant everything into teh 57' from it.
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| posted on October 4th, 2003 at 10:19 PM |
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Ah what the hell,chop it,at least the ones that are left just went up a few bucks,enjoy.:thumb |
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| posted on October 4th, 2003 at 10:22 PM |
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mmmm im not sure i have a pic of a commander wagon without a splitty and well it looks pretty good i think ile stay oval :thumb
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| posted on October 4th, 2003 at 10:24 PM |
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Bloody good choise! you won't regret it, try to find a body that is a bit rough and get it back into reasonable shape and make a commanderwagen
out of that!
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| posted on October 4th, 2003 at 10:28 PM |
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i have one, look inmembers rides under my 57' beetle or something like that
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| posted on October 4th, 2003 at 10:54 PM |
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Black nice meeting you the other night,
Why not just get a fibreglass split kit, put it in and Bob's your uncle. Down the track if you want to turn it back into an oval just belt the
fibreglass out and put the window back in.
that way you'll make everyone happy. you'll have your semi authentic kommandeurwagen and the fithful will have an oval down the tracj\k
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| posted on October 4th, 2003 at 10:56 PM |
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Yey!!!!!!!!!! thankyou soo much man!!!! taht makes EVERYBODY happy thats the best idea ive heard in ages
oh and btw it was nivce meeting you as well and you have a kick ass bug
[Edited on 4/10/2003 by Black_math]
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| posted on October 5th, 2003 at 01:09 PM |
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I'm building a kommanduer using a 62 bug
it all depends on how authentic you want it to be and how much $ you want to spend
marcel
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| posted on October 5th, 2003 at 01:15 PM |
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I rekon itl be godo to use a fiberglass kit on the 57 cause then it wont wreck the the oval an later on down teh track it can be fixed up and turned and proply restored or something
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