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 oval TOFU
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| posted on May 8th, 2006 at 12:41 AM |
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Great job on the colour selection! Love it!
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| posted on May 8th, 2006 at 08:21 AM |
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Top work! I gotta do the same to my Beetle...
Pay your debts, CxxT
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| posted on May 8th, 2006 at 10:08 AM |
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Pauls huge effort in preparing the car and the environment made it real easy for me to squirt the paint on. The bodywork was much smoother than my
1302 was before I painted it.
His spray booth (with extractor fan) did the job nicely. With that color we both looked like Smurfs after the job was done.
Paul you would be thinking about hiring out your services for body prep wouldn't you?
Can't wait to see it all together.
Brendan
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| posted on May 8th, 2006 at 01:25 PM |
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Hi Paul
Thats a nice blue and the car should look great, are you still going for the wider rear guards and the bigger wheels?
There was bay at the Nationals in the Monaro blue and you car colour sort of reminded me of it.
Steve
The bay,
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| posted on May 9th, 2006 at 05:00 AM |
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Very cool bug, but whats an L Bug?
Aircooled for a reason...water is for boats
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| posted on May 9th, 2006 at 06:52 AM |
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Brendan, not a hope in hell for me to be doing this sort of thing again anytime soon....not even for money!
Steve, Not sure about the wider guards at this stage, I have still got the wheels but I may end up swapping the 9's for 7's and run 7's all
round.......although I did get an extra 2 litres of paint in case I do eventually put wider rear guards on.
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| posted on May 9th, 2006 at 08:25 AM |
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Great work - I love seeing these sorts of rebuilds progress!
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| posted on May 9th, 2006 at 01:23 PM |
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Wow.. it's a very blue car!! Looks awesome though, can't wait to see when it's all mean and finished! :P :thumb
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| posted on May 10th, 2006 at 09:46 AM |
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G'day Paul,
Great thread with good pics and details and explanations, makes for a good read.
Amazing what can be acheived in a home garage.
Nice colour, what type of paint did you use.
Can't wait to see the finished article.
Cheers, Ian.
Excentric (wife says) VW nut, having owned 250+ VWs in 40 years.
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| posted on May 10th, 2006 at 10:40 PM |
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Hi Ian,
The paint is acrylic and as a fair amount of the car was taken back to bare metal I used etch primer all over, instead of high fill primer. I also
used etch because it was on special at the time.
Cheers Paul
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| posted on May 10th, 2006 at 11:05 PM |
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Paul that looks fantastic. Looking forward to seeing it on the coast, and for you to come along on one of our cruises.
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| posted on May 13th, 2006 at 07:52 AM |
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Hey Paul,
I will have some of the wide guards made in the next couple of weeks....The early fatties look awesome, although you want big lights hey...do you want
the intakes in them like mine.?
Matt
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| posted on May 23rd, 2006 at 10:46 PM |
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matt.....as soon as I can justify the expense of putting the wider wheels on, I'll be up for a set of rear guards.
Managed to colour sand & buff the car over the weekend.... I did rub through on a couple of guards and the deck lid....not happy. I gave them a couple
of touch up coats, so hopefully I can buff them this weekend.....I guess it is all a learning curve!
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f16/vw1303/106.jpg
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| posted on May 24th, 2006 at 12:27 PM |
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Paul
you pulled the dash.
You got a new one to go in, or get the old one re-skinned???
Futue te ipsum!!!
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| posted on May 25th, 2006 at 10:18 PM |
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nice paint
hey i think you have done a great job on the paint wish i didn't rush mine towards the end. top job!
fun in dub's
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| posted on May 25th, 2006 at 10:44 PM |
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Hi Barry,
No I dont have a new one yet, hopefully I'll find another one at a swap meet or I may just have to bite the bullet and get it skinned.....you dont
know where there is one lying around do you??
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| posted on May 26th, 2006 at 09:00 AM |
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There was a VERY good one on the floor out at Volksbahm a few weeks back
It was brown though. Wouldnt be hard to re-colour it.
It was original - not reskinned. Not a crack
What about de-foaming it and welding it up.
Ever seen that one on SBO?? Looks schmick.
You have to clean it up and weld some bits but it gives a REAL german look to it
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| posted on May 26th, 2006 at 12:43 PM |
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here is one pic paul
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Futue te ipsum!!!
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| posted on May 26th, 2006 at 08:32 PM |
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Hi
I have a really nice one that was in my 1303, its uncracked as the car has sat in a shed from 1985, just a rub mark from the cage that was in the
car.
Im still undecided what to do with mine.
I really like the look of this one.
Steve
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| posted on May 27th, 2006 at 08:45 AM |
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Yeah - they look good opened up.
I like those 911 style ones you can get
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| posted on May 27th, 2006 at 01:20 PM |
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Hey its the old 'cracked L bug dash syndrome' again !
Steve that dash you showed looks awesome.
My dash is also cactus, I had thought of doing what Barry has mentioned ie defoaming it - do you know if there is much welding involved ? Looks
good.....
Cracks done show up so well in this photo, but trust me they are there..... and yes, the tacho is in a stubby holder. Steering wheel is also now a
SAAS Monaco...
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| posted on May 27th, 2006 at 01:54 PM |
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That is the dash i was looking for!
LOVE IT!
There is a bit of work involved. Still searching for the "work in progress"
I WILL find it 
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| posted on May 28th, 2006 at 12:24 AM |
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Hi
Sorry about taking over your post Paul, were only trying to find a nice dash for your bug.
Im not keen on the single pod on the stock dash, also the speedo is in crap posoition. The stock das with the skin removed is about as thick as 2 fag
papers so it may buckle easily.
Ive spoken to a local guy in the past and they car reskin the dash for a reasonable sum and add bits etc to makle it the way I want it, just cant have
any deep areas otherwise the skin will seperate in the heat.
Richard at V Force also did a fibre glass dash that looks like that Porsche style one.
This is another dash / speedo setup I like, but the speedo would be hard to read.
Steve
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| posted on June 4th, 2006 at 09:45 PM |
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Cool looking dashes, something else to put on the list!
Been busy over the last week and this weekend....
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| posted on June 4th, 2006 at 10:05 PM |
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Thanks to CT for lending a hand today fitting up the panels...great work.
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f16/vw1303/110.jpg
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f16/vw1303/114.jpg
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f16/vw1303/113.jpg
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f16/vw1303/119.jpg
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| posted on June 4th, 2006 at 10:36 PM |
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MAN..... GREAT job!
Love the colour.
T'is looking GREAT :thumb:thumb:thumb
Futue te ipsum!!!
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| posted on June 4th, 2006 at 10:43 PM |
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FAAARRRRRRRRRRKKKKKKKKK YYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!! LOOKS UNREAL PAUL! Man you went all out of the respray! wicked!
Alexxx
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