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 Turbo54
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| posted on June 14th, 2011 at 01:04 PM |
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Give me a call, I can get you onto a set of 54 guards in glass. The glass ones are moulded from my 54 steel mint originals. i might be persuaded to
sell the steel ones.
Interestingly I sampled Stratos silver for my beetle also. It is a lovely colour, very dark in the shadows but can sparkle to a light purple silver in
the sun. Have you tested it on a guard yet?
Do it before you paint. You'll be suprised.
T54
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| posted on June 27th, 2011 at 10:57 PM |
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| posted on June 27th, 2011 at 10:58 PM |
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| posted on June 28th, 2011 at 09:45 PM |
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Looking great mate, good work on the rust repairs. Love the Vintage Speed exhaust, good choice.
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| posted on June 30th, 2011 at 03:39 PM |
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Looking fantastic, good work, im 14 to and just finished restoring a Historic Formula vee for Historic racing. I know the feeling of not having the
money and not being able to earn much but it'll
get there. POR 15 is great stuff, i coated my whole chassis and suspension in hardnose blue and sterling silver, it gives a great finish cannot
reccomend it enough.
Follow link for pic of my car at rob roy hillclimb in may this year (me driving) : http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d164/chequer57/_MG_0516_LOWRES.jpg
cheers, Grant 
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| posted on June 30th, 2011 at 05:49 PM |
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thanks everyone, oh yeah that exhaust system sounds the bomb!
thanks grant, you FINISHED it by the time you were 14? wow , that
thing looks like so much fun  its a 1200 right? man top job on that,
and yeah about the money thing.. or should i say the lack of, its alright though i have a channel on youtube which has ads around the video which
makes me money $$$ around $50 a week plus the money i earn weekly, so money isn't really a concern i just love the metal work aspect of this build..
POR 15 = great shit, i dream about the day i have the chassis coated with it and a whole bunch of parts ready to be fittted haha
cheers,
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| posted on June 30th, 2011 at 09:31 PM |
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Yep 1200, geee i should start finding a way of making more money than just washing the odd car or seven! The 1200 is only blueprinted, balanced,
lightly ported, and finely tuned to get every bit out of it (the regulations are very strict) But they still get around Eastern Creek in 1:57's and
Phillip Island i suspect maybe breaking 2 min (the better drivers among us though) What carbies are you gonna run and how much lift do you have on the
cam?(if ya can remeber! lol) Good luck with the rest of the build, keep us posted......
Cheers,
Grant
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| posted on September 23rd, 2011 at 09:53 PM |
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| posted on September 24th, 2011 at 07:43 AM |
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Well done on getting to the end of the body work.
What a mission. Kudos
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| posted on September 24th, 2011 at 08:32 AM |
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Well done x2, fantastic job, very impressed with the quality of your work. I must say though Marcus, the end of rust repairs is still a long way yet
to the end of the bodywork, but a milestone none the less.
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| posted on September 24th, 2011 at 09:15 AM |
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good on you for persisting through rust repairs.
Many kids your age would have given up by now.
Now the repairs are done, it's time to get the body straight. You going to file finish?
Cheers
D
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| posted on September 24th, 2011 at 09:18 AM |
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Congratulations
Futue te ipsum!!!
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| posted on September 24th, 2011 at 11:01 AM |
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That is great!
Looking the goods so far, can't wait to see this with the Type 4 in!
This whole thread is great, just read it through again and am genuinely glad I did.
Flintstones is right, many "kids" would have given up on the rust repairs, but you, you repaired them wonderfully!
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| posted on September 24th, 2011 at 02:43 PM |
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thanks everyone, i still havnt finished the rust repair sections, there are a few little spots but thats it,
i cant express how many times i have thought of giving up, so many barricades. but hell, once this thing is done, im sure it will all be worth it.
i want to give the blasting business (stripped bare soda blasting perth) some credit, i walked away from that car knowing its in good hands, sure
enough it was a fantastic job
well guys, im gonna stop talking, drink a coffee chill, clean the shed and then get back to work on it
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| posted on September 24th, 2011 at 02:45 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by Flintstones
good on you for persisting through rust repairs.
Many kids your age would have given up by now.
Now the repairs are done, it's time to get the body straight. You going to file finish?
Cheers
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thanks man, file finish? sorry dont understand
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| posted on September 24th, 2011 at 06:28 PM |
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Nice work mate! Will be great to see some colour on it 
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| posted on September 24th, 2011 at 10:05 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by DieSchnelleKafer
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posted by Flintstones
good on you for persisting through rust repairs.
Many kids your age would have given up by now.
Now the repairs are done, it's time to get the body straight. You going to file finish?
Cheers
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thanks man, file finish? sorry dont understand
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It's the art of using a dolly and hammer to adjust the panel and using a body file to let you know if you have adjusted it enough to make the panel
straight.
This way you don't have to use bog (plastic filler) to fill in area's that should have been adjusted.
Hope I explained it clearly for you.
Cheers
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| posted on September 24th, 2011 at 11:05 PM |
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ohh, well i dont think this car will require "thick" amounts of filler, just lots of small areas with thin filler on it, because someone has already
dollied out the dents, and they did it to a good qaulity so i will just re apply the filler in the areas needed.
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| posted on September 26th, 2011 at 09:52 AM |
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Love your work!!
This is going to look amazing once its done. Props to you
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| posted on October 11th, 2011 at 09:58 AM |
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Hey mate,
I really like your thread and your bug. Cant wait to see it finished!
Are you going to be using semaphores? if so do you think you'll put other little blinkers?
Just wondering if it's legal to just use the semaphores.
cheers
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| posted on October 11th, 2011 at 10:53 AM |
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Hey Mate, looks great.
You should Test the Stratos Silver on a test panel before you paint your whole car in it.
I tested it and it looks great in the sun but personally thought it hides the great lines of an early beetle in the shadows. Just a thought.
Also what are the gaps on either side under the backseat inbetween the guard inners and where the firewall comes down. Never seen this before.
My oval joins the bottom section of the firewall to the guard inners.
Anyway, keep up the great work.
T54
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| posted on October 11th, 2011 at 04:43 PM |
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i am learning away from strato, i want something allittle more badass. and with them gaps, i cut the rust out, and that included them sections, i am
actually looking fo them repair bits from a donor car
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| posted on October 19th, 2011 at 05:37 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by patina
Hey mate,
I really like your thread and your bug. Cant wait to see it finished!
Are you going to be using semaphores? if so do you think you'll put other little blinkers?
Just wondering if it's legal to just use the semaphores.
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i will be putting some blinkers up front and back and have a switch to switch from flashing blinkers to semaphores so i can spare using the semaphores
if i dont want to
it is legal to just have semaphores as it was orginally equipped on the car
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| posted on October 21st, 2011 at 10:10 PM |
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Nice work dude
You should look up KBS. It's Oz version of Por15 and just as good yet a fair bit cheaper. Did my floorpan in the stuff and it's great
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| posted on December 23rd, 2011 at 11:47 PM |
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Hi mate, I have been watching your build on here and on NoH2O also..... A sweet car in the makings, no doubt about it.
Your metal skills are very impressive for a dude your age... I did my first bug at 17 with my old man and none of my welding was as good as yours.
You still looking to sell the 59 ?
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Hi mate, I have been watching your build on here and on NoH2O also..... A sweet car in the makings, no doubt about it.
Your metal skills are very impressive for a dude your age... I did my first bug at 17 with my old man and none of my welding was as good as yours.
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thanks Doug! merry Christmas as well man
i am going to invest in a tig welder in a few months time, lets see how that works out
The 59 is still here, going cheap but its a little rough
thanks
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| posted on December 26th, 2011 at 11:20 PM |
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Merry Christmas also, hope Santa brought you a TIG welder and time to use it
You have pm re the 59.
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| posted on December 28th, 2011 at 08:49 PM |
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Hi, I can't find the replacement panels on the site you listed, do you know the part number or did you contact him and have the rear quarters and
apron made. Thanks t54
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| posted on December 28th, 2011 at 10:58 PM |
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For the rear cargo area you'll have to make them yourself. Far as I'm aware the cargo/bulkhead panel comes as an entire panel.
Try VW Heritage in the UK as they have a full listing of all Beetle parts. If they don't have it then no one will, well maybe West Coast or CIP1 but
thats about it.
Quite easy to make tho. Bit of 0.8mm steel and make a cardboard template. For the lip that goes up the rear arch you just pie cut and bend it up and
then weld the pie cuts back together. Also means you aren't using 0.6mm brazilian crap.
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| posted on December 29th, 2011 at 12:05 AM |
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hi t54, the rear apron was made by a man by the name of wolf. you can now find them here http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1020614
the rear qaurters were made by a company called kdf parts, tho i would recommend these ones: http://www.wolfparts.com/shop/index.php?cPath=21&sort=4a&page=2&o...
because i found that kdf parts one had a bad fit, to hard to explain
hey psimitar, a good fellow has cut them out of his car and sent them to me, better original metal 
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