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posted on November 2nd, 2004 at 02:08 PM


theres alot more paint on there now than there ever would have been applied in the factory

damn its good to see these pics again....

.... makes me realise how much work has gone into it and how far its come
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posted on November 2nd, 2004 at 10:09 PM


Kim, its looking great. Cant wait till I see that on the road, and almost do my neck turning my head saying to myself "f#@k, look at that!"

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posted on November 3rd, 2004 at 08:55 AM


damn that is the shiniest underbody i've seen!

very nice and throrough!




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posted on November 5th, 2004 at 09:25 PM


yeah its looking pretty good so far

good guess on the color alan

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posted on November 5th, 2004 at 09:37 PM


sooo shweet, love to see a resto like that looks sooo shweet,

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posted on November 5th, 2004 at 09:56 PM


here are some of the shots of the interior, areas that are gonna keep the paint exposed

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posted on November 5th, 2004 at 09:56 PM


back seat

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posted on November 5th, 2004 at 10:09 PM


and some more of the interior
i wanna keep the areas that run along the inside of the roof gutters that are usually covered by the headlining exposed, and also along the front above the windscreen

gonna have to tuck the trim that will cover the ragtop assembly into this area somehow

should be fun!
http://img76.exs.cx/img76/8266/goldepics-28_edited.jpg
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posted on November 5th, 2004 at 10:13 PM


and yes jim, you were right about the larger holes for the speaker/speedo area

i have been working on some templates for the dash that i have now completed in peruvian walnut (this was the best timber that i could find to match the flat4 steering wheel and eliminator shifter)

here is a picture of the templates in original form (5mm MDF) which i cut out with a jigsaw and them spent hours filing back to get the profiles to match the dash

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posted on November 5th, 2004 at 10:17 PM


thanks at this juncture go to nick for letting me cut the dash out of a wreck so that i could spend the next 3 weekends sanding up the templates

anyways, once they were sanded, the services of another mate (carpenter, not aussieveedubber) needed to be employed. thanks dave.

together we used the templates and some pretty trick attachements to his router and plunger and cut the walnut to the exact same shape as the mdf

(damn - i thought i had uploaded this pics of the walnut)
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posted on November 5th, 2004 at 10:21 PM


anyway, i will sign off for the night with my fav picture so far, from a few months back.

this is when the underside was painted but before it was fitted back to the pan and ready for topside painting in the booth
http://img76.exs.cx/img76/5724/goldepics-20_edited.jpg

next update i can show some pics of dash (walnut not MDF) and the car assembled prior to painting in the booth




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posted on November 8th, 2004 at 05:24 AM


Lookin good Kim!



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posted on November 8th, 2004 at 11:22 AM


Sweet ride, should come up a treat.



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posted on November 8th, 2004 at 11:45 AM


awesome stuff i cant wait for the next set of pics :thumb



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posted on November 11th, 2004 at 05:55 PM


Youve come along way brother xlnt work proud as punch to say that that car is a Oildripper.



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posted on November 11th, 2004 at 07:30 PM


Wow that last pic is impressive......Kim it's gunna look so sweet...

The workshop is so clean n tidy!!! Can't get over it...




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posted on December 6th, 2004 at 08:45 PM


time to post some more pics.
I havent seen it for a while, cos i ve been interstate

got back to melbourne to find some parts i d ordered had arrived in the mail, so i gotta go and put them on soon

thanks to classic vee dub (pacific) for the parts.

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posted on December 6th, 2004 at 08:58 PM


ok:

as promised, here are pics of the walnut dash.
you cant tell from these how dark it will be.

i have stained it since then.

guages mount up to fit flush, with chrome surrounds

i will put in a standard speedo i think for RWC and rego etc, but im toying with the idea of fitting a t3 orange needle (kms) speedo to suit the other VDO guages i have.

i think that the orange needle would add some consistency to the look of the dash.

.... anyway, just dreaming now.

here are the pics of the dash prior to staining. i sat them up to look like it will when finished

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posted on December 6th, 2004 at 09:00 PM


will also be keeping the original chrome and attaching it to the dash to continue the horizontal line that i like so much about the flat screen bugs.

i have had the central bit of chrome shortened and rechromed to fit, cos the guages meant that it was about 15mm too long

also got some billet dash knobs to fit up too




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posted on December 6th, 2004 at 09:01 PM


oh, and changed the horn button to black

blue would have look out of place in there!




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posted on December 6th, 2004 at 09:04 PM


now the momentous occasion:

BODY ONTO PAN - PRIOR TO PAINT

from this:
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to this:
http://img121.exs.cx/img121/6773/goldepics-45_edited.jpg

seems like so little, but it was a milestone for me to get the body back onto the pan and know that it was there for good

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posted on December 6th, 2004 at 09:11 PM


more pics of the body on the pan:

http://img121.exs.cx/img121/3667/goldepics-38_edited.jpg

http://img121.exs.cx/img121/7121/goldepics-39_edited.jpg

http://img121.exs.cx/img121/8828/goldepics-41_edited.jpg

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posted on December 6th, 2004 at 09:12 PM


then more rubbing and lots of careful fitting off (thanks sasha) prior to painting.

all the hang offs were fitted up as a check prior to being pulled off and painted seperately. doors were painted on the car.

here it is prior to colour going on

keep in mind that i am a slow mover when it comes to posting these pics, and all this work was done some months ago.

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posted on December 6th, 2004 at 09:17 PM


and the rear view

notice that w lid.

steel not fibreglass - thanks again to sasha - this came up better than i thought and it has nt got those vents that some many people like

(sorry, but i dont)

anyway, another minor difference to most that makes all the difference to me

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posted on December 6th, 2004 at 09:20 PM


you can see from the last pic that the T bar on the Eliminator shifter is too close to the stereo box.

this has been modified since.
just another of the problems when doing everything a little different

thats it for me tonight

next update: paint is on!!
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posted on December 6th, 2004 at 09:54 PM


Awesome stuff Kim....it certainly is a monentous occasion getting that body back onto pan and one that I can't wait for!!

Just out of curiosity, why is the body being painted on the pan (considering the need for masking up etc)? I'm sure there is a good reason!

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posted on December 6th, 2004 at 10:24 PM


very nice work... keep em coming



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posted on December 7th, 2004 at 05:34 AM


looking good Kim, real good!



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posted on December 7th, 2004 at 06:28 AM


Gets better every time I look at this post. She's gunna be one sweet ride.



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posted on December 7th, 2004 at 08:20 AM


very nice.

should be great once its painted completely




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