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posted on May 20th, 2012 at 07:41 PM |
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My future project
just thought id put some pics up of my future project that i scored from my uncle. Im looking forward to getting it up to the coast to work on it, as
you can see its a major project.
Cheers dubster
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posted on May 20th, 2012 at 07:43 PM |
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Nice, that will come up a treat!
1965 VW Beetle
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posted on May 20th, 2012 at 07:46 PM |
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Thanx I also got a 71 bug off him as well but no pics of that yet as im still in the process of getting the car up here hopefully by the end of this
year.
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posted on May 21st, 2012 at 02:23 AM |
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great score, looks like a fairly straght forward resto job. you'll love it!!
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1 musso
2 early notchbacks
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posted on May 21st, 2012 at 07:26 AM |
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You are one lucky bugger. Wish my uncle had stuff like that. Good luck with them and keep us posted with progress.
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posted on May 21st, 2012 at 08:32 AM |
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Hell yeah. Looks fairly solid. Great starting point anyway!
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posted on May 21st, 2012 at 09:26 AM |
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Thanx guys i know I've got my work cut out for me, but I'm keen as to get it up to the coast.
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posted on May 21st, 2012 at 07:26 PM |
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Your Uncle's a very nice man!
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posted on May 21st, 2012 at 07:28 PM |
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thanx mate
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posted on May 21st, 2012 at 07:29 PM |
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Great stuff. good base for starting and cannot go wrong with a split.
"If it ain't rubbing,It ain't dubbing!!!!"
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posted on May 21st, 2012 at 07:49 PM |
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thanx.. its got some rust in a few places that need major attention but nothing an angle grinder and a welder cant fix lol.
Dubster
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posted on May 21st, 2012 at 08:05 PM |
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this is some of the rust spots i was talking about
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posted on May 21st, 2012 at 08:09 PM |
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almost the same clour as your beetle mate, well done. but I always reckon those old splitties look like a hell of a lot of work.
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posted on May 21st, 2012 at 08:10 PM |
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Nice score,enjoy,i know i would.
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posted on May 21st, 2012 at 08:12 PM |
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yeah i know hey, and yeah i know i've jumped in to the deep end but hey i'm willing to give it a shot.
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posted on May 21st, 2012 at 08:15 PM |
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thanx beetle_nut, yeah i dont know whats going to cost more restoring it or transporting it up to Queensland lol.
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posted on May 24th, 2012 at 08:38 PM |
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Very nice score mate
A word of advise I would cost up the amount of repairs as repair panels alone with be a few $'s.
I'm sure you have already done this it helps if your going to carry out all the rust repairs yourself.
enjoy
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posted on May 24th, 2012 at 08:40 PM |
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Looks like some fun times ahead. Would luv to get my hands on a split one day
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posted on May 24th, 2012 at 08:56 PM |
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Thanx for the heads up on those panels.
I did look into it and yeah they are a bit exy, but it's a long term project so I'll be buying one panel at a time.
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posted on May 24th, 2012 at 09:48 PM |
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Baja it!!!!!
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posted on May 24th, 2012 at 09:52 PM |
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What a split window kombi? Nah I'll skip on that thanx smiley.
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posted on May 24th, 2012 at 09:57 PM |
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What a split window kombi? Nah I'll skip on that thanx smiley.
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Yep. They make great offroad buses.
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posted on May 24th, 2012 at 09:59 PM |
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I'm sure they do , but I'm goin old school on her
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