The Cal-look Lounge

This is my other baby...shared between me & Russell!
Its currently completely stripped & halfway through having thr rh heater channel replaced, progress has been a bit slower than hoped due to life getting in the way!
Also took about a year to collect all the bits needed!
 ;D

Is this Keith Seume's old one?

The very one!
One of my all time favorite vw`s. Was hoping to have it at bug in but thats looking shakey..
 :)

Kev get your arse in gear, youve got till june 2007, ill get the engine done in march and we can paint in it April and refit in May...........................easy !

Russell

now that would sound like an amazing deal to me  :o  '
i'd go for it!!

Loads of time then.... ::)
Watch this space ;)

watching and waiting..............

Kev

its now mid Jan 2007 and us loungers are all wanting to see the progress ? Please !!!!!

Waiting.........

And I'm waiting to be flown from Newquay up to Aberdeen to oversee the project... Slackers. >:( ;D

Just because you do something quickly doesnt mean you`ve done it properly,
or so my wife says.. ;)

Kev

Looks like Uncle Keith is getting fed up too, get your a$£E in Ghia and get it sorted, tell ur boss to cut you some slack.................

Mines a bacon + egg plus brown sauce.

Thought it was time to prove I`ve not forgotten where the garage is... ;)
Hopefully the heater channel will be completed & I`ll have made a start on fitting the new front end his week, then it`s off for chemical stripping before finishing the welding & beginning a marathon prepping session.. ;D

More progress today..

Have it looking like a lifeboat again in no time, eh Ivan? ;D

Kev

Good progress, chassis will be in safe hands next week, trust me.

Keith, see the sign behind the rear seat, did you steal this ?

No idea what that's about! When I had did the car originally, that was a piece of plain aluminium sheet! :o

Keith do you have any other build up photos other than the ones that appeared in CC, Please ?

i bet you've had a few of them in your time russell   ;) ;D

Yes 278 to be exact and i can feel everyone.

So BMXracerboy, who are you ?

i'll keep you guessing for a bit longer ;D, your mate kev is he the guy out of the proclaimers if not tell him sorry ;)

if wearing glasses and coming from scotland are all you need then yes, otherwise no.

Im not guessing i just wondered

And as it looks now...
L/H sill is fitted & front end is nearly trimmed down for the new 1/4 panels - couple of days work and it should be finished from the B-posts forward ::)

BTW Keith hows it going? ;D

BMXBOY - were you part of the ferry drinking team from Spa?? ???

Shiney steel ;D

car's looking well

i was part of a ferry drinking team but not a spa was at jablines, le mans & mania  ;D

Jamie

When did you get high tech with a computer !!!!!!!

I know i was meant to call back but time etc.

You now have my email address.

BMX Racer boy !!!!! A throw back from your younger days, when you were good at something, hopefully age has got the watercolled out of you blood and you are back upo and running with AIR.

You coming down for the volksworld show and a few beers then ?

hi russell,

didn't take you long, easy guess thou, was thinking about volksworld might be for day thou, got my 64 back and got the bug again (no pun intened) still got water in my veins thou,
back racing bmx and mtbs it's good fun!!

 hope family's well i'll ring soon 

jamie

send your email again buy private message, cheers

Ps Happy New Year, we must hook up at VW, its your round........

And the comment about the bacon rolls, ha, ha....... You must be on the same diet as me a SEE FOOD one.........

What the F&&&&&&&&& have you done to MY car????? Remember Culloden.....?  ;D

Keith

Not us, what has time and lack of interest done to your car, we are now the doctors at work.... Yes Kevin does like a repair or two but nothing but the best for the old lady i can assure you.

I reckon you should come to aberdeen and get involved with the build up pics we can see how time has treated you since you appeared in CC with the car ! I must dig these out and add to this post...... I remember seeing you getting an award at some cruise night..... wow the hair, the flares, the shirt bet your glad times have moved on mate....

OK, OK, so how much do you want NOT to publish the pics?  ;D ;D ;D

Jamie!! Where you been hiding then - golf shows??? ;D
See ya at sandown ;)

Keith - remember you had a tidy 15 yr old fasty to play with...I don`t!

Kev, why are you not working ?

Damn! I forget I built the car almost 20 years ago! :o

PS – you heard what Russell said: why aren't you working? ;D

i'am well kev, hope you are too, might have a drink with you but only if your buying, cos you scots love to splash the cash don't you ::) 


and why aren't you working

jamie

I`m paid for what I know, not what I do... ;D

Ah well your being paid too much then........................

iguana engine arrived today....

he looks like the bastard child of Jesus and Francis Rossi,but smaller ;)

Well after much pressure on Ked D we now have the new front end in place, its getting there !

Well Done kev.

Come on Kev lets see the progress.............

What do we want? Progress! When do we want it? Now! ;D

Progress not as quick as I`d like but hey - better than none! ::)

Spent ages setting all the gaps but eventually got the welder fired up, both front 1/4`s now mostly fitted with just the lower heater channel joins left to do once the body is off the floorpan.
The front panel is ready to go on now all the holes a `looker does`nt need have all been filled!

Would like an N.O.S. bonnet to complete the front if anyone knows of any?????

Looks more like a fasty now that there`s more fresh steel than brown lace though.. ;)

bit better job that KS managed !!!!!!!!

Well done

Thanks Russell. ???
The only front-end sheet metalwork done back then was by John Brewster to remove the badge mount and fill the unnecessary holes.

No problem Keith, as with all these trend setting cars they were built from the heart, no one ever thought they would be collected to keep forever..... by some daft scots men !

For the record, I was only fooling around with you, sorry.

Russell

Another day another picture ;)
I got a lot more done today than expected-how often does that happen??

Thats the front panel fitted now which pretty much completes the front end, just leaving fitting the strengthening gussets at the rear of the inner wings and some welding round the heater channels.
I got the body off the floorpan tonight which means I`ll get the final welding done tomorow.
If it all goes to plan the shell could be acid dipped & coated in the next couple of weeks which means I can see how much work is left in the rear half.
I`ve also made a dolly to move the shell around on.
The pan is stripped bare & will hopefully be blasted next week, theres a couple of minor repairs to be done to it then it`s off to the powder coaters.
I`ve got much more done in the last couple of months than I expected to, so the target is paint by christmas - watch this space ;D

kev

ps. stick to metal work as your joinery skills are lacking !

More progress!!

The bodyshell came back from being acid dipped & etch primed this week & it looks a 1000000% better.
All the leftover repairs are visible & it did`nt turn out to be any worse than I expected (well not much anyway...)
This is`nt a cheap process but its money well spent as its the only way to really cure all those rusty bits.

I`m confident it can be in paint by christmas now :o

Kev, update for the loungers....

Well....the light at the end of the tunnel is getting bigger & brighter ;)
I`ve finished all the repairs to the osr inner wing - bumper mount, air box bottom & the lower bulkhead where it meets the heater channel & fitted the outer sill.

Hopefully the `pan will be blasted in the next couple of weeks & it can be built up...

Pics to follow ;D

Wow! I was going to say 'was it really that rotten?'. Then i saw the NOS panels!  :o  Good work!   ;D

Some reallly nice work going on here. Keep it up and more pics please...

Forgot to mention the other day that i pickedup the July 1987 issue of CC the other day - I forgot just how COOL that Fastback was :)

Shops obviously a bit slow round your way then.. ;)
When you getting stuck into that `66 then??

yeah and it only cost me a pound  :)

as for the 66 - I should be starting at the end of the month - as long as all my money comes together  ::) :)

Kev

whats going on with this project now has it taken a back seat to others, or has it been finished?  ???

Wish I could say it was finished.. ;)
It took a backseat for a while due to work  & a house extension, then when I got back into the garage I got sidetracked with the oval ::)

It will be orange next year!!

It will be orange next year!!... you promise  ???

I want to see it at EBI.

It`ll be at an EBI sometime.. ;)

Slacker

Fair point.. ;)

see it at EBI !!!! I want to race it at EBI3.

You just want to break Keiths old car, nothing like returning a favour........lol

Any updates?   :)

Its got some more dust on it... ::)
I`ve not touched it since the last update tbh, I`m concentrating on my oval right now.
Its not been forgotten about ;)

Cheers,
Kev

Like heck it hasn't. Bloody kids – give them a new toy and they soon forget the old one. ::) :-* :-* :-*

Cool. Hope to see it progress soon.   :)

Haven`t you got a pile of bits - I mean a `65 bug to finish.. ;) :-*

Fair comment. >:(

BUSTED!
lol

whats up with this?

Its orange now ;D 8)

I'm building my 66 type 3 for racing at the moment, it´s allready registered for the EBI. Make sure I can take a racepicture racing this legendary car  ;).
Mine will be sporting a superhot 1200 pancakeengine on juice.

never heard of a  1200 pancake engine. did you fab that in yourself? much like the 1200 on LPG. i liked that.

and kev, it's orange, but is it finished...  ;D

Pics needed!  :)