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« Reply #60 on: February 24, 2007, 18:37:09 pm »


Last night I got my body up on the trailer, its going to paint prep now...  not the best weather!?!
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« Reply #61 on: February 24, 2007, 18:45:25 pm »
Good job, when is it due back?

Restorations in Norway this time of the year is always fun:
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« Reply #62 on: February 25, 2007, 02:35:54 am »
Quote from: DKK Rick on December 20, 2006, 18:04:38 pm
Quote from: JHU on December 20, 2006, 12:44:20 pm
An small hour later, destroyed for ever!  Roll Eyes Another NOS piece hits the dust for the LOOK!
This concludes my trim removing. Next on the to do list is the wings, repair and shaving.

We have a saying in the hot rod forums "Anyone can restore a car... but it takes a real man to cut one up!"  Cheesy
NO Rick It Goes Like This "Anyone can Resto A VW It Takes A Man To Do A Real OLD School Cal Look"  Ace Those Big Bumpers,Chrome Trim and those Ugly Turn Signails, Pull Out That 1641 with Kadrons and Put A Monster 2300 with IDA's  I Thought this Was the Cal Look Lounge?  Lets Roll Back Time and See Some Real Old School Street Driven Cal Looks to many Trailer Queens Being Built these Days..........
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« Reply #63 on: February 25, 2007, 03:02:54 am »
Ya know Shubee, I think the pendulum is swinging back to more drivers.
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« Reply #64 on: February 25, 2007, 18:00:05 pm »
It´s due back in two weeks time, and then it will sitt for a a few weeks before the final sanding and the black paint will go on it. Fingers crossed.

Shubee, you tell ´em!!  Wink
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« Reply #65 on: February 25, 2007, 18:08:13 pm »
A black 70's style cal-looker on real burners and with a hot engine... interesting Cool
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« Reply #66 on: February 26, 2007, 00:29:36 am »
Thanks Pekka, the burners will only be used for racing... otherwise they are retired.  Cool
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« Reply #67 on: February 28, 2007, 00:10:19 am »
When I got to the body shop today, my body looked like this:


Looks like someone is working on my car, other than me... a very odd but good feeling  Cool

When I left the dust was dangling in the air, and the roof was in its "birthday suit"
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« Reply #68 on: March 05, 2007, 15:25:37 pm »

A few pics from the progress. Glue gone!


Last weeks big project was to get the main body part blasted, I did it myself using a friends industrial size equipment. If you take it easy you don't warp anything..


I did the inside of all the fenders and the bottom inside of the doors, and also the area around vent window. Even though the doors are NOS they have a tiny amount of surface rust from storage. I did the inside edge of the hood as well. Before blasting the original front fenders I drilled the spot welds and took out the headlight buckets.   


I gave the buckets and the fender a good coat of welding primer and installed the buckets again... one less thing to worry about.


The car as it looks right now, some more stripping left for me.




This fender was discarded in favour of a "pattern part" by a fellow Norwegian enthusiast, it was way better than anything I had so I gave it a new life.

To spot a repro is quite simple actually, for instance, check the nice S curve from headlight bucket to fender edge.

This is a VW original:

And this one is Danish repro part: 
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« Reply #69 on: March 05, 2007, 15:40:02 pm »
Impressive work there, JonH...
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« Reply #70 on: March 05, 2007, 16:09:56 pm »
go go go john -- EBI is getting closer
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« Reply #71 on: March 05, 2007, 20:58:21 pm »
Are you not going to fill the exhaust cut outs Johnny?
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« Reply #72 on: March 05, 2007, 22:02:41 pm »
Thanks guys, I´m working hard these days, and, I´m not filling in the cutouts.  Cool
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« Reply #73 on: March 05, 2007, 23:57:39 pm »
Looking superb dude - so you up for racing me at EBI  Huh Smiley
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« Reply #74 on: March 08, 2007, 10:51:01 am »
If it's ready, I will race you monki-B! Lee-eliminator... thats me...  Wink

Been burning the candle in both ends this week, and I'm making progress on both my Bathroom, and more importanly, the CAR!

I pass this bodyshop on my way home from work, so I try to squeses in an hour on my way back. On monday I got the last paint of the fenders.



Then I sanded my bathroom ceiling, before going out in the barn and taking care of the only(?) rust in the floorpan.


On Tuesday I took care of some smal details that needed welding. Then I painted the ceiling and welded together the engine lid after sandlasting the edges.
Last night I spent the night there and got the horngrilles welded shut. Then I punched new holes with a 36mm hole  holepunch.


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« Reply #75 on: March 08, 2007, 12:50:14 pm »
I've got the SAME picture of my car at the body shop with the Lucas Grin Grin Grin Grin
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« Reply #76 on: March 09, 2007, 10:05:46 am »
I guess we need inpiration... thats why we take these photos... and nothing gets me going like a pair of Lucas...
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« Reply #77 on: March 12, 2007, 12:40:21 pm »
When I went over to work at the car this weekend, the body man had mocked up his wheels to my car...  even if these wheels are to bling-bling for me... it looks kind of cool. I had almost forgot that this was a car by this time.
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« Reply #78 on: March 12, 2007, 17:31:46 pm »
The rims are looking good but I think lately they're too trendy...

With the lucas & the stance the car is looking quite acceptable though... Wink
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« Reply #79 on: March 12, 2007, 21:34:02 pm »
Looking good!
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« Reply #80 on: March 16, 2007, 01:05:19 am »
Thanks!!

Now its covered up in some nice EPOXY.







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« Reply #81 on: March 16, 2007, 06:02:47 am »
I really am dead curious about the end result
see you at VoWo show Jon

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« Reply #82 on: March 16, 2007, 09:59:01 am »
Nice work,keep going on. Wink
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« Reply #83 on: March 17, 2007, 16:10:42 pm »
Hanging in there!!

Last night I did some pluming, there will be no shortage of gas for the engine.
No pictures yet.   Tongue
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« Reply #84 on: March 18, 2007, 12:31:00 pm »
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« Reply #85 on: March 20, 2007, 11:10:56 am »
It's fillertime!!
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« Reply #86 on: March 20, 2007, 11:26:14 am »
And last night I gave in to my obsessive side and cut up my newly primered fender.
The right fender is a original factory installed fender, but it wasn't perfectly identical to the original fender for this car.
Unfortunately the original fender was to far gone due to a serious dent, otherwise I would have used it.

The first discrepancy I corrected was the headlight bucket, with had slightly longer beads in the bottom on my original. So I swapped this over earlier. Then it got primered.

But the transition to the runningbords wasn't right I felt... it was"there" but didn't feel "crisp" enough. So I welded in the bottom from my original fender. After a sandblasting this evening I hope my body man can forgive me.
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« Reply #87 on: March 28, 2007, 15:50:14 pm »
This is what it looks like now... feels smooth to my untrained hands...
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« Reply #88 on: March 28, 2007, 17:08:11 pm »
Are you going to Fill in the Cut outs in the rear Apron ??
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« Reply #89 on: March 28, 2007, 17:24:07 pm »
Hi Jon, great work!
One little question, aren't you using the rear body to chassis mounts?
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