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Re: 1960 Split Window Resto/Rebuild
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 7:04 pm
by VRSenator065
63 left hooker wrote:VRSenator065 wrote:Cooper didn't score it buddy, I did
Nice work
Thanks, really looking forward to getting stuck into it, very new to the VW scene, and also to body work and paint side of it, so it's going to be a very steep learning curve
Re: 1960 Split Window Resto/Rebuild
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 8:16 pm
by red hot bus
Yeah just missed out on it twice. First time at the wrecker the bloke said a white one was taken about a month before I found the place. Then I found it sitting behind a body shop and the guy didn't want to sell it. 2 days later Gary posted up saying he just brought it for $500 I was spewing. Owell I've got enough and I'm sure Gary will do a great job restoring it.
Re: 1960 Split Window Resto/Rebuild
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 9:01 pm
by VRSenator065
Yea right place right time I think. Have a pretty good idea in my mind how I would like it to end up, very sympathetic externally and visually but with uprated mechanicals. But everything I do I would like to be reversible so if anyone later on wants to take it back to totally original they can.
Re: 1960 Split Window Resto/Rebuild
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 4:34 pm
by VRSenator065
Re: 1960 Split Window Resto/Rebuild
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 1:14 am
by Rat214
Cool, another twin tail light.
Re: 1960 Split Window Resto/Rebuild
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 8:55 pm
by johnharte
How you getting on with this resto?
Re: 1960 Split Window Resto/Rebuild
Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 9:40 am
by VRSenator065
Re: 1960 Split Window Resto/Rebuild
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 8:39 am
by VRSenator065
Re: 1960 Split Window Resto/Rebuild
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 8:41 am
by VRSenator065
Just a catch up post, for where I am up to now.
After lunch it got me a bit interested so I broke out some gear and started getting into it.
At first I just wanted to do a couple of spots to see how it was underneath. Ended up doing the whole roof, as well as the interior. Even the windows cleaned up really well. What steel work is there is actually pretty sound, especially from the floor up, and also the front cabin. Not bad when you consider he's 55 years old and spent a number of years in a paddock.
As I say I have never tackled body work before so actually really looking forward to giving it a go. I am not after a show quality finish, just something that will look good on the road, that we can really enjoy.
Re: 1960 Split Window Resto/Rebuild
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 12:57 pm
by braddick
Thanks for sharing
Goodluck
Might c u at the next sa vw show
Re: 1960 Split Window Resto/Rebuild
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 7:03 pm
by Leroy
Nice solid base to start with
Re: 1960 Split Window Resto/Rebuild
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 7:20 pm
by rabidkombi
Great work there, love the shed as well
Re: 1960 Split Window Resto/Rebuild
Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 8:39 am
by VRSenator065
Thanks very much all, yea I think its pretty solid from the waist up, I appreciate there is a lot of work but really very happy with it tbh. At least it will be saved from the scrap heap.
The shed is a bit of a hobby in itself, I have a half height hoist, and behind the main work area is a room I had once had as a gym that now I call the tool room with a small lathe, grinders, welder etc, so over the years i have built up a nice collection of gear. Not much in the way of body work stuff though as yet. Pretty sure Andrew is a memebr on here, he is hoping to come out Sunday and talk me through getting started which will be great, so i can start to work out a plan of attack.
Re: 1960 Split Window Resto/Rebuild
Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 10:59 am
by vanell
I will be coming past your place next Saturday would love to come and have a look, I'm welding up one at the moment can give you some tips also. Ian
Re: 1960 Split Window Resto/Rebuild
Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 11:03 am
by VRSenator065
vanell wrote:I will be coming past your place next Saturday would love to come and have a look, I'm welding up one at the moment can give you some tips also. Ian
Hi mate, what a bummer, my wife and I are out all Saturday doing volunteer work for the tour down under. Another day though for sure!!