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Haven't used them myself Andrew, but have been told by a few different people that Glass Bead Technology at Wingfield are very good with cars...
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Surface rust is typical?
Gee, rather the opposite in most of the splits I've seen. :(
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ute resto 2nd sept

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cut out most of the rust, always worse than expected, inner and outer sills, nose, all four outriggers, crossmembers, left lower dogleg, tray issues.
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front end removed and stripped, eng and gearbox yanked.
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rear floor under tank brackets a bit cheesy, front floor mint!
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Good work pmg bus!, r u going to restore it completely or do it ratty style
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going to do my version of true rat!, solid and new and shiny underneath, orig outside, lowish, bigger than 30hp engine, leave the vw service logos on the doors.
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pics of ute progress, had to replace inners /outers outriggers jack mounts floor sections , all top tray ribs, nose etc etc , nearly ready for underside paint. trying out the home made rotisserie
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pmgbus wrote:going to do my version of true rat!, solid and new and shiny underneath, orig outside, lowish, bigger than 30hp engine, leave the vw service logos on the doors.

Could not agree more about True Rat

will be awesome Andew
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Great looking ute, looking forward to watching the progress...
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colouring in ute

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got out the dove blue crayons
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standing ovation, if this ute is 1/3 as good as robs it will awsome, the bottom looks great .
any chance of putting bigger pics up
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any free ware out there that can reduce to 100kb ?
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no show wrote:standing ovation, if this ute is 1/3 as good as robs it will awsome, the bottom looks great .
any chance of putting bigger pics up
That stuff certainly deserves a bigger picture. Sweet. 8)
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