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Wed Jul 25, 2007 3:11 pm

Sandblasted and primered the white parts. Will sand and paint them this week. EDIT: sanded all the white primered parts.

Wed Jul 25, 2007 5:25 pm

Damn I can't wait to see it done!

Wed Jul 25, 2007 5:48 pm

Tim, you are Green Beret of crew cabs.

Thu Jul 26, 2007 4:04 pm

Painted. Parts arent perfect but its a truck.
Forgot my camera, cant seen to get good ones from the one at work. The parts are white in person, not beige.

Thu Jul 26, 2007 4:55 pm

Hey Tim, you coming to busses and balloons in Albuquerque?

Thu Jul 26, 2007 4:56 pm

TimGud wrote: Skim wrote: Tim its looking good. The original pics didnt look like it was gonna need all that work but man you sure got busy with it. Keep it up.

Lots of bondo hid a multitude of sins.

Been there done that, :wink:
Nice work man, an artist never appreciates his work until he sells it. If even then. :wink:

Some advise: They make an attachment to go on spay guns to get a plastic nozzle down into hidden areas. So you can load up those areas with primer sealer..damn if I know what they call em. Saw them in an.... "I-Car" video years ago.

Fri Jul 27, 2007 6:55 am

alex_juarez wrote: Hey Tim, you coming to busses and balloons in Albuquerque?

I honestly don't know, my plans for attending shows this fall are on hold. My mother in laws been seriously Ill and in the hospital for about two months.

Better pics of bumpers:

Mon Jul 30, 2007 11:23 am

Test fit the heater/defrost tube today. Installed the kick panels to make sure it all lines up and it did. Will weld it in shortly. Ended up having to cut and grind all the old factory welds to assemble it on the bus. Hope to have the front clip in primer this afternoon after welding this on.

Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:44 pm

I've done a lot of bodywork and my sons have too since I last posted pics of the truck. All the straight panels have been done by my teenagers as I've been teaching them. Lots of shrinking dolly/hammer work and a skim coat sanded flat.

All bare metal parts primered with self etching primer.

Cargo floor welded in and ground down.

Front clip , dash, floor backside of front clip primered.

Will repair the door sill later

Sun Aug 05, 2007 4:49 pm

I ran across an old picture of the front clip that I had spray painted POS onto and thought I'd post it as a before and after shot.
Before:

After:

Mon Aug 06, 2007 11:28 pm

thats looking great! I hope to own a split double cab one day

Tue Aug 07, 2007 7:59 am

TimGud wrote: alex_juarez wrote: Hey Tim, you coming to busses and balloons in Albuquerque?

I honestly don't know, my plans for attending shows this fall are on hold. My mother in laws been seriously Ill and in the hospital for about two months.

Better pics of bumpers:

Tim, is this a truck rear bumper or a bus rear bumper. If you are putting a bus rear bumper on your truck you may run into problems with the bumper rubbing the corners. You may already know this, so hopefully it will benefit readers. Anyway the rear corners of VW trucks are squared off, while buses have rounded corners. This cuases some issues when using bus bumpers on singles and doubles.

Anyway, tim, your DC looks great.

Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:10 am

BenAllmon wrote: TimGud wrote: alex_juarez wrote: Hey Tim, you coming to busses and balloons in Albuquerque?

I honestly don't know, my plans for attending shows this fall are on hold. My mother in laws been seriously Ill and in the hospital for about two months.

Better pics of bumpers:

Tim, is this a truck rear bumper or a bus rear bumper. If you are putting a bus rear bumper on your truck you may run into problems with the bumper rubbing the corners. You may already know this, so hopefully it will benefit readers. Anyway the rear corners of VW trucks are squared off, while buses have rounded corners. This cuases some issues when using bus bumpers on singles and doubles.

Anyway, tim, your DC looks great.

Thanks for the heads up but I did know that, just forgot to clearance the upper side of the bumper at the corners. Will do so later, wetsand the bumper, and shoot it again.

Thu Aug 09, 2007 7:15 am

I did not have to notch my rear bumper on the '59 SC Tim. It's close but no need to cut the bumper. Do a test fit with your sons help first before you cut.
Batterys are dead in the digi or I would take a pic for you.

Thu Aug 09, 2007 11:41 am

Thanks Lou.

The passenger side long panel's done (mostly). The hinge area needs work and there are a couple of blemishes to remove.

Before:

After.

Thu Aug 09, 2007 1:40 pm

Awesome work Tim. It's great you're teachin the youngins some body work skills.

Sat Aug 11, 2007 4:18 am

Put a guide coat on all the panels that are close to being done. Now its down to primer/block sand. Need to finish up the welding too by the door (C-pillar area) and the rear window.

Sat Aug 11, 2007 4:53 pm

Tue Sep 04, 2007 4:37 pm

Don't mean to bump this, but damn Tim, this is coming out great. Looking out for an update! =P~

Tue Sep 04, 2007 4:49 pm

Looks great Tim!

(I'll have to remember not to park near Tim's beautiful DC with my POS Westy when he get's it finished.)