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Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:59 am

Hello! I'm Martin, from Argentina, i got 25 years old. I bought this bus two years ago, and i'm restoring on my free time.
I always wanted to have a vw bus, and i have been lucky finding this one.
I wish to share the pics of the restoration progress with this community, hope you enjoy them.
The bus is a german split 65. I think it was hit on left and another hit on front right. It was about two years parked in a yard, the latest owners didn't take care of it, and it comes rusty.
I started the body work on January this year, so i will post some old pics at first.
This forum is very useful to me. I have earned lot of knowledge a lot here.
So thanks to everybody!

Sorry for my english.
Martin.

Bus found! :D

Sandblasting

I wanted to kill this man when i find my bus on this position! lol

Cleaning for phosphating and primer

First coat of primer

Tue Nov 02, 2010 11:23 am

firula wrote:
I wanted to kill this man when i find my bus on this position! lol

Face Down ASS UP!!! :shock:, Looks like a nice project have fun

Tue Nov 02, 2010 11:28 am

Buen trabajo pibeeee y buena base

saludos desde España :D

eguti66 wrote: firula wrote:
I wanted to kill this man when i find my bus on this position! lol

Face Down ASS UP!!! :shock:, Looks like a nice project have fun

Tue Nov 02, 2010 1:29 pm

Looks like a fun project. You are off to a good start.

Tue Nov 02, 2010 1:43 pm

I liked the stripes...good luck on the project.

Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:31 pm

Thanks! i really appreciate it.

Some more pics:

First hammer steps, hehe

Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:40 pm

66busman wrote: I liked the stripes...good luck on the project.

Thanks! Yup, stripes not bad, but i prefer go back to some original color :wink: , this bus was dove blue, but my wife likes sealing was red/beige gray.
You can imagine the color it will have when finished... :lol:

Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:49 pm

Another "buffalo" style pic:

And a "sand clock" style, lol

Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:08 pm

Nice progress :D

Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:07 pm

Che Martin, esta buena la Kombi y lo trabajo en lata.

Ai que hacer una viaje a la Patagonia y por los Andes cuando terminar, ou a la playa en Brasil.

Estibe por la Argentina de Paso de Los Libres a Mendoza Y chile Enero passado, y no vi ninguna otra kombi splitscreen por toda viaje. Me juntei con la gente em Mendoza en un encuentro de VW mas solo las Kombis mas nuevas hay visto. Estaba con la 65' que tengo.

Buena Suerte e saludos con la macarena.

Julio

Wed Nov 03, 2010 9:39 am

Adam wrote: Nice progress :D

Thank you!

Wed Nov 03, 2010 9:51 am

novetti wrote: Che Martin, esta buena la Kombi y lo trabajo en lata.

Ai que hacer una viaje a la Patagonia y por los Andes cuando terminar, ou a la playa en Brasil.

Estibe por la Argentina de Paso de Los Libres a Mendoza Y chile Enero passado, y no vi ninguna otra kombi splitscreen por toda viaje. Me juntei con la gente em Mendoza en un encuentro de VW mas solo las Kombis mas nuevas hay visto. Estaba con la 65' que tengo.

Buena Suerte e saludos con la macarena.

Julio

Thank you!, when we got it finished, i think Patagonia is the first travel we'll do. We want to travel all the country, or all America why not! It's just a dream, but dreams comes true time to time!

There is not much splits here, a guy who has a registry of splits told me there is about 15 running so far in country.
Here is a big group of vw buses, about 600 members solokombis.com.ar which i'm a member.

You can write in english if you want, i can understand well, i just have some problems with redaction. jeje

Wed Nov 03, 2010 9:57 am

Tailgate repair:

Ready to go:

Wed Nov 03, 2010 10:01 am

Wed Nov 03, 2010 10:07 am

Cargo doors repair, they was too much rusty on bottom.

Wed Nov 03, 2010 10:13 am

The other was almost same conditions...

Water drain :P

Wed Nov 03, 2010 10:29 am

sconord wrote a post about cargo door lock mechanism fix:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4482330

This help me to take out my fear for open it, i cleaned the mechanism, and lubricate it with graphite grease.

I didn't drill out the rivets, i just dremel the rivets borders, leaving enough material to rivet it again. It's just good to maintain the box closed, because later with the 4 screws will be strong tightened.

Thanks sconord!

Old grease and sand from blasting:

Cleaned locks! :D

Wed Nov 03, 2010 10:40 am

The upper hinge of passenger door was really damaged. I think it was because some hit on font right side.

Lot better! :D

Wed Nov 03, 2010 2:45 pm

firula, you are doing an excellent job, a real craftsman.
Keep up the good work and thanks for posting photos :wink:

Wed Nov 03, 2010 3:59 pm

8)

Great work so far!