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tavogalarza
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Location: Sarasota,Florida
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 Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 6:34 pm Post subject: Re: operation rust nose |
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| skills@eurocarsplus wrote: | well, seeing that i am a nice guy and have a desire to fuel my raging appetite for rust i have stepped up to the plate to put the nose of this bus back together. story goes in a previous life, a bunch of mexicans stuffed the nose full of newspaper and bondo, hence, the rust. on to the pix
6:30 arrival at my house
after doing roll backs and donuts, its in the operating room 
i had a donor nose that i pre-welded a new windshield channel into, that is what will be used on the top
i may have to ask for a few of these on top of the deal with the owner 
the wolfgang part is a month away, and i wasn't willing to wait, so we decided to do the repair on the donor parts
out with the old
in with the new
well, not quite. i am waiting for POR 15 to dry, i did both sides, which is a bittersweet victory, as i will burn some when i start welding
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I am Mexican, but i would never do something nasty like that. The story sounds familiar, i just bought a 68 baywindow double cab that previously a bunch of gringos stuffed up with newspaper, magazines and about a ton of bondo all around. It is very sad that some people just don't do things in a right manner. By the way great job. |
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skills@eurocarsplus
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Location: sticksville, ct.
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| Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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well, that was the 100% truth. the bus started life in AZ. it got "fixed" by some body shop in mexico, by what i would assume was mexican's.
sad thing is, it looked like it needed 2 little patches. the rest of that bus is 100% straight and solid.
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tavogalarza
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Location: Sarasota,Florida
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| Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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| skills@eurocarsplus wrote: | well, that was the 100% truth. the bus started life in AZ. it got "fixed" by some body shop in mexico, by what i would assume was mexican's.
sad thing is, it looked like it needed 2 little patches. the rest of that bus is 100% straight and solid. |
It would be nice if they would have stuffed the whole bus with 100 dollar bills.  best regards. |
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obnoxiousblue
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Location: East Northport, NY
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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Where on CT are you?
My bay needs a few spots, getting a shop to work on anything on LI is impossible and most the restoration guys around here have year long wait lists.
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