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Bocho67
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 Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 3:18 pm Post subject: clear Decklid? |
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| Any body ever hear about or seen a clear transparent decklid? |
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Glenn 
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I've seen them for a Civic.
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Glenn
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If you're serious...
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lonotch
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I have seen one or two, they were on 68 and later cars.
I have never seen one for a earlier model.
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Hacksaw-BoB
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YES 
I have always been partial to those VWs, especially the Cabrio's with the clear engine deck lids 
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IN2VWS
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18 year old photo.
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18 year old photo.
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Wow, you even managed to get the license plate transparent. Old school photo shop.
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IN2VWS
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haha, yep.
Not sure if the current digital cameras can do it, but on my old 35mm camera you could do multiple exposures on the one frame.
So, I set up the camera on a tripod, then measured what the exposure should be for a normal shot.
Then you set the camera to take a pic with the engine lid open, at half the measured shutter speed. Then take the second pic at the same settings with the engine lid shut.
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Hacksaw-BoB
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Way - Way too cool IN2VWS 
You had me fooled
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Bocho67
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| Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:22 pm Post subject: yeah! |
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| Yeah i want a clear decklid for my 67' bug not matter what price anybody know where i could order one? |
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my65vert
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Just dont put a decklid on it at all and tell everyone it is there but clear. Even go through all the motions of opening and closing it as if it is there.
Be cheaper and just as dumb.
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Bocho67
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| Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 9:01 pm Post subject: ...... |
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| ..what if it starts to rain? |
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my65vert
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LOL
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IN2VWS
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| Hacksaw-BoB wrote: |
Way - Way too cool IN2VWS
You had me fooled |
Same technique.....
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| Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 1:31 am Post subject: Re: ...... |
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Just use proper plastic wax to protect the plastic deck lid.
There used to be a guy making them in Mexico and a guy used to sell all clear plexiglass ones at J-bugs / Calif. Pacific interiors, but that was many years back. No '67 year but I think they were '68 - '79 type.
You could see the bondo repair in the master in the finish part.
I had thought of doing them like the above technique with using a metal OEM deck lid, cutting out a section and then using Polycarbonate sheeting and cal look rubber to mount it...but I have far too many other better products to work on these days.
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Spanish Flea
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| Hacksaw-BoB wrote: |
Way - Way too cool IN2VWS
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Same technique.....
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I like this one better, Can't do the double exposure with a digital today, all needs to be done in photoshop, I've done a few in this style, but not of cars.
Great photos.
Spanish Flea
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Hacksaw-BoB
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Ok IN2VWS - that clear door effect is SUPER 
Now you have given fuel for thought for someone producing clear VW doors
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/\ /\ That's the way I was thinking of making them but as a core / exchange base.
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