1949 Restoration

aa390392 · Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 9:56 am Post subject:

The 49 is so well done....the color is "delicious ",the whole project is a huge tease! I really liked the shots taken in paint booth in primer.excuse my naivety on early models, but what is the knob to the front and rt of the shifter? I have never noticed it before, my guess would be choke? Embarassed

Thomas
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ian macdowall · Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 12:28 pm Post subject:

Looks great, really nice work! Cool

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DadsOld74 · Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 1:50 pm Post subject:

Wow! Thank you for keeping this history alive. You are doing an amazing job.
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nlorntson · Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 1:50 pm Post subject:

nlorntson · Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 1:55 pm Post subject:

nlorntson · Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 9:07 am Post subject:

More fun.

Got the tubes and tires mounted and balanced. Hubby went through the front end and adjusted front bearings, steering gear, camber, caster, and toe (sure helps to have my own professional alignment tech!).

Still need to recheck torque on the shock bolts and nuts now that most of the front end weight is on them. Also have to go through and make sure all the locking tabs are folded over the bolt heads.

Not much to take pictures of but here are a couple of my favorites that keep me moving.

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Grant Reiling · Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 12:43 pm Post subject:

Isbrand52 · Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 5:35 pm Post subject:

Beautiful car Nancy. Worth the time and effort. Make sure you remove the paint on the wheels where the wheel bolts seat and hold the wheel to the drum. Initially recheck wheel tightness often. I didn't and my wheel pasted me as I was driving down the road. Can't wait to see it finished.

mdvanderploeg · Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 6:19 pm Post subject:

Looks wonderful, & I love that we have a '49, '50, and '52 all nearing completion at about the same time.

nlorntson · Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 6:37 pm Post subject:

pastellgreen · Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 12:43 am Post subject:

The same happened to me! I lost the right back wheel during driving (70 km/h) and it overttok me. I could see it getting in the opposing traffic and clashing into a car. The seats of the nuts where also still painted. During braking, the paint was getting warm and weak, so the nuts were loosing thightness.

A second reason for checking the nuts often (at least at the first half year driving) and correct (using a torque wrench) is that the brake drums are a little bit sensitive. As the nuts are getting a different tightness during driving and breaking (caused by the drums getting warm) in the first time, the drums are getting a little bended and so you will feel a pulsation in the brake pedal.
Always if you feel it, you now its time to reset the wheel nuts on correct tightness.

Aside from this, it is a real pleasure too see your progress, qualitiy and results of your work!

speedbuggyseb · Samba Member Joined: February 13, 2004 Posts: 20

Hi Nancy, 49 is looking absolutely awesome! Not too far from complete now? You must be so excited after all these years of gathering beautiful parts together and being able to finally fit them back where they rightfully belong. Look forward to seeing it done! Seb
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1954 213 VW Delivery Van
1955 Oval Deluxe RHD
1959 NSU Quickly Motorcycle
1964 SWB MK1 GP Beach Buggy

pastellgreen · Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 11:35 pm Post subject:

I'm very curious about the colour of your wheels! As it is about a '49, they should be solid coloured...

nlorntson · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 5:23 am Post subject:

GüteAndTite · Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 12:11 am Post subject:

caleb0101 · Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 5:15 am Post subject:

pastellgreen · Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2015 10:14 am Post subject:

nlorntson · Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2015 8:43 pm Post subject:

Spent time this weekend assembling more stuff. One important item was the straight window channel the window glass slides up as the window is rolled up. For some reason, the left side was almost completely rusted away but the right side was much better.

Several years ago I had bought a pair of the curved portion for a 51 and had planned to modify them to work in my 49, but was unable to find the straight pieces.

Mika Virtinen came to the rescue again and hand made a pair of straight ones for me. They arrived on Friday and I had one installed by Sunday evening.

I also bought a pair of Mika's running boards some time ago and got those painted, assembled and mounted to the car Sunday.

I needed a shot of the car for the program of an upcoming show so we tossed on a few pieces of old trim and rolled it outside and took a couple of quick pictures in the rain.

I forgot to put the wipers and mirror on, but it's still a work in progress.

borninabus · Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2015 9:18 pm Post subject:

i have been spending more time in the split forum because of your thread.

this is one SWEET RIDE Surprised

thanks for sharing!
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Derosse · Samba Member Joined: February 15, 2008 Posts: 404

Realy nice work! awesome split!


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