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PostPosted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 5:32 pm    Post subject: Building a sedan delivery Reply with quote

This will be a 1 year how to build thread ... Shocked .. I was looking into setting up a very rough 68 bug that a friend had given me (no title ) so I could go camping in it..There are several threads on specialty items made to do this....THEN ! 1ghia posted a photo of a sedan delivery made out of a bug and part of a bay window bus...I already had the bug ..so how hard could this be...Located the bay window parts I needed cheep ....then I found a powdercoated chassis that came with a free 66 bug attached and the title...I have a sweet little finished 63 three fold rag to get parts in so this might take a while ....So sit back;relax and enjoy the show. Popcorn

.P.S. if this isn't your thing ;please move on quietly to the next post...I do this stuff because I enjoy a challenge ....I'm 62, semi retired and get bored sitting around the house.....I have 5 tiny photos to work from..... I want a camper that is different....come back next year and say HI

The powder coated chassis as I first saw it (with free titled 66 on top )

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Look what followed me home

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Put a notice on samba yesterday that I didn't need the back half of the bug...samba member coming sunday and we start cutting..His 66 gets package tray and whole peice from the firewall back
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 6:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sounds like fun. Where are the "5 little pics"?
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 7:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pete...Just PM'd you about the seats.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 6:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Best one I have seen:
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 6:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

THAT'S IT !!!! Shocked Shocked now I have SIX pictures;I just don't know how to transfer the other 5 from another post ( It's an "old guy " thing) Embarassed ....thankyou This one is great because it shows the back door details :looks like small splittie bus window...........arranged to get bus pieces on Saturday........progres
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 6:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is another picture of the brown sedan
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 6:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

WOW !!... cool....You guts are GREAT!!!!! .... Very Happy HAPPY GRANDPA Very Happy

SAMBA LOVE...it took only 14 minutes for Duane to transfer the photos!!! thanks Duane..... Cool
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 7:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

a few more of it being built
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 9:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

And here are a few of my favorite images of the delivery in service.

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and it seems that a Samba member Type81 has more pictures of it and apparently it was from the swedish magazine "bilsport" by Mattias Larsson

Type81's gallery link http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_search.php?search_author=Type81
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 12:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks Duane for the extra photos !....Now I know I can do this Shocked just like a puzzle..find the pieces...make them fit

Can anyone tell me the dimensions of an oval window front windshield....I'm trying to figure out why he changed front windshield frame....Any Ideas???
..Maby he just wanted an oval dash;

Are the doors off an oval too ?....Might be a different color after fixing the rusty door in the early photos......vent window frames changed from shiny to black
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 12:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks like the base car is a 62 or 63 (flat gas tank, hood hinge springs). They may or may not be oval doors. Ice pick door handles continued to '59. You can also you can install ice pick handles on '60-64 doors.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 4:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

In to watch this one...
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 5:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So, it's already been done, and chances are you're not gonna top that one. Why not just build a nice bug...they never go out of style, ya know.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 5:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I already have one that I recently traded into.. Rolling Eyes ...I built my first trophy winner in 1972... Rolling Eyes ...Please go back to the top of this post and READ line 5
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 6:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Damn, that's cool looking. I own a cupcake bakery with my wife. I would love to have that as a delivery van.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 6:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good work.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 8:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

HI ! It turns out that the reason he changed the dash and the doors WAS only because he wanted it to look like an original oval...
....Duane found a blog on the original build.

..I will be keeping the 66 windshield and dash on this build and use an upright 1600 dual port that I have Cool
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 9:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Culito wrote:
So, it's already been done, and chances are you're not gonna top that one. Why not just build a nice bug...they never go out of style, ya know.


So with that logic why build a bug at all? They've already been done over and over and over and over and you may never top what's already been built........ Why not just build a car YOU want regardless of if its been done or not ?
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 9:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Keith wrote:
Culito wrote:
So, it's already been done, and chances are you're not gonna top that one. Why not just build a nice bug...they never go out of style, ya know.


So with that logic why build a bug at all? They've already been done over and over and over and over and you may never top what's already been built........ Why not just build a car YOU want regardless of if its been done or not ?


don't pay no attention to Culito,he's a cornhole
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 9:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I dig it! Looking forward to the progress.
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