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Tue Jan 19, 2010 9:55 pm

Ok... how can i explain myself in Shakespeare beautiful language...

No way i can.

This poor van, yes. poor bast.....

What you are seeing right now is plain ugly. The whole left side of that van is..... a Chevy van skin/metal sheet! yeap, graft to that poor vanagon.

All the picture here:
http://www.benplace.com/trajan.htm

Please comment, i have no words left.

How is that possible? Yes it's a Chevy van, well part of it. LOOK CAREFULLY at each single picture.

It was bastardized (can i say that, please tell me yes!).

What a project, what did i do to end up with such a van... (me crying)

And you guys think you have seen rust... you all make me laugh.
Ben

Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:05 pm

Yes, I think bastardized is a good word in this case.

Cool, a van within a van. I am thinking they might not fix that in California.

Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:10 pm

What is wrong in this picture, look carefully!

Come on, look carefully, look at tht crazy joint.... expanding one inch out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:13 pm

Yikes Ben, in Europe they wouldn't even send something that rusty to India to get melted down for scooters :) . I don't know how you even approach a job like that! (not to mention the parisite van hiding in the quarter)
Something in me thinks it'd be easier to find some not-so-rusty non-runners to fix up. I should talk though, I went to Minnesota to get mine! I couldn't afford a western one.

Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:16 pm

Thats strange. I've never seen somebody just put sheet metal over other sheet metal. Seems like you'd have to be either extremely dumb or etremely lazy, or both.

Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:50 pm

wow Ben, I think this one is a record. I have also seen quite my share of rust in Quebec...but nothing like this.

Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:51 pm

How's the other side by the way?

Tue Jan 19, 2010 11:48 pm

bastardized is perfect. I think it came from the French anyway, like most of our language! 1066 and all that.

Looks like when some guy goes to the doctor complaining of a pain in the gut and they find his twin with the MRI.

Tue Jan 19, 2010 11:50 pm

SyncroChrick wrote: How's the other side by the way?

the other side is a Ford.

driven one lately?

Wed Jan 20, 2010 12:05 am

You know what you did.

Wed Jan 20, 2010 12:42 am

Ben

here's another one for you...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Volkswagen-Bus-Vana...3efc24c65e

Wed Jan 20, 2010 3:47 am

SyncroChrick wrote: Ben

here's another one for you...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Volkswagen-Bus-Vana...3efc24c65e

Wow, I looked at that auction, and wondered why anyone would bid $4000 for that thing.

Then I saw the 4WD and Syncro decals, and said ah-hah!!!!

Wed Jan 20, 2010 6:52 am

Surprisingly, the other side is not bad, rear and front not to bad also.
The first thing i told that customer a few month ago is to.... get a southern van and scrap this one, a month late he came back telling me: No, i want to save it! I said i'm NOT doing this one. He came back again with some offer $$$$, he then drove from Toronto (400 miles) to my shop. I started the van and i said i want more $$$$.

Reason i took the job:
-not much job a month ago, now, i have too many :-)
-My cousin work with me 25 hours a week, he love crazy body work project, so i'm not working alone!
-California solid part van outside with a perfect left side
-New clean way to remove all the old putty, in some spot, this van as 1/2 in of putty.

What you see so far is not the worse, the left rear quarter is... well, i don't know yet, let say completely not a vanagon.

Yesterday night we have applied a powerful paint/putty remover, i mean a STRONG one, so strong that we can't stay in the shop wile it's doing it's job. I will see later today what's under.

Bah, this one was really bad also:

Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:22 am

wow! I'm sitting here at work and that just made me laugh out loud, I'm all for saving vans, but geez, he must have more money than sense....but I know it's going to be beautiful when it's done, can't wait to see the end, keep us posted, thanks Ben

Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:26 am

bless you ben for saving another van, your like a one man vanagon red cross

Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:44 am

That's some kind of....project.

Has Ben met his Waterloo?! Never! At least the plastic hubcaps seem to be in good shape!

Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:53 am

Ben,

You know what is funny - I have a rust free chassis in AZ with a clean title that I have been trying to sell for months at $225 - Nobody wants it so now I have to scrap it.

Good luck with that mess.

Wed Jan 20, 2010 8:14 am

GeeZ12 wrote: Ben,

You know what is funny - I have a rust free chassis in AZ with a clean title that I have been trying to sell for months at $225 - Nobody wants it so now I have to scrap it.

Good luck with that mess.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. and double grrrrrrrrrrrr...

Men your van could save many.

Wed Jan 20, 2010 8:30 am

GeeZ12 wrote: Ben,

You know what is funny - I have a rust free chassis in AZ with a clean title that I have been trying to sell for months at $225 - Nobody wants it so now I have to scrap it.

Good luck with that mess.

Thats not funny, thats sad. If I lived in arizona, I'd buy it from you.

Wed Jan 20, 2010 8:36 am

well at least my vans arent that bad but I would and eventually will pay good money to have the body on my 90 syncro done profesionally my parents bought it brand new and it has been through a lot with our family I dont ever want to let it go. but whoever did that body work new what they were doing was wrong and should never be allowed to go near a car and do body work EVER again!![/b]