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Fri Jan 11, 2013 7:56 pm

I figured to keep motivation I would start a build thread here on the samba.
The passenger pan has a small hole about the size of my finger nail directly under the seat (weird that no rust in battery tray area), and there is a hole 1 inch above the fuel tank that is the size of my thumb nail. None of the rust is major and I see no reason to even replace the pans. I am the third owner of this car, and I believe it lived most of its life in California. The plan is to paint it Anthracite because that will go good with the interior I have for it.

Here are some pic's

I left Houston at 6pm and drove to meet Nate in Dallas it made for a long night I did not get home until 4am and I had to work the next day.

At Jason's shop the next day

Notice the silicone on the seal....I laughed at that, but it saved the package tray it is spotless!

Kiley is happy

In its spot at Jason's

Fri Jan 11, 2013 8:32 pm

Taking it apart.

The dash is uncut but it had this cool 8 track player

Fri Jan 11, 2013 8:34 pm

My Buddy hooked me up with a rag clip. Yep this will not be a stock build.

Fri Jan 11, 2013 8:37 pm

I had the car soda blasted.

This is the worst part of the entire car

nice dent in the quarter hidden by bondo

on the way back my tow bar brok and the car started to fishtail on me.

Fri Jan 11, 2013 8:41 pm

Separated the pan. Not one broken bolt. Every bolt came out with no issues.

I built a rotisserie.

I used 2"X4"X1/4 rectangular tubing

I know my welding is not the prettiest but its gonna hold.

Got the car loaded onto it as well. It wasnt very hard to hang it either.

Fri Jan 11, 2013 8:43 pm

Had a little work left getting what the soda blaster couldnt because it was on its pan.

I am going to delete the heater tubes. I never run heater boxes as it is.

Fri Jan 11, 2013 8:46 pm

This post catches me up. I got all the paint off the car and now its in epoxy primer ready for body work.

I will keep the updates coming.

Fri Jan 11, 2013 9:03 pm

Awesome progress on your bug, man. Really nice job. 8)

Fri Jan 11, 2013 9:20 pm

nice work, car looks in decent shape

Mon Jan 14, 2013 1:36 pm

Not much to report from this weekend. I spent several hours freeing up a hinge on one of the doors it was frozen solid. some quarter panal work was done as well.

Mon Jan 14, 2013 1:38 pm

jon65 wrote: Awesome progress on your bug, man. Really nice job. 8)
Thanks! It will be a slow build from here on out.

phil1957 wrote: nice work, car looks in decent shape
Its in real good shape Phil. Very little metal work to be done. How is the 55 coming?

Mon Jan 14, 2013 1:50 pm

Hey man...car looks like fun! You outta let me know when you guys are working on it, Ide love to break away and hang out. ....or you guys can take a break and help me pull the body off my dumb lowlight...Lol

Mon Jan 14, 2013 2:04 pm

Hey Chris, I try and go to Jason's every weekend to work on it, you are welcome anytime. Shoot me a text when you are ready to pull the body off of the low light. I'm sure I can get Billy and Doug to give a hand as well.

Mon Jan 14, 2013 2:56 pm

ConcreteAce wrote: Hey Chris, I try and go to Jason's every weekend to work on it, you are welcome anytime. Shoot me a text when you are ready to pull the body off of the low light. I'm sure I can get Billy and Doug to give a hand as well.
Awesome....yea man I'll let ya know.

Tue Jan 15, 2013 10:08 am

Can I borrow the rotisserie when your done? :lol:

Looking good! Thanks for posting up the build pics!

Sun Jan 20, 2013 9:06 pm

roof is ready for primer.

Sun Jan 20, 2013 9:06 pm

4130_nasa wrote: Can I borrow the rotisserie when your done? :lol:

Anytime Richard! :D

Mon Jan 21, 2013 6:21 am

Look forward to watching this build, Keep up the good work.

Sun Feb 03, 2013 7:07 pm

roof is in primer now.

Shaved the grab handle holes

Also shaved the windshield squirter hole

Its back on the rotisserie.

Sun Feb 10, 2013 11:27 am

The rusty hole filled spare tire well has been cut away.