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Mon May 11, 2020 4:23 pm

Culito wrote: Anybody remember this Pimp My Ride episode? :lol:
I do remember that episode. I think the car was so unsafe, they built the kid a Scion instead. Maybe we could call to see if Xzibit wants to come out of retirement. :lol:

Mon May 11, 2020 4:26 pm

Moving on to the nose panel lower skin and front end support.

Mon May 18, 2020 7:36 pm

Still plugging away at the nose. 8)

Wed May 20, 2020 8:28 am

Love the clecos :lol:

Wed Jun 17, 2020 8:22 pm

Bulkhead progress! 8) I sourced it from Casey here on the Samba. 8)

Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:34 pm

And the nose is getting there:

Thu Jun 18, 2020 2:54 am

=D> =D> =D>

Did I miss the joining of cab and cargo area?
Keep up the great work Shoyrtt.

Shoyrtt wrote: And the nose is getting there:

Thu Jun 18, 2020 6:16 am

Good for you for tackling a basket case project like this. Your progress so far is amazing. You are free to add windows to this bus without judgement. I say if you take a VW bus without a nose that was being used as a shed and bring it back to the road you can do what ever you want with it.

Thu Jun 18, 2020 1:44 pm

LAGrunthaner wrote: =D> =D> =D>

Did I miss the joining of cab and cargo area?
Keep up the great work Shoyrtt.

You didn't miss it, I just skimmed over it due to the lack of pictures. :P

The frame has been joined and the lower sections around the bulkhead have come together. The finish welding on the top and in the B pillars will be in silicon bronze once all of the gaps are good. The plan is to get it on the rotisserie soon and media blast the underside.

Here it is again with the frame together. I'll try to get a few pictures of the B pillars soon with the low hinge/high hinge creative cuts and splices.

Fri Jun 19, 2020 11:53 am

Just for the hell of it you should to the rear cargo door high hinge but the front one low hinge as a subtle nod to it's 2 different era front and rear ends

Fri Jun 19, 2020 4:34 pm

vwuberalles wrote: Just for the hell of it you should to the rear cargo door high hinge but the front one low hinge as a subtle nod to it's 2 different era front and rear ends

Let's not get crazy now. :lol: I do need a package/parcel tray. The subtle nod would be a fat lip model. :D

Fri Jun 19, 2020 9:07 pm

as found ... paint storage shed

Mon Jun 22, 2020 12:47 pm

Thank you for the "as found" pictures! It looks like the top had a little dancing done on it in your pictures, but its straight now. Did you happen to pop out the dents? Any details on where you found it or its life as a paint shed?

Tue Aug 11, 2020 10:01 pm

A few more clecos as the bulkhead slides in. Windows coming up next! 8)

Sat Aug 22, 2020 10:59 pm

Windows for the Frankenbus:

Sun Aug 23, 2020 5:53 pm

More window pictures and fabbing some hinge plates 👍🏻

Mon Aug 24, 2020 8:18 am

Are you going to leave the top panel vents?

Mon Aug 24, 2020 9:59 pm

vwuberalles wrote: Are you going to leave the top panel vents?
No, we will fill those in. I think we have enough OG metal to do the job.

Fri Aug 28, 2020 8:53 am

Moving on to the new Wolfsburg West doors and cleaning up the og latch:

Fri Aug 28, 2020 8:56 am

And filling in those upper panel vents: