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Bobnotch
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 Posted: Wed May 01, 2024 3:19 pm Post subject: Re: 1971 FI Squareback Iberian Red sat 20 yrs -w/pic's & progress |
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You're making great progress on it. Looks good. 
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64 T-34 Ghia...aka Wolfie, under construction... http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=412120
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Yarkle 
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Location: the Hills of Western Maine
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| Posted: Fri May 03, 2024 11:05 am Post subject: Re: 1971 FI Squareback Iberian Red sat 20 yrs -w/pic's & progress |
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That patina does look great. I kinda wish the PO on Tilda has just left the paint as is in Texas Yellow, instead of the sunshine yellow respray. If I didnt have a million other things to do I might have gone to the "removing the aftermarket paint to get to OG paint" thread on the body/paint forum by now.
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NerdyGunny
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Location: Tucson, AZ
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| Posted: Mon May 06, 2024 5:57 am Post subject: Re: 1971 FI Squareback Iberian Red sat 20 yrs -w/pic's & progress |
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Went through the light assemblies and cleaned them... i also used a bit of regular car hand polish on the internals to improve the brightness...
unfortunately there were areas that were beyond what cleaning and polishing would help so I just used a bit of shiny aluminum tape and this actually works well!
Yes I could have used a aggressive method by sanding and polishing but this took about 10 minutes...
The pic on the left is after the initial cleaning and car polish...
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