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VW_Jimbo 
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Location: Huntington Beach, CA
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 Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2025 10:21 pm Post subject: Re: 1975 Beetle Convertible Resto/Mod Build-Chop,Dash,Suicide,Shave. |
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Those bits are DA BOMB DIGGITY!
Your body work looks really good! Keep it going!
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There is never enough time to do it right the first time, but all the time necessary the second time!
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pondoras box
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Joined: March 22, 2004
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Location: Warren, PA
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2025 5:42 am Post subject: Re: 1975 Beetle Convertible Resto/Mod Build-Chop,Dash,Suicide,Shave. |
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These are my favorite threads! I’m doing it myself in my garage. Will you make mistakes? Yep! Will you learn? Yep! Will you have something cool when you’re done? HELL YEAH!
I built my first VW while stationed in Hawaii many years ago and miss the car the island all of it. I am reliving my youth through your posts, mahalo! I bought it from Del’s shop in Wahiawa. No one seems to remember Del anymore but he was an awesome guy always willing to help you out and had a crazy stash of parts.
Anyway enough living in the past your project is awesome and inspires others to just give it a try. When this is pau it will make up for your wife’s experience with bringing the project car home. Will be watching please keep on with the updates!
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MACJELLY58
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Location: HONOLULU, HAWAII
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2025 7:08 pm Post subject: Re: 1975 Beetle Convertible Resto/Mod Build-Chop,Dash,Suicide,Shave. |
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Hey PONDORAS BOX. Sadly, I am old enough to remember Del's shop in Wahiawa. He was a good Bruddah. He always was willing to help with diagnostics, or even free parts and his time. I was amazed at how much stuff he had in that little shop! Not many VW guys to go to anymore. You only see the V-Dubs on cruise days or at shows. In the old days they were everywhere.
WHooop!....WHoop!.
Thank you for your service. The 25th out of Schofield? We love our Military brethren. Sorry, our Military Sistas too! My father was from North Carolina and was stationed here at Hickam Air Force Base. Then, he met himself a Hula-girl and never left.
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Your body work looks really good! Keep it going! |
Funny you said that, JIMBO. I've been working on that rear fender for 2-1/2 days. I got it really close with those sweet Air Hammer bits. But, every time I bolt the fender back on I still get that separation about 10 inches up from the bottom.
I'm not a great problem solver. I tend to go directly to Action! So Pounding, Smashing and Cutting. After each "adjustment", I'd bolt the fender back on thinking, "That has got to have fixed it!!" Nope, same Fricken gap!!
Just as I was gonna give up and sell the Damn thing, I had an idea...maybe think the problem through?
I was always taught when bolting something on, to start all bolts and then tighten them together. Right? Not in this situation...of course. I started bolting the fender up form the rear. It all looked nice, as I got to the problem area, I saw that the major repair I had made to the fender was very wonky. The bottom fender area was twisted outward. So when I tighten those last three bottom bolts, The fender twists away from the body. OMG!!
That momentary visit to sanity didn't last. I immediately went to cut off the bottom of the fender. I'll never change. Anyway, that problem solved. Now, I gotta fix all the new damage I created.
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