why fridolin rust

ruud's fridolin · Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 5:33 am Post subject:

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Neil Davies · Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 4:29 pm Post subject:

Wow Ruud, looks like it's in good hands now! Surfer Dude, floors are easy - they're Ghia pan halves. Its the channels above them that are the difficult bit!
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ruud's fridolin · Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:27 pm Post subject:

Thanks

glutamodo · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 12:01 am Post subject:

looks good! But man, I think you'll have a lot more hours of labor to hand-rebuild the car than VW did to built it from scratch in the first place!

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ruud's fridolin · Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 12:37 pm Post subject:

karmann ghia typ 14

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vwrobert · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 2:27 pm Post subject: Frid Rot

Anyone whos ever worked on a Fridolin knows that the rot comes in all the usual areas that any VWs rust, The German and swiss postal services looked after their vehicles maticulously until they were sold to the public. The base bodies were never painted well on the underside or inside. The mud held water and bingo holes everywhere. I bought my fridolin after it was sat for 16 years in the damp of a german barn, it was toast. I paid 500DM for it and restored it to a show winning vehicle using mostly NOS parts.

Checkout the pics at WWW.TheVolksmeister.com

Recently i just repaired a frid for a friend in florida and it was badly rotted.checkout pics on the samba fridolin galleries.

obus · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 7:59 pm Post subject:

nice work on that frid vwrobert!
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vwrobert · Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 4:54 pm Post subject:

thanks, And the headlight bowls are same as a bug, I cut mine out of some old fenders.


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