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PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 7:49 pm    Post subject: Re: 1973 Bay Window Rescue - Long term project Reply with quote

Are those cage tubs?
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 7:52 pm    Post subject: Re: 1973 Bay Window Rescue - Long term project Reply with quote

Yes indeed.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 10:22 pm    Post subject: Re: 1973 Bay Window Rescue - Long term project Reply with quote

cool build, very encouraging = gotta love the 73 Smile
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 22, 2018 5:41 am    Post subject: Re: 1973 Bay Window Rescue - Long term project Reply with quote

Dad to dad..... It's really good to get kids in habit of good eye and hand protection, every time you pick up a tool.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 17, 2018 5:51 pm    Post subject: Re: 1973 Bay Window Rescue - Long term project Reply with quote

Mocked up 17" wheels Will definitely need an alternative for the front. These look great, but are far too wide.

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Stoked on the stance, though.



Into the no fun stuff now. Prepping to send to the bodyshop in a few weeks and spent today stripping the front doors. Dreading putting these back together.

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2018 9:08 pm    Post subject: Re: 1973 Bay Window Rescue - Long term project Reply with quote

Purged interior, prepping for paint. This sucked .

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2018 3:27 pm    Post subject: Re: 1973 Bay Window Rescue - Long term project Reply with quote

Cool thread..!

So, is the kid old enough to drive it yet?? Very Happy
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 8:47 pm    Post subject: Re: 1973 Bay Window Rescue - Long term project Reply with quote

Not quite, but he has started his own Aircooled project! Garage now holds the bus and a 65 Manx(ish) buggy.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 8:52 pm    Post subject: Re: 1973 Bay Window Rescue - Long term project Reply with quote

Final stages of prep for paint. Really hate bodywork.

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 18, 2018 9:19 am    Post subject: Re: 1973 Bay Window Rescue - Long term project Reply with quote

Nice work so far. Im doing much of the same myself right now. I am however going in the other direction as far as ride height is concerned.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 18, 2018 3:28 pm    Post subject: Re: 1973 Bay Window Rescue - Long term project Reply with quote

I lower my front the old fashioned way, carry a bunch of stuff around Smile
Be interested to see how you rig seat belts up front.

I've noticed a peculiar lack of photos on this forum of front seat upholstery. I have an old high school buddy redoing my buckets this week. I ordered TMI covers years ago and we just noticed they sent earlier model square ones. He'll modify what I have as much as possible. TMI didn't have a photo of their $350 set for later ones.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 19, 2018 3:58 am    Post subject: Re: 1973 Bay Window Rescue - Long term project Reply with quote

good question on the belts. Should run normal path, inside belts will pull through split in upper and lower part of seat. Shoulder section standard flow as well.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2018 4:55 am    Post subject: Re: 1973 Bay Window Rescue - Long term project Reply with quote

Getting closer! Doors are wrapped, body is next.

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2018 5:35 am    Post subject: Re: 1973 Bay Window Rescue - Long term project Reply with quote

Looking great!
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 06, 2018 2:35 pm    Post subject: Re: 1973 Bay Window Rescue - Long term project Reply with quote

Really hard to say no to cheap verts. I'll work on a build thread. Bus goes to bodyshop in the AM



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PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2018 5:09 pm    Post subject: Re: 1973 Bay Window Rescue - Long term project Reply with quote

Back on the bus project.

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Always hated the signals on the late bays, so made them go away.


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Also cleaned up and blended the tubs.


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Final piece before paint is rear quarter replacement. bus had been dragged against something during its life and trashed the rear quarter and fender well. Picked up an complete quarter, but only ended up using part of it.


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USing a MIG, so always worried about heat, but I'm pretty happy with the results.


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Bodyshop has it now and working their magic.


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Big box of TMI showed up. Really happy with the look. Color is Fiat 500 Light green. Interior is light Beige.


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Custom narrowed 17" front wheels (4.5" wide with 4" of backspacing to tuck into tubs) came in. Cleaned them up and sending all 5 to powdercoat (satin black.


Next up is restoring the vent wings and some busy work waiting for the body to come back.
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PostPosted: Sat May 05, 2018 6:45 pm    Post subject: Re: 1973 Bay Window Rescue - Long term project Reply with quote

Doing the tedious stuff while bodyshop has the bus. Restoring vent windows sucked up a bunch of today's time. Stripped, cleaned and painted. Polished the aluminum as much as possible.

New rubber requires hinge rivet be drilled out. Wasn't stoked on that, but found replacement rivets for the hinges as well as the latch. Thanks West Coast Metric!

Rubber is supposedly the good German stuff, fiddly to get into the frame, but a little bit of soapy water and it popped in.

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Refreshed unit on the right.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 15, 2018 7:08 pm    Post subject: Re: 1973 Bay Window Rescue - Long term project Reply with quote

Stuck at the body shop for over two months now. Progressing, but painfully slow. Interior is shot, exterior needed more work than expected.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:35 pm    Post subject: Re: 1973 Bay Window Rescue - Long term project Reply with quote

Nice. I like the colour and wheel choice.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:46 pm    Post subject: Re: 1973 Bay Window Rescue - Long term project Reply with quote

She's looking good. I can't wait to the finished product...gonna be killer!

Keep up the good work! Cool
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