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bam
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 Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:23 pm Post subject: My rust free zwitter. |
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as seen at the classic........
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| Wow! What a nice project to be working with! |
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kafer53
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Cool!! Did you get the original engine with the car??
How about some more pics?
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Goodfellow
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| wow thats nice, post more pics!! |
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bam
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no engine almost nothing origional and rusty as hell this is DBD from hoodride's old split.
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panzerfuska
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| looks very cool. this is a dumb question, i'm sort of new, but what the definition of a zwitter? |
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bam
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| Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:23 am Post subject: |
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last of the splits. had oval dash.
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Wiggy
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| looks very cool. this is a dumb question, i'm sort of new, but what the definition of a zwitter? |
Its an oval window beetle with a metal bar down the middle of the rear window.
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Seb67
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| panzerfuska wrote: |
| looks very cool. this is a dumb question, i'm sort of new, but what the definition of a zwitter? |
Its an oval window beetle with a metal bar down the middle of the rear window. |
Snort! 
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VWwerks
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| Zwitter in German = Hybrid in English... so it runs on gas and smoldering german marks. |
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My57Oval
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I believe it translates into bastard ....  |
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Slowlow
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Rich's 50
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| Looks good bro, i can wait till its done. Good luck |
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bam
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Wow thanks Rich. give me about 20 years for body and paint and It might be at least half as nice as yours.....  but seriously hopefully It will be safe to drive by the Texas classic. we'll see.
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bam
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My57Oval
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| "Bastard" really sits well though. It kind of explains it all. It's not a He S he thing really ... |
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Diizam!
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vdubinit
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damm i saw that car in person at the classic and man, you could literally grab the top sides of the heater channels right off with your bare hands nor could you step on the heater channel because it was so rusty/rotted it would have probably snappped in two (dangerous  )
so is that the best solution to repairing any model bug that just has overwhelming rust issues in the heater channels and say lower A and B pillar rust it seems like a good idea 
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RareAir
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| vdubinit wrote: |
| damm i saw that car in person at the classic and man, you could literally grab the top sides of the heater channels right off with your bare hands nor could you step on the heater channel because it was so rusty/rotted it would have probably snappped in two (dangerous ) |
Derrick actually jumped up & down on the left side heater channel and literally removed it at the Classic. The car was just recently featured in VolksWorld last month and the heater channel was gone
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bam
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damm i saw that car in person at the classic and man, you could literally grab the top sides of the heater channels right off with your bare hands nor could you step on the heater channel because it was so rusty/rotted it would have probably snappped in two (dangerous )
kinda wierd but the split that john had at KCW also was rotted around the whole lower portion of the car and they choped the bottom 6 inches off and mated it to a donor lower section i guess DBD didnt have the skillz to do it himself 
so is that the best solution to repairing any model bug that just has overwhelming rust issues in the heater channels and say lower A and B pillar rust it seems like a good idea |
I don't know of a better way unless you can find and have the $ for all NOS panels. but this one wouldv'e needed just about everything on the lower half. and a few spotweld bits.
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