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G-wood Todd
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 Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 7:27 pm Post subject: Mouse grey 21 window |
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Just picked up this mouse grey 64 21 window walk thru from my buddy in AZ. Its mostly OG including paint, rust and dents. No interior except for the front seats. It's a little crusty. Needs inner and outer rockers on the driver side. The side belly pans are gone and the floors have some rust here and there but the top half of the bus is pretty dry. I'm going to start off by getting it mechanicaly road worthy, install the sunroof, put in some new rubber, repair the rockers and leave it as much og paint as I can for now. Don't know what I'll do with the nose. I guess I'll beat it out the best I can and leave it for now. Anyway here she is.
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davelarue
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davelarue
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Location: Tacoma, WA / Norway
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| If you take your windows out, i bet there's rust. My van looked fine before i took the windows out.....and thats not an easy spot to weld. |
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DubStyle
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Joined: July 26, 2003
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| Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 5:13 am Post subject: Re: Mouse grey 21 window |
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| Don't know what I'll do with the nose. I guess I'll beat it out the best I can and leave it for now. |
There was a thread in the bus forum about using a foot ball and a pump to pop the nose back out. Do a search, most who have done it gave it 2 thumbs up.
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boxonwheel
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Joined: August 05, 2004
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Location: LA-ish area, CA
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| Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 7:11 am Post subject: |
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| So TBell finally sold it? CONGRATS!! That is ONE pretty cool BUS! |
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G-wood Todd
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Location: Colorado
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| Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 10:30 am Post subject: |
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| So TBell finally sold it? CONGRATS!! That is ONE pretty cool BUS! |
Yeah, It was T Bells bus. He had a hard time getting rid of it but he know's that its in good hands. Can't wait to get her on the road. Unfortunatly, other priorities are in the way. Hopefully I'll have her going in a couple weeks. It runs and stops good, just need to work on the electricals before I can register it.
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and take the kids for instance "Are we going in the Volkswagen bus?" and they say "Yay!" and clap their hands and if it's a glorious day you can slide the sunroof back and let a little of the glory in and all of a sudden, it stops looking funny.
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Skim
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| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 1:23 pm Post subject: |
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Not too many mouse grey 21's around.
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G-wood Todd
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| Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 9:41 am Post subject: |
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Just finished up the inner and outer driver rocker on the 21 window. Still needs jack points, outriggers and belly pans, but that'll be later. She's got a long way to go, but its comming around.
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New metal spotted in place
Welded all the way, body work and in primer.
I used Shoefield inner and outer rocker from Wolfgang. I was pretty happy with the fit and quality.
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and take the kids for instance "Are we going in the Volkswagen bus?" and they say "Yay!" and clap their hands and if it's a glorious day you can slide the sunroof back and let a little of the glory in and all of a sudden, it stops looking funny.
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TimB
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wow that looks good. Keep up the good work and keep us posted.
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Nellynel
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| Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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Very nice work. Keep the pic's coming.  |
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G-wood Todd
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After 3 years blowing the motor, buying a house, building a motorcycle and all of the other lifes distractions, I finally dug the bus out from the corner of the garage and got it back on the road. I just finished the 1955cc motor a few days ago and put my first 100 miles on it. So far so good. It feels good to get back behind the wheel. Here it is after buffing and a fresh coat of wax.
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and take the kids for instance "Are we going in the Volkswagen bus?" and they say "Yay!" and clap their hands and if it's a glorious day you can slide the sunroof back and let a little of the glory in and all of a sudden, it stops looking funny.
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G-wood Todd
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I'm back on the 21 window again. I just finished up with the skylight windows. I cleaned up the rust, blended the OG paint with some matching touch up and new rubber. It looked a lot worse than it really was. There was only one window with a couple of small pin holes. Everything else was fairly solid.
Here is the before
And the after
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and take the kids for instance "Are we going in the Volkswagen bus?" and they say "Yay!" and clap their hands and if it's a glorious day you can slide the sunroof back and let a little of the glory in and all of a sudden, it stops looking funny.
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jmsmilin
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nice
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Buscowboy
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Doing some nice work mate, keep it up. Paint blending is going well, I for one am glad you decided not to repaint the whole bus.
Keep the posts coming cant get enough of the MG/PW combo.
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G-wood Todd
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Just finished up with some paint blending on the driver rocker repair and driver door. The color matched pretty well. I used a bit of flattener in the paint to match the OG shine.
Before
After blending and a little buffing
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and take the kids for instance "Are we going in the Volkswagen bus?" and they say "Yay!" and clap their hands and if it's a glorious day you can slide the sunroof back and let a little of the glory in and all of a sudden, it stops looking funny.
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G-wood Todd
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Its been awhile since I last posted on this bus. A few recent updates to speak of. Just finished up hand buffing and waxing. I painted a deluxe front bumper for it about 9 months ago and finally got it color sanded, buffed and installed. I also got a few og interior panels on the way.
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and take the kids for instance "Are we going in the Volkswagen bus?" and they say "Yay!" and clap their hands and if it's a glorious day you can slide the sunroof back and let a little of the glory in and all of a sudden, it stops looking funny.
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| Wow, looks super nice!!! |
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earlywesty
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| Great job. Any tips on how much flattener to add for the blending? I'll be doing the same this winter. |
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Braukuche
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| Great job. Any tips on how much flattener to add for the blending? I'll be doing the same this winter. |
Agreed, excellent job blending the paint. Sharp looking bus.
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G-wood Todd
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| Great job. Any tips on how much flattener to add for the blending? I'll be doing the same this winter. |
Agreed, excellent job blending the paint. Sharp looking bus. |
Thanks. There really was no formula for me. I found that a little bit of flattener went a long way. I added a little bit at a time, spayed some on a spray card, let it completely dry and compared it to a buffed out section on the bus. Once I was close on the card, I sprayed it on the bus. At first it looked too dull until I color sanded and buffed. That nocked down the orange peel and brought out some of the shine to match the og paint.
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and take the kids for instance "Are we going in the Volkswagen bus?" and they say "Yay!" and clap their hands and if it's a glorious day you can slide the sunroof back and let a little of the glory in and all of a sudden, it stops looking funny.
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