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dillon schuh
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 Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:51 pm Post subject: is you driver side panel wavy? |
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If you dont care don't post
How much did it cost you to get your panel strait
I just got my bill for the side and it was 850 bucks.
pics of a strait panel
or wavy one |
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langsmer
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| Most original buses I have seen have a little bit of a factory wave to them. I think a little wave is just the nature of the beast, what with such a long flat panel. |
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dillon schuh
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Mr. Bubblehead
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if there's not a little wave in them then it's not right in my book. also pickup gates - no dimples = filler 
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Clara 
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The ripple of a stock long panel is excellent. og paint ^^^
This is Everett's og paint 15 window:
(If it was a '61 I'd be so jealous)
This is something I saw at a show, thought the reflections were interesting:
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xavi_242
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mine has extra waves over the wheel arch... 
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RINC
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Mine has non-factory waves.
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Yustrn
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Mine has a gallon of rage gold on it, (90%) wound up on the garage floor. =) oh and the cost was about 65.00 and 3 days of my time.
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Gomer_Pyle
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Heres mine after paint.
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///Mink
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Here's one I took a few years ago. This is probably too straight...
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Lind
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straighten it as much as you like, if you drive it 10k+ miles, the waves will come back. you can't keep a good long panel down. Bwahaahaaa.....
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campingbox
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| Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 10:22 am Post subject: |
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| straighten it as much as you like, if you drive it 10k+ miles, the waves will come back. you can't keep a good long panel down. Bwahaahaaa..... |
I imagine that they were pretty straight when they were new.
After 50 years of shit falling against them car doors, people leaning against them, Johnny balancing on his Bicycle while leaning the handlebar on it.
I always assume that the spot weld dimples in gates are from the seams pulling apart due to rust.
I've seen some nice busses and the long panels are pretty damn straight. |
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pyrOman
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I put the Poseidon Adventure on mine! 
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Major Woody
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Cargo bouncing around inside also would spring the sides out, especially on a commercial bus without the interior panels.
Our bus is arrow straight on that side, not a wave. It was pretty good before bodywork. Getting it the rest of the way was not cheap. |
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Lind
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| campingbox wrote: |
| Lind wrote: |
| straighten it as much as you like, if you drive it 10k+ miles, the waves will come back. you can't keep a good long panel down. Bwahaahaaa..... |
I imagine that they were pretty straight when they were new.
After 50 years of shit falling against them car doors, people leaning against them, Johnny balancing on his Bicycle while leaning the handlebar on it.
I always assume that the spot weld dimples in gates are from the seams pulling apart due to rust.
I've seen some nice busses and the long panels are pretty damn straight. |
I think it is the vibration and bumps in the road that cause it. the long panel is just too big. but I guess that's why they call it the long panel
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VolksFire
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| Mr. Bubblehead wrote: |
| if there's not a little wave in them then it's not right in my book. also pickup gates - no dimples = filler |
my 63 SC has the beautiful dimples. they are one of the straightest sets of gates out there. only repainted once in 1971, zero bodywork. one or two little dings, thats it. you can see all the og dimples across the top and between the square pressings. just absolutely amazing. 
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I have ripples on the 56 kombi , and also I can see the spot welds where the ribs are tacked on , this is really noticeable on the upper metal behind the last side window , above the engine area .
Im going to leave mine and fix the ones that are not original .
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Bulli Klinik
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I used to work on B-52's for the Air Force in my youth. Some of those things were built in the 40's and all of them have had a pretty hard life with lots of air time. If you look at one of them, they have wrinkles on the fuselage like an old man. Probably from pushing that air for all of those years...just like a bus.
My buddy had his Westy painted by a well known Bus painter in AZ. Apparently he reinforces the long side with additional braces to keep it straight. |
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malachai
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| straighten it as much as you like, if you drive it 10k+ miles, the waves will come back. you can't keep a good long panel down. Bwahaahaaa..... |
I imagine that they were pretty straight when they were new. |
at this place I used to work at we had a few Mercedes Sprinter vans, every three years they were replaced as they were all leased to us. I looked at the long panel on a van with less than 30 miles on the clock and it was wobbley like jelly, I reckon a few busses probably escaped with quite wobbly sides, especially panel vans.
I reversed that sprinter into a post a few days later and bent up the bumper, ha ha ha
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