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johnstuarthughes
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Joined: September 14, 2006
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Location: Sedalia, Colorado
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Restoration of an early '55 bug: Door pains! Those Phillips-head bolts holding window tracks and vent wing top mounts are awful to remove! I would love any tips on this...
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finster
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Joined: May 26, 2012
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Location: north o' the border
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| Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2020 9:45 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Oval today? |
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drove my 56 oval to visit my 90 year old dad who is feeling miserable due to covid 'social distancing' for over 70s. 140 mile round trip and car ran great! 
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Yustrn
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Joined: August 01, 2000
Posts: 5478
Location: Ovaland, CA
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| Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 10:16 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Oval today? |
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| johnstuarthughes wrote: |
Restoration of an early '55 bug: Door pains! Those Phillips-head bolts holding window tracks and vent wing top mounts are awful to remove! I would love any tips on this...
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If you aren't concerned about the paint, get a bottle of the yellow MAP gas, get them red hot and they come out like butter. |
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salty54oval
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Joined: May 28, 2018
Posts: 33
Location: Oakland, CA
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| Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 5:14 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Oval today? |
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Giving a little luster back to this pitted rusty chrome bumper! Better for sure!
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gringoloco2000
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Joined: August 15, 2013
Posts: 150
Location: Debary, FL
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| Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2020 5:48 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Oval today? |
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Back on the road after 2 years.
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aa390392
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Joined: March 28, 2007
Posts: 3602
Location: So.Cal
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| Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 1:14 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Oval today? |
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Took it out cruised thru portions on LA, LAX, Manhattan Beach. Like driving LA in the 50's on a Sunday......nice warm day top down, with no idiots to share the byways with.
Get out, its safe, gas is cheap...no excuse, youll probably never see it this unpopulated ever again.
Cheers
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gringoloco2000
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Location: Debary, FL
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| Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 5:27 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Oval today? |
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Looking good. Yeah, I bet it is nice with light traffic vs the normal LA craziness.
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donny273
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Joined: September 08, 2004
Posts: 50
Location: Massachusetts
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| Posted: Fri May 01, 2020 9:00 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Oval today? |
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Feel your pain. Trying to make a grafted in ragtop look decent. Was done way before I got the car. Bondo on/bondo off. Much dust.
Looking for used but decent pan and fender bolts. Any hoarders out there that want to part with some?
Good luck to us all! |
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aa390392
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Joined: March 28, 2007
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Location: So.Cal
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| Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 9:11 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Oval today? |
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Took a short trip thru LAX, which was empty. I need to go back down and do a photo shoot.
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VW_Jimbo 
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Joined: May 22, 2016
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Location: Huntington Beach, CA
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| Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 9:40 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Oval today? |
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Took a short trip thru LAX, which was empty. I need to go back down and do a photo shoot.
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Love that picture! No cars anywhere else!
Regarding your last post. Traffic has been amazing. I had to drive out to Victorville the other day. There was no traffic anywhere. We got there in just under an hour and a half. Typically a two hour commitment at minimum. As a comparison, on one rainy day, it took 4 1/2 hours.
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EverettB
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Yustrn
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Joined: August 01, 2000
Posts: 5478
Location: Ovaland, CA
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| Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 10:59 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Oval today? |
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Coming to the end of it's restoration/preservation after a couple of years...this thing sat in a field for at least 25 years that I know of prior to me finally buying it a couple years back.
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aa390392
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Location: So.Cal
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| Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 11:32 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Oval today? |
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Thanks Ev, Im going to go down there a attempt to reproduce.
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Took a short trip thru LAX, which was empty. I need to go back down and do a photo shoot.
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Awesome pic
It reminds me of this Vintage Bus pic I posted:
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hm
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Joined: October 12, 2005
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Location: Whittier California
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| Posted: Wed May 13, 2020 11:13 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Oval today? |
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| aa390392 wrote: |
Took a short trip thru LAX, which was empty. I need to go back down and do a photo shoot.
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Great picture Thomas |
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aa390392
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| Posted: Wed May 13, 2020 2:37 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Oval today? |
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| aa390392 wrote: |
Thanks Ev, Im going to go down there a attempt to reproduce.
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Took a short trip thru LAX, which was empty. I need to go back down and do a photo shoot.
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Awesome pic
It reminds me of this Vintage Bus pic I posted:
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EverettB
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VW_Jimbo
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Joined: May 22, 2016
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Location: Huntington Beach, CA
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| Posted: Wed May 13, 2020 4:32 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Oval today? |
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Very cool.
This is probably one of the few times you could actually park there for a second to get a pic |
Seriously - right! Typically you would be getting ran over by everyone!
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SurfsUP
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Joined: June 16, 2007
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Location: Las Vegas, NV
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| Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2020 10:12 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Oval today? |
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After trying 2 weeks amd in process breaking 2 new windshields, I finally successfully managed to install new windshield without it breaking. This time it came out perfect and even chrome trim is perfectly flat against rubber with no scratches and dents.
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VW_Jimbo
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| Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2020 3:14 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Oval today? |
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| SurfsUP wrote: |
After trying 2 weeks amd in process breaking 2 new windshields, I finally successfully managed to install new windshield without it breaking. This time it came out perfect and even chrome trim is perfectly flat against rubber with no scratches and dents.
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Looks good! Whats the rest of the car look like?
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| Basically, a whole bunch of fuckery to achieve a look. |
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| GFY's Xevin and VW_Jimbo! |
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SurfsUP
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Location: Las Vegas, NV
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| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2020 3:39 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Oval today? |
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Mahalo!
Here's a recent one where I finally installed the period correct bumpers that I've been saving in storage for 10 yrs.
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