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Porschedave
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 Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 8:52 pm Post subject: Had some time for my '65 Notch today... |
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I have been working on the restoration of a 1965 notchback that I bought as a father-son project. The car turned out to be in much worse shape than we originally thought and so a different notchback was built for my son. Since I still had the original, I decided to restore it. I have shared some of the details with folks on this site and it was suggested that readers of this forum might be interested. So, here are a sequence of photos that document some of the work. I hope that you enjoy it.
The first look as I found it = I think that I will name her Lizzie- it is a 1965 sunroof notch
A 1500 single carbed motor
But, some rust
Lots of rust
And some suspicious wiring
I decided to reinforce the shell before removing anything - see no floor on the driver's side
Pulled the engine
only to discover it was full of water
that dissolved the case
Sourced a pan from the DDB
did some patch work
added Por-15
And went back to the body to look at rust - that's where the sunroof drains
I decided to cut off the bottom portion of the car
gone
and welded a donated section from a squareback into place
And took a break, feeling pretty good about this...
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ALLWAGONS
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Wow! That's awesome. I really admire people who really bring back the dead!!!
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Brent
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Nice job on replacing that entire section. It's looking good, keep it up!
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ataraxia
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Nice work...keep us posted.
This makes me want to buy a welder, btw. |
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I'm def. Going to be in this thread, great name btw. Keep up the awesome work!
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i need to learn how to weld. 
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| Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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| very very nice. keep em coming. will be following your posts with popcorn |
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Nice to see another one being brought back! Keep up the nice work.
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WOW! You're a man on a mission...keep at it, it looks great. Not many here that would head to the garage and cut the bottom of the car off only to graft another in...perhaps to part-out the top half, but not make it whole again...sheesh, and to think I struggled with hacking my bump stops 
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Dave, those pics bring back a lot of memories (of doing my own stuff). The title to your build thread sounds familiar too.  Glad to see you posting the early pics here, since some of them were on an old server (with Matt's build if I remember right). It's been a long 3+ years now with how far that car has come along. I think you were still gathering up stuff for it back when I started working on Krunchy. The last couple of pics you sent me really show the difference you've made with it. Aren't you glad you didn't leave that "patina" on it? I'm glad you're going to keep the original color of it. I hope to see it next summer at the Invasion. That'll be a hoot. 
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Wow, I didn't realized it's been that long since you started that project. Five years, but it's come a long way since you started.
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71 Notch ...aka Krunchy; build pics here;
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=249390 -been busy working
64 T-34 Ghia...aka Wolfie, under construction... http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=412120
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Hi Guys
So, the story continues. Bob, thanks for letting me use a version of your thread title - it seemed appropriate. Now that the original upper body was tacked to the new lower body, I had to go around and weld, sometimes on difficult, complex curves. And while I tried to cut away all the rotten rusty metal, I had to remember that with this age of car the metal thickness varied, and so sometimes the metal was thin and I would burn through and other times it was easy to weld. For example, this is along the front inner fender area
the door post
Once the main welding was done I look at other areas and could not help but notice the front clip was in trouble...
I drilled out the spot welds and removed it (what else could I do?).
I found another nose section and welded it in place
Some fabrication was necessary for the rear inner fender wells.
a new section behind the rear seat
and a new firewall (actually, I am not sure if we call this a firewall but they do in hotrods)
And to make sure that the car sat on its pan, the 'guys' came over and in exchange for food and beverage we remounted the shell on the pan
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For a porsche guy your commitment to your notch is fantastic!  Keep it up!!!!!!!
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| Did you use the three bolt hinges at the top and two bolt hinges at the bottom for the doors? |
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