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WestyPop
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Best wishes with the repairs. That bondo around the driver's side headlight was thick enough to have its own part number. 
Hopefully your guys will fix it right, and you'll be cruzin' again soon.
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Stuartzickefoose
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| Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 10:13 am Post subject: |
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| Stuartzickefoose wrote: |
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Best wishes with the repairs. That bondo around the driver's side headlight was thick enough to have its own part number.
Hopefully your guys will fix it right, and you'll be cruzin' again soon. |
thanks man. ya....that bondo was the first thing i noticed after i got out of the bus after the crash. well, now it will have bondo still (used clip) but itll be a small amount, and done the right way so it wont break off and/or rust.
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Stuartzickefoose
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really cool story behind these....got a 67 ghia vert for free, and came with a few boxes of parts....diging through the parts a year later (last week) and i found these.....and promptly stole them for the bus 
the inside of the nose, bad lighting but shows the welding process
windshield lip....original? no idea.
lower bumper area...
can this be fixed easily? the dent:
inner welds again...
new wiper grommets
these have minimal cracks, but the paint is annoying...should i replace or try n remove the paint?
should i make them repair this? its gonna be under the bumper anyways....
grills all bent up...ordered a new one from BD. com, should be here friday
can it be bent back?it curves out wards in the center....
any ideas?
the parts stash...
warpage...
idiots who painted the bus, painted the mesh grill
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phoneguy
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Is that a graft from a green bay and if it is why didn't they paint the interior side ?
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Stuartzickefoose
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| Is that a graft from a green bay and if it is why didn't they paint the interior side ? |
it is, and im not totally sure yet, i may complain when i go in today, cause itll show when its back together.... 
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Stuartzickefoose
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I got my bus back! its nearly finished, still gotta mount a rear bumper, hook up foglights, get a new speedo cable, and connect my tach. then i get to install my radio and take some daylight pictures! the paint is perfectly matched to the original color, and i plan to slowly strip the old paint off to get to the OG paint. the shop still has a can of the color matched paint, so i am going to hold on to it (the said its free), and when i screw up the paint, ill have a cover paint.
also, they had a car come in with a rear brush gaurd...looks almost like a roo bar. the insurance bought the guy a new one....so the shop gave me the old one  it nearly perfectly fits the frame width too!
while in primer:
taped off to paint inner tubes and nose the matching color:
Nearly done, and i know the paint doesnt match:
this picture only halfway loaded....shame...but you can see my color combo scheme
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rustbus
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soooo...have any more pictures? 
yeah, obviously the paint needs to come off those signal lights. if it wont chip off try nail polish remover and a COTTON BALL...no rags or anything else.
if i was desperate, and it wouldnt come off, i would sand it off, then get some metal polish and polish the scratches out. works great! better than plastic polish IMO
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soooo...have any more pictures?
yeah, obviously the paint needs to come off those signal lights. if it wont chip off try nail polish remover and a COTTON BALL...no rags or anything else.
if i was desperate, and it wouldnt come off, i would sand it off, then get some metal polish and polish the scratches out. works great! better than plastic polish IMO |
i took more, and ill try and post them tomorrow before i leave for montana for the bus movie.
i got the paint off....scotch brite pad and a bit of elbow grease
i hope to get a few good DAYlight shots uploaded tomorrow if i can 
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