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coolerthanelvis
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 Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2018 11:03 am Post subject: Re: 1963 15 Window resurrection |
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| Vwprok37 wrote: |
| Heck Yeah man!! About time you got that in!! Haha! More spot welds please! I hope you stood in it and made engine noises. |
Fixed it for you! 
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Burlyhammer
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Location: Great north woods Maine
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2018 11:07 am Post subject: Re: 1963 15 Window resurrection |
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| coolerthanelvis wrote: |
| Vwprok37 wrote: |
| Heck Yeah man!! About time you got that in!! Haha! More spot welds please! I hope you stood in it and made engine noises. |
Fixed it for you! |
Haha. We did stand in it. Could barely see out of the windshields. |
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splitlp
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2018 4:06 pm Post subject: Re: 1963 15 Window resurrection |
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| Burlyhammer wrote: |
| coolerthanelvis wrote: |
| Vwprok37 wrote: |
| Heck Yeah man!! About time you got that in!! Haha! More spot welds please! I hope you stood in it and made engine noises. |
Fixed it for you! |
Haha. We did stand in it. Could barely see out of the windshields. |
Way to go!! The hard work is paying off and taking shape. the engine noises are essential  |
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Burlyhammer
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Location: Great north woods Maine
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2018 4:46 pm Post subject: Re: 1963 15 Window resurrection |
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| splitlp wrote: |
| Burlyhammer wrote: |
| coolerthanelvis wrote: |
| Vwprok37 wrote: |
| Heck Yeah man!! About time you got that in!! Haha! More spot welds please! I hope you stood in it and made engine noises. |
Fixed it for you! |
Haha. We did stand in it. Could barely see out of the windshields. |
Way to go!! The hard work is paying off and taking shape. the engine noises are essential |
Vroom vroom noises are necessary for proper inspiration.
Thanks JP |
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type2rescuemaine
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Location: Maine
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| Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 1:31 pm Post subject: Re: 1963 15 Window resurrection |
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Another update! Slow, progress, but nevertheless, progress.
First of all, we got the day off yesterday due to a good sized nor'easter:
2.5+ feet of snow up here. School was cancelled for me, and my dad took the day off from work to avoid risking the drive. But, although this may sound like prime conditions for some justifiable 15 window time, the power was knocked out for about 12 hours so not much was accomplished.
The day beforehand, though, was a different story.
My dad was able to cut out the last piece of rust on the w/t section and tack in a new piece. No pictures from this morning yet, but he was able to complete the welding on the piece and he was also able to start grinding.
As for me, I was able to begin prepping the floor for welding. My dad marked where the I-beams met the floor:
And I was able to start marking divits and drilling:
Hopefully, more updates very soon! |
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Eric&Barb
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Black hound
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| Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 2:21 pm Post subject: Re: 1963 15 Window resurrection |
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I read this thread every week. Stunning work.
It makes me wonder how a bus you guys concider beyond repair would look.
Can't wait to see the finished product. Good luck. |
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Burlyhammer
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| Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 2:22 pm Post subject: Re: 1963 15 Window resurrection |
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Zoomed in:
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type2rescuemaine
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| Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 2:30 pm Post subject: Re: 1963 15 Window resurrection |
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I read this thread every week. Stunning work.
It makes me wonder how a bus you guys concider beyond repair would look.
Can't wait to see the finished product. Good luck. |
Nothing is too far gone. This is our next project, early '57 Kombi found in the woods this past summer on a 4 wheeler trail. |
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mandraks
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| Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 5:03 pm Post subject: Re: 1963 15 Window resurrection |
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| .... This is our next project, early '57 Kombi found in the woods this past summer on a 4 wheeler trail. |
that 57 Kombi has just about everything i want in a bus, except semaphores.
small taillights, small hatch, brake light engine lid, kommercial interior, clean dash, 30 horse, choke, NO fuel gauge, perfection. just needs semaphores...
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Burlyhammer
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| Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 5:13 pm Post subject: Re: 1963 15 Window resurrection |
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| type2rescuemaine wrote: |
| .... This is our next project, early '57 Kombi found in the woods this past summer on a 4 wheeler trail. |
that 57 Kombi has just about everything i want in a bus, except semaphores.
small taillights, small hatch, brake light engine lid, kommercial interior, clean dash, 30 horse, choke, NO fuel gauge, perfection. just needs semaphores... |
Agreed. Semaphores would be icing on the cake. But it is dove blue with a hand painted pin stripe! |
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Bulli Klinik
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| Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 5:35 pm Post subject: Re: 1963 15 Window resurrection |
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This won't help out in the middle of a panel, but it's worth it's weight in gold for punching welding holes at the edge.
https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/e0a9597b-86a6-4fe...nBg=FFFFFF
Also, the same applies to this tool.
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mandraks
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| Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 7:06 pm Post subject: Re: 1963 15 Window resurrection |
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| Burlyhammer wrote: |
| mandraks wrote: |
| type2rescuemaine wrote: |
| .... This is our next project, early '57 Kombi found in the woods this past summer on a 4 wheeler trail. |
that 57 Kombi has just about everything i want in a bus, except semaphores.
small taillights, small hatch, brake light engine lid, kommercial interior, clean dash, 30 horse, choke, NO fuel gauge, perfection. just needs semaphores... |
Agreed. Semaphores would be icing on the cake. But it is dove blue with a hand painted pin stripe! |
pinstripe goes a long way that is for sure. Gerson does sell semaphore door pillars...
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ryans65
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| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 2:48 am Post subject: Re: 1963 15 Window resurrection |
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| Im convinced there's busses growing out of the ground up north! Can't wait to see that thing resurrected! |
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Burlyhammer
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| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 7:52 am Post subject: Re: 1963 15 Window resurrection |
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I’ve been using a pneumatic punch for most of the spot weld holes. A manual punch might be handy for some of the deeper throated holes. |
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Burlyhammer
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| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 7:54 am Post subject: Re: 1963 15 Window resurrection |
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| Burlyhammer wrote: |
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| type2rescuemaine wrote: |
| .... This is our next project, early '57 Kombi found in the woods this past summer on a 4 wheeler trail. |
that 57 Kombi has just about everything i want in a bus, except semaphores.
small taillights, small hatch, brake light engine lid, kommercial interior, clean dash, 30 horse, choke, NO fuel gauge, perfection. just needs semaphores... |
Agreed. Semaphores would be icing on the cake. But it is dove blue with a hand painted pin stripe! |
pinstripe goes a long way that is for sure. Gerson does sell semaphore door pillars... |
I do love semaphores, but we had a family meeting and decided that if they didn’t come stock, it’s not going to happen. |
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Burlyhammer
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| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 7:58 am Post subject: Re: 1963 15 Window resurrection |
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| Im convinced there's busses growing out of the ground up north! Can't wait to see that thing resurrected! |
Haha. Most of the old cars up here are going back to the earth. I can’t believe there was as much left of the 57. We are planning to make that one the “Shasta “ bus. That one is going to get an entire chassis install. |
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Burlyhammer
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| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 9:56 am Post subject: Re: 1963 15 Window resurrection |
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We did get the cargo floor completely fit in. Just need to finish drilling/punching the holes for the spot welds. I think we are going to blast and paint the bottoms before we weld them in:
My bud Nate Jung loaned us his Rotisserie. We still need to fix the front valance before putting the bus on the spinner, but that will hopefully be very soon:
Thanks Nate!
Lastly, I am trying to fill in around the walk through backs and there’s this pressed detail that I am trying to recreate. As soon as I get this figured out I can finish with that part until after the dog legs go in:
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mandraks
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| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 1:46 pm Post subject: Re: 1963 15 Window resurrection |
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I do love semaphores, but we had a family meeting and decided that if they didn’t come stock, it’s not going to happen. |
well, originally they ALL had semaphores... In 1957 the euro models still had semaphores... in 1959 they still had semaphores...  Just trying to help
if you hadto replace the b-pillars for some reason... with the additional semaphores it would be MORE safe than with just blinkers. I be the son has never owned a car with semaphores, you can't let the poor guy go on like that
Anyway enough high-jacking. love the work you are doing.
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Black hound
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| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 5:51 pm Post subject: Re: 1963 15 Window resurrection |
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| type2rescuemaine wrote: |
| Black hound wrote: |
I read this thread every week. Stunning work.
It makes me wonder how a bus you guys concider beyond repair would look.
Can't wait to see the finished product. Good luck. |
Nothing is too far gone. This is our next project, early '57 Kombi found in the woods this past summer on a 4 wheeler trail. |
Haven't you guys suffered enough 
Congrats on your new find and I look forward to reading.
Hope the snow covered bug in the above pictures isn't going to get neglected |
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