Aussie 58 mango

[Skim]

That dash will clean up easily with some good rubbing and some TR3. Doesn't look like you will need a ton of metal replacement. What's your plans for the roof skin?
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Samba since before the towers collapsed. Still here.
1953 Kabriolet
1954 Sunroof
1959 Lowlight Ghia vert
1960 Lt Grey Double Cab SMZ LEGIT
1963 Deluxe Turkis Walk Thru 15 Window OG Paint

[williamM]

Love the work- gotta ways to go but good start- rust not so bad and 2x4 and a mallet should put the roof back- but do see a roof clip in your future.

Looks like my old bus from 1974 - it was let go in Perth, so could be.

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[lo-lo55]

Has she been over on the passenger side by the scrapes and ding in the beltline? Whats the plans for the roof? Had a look at your oval in your gallery, that came up nice too!

[braddick]

Yep she sure has been on it side and roof and I think also the drivers side I reckon
Cargo doors and hinges need a bit of work to get them to align and shut again hence why the passenger side b pillar is rooted
Roof well the first idea was to go down the grumpy metal rag top path but after a bit looking into it, it looked like it was going to be a 8000- 10000 au dollar exercise. So I've now decided to cut out the rust and holes in the middle of the roof and replace with a section of a kombi roof I've just bought plus 2 roof supports that I also need
At the end of the day I decided that I would rather put the money into a crazy arse motor for the bus than a rag top roof, there both cool but I think I would get more pleasure out of some big HP than looking at the stars while I sleep in the bus
And after seeing what my mate was able to build me for my chook shed oval motor (see oval thread under 56 chook shed oval ) I'm looking forward to what we come up with for the mango
Also here's a photo of the passenger side door you can see the scuff marks down the side from when it was rolled

[braddick]

Mango playing second fiddle tonight to the oval
Prepping the oval for this weekends VW swap in Melbourne, Victoria AUS
4.5 hr drive one way from home

[SamboSamba22]

Good looking dubs on that island of yours, keep the details and progress coming, thats a nice dry bus.
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[braddick]

Not a lot of progress on bus but here's a update
Had a go at cleaning up the passenger side door and knocking out some dents and also cleaned up the door top

Also found a bit of sign writing on the bus one morning while having a coffee with the sun shining in, hopefully this might give me a lead to the og owner
(K Reilly ) under the window behind the b pillar if u look hard

Also been doing some more shed renos to the et door shed with a lean too going on the back to store some more VW and parts

[braddick]

Also had a small convoy of splits call in on there where to a VW show the other week for a bbq and beers I the shed
I joined in with my 63 split for the weekends adventure to Lorne Victoria a 5 hr drive from my place
Cheers

[SamboSamba22]

Dig the setup man.
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Oct. ’67 Double Cab (’68 Crew Cab)
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March '69 Delivery (Panel Bus)
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[braddick]

Back working on the bus
Outriggers, centre cross member, and centre heater pipe and other pipes out
Getting the bus ready for blasting underneath

[62DoKaGuy]

[EliasP]

That was a good original underside!

[braddick]

Got a few hours in on the bus this arvo
Decided to have ago at removing the long side sill/rocker
Starting to wonder if I can save this floor how many patches are too many patches ?

[sgellis]

[braddick]

Got some more hours in on the bus
Removed the short sill/ rocker
Leaving the b and c pillar attached to the floor for strength when I trailer it to the sand blaster

Also my dogleg patch repair has turned into complete lower repair at this stage

[braddick]

Passenger side front floor out

[braddick]

Complete floor now coming out for blasting

Also picked up some parts for the motor at a recent show/swap meet
Some virgin Spanish 48 IDA, 010 dizzy and a ratty 36 fan shroud

[obus]

Thanks for the update! Keep up the good work!
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June 1973 Pumpkin Orange Thing aka Othing L30H
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1960 Paprika Red Karmann Ghia Convertible aka Schatze L452 built 5/20/60
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66 21 window bus built 8/31/65 https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=777273

[braddick]

Bought some repair section at a swapmeet on the weekend

Did a little A pillar repair

I thought fab up the floor repair section

[braddick]

Was pretty stoked too scores these bars for my bus
Happy to be corrected but I think these in og paint mango was only 6-12 month only timeline so too be able to find a matching set was a huge score and the also to get a front mango emblem just topped it off nicely