Dune Buggy Vinyl Wrapped

[BFB]

I like that hood wrap, reminds me of the hidden 3D images from early 90's

[SBD]

[BFB]

here's a pic of one of ours that is wrapped. wouldn't have been able to duplicate this in paint unless I found an airbrush artist and that would've cost a lot more than I spent on the wrap , which was about $500. i have a buddy that works at a vinyl shop and gave me a little education when he did this one. one other thing to consider is that just like anything there are cheap wrap material and good wrap material, so that could have alot to do with the bad pealing comercial vehicles we see ? the vinyl on this buggy has a clear protective layer on top of it so that should help with u.v. and durability

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[AMAC1680]

A little more got done this week, too stinking hot to work on it.

AMAC
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[BFB]

I like it! just be sure to never eat any shrooms around that buggy, heh heh

[AMAC1680]

[YDBD]

Getting it done:

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'56 pan Dune Buggy since '69
don't live in the past...but when I did:
'67 bug
'64 baja
'60 dune buggy
'73 Personenkraftwagen Type 182 "Thing"

[BIGMIKEY]

I like the color. Not too many Dark Green Buggies around. Very glossy too.

Mike T
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Deserter Series 1 project.
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=787047&highlight=

1973 Beetle Driver, Marina Blue.

[YDBD]

Thanks!

Turns out "Bottle Green" is really very close to British Racing Green (BRG), which was put on the International UK race cars in respect to Ireland where the race was hosted in 1903. In England the nations top speed was 12 mph.

So I got that going for me, even though I'm not British.
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'56 pan Dune Buggy since '69
don't live in the past...but when I did:
'67 bug
'64 baja
'60 dune buggy
'73 Personenkraftwagen Type 182 "Thing"

[markdam]

[YDBD]

1900 Euro...$2200
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'56 pan Dune Buggy since '69
don't live in the past...but when I did:
'67 bug
'64 baja
'60 dune buggy
'73 Personenkraftwagen Type 182 "Thing"

[markdam]

[YDBD]

Way expensive, and I have the bad feeling I don't like what I paid for and not much to do about it. Hate that.
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'56 pan Dune Buggy since '69
don't live in the past...but when I did:
'67 bug
'64 baja
'60 dune buggy
'73 Personenkraftwagen Type 182 "Thing"

[Cammie]

Probably about the same as paint, and less disastrous than if you'd received a poorly done paint job, easy to remove without damaging whats underneath, but maybe less likely to scratch? I'm sure you'll be ok with it in a bit.

I've heard people say that a new body is often cheaper than a respray, but yours is an original, same family from new Manx which is fantastic, I've come across photos of it so many places on the net(particularly the skis picture), to the extent that I would consider it a significant and influential buggy. I wouldn't be surprised if someone somewhere is building a recreation of it, so it's great that your recreating it from the original buggy.

I think the yellow still visible on shocks and sidebars is probably jarring your eyes a bit when seen with the green. Get those black, remove your seat covers and it will all help. The colours around a colour influence how we see that colour. In the same way that swatches aren't often much help, because we don't see enough of the colour to understand the impression it will give when painted on a large area.

It looks good.

[Wetstuff]

YDBD, I have played with film just long enough to know I am not good enough to do compound curves. It looks especially difficult to finish seams in the fender valleys.

If disregard what I paid for a decent, large compressor, a medium+ gun, and all the other scheize needed to spray ..not to mention putting up plastic, to fake a 'paint booth', I'd expect to spend about $3-400 dollars for a couple layers of color with the second mixed with clear. Film looks expensive in my imagination ..and likely needing just as much surface prep - no? (I am also too cheap to farm almost anything out.)

More photos to come, ja? Tschuss.

Jim
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[YDBD]

Thanks for the feed back folks!

The yellow paint went on about 2 years ago, for about 1500 Euro, which included the body work. That's also why I wanted to go with wrap, since the paint was still fresh.

The side bars will come off and the the shocks will be painted silver to match the original paint scheme and I plan on taking the seats in for black covers.

The two guys that did it were really cool, they let me take the stuff off and put it back on in their shop-saved work for them and I'm pretty meticulous about who works on the buggy.

Yes more pictures to come, will get Nacho to send them to me soon.
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'56 pan Dune Buggy since '69
don't live in the past...but when I did:
'67 bug
'64 baja
'60 dune buggy
'73 Personenkraftwagen Type 182 "Thing"

[YDBD]

Picture HEAVY!

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'56 pan Dune Buggy since '69
don't live in the past...but when I did:
'67 bug
'64 baja
'60 dune buggy
'73 Personenkraftwagen Type 182 "Thing"