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BusJunky Samba Member
Joined: February 27, 2009 Posts: 568 Location: Norwalk, ohio
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2017 8:32 pm Post subject: Re: The Typewriter Business Pumpkin Bus |
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esde wrote: |
Dude, I'm so, so happy to see this thing back on the road. I picked some parts off of it way back when, maybe 6 years ago. Got stung several times getting the wiper assembly! And I thought long and hard about the bus and wanted to bring it back but had just finished one and wanted a break. Here it is in it's native habitat, the back 40 at Gundrum's
I know the guy that pulled all of the busses out of there, and can only imagine what a huge task it mustve been. Every time I went there stuff was either frozen into the ground, or you just sunk up to your knee, and all overgrown.
Nice work so far, it was worth saving.
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THANK YOU!!! Its soo cool seeing it like it was!!! Im in contact with the family now. Hoping to get pics of when it was in service. This is most picked thru bus ever. Its missing EVERYTHING!!! Haha. Theres still bee's coming out of it AND there was a snake living in the fresh air vent lol. He came out and shed his skin the second night i had it in my shop. Also had about 30 mice in it. They were all jumping ship when i took the headliner out lol. Had em crawling around my feet and everything. Twas a good time! If you have any more info on the bus, i'd love to hear it!
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BusJunky Samba Member
Joined: February 27, 2009 Posts: 568 Location: Norwalk, ohio
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2017 8:48 pm Post subject: Re: The Typewriter Business Pumpkin Bus |
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Although im light years away from this shit. Heres some goodies that will be making its way to the bus. Full 944 disc brakes front and rear. Porsche 901 5 speed trans. Porsche phone dial wheels. Widefive lives 1/2 hour from me. I ran over there and got some beam plates and tubing earlier this week. This will be a slammed IRS and turbo'd bus when done. Ive just gotta make it thru all this metal repair first!! I did place a metal order today and I bought a donor nose. Working on the shipping details now.
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SamboSamba22 Samba Member
Joined: August 06, 2015 Posts: 2772 Location: Benton, Arkansas
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BusJunky Samba Member
Joined: February 27, 2009 Posts: 568 Location: Norwalk, ohio
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Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2017 2:11 am Post subject: Re: The Typewriter Business Pumpkin Bus |
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While waiting for metal to arrive, I worked on the back of the bus today, under the rear hatch. Those annoying corners that always rot out. Here's what it looked like.
After cutting out the top layer it came as no surprise there was more rust under it. So I got to cutting some more.
After that I began making the pieces by hand and reconstruting the upper part of the hatch pillar.
After that was all fitted and looking decent again, I fitted the outer skin. I used a cut off wheel to recreate the seam where the corner meets the decklid carrier. Then buy bending sheet steel in a vise, I made the little top hats that hold the seal in place and welded those back on the top. I used a torch to heat the metal so I could bend the radius. Turned out real nice for all being done by hand with simply shop tools.
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vwjetboat Samba Member
Joined: May 11, 2017 Posts: 1732 Location: Florida
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Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2017 2:13 am Post subject: Re: The Typewriter Business Pumpkin Bus |
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I enjoy doing that kind of metal work.. nice work.. .. so you plan on painting just the repair areas and keep the rest original ? |
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BusJunky Samba Member
Joined: February 27, 2009 Posts: 568 Location: Norwalk, ohio
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Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2017 7:28 pm Post subject: Re: The Typewriter Business Pumpkin Bus |
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vwjetboat wrote: |
I enjoy doing that kind of metal work.. nice work.. .. so you plan on painting just the repair areas and keep the rest original ? |
Just painting the repaired areas. Im taking a break from it for the next week to finish up customers bus that ive had for awhile. I kinda hate welding, actually. My grandapa tought me when i was kid, then I was a fabricator for about 13 years until I went back to College. Sometimes I get in the zone, but its my least fav of bus repairs LOL. Keeping the "before" pics in the bus to show people what you've done is always a ego booster. I usually break them out after they say "you should restore that". Yeah. _________________ Leroux's Autowerks “like us on fb”
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BulliBabe8616 Samba Member
Joined: September 15, 2017 Posts: 8
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 5:06 pm Post subject: Re: The Typewriter Business Pumpkin Bus |
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Hi I'm Jen! I'm new to the board.. this is my first post really excited He's letting me restore these logos! Im really happy with how this side turned out
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vwjetboat Samba Member
Joined: May 11, 2017 Posts: 1732 Location: Florida
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 5:13 pm Post subject: Re: The Typewriter Business Pumpkin Bus |
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that orange is growing on me.. I can not believe how well some of it buffed out.. Like it just left the paint shop.. great work.. |
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Skim Rants Master
Joined: April 15, 2001 Posts: 17081 Location: GFK 31 Year Vet
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 6:15 pm Post subject: Re: The Typewriter Business Pumpkin Bus |
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Nice Fab on that corner hatch area 👍 _________________ GFK
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 |
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esde Samba Member
Joined: October 20, 2007 Posts: 5928 Location: central rust belt
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 6:26 pm Post subject: Re: The Typewriter Business Pumpkin Bus |
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One more that I hadn't posted to Samba till now
looking through the pics from my trips there, I realize that this bus was the only one that was really savable. The others were sunk at least to the floor, one I remember the mud was up past the crank pulley.
Yeah, we stripped the typewriter bus of most everything that would unbolt, and almost took the rear hatch. Right now I am very glad that we decided it was cold and late, and left it there. The engine lid and some other parts did come and found a new home on the maushaus, which is ironic mostly because the maushaus was in worse shape than your 67 and not nearly as cool.
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=607359&highlight=
Oh well. Keep up the good work! _________________ modok wrote:
Bent cranks are silent but gather no moss. I mean, ah, something like that. |
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VeeDubWolf Samba Member
Joined: July 12, 2010 Posts: 656 Location: Yakima, WA
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 10:23 pm Post subject: Re: The Typewriter Business Pumpkin Bus |
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Looking great, BulliBabe/Jen! Between you and BusJunky this is going to be a sweet bus! _________________ Two Bugs-
'70 rust-bucket sunroof sedan
'69 PO hack-job special
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BusJunky Samba Member
Joined: February 27, 2009 Posts: 568 Location: Norwalk, ohio
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Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 1:07 am Post subject: Re: The Typewriter Business Pumpkin Bus |
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esde wrote: |
One more that I hadn't posted to Samba till now
looking through the pics from my trips there, I realize that this bus was the only one that was really savable. The others were sunk at least to the floor, one I remember the mud was up past the crank pulley.
Yeah, we stripped the typewriter bus of most everything that would unbolt, and almost took the rear hatch. Right now I am very glad that we decided it was cold and late, and left it there. The engine lid and some other parts did come and found a new home on the maushaus, which is ironic mostly because the maushaus was in worse shape than your 67 and not nearly as cool.
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=607359&highlight=
Oh well. Keep up the good work! |
This is just to cool! Also I may have met my match on insane bus repairs. You seem to be as nuts as I am LOL. That was a ton of work, pal. I did a early bay panel like that with airride. I was so freaking sick of welding that I lost interest and let it go right after all the hard work was done. Anyhow, Im glad most of the body panels were there. I was going to skin the drivers door to a good shell, but i think im just going to paint a new door and have Jen redo the logos. Save work where i can. Did the engine lid have logos on it? If so we'd like to replicate those. _________________ Leroux's Autowerks “like us on fb”
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vwjetboat Samba Member
Joined: May 11, 2017 Posts: 1732 Location: Florida
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Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 1:09 am Post subject: Re: The Typewriter Business Pumpkin Bus |
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glad I am not the only one up.. lol.. very cool that you know where the parts went.. and was nice enough to leave the hatch.. lol impressed I will say the least.. can not wait till you are done |
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BusJunky Samba Member
Joined: February 27, 2009 Posts: 568 Location: Norwalk, ohio
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BusJunky Samba Member
Joined: February 27, 2009 Posts: 568 Location: Norwalk, ohio
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srfndoc Samba Member
Joined: August 21, 2010 Posts: 3270 Location: SoCal
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Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 8:39 am Post subject: Re: The Typewriter Business Pumpkin Bus |
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Wow.... she seems like a keeper on so many levels.
Amazing work, can't wait to see more progress. _________________ RPM=(MPH*336* (R&P*4th*1.26))/Tire Diameter in inches |
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rennie Samba Member
Joined: October 06, 2016 Posts: 246 Location: Orange County, CA
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Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 10:37 am Post subject: Re: The Typewriter Business Pumpkin Bus |
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Uh, it would be understandable if your project is delayed for one reason or another... but try to stay on course ; ) |
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BusJunky Samba Member
Joined: February 27, 2009 Posts: 568 Location: Norwalk, ohio
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Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 11:16 am Post subject: Re: The Typewriter Business Pumpkin Bus |
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Shes the best woman a man could ever ask for. In every way possible. Shes also the one who talked me out of trading it for a beetle when I didnt want to tackle the project. Most women would of been pissed off at you for even buying such a bus. Shes a unicorn, actually. _________________ Leroux's Autowerks “like us on fb”
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vwjetboat Samba Member
Joined: May 11, 2017 Posts: 1732 Location: Florida
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Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 11:28 am Post subject: Re: The Typewriter Business Pumpkin Bus |
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BusJunky wrote: |
Shes the best woman a man could ever ask for. In every way possible. Shes also the one who talked me out of trading it for a beetle when I didnt want to tackle the project. Most women would of been pissed off at you for even buying such a bus. Shes a unicorn, actually. |
very rare .. very....you are lucky.. |
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BulliBabe8616 Samba Member
Joined: September 15, 2017 Posts: 8
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Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 2:19 pm Post subject: Re: The Typewriter Business Pumpkin Bus |
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bahahaahaha!! You guys are too kind .... lol --- I consider myself lucky to have found someone that's into cool things like vw's as much as I am... but has the talent to bring them back to life... AND let's ME help restore these amazing pieces of history!!!! And anyway.... who doesn't LOVE getting to drive them around afterwards!!😏😎Total SCORE all around!!!! 😁Lol |
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