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2type2 Samba Member
Joined: June 02, 2002 Posts: 978 Location: SW Colorado
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Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2019 6:32 am Post subject: TV Custom show: Full Custom w/ Ian Rousell - bodywork horror?? |
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I've taken interest in watching this and other customizing shows but I have strong doubts about the bodywork. While the builder can obviously chop , form and weld any shapes or contour,A it appears there is plenty of welded seams as well as overlapped seams.Then it's made pretty with a Complete "mud-over" and countless hours of block sanding. So my point is --- unless this creation is kept garaged,dry and out of salt air--- doesn't it just rust from within? I'm thinking about3-4 years before ruination ensues! Seems like it's common practice in these radically modified cars. _________________ "A life of peace and happiness depends on your own gratefulness" |
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sixfootdan Samba Smartass
Joined: February 13, 2002 Posts: 4848 Location: \Lo*ca"tion\, n. 1. The act or process of locating.
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Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2019 8:31 am Post subject: Re: TV Custom show: Full Custom w/ Ian Rousell - bodywork horror?? |
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I saw an episode he did with a cool '63 ish ford van. After the paint was completed you could still see all the crusty rubber door seals still installed. I not by any means a expert at bodywork but that is a no brainer. IMO _________________ Schrodinger's cat walked into a bar and it didn't.
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12856 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2019 10:18 am Post subject: Re: TV Custom show: Full Custom w/ Ian Rousell - bodywork horror?? |
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Full customs always got a fair amount of filler to cover the flaws. Old builders used lead filler instead of Bondo, thus the term "Lead sled".
I really liked the episode where the Discovery channel (I think) got all of the old Kustoms greats (George Barris, Bill Hines(leadslinger) & several others.)together to build a car that they chopped & sectioned. _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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hitest Samba Member
Joined: September 30, 2008 Posts: 10296 Location: Prime Meridian, ID
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Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2019 11:17 am Post subject: Re: TV Custom show: Full Custom w/ Ian Rousell - bodywork horror?? |
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Ever since the early days of "American Hotrod" (Boyd C. - RIP) I have felt these guys all build cars for the upcoming show or auction- not for another 50 years of survival. _________________
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anthracitedub Samba Member
Joined: June 20, 2007 Posts: 3241 Location: Michigan
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Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2019 4:16 pm Post subject: Re: TV Custom show: Full Custom w/ Ian Rousell - bodywork horror?? |
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Yeah, I thought the same thing about the overlapping and packing mud on panels... but on the other hand, he just gets the shit done and on to the next... it’s just TV and they’re just toys for people to enjoy. I liked the little bus hot rod that he built.... plenty of empty voids of unprotected steel in that roof, but it looked cool. |
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Onceler Samba Member
Joined: May 28, 2010 Posts: 1647 Location: Indiana
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 9:20 pm Post subject: Re: TV Custom show: Full Custom w/ Ian Rousell - bodywork horror?? |
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I’m watching a couple of these episodes now, I kinda enjoy them. It doesn’t follow the typical flamboyant recipe, and just shows this guy in action.
And the project vehicles are usually pretty oddball stuff _________________ 1972 Karmann Ghia |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12856 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2019 3:37 pm Post subject: Re: TV Custom show: Full Custom w/ Ian Rousell - bodywork horror?? |
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I just caught one of the episodes, it was a lot of fun to watch, it’s nice to see a series that shows how the builds are done without the soap opera shit that seems to be the typical recipe. _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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Busstom Samba Member
Joined: November 23, 2014 Posts: 3850 Location: San Jose, CA
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Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2019 5:11 pm Post subject: Re: TV Custom show: Full Custom w/ Ian Rousell - bodywork horror?? |
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TDCTDI wrote: |
I just caught one of the episodes, it was a lot of fun to watch, it’s nice to see a series that shows how the builds are done without the soap opera shit that seems to be the typical recipe. |
Agreed! In spite of any perceived bodywork shortcuts or shortcomings, I think they're the exception with this guy, and probably intentional. This is the only show I know of without any made-up drama, phoney deadlines and parts shortages, and absurd shop shenanigans. And while it wasn't my taste, I enjoyed the episodes where he basically handbuilt from scratch the Porsche-based car for that repeat customer of his. Ian is one of the few respectable builders in this era of soap opera TV show builders. One of the others was that dude (David) out of Canada who runs The Guild of Automotive Restorers, that magnesium-bodied handbuilt Bugatti was mind-blowing. Unfortunately the producers got the best of him and started dramatizing his show too. |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12856 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 7:00 am Post subject: Re: TV Custom show: Full Custom w/ Ian Rousell - bodywork horror?? |
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The “cartoon car” episode was fun to watch as he turned a hacked bay window bus into one of the “chopper Ollie” style hotrods & brought it to life using an illustration by “Johnny Jalopy”.
https://vimeo.com/126546235 _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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OB Bus Samba Member
Joined: February 09, 2003 Posts: 2541 Location: Ocean Beach in Beautiful BLUE California
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 9:19 am Post subject: Re: TV Custom show: Full Custom w/ Ian Rousell - bodywork horror?? |
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I have zero interest in custom cars but I do like watching skilled craftspeople do jobs that I could never do. _________________ Larry in OB
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nsracing Samba Member
Joined: November 16, 2003 Posts: 9471 Location: NOVA
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 11:10 am Post subject: Re: TV Custom show: Full Custom w/ Ian Rousell - bodywork horror?? |
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It is for show is all. The paint is the eye-candy to distract you from the flaws.
Who knows the integrity of the welds once everything is filled in. Anything that is rushed to only a day dedicated to it would you want to ride in it?
Not saying it will not be road-worthy. But it is for show. HOpefully nobody will be dead in it after a wreck. |
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slave1pilot Samba Member
Joined: February 22, 2010 Posts: 943 Location: Tehachapi CA
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 11:53 am Post subject: Re: TV Custom show: Full Custom w/ Ian Rousell - bodywork horror?? |
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TDCTDI wrote: |
Full customs always got a fair amount of filler to cover the flaws. Old builders used lead filler instead of Bondo, thus the term "Lead sled".
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speaking of old builders using lead,
Did you guys see this vid with the Legend Gene Winfield?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87fuTnBS2bE _________________ My Photobucket for my Herbie Project - http://s1288.photobucket.com/user/TK-439/library/Herbie?sort=3&page=1
Currently:
1963 Ragtop Beetle
Previously:
1967 Beetle
1968 Beetle
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