"Negative Nancy" - 1967 Single Cab Restoration

[Mr Margaret Scratcher]

This was a Swedish import that I bought around the turn of the millennium for the princely sum of £3500.

It had been recently 'restored' in the classic mid 90s fashion (lots of filler everywhere, dodgy welding, incorrect parts, straight axle conversion using basically the rear framehorns etc from an oval bug, a floor and pickup bed made of flat sheet) but at the time I didn't really know what I was looking for, and I was very happy with it and it was my daily driver from then up until around 2007 or so.

A couple of engine failures took it off the road, and apart from a couple of brief runs it's basically been sat waiting for me to take care of it.

Here's how it sits currently:

[vwuberalles]

Looks like a good starting point, cool you've had it all these years! What's the plan for it?
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[Mr Margaret Scratcher]

[TRS63]

Cool project

Antoine
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My 62 ragtop daily driver:
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=728873
My 914 restoration&lightweight project :
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=9698432#9698432
Resurrecting a 60 ghia : https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=713906
My 52 Standard Zwitter :
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=10086685#10086685

[Buggeee]

I like the bus, and the plan. Drive 'em if you've got 'em.
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Release the Krankenwagen! 1966 Sportsmobile Camper
Dr. Kompressor 72 Super Duper
61 Turkis Pile (adopted out)

[Mr Margaret Scratcher]

A quick little job this evening to get back into the swing of things: remove these frozen screws from the broken engine lid hinge:

(The blobs of weld are from where I tried and failed a couple of years ago)

13mm nut welded on:

And successfully unscrewed!

2nd screw put up a bit of a fight, but after grinding back the previous attempt to shiny metal, welding a nice little nipple in the centre of the screw without the nut, and then welding the nut on nice and hot after that...

SUCCESS!

Next job is to replace this terrible repair of the engine bay web:

[Buggeee]

Your Single Cab called and asked me to tell you that it wants to carry something around this weekend just like it is - in celebration of the successful screw extraction perhaps.

It's a cool truck, as mentioned
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Big Time 1988 Vanagon Westy
Release the Krankenwagen! 1966 Sportsmobile Camper
Dr. Kompressor 72 Super Duper
61 Turkis Pile (adopted out)

[Mr Margaret Scratcher]

[Mr Margaret Scratcher]

Ran out of gas for the welder while working on my other bus, so jumped back on this to cut out the rot at the front:

During:

After:

Nice bit of filler work on the nose:

Remnants of factory grease pencil:

These holes were filled with a gummy seam sealer type substance - is this factory?

[arthurnugen]

Cool truck. Thanks for sharing your work! Cheers!

Arthur
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[70bus]

Trucks were worked to death and didn't get the TLC a camper might, so they have lots of surprises hiding. Luckily it looks like you have skills/equipment to handle it!

If you need inspiration:
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=754924
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Craig K
70 Neunsitzer
65 Pritschenwagen
"If Von Dutch was alive, he'd walk in there with a pistol and shoot these people." - Robert Williams

Raoul the 65 singlecab

Karl the 70 nine-seater

[BarryL]

[Mr Margaret Scratcher]

[70bus]

[Mr Margaret Scratcher]

So much for not wanting to dig in too much:

Annoyingly, I bought two outer floor repair panels already, but now wishing I'd bought the entire thing....



Not sure how I missed this terrible outer floor repair when I inspected it before purchase, 25 years ago:

(yes, that is a bit of flat bar steel being used as strengthening)

Floor around shifter has rusted through:

Had to cut the floor away to get to the top of the chassis rails in order to remove the front valance brackets:

Same over the other side:

If I was to do this again, I would probably have left the old brackets attached to the rail, and removed the new ones from the replacement panel,as there's really no way to get them off with the floor in place. 'Luckily' my floor needed to be cut away anyway.

Aaand I *still* haven't got the point where I can take a photo with the new inner front valance in place - I've just got the remnants of the bracket on the driver's side chassis rail to remove and than I'll be there!

[Mr Margaret Scratcher]

TADAAAAA!

(After another 4 hours removing the remnants of the front valance brackets - they really did like to secure them on, didn't they?)

Here's another pic of the grease paint markings:

And the old lip of the inner valance got used for plug weld practice:

[70bus]

Nice work! Valences are a pain accordng to the two folks I know who did them, so it's all downhill from here, right????

Does the Mplate reflect anything that the grease paint might refer to? Might say '06' and '39' with maybe a 'u.' Dates, paint codes?
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Craig K
70 Neunsitzer
65 Pritschenwagen
"If Von Dutch was alive, he'd walk in there with a pistol and shoot these people." - Robert Williams

Raoul the 65 singlecab

Karl the 70 nine-seater

[Mr Margaret Scratcher]

Well, it's only just wedged on for now, but still - getting the old brackets off was a slog!

I'll snap the M-Plate next time I'm outside...

[Mr Margaret Scratcher]

No further progress, but here's some interior window frame/air box gore for you all:

[ddutch]

Hopefully you are able to fix those rust spots inside without removing the roof. Looking at the flaking paint on the ventilatiion box and on some other parts, I guess your truck was originally Pearl White.