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Mr Margaret Scratcher
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 Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 6:10 am Post subject: "Negative Nancy" - 1967 Single Cab Restoration |
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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:
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vwuberalles
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Mr Margaret Scratcher
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 8:09 am Post subject: Re: "Negative Nancy" - 1967 Single Cab Restoration |
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| vwuberalles wrote: |
| Looks like a good starting point, cool you've had it all these years! What's the plan for it? |
The plan is get it up and running, and take care of the rusty bits without turning it into a full on stripped shell.
First port of call is the A posts/doglegs/front valance area:
Driver's sides isn't so bad:
Passenger side is dust:
I'm mainly concentrating on the 1966 deluxe, but I kinda like hopping between projects, and a lot of the time the difficult thing is figuring out how to do a certain repair, so where I have the same area to tackle on both it makes sense to do it on the pickup while it's fresh in my mind. |
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Buggeee
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Mr Margaret Scratcher
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| Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2024 4:53 pm Post subject: Re: "Negative Nancy" - 1967 Single Cab Restoration |
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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:
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Mr Margaret Scratcher
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| Posted: Fri May 03, 2024 12:58 pm Post subject: Re: "Negative Nancy" - 1967 Single Cab Restoration |
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| Buggeee wrote: |
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 |
Hah, thanks! 'm keen, but currently without an engine! Hopefully cobble together something over the next month and get it moving under its own steam!
I had a spare half hour at lunch so I dug in a bit:
Weirdly it seems like these strengthening webs slant inwards? Have they both been replaced badly?
I decided to investigate some bubbles on the tear corners:
And I'm going to have to fix the driver's sude D post, too:
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