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loving the step by step pics bro, just what I need/like to see!

pimp as

Bigger photos please, can't see shit! looks good though.

trouble bound. are the door card installed?

this really makes me wanna import a yank tank of my own, very cool.

Awesome, looking forward to the next update!

very nice indeed! love the way all the OS boys helped out, cert-cad-weld, sorted! will have to look into this vapourblasting thing, shit looks so fresh.

Ground it down on the weekend, looks okay. here's a crap pic, camera focused on the bench more than the patch.

front cap/bolt plate thing all welded in and ground down. patch for the firewall corner. I saw this on a thread on the samba, this little step lets the edge sit flat against the bottom of the inner wheelwell panel and the double layer of metal of the channel end cap thing. this is the patch now in place. this is a close up of the stepped detail and how it attaches to the side of the channel, this makes a nice flat flange for the wheelwell panel to be welded to. like this. Which is the other thing I've been working on, my patchwork inner wheelwell panel I started making this before the A pillar panels arrived and I forgot that the pillar actually came down another cm from where I'd cut the quarter panel off. Luckly it's only metal so you just stick it back together and add a little bit more. The curved magnet is a rare earth magnet I pulled out of a dead hard drive I found at work, Hole lee shit it's good! Very powerful, pretty hard to get off actually, wish I'd got some ages ago!

Very cool man, I would say you're a lucky man, but that would diminish all the hard work you have both put in everything you do! I honestly wish you all the best with fixing cars for money and stuff & look forward to the next project( are you serial about the V12?!?!) I'd love to just send you a bug, a WRX engine and box, and said Gimma a baby porsche.

Very nice mate, who did that fine work?

another update guys This thing is all stuck together, I welded it in place last night. This thing still sucks. not quite finished the welding/grinding in the very corner. I also need to finish the wheelwell panel before I can fold the edge over, which I'm working on now. The door seems to fit well, might need a 2mm spacer, but I can live with that. The problem I'm having, is that the lower hinge screws are really hard to tighten, REALLY hard! I'll do them up as tight as I can, and the door/hinge will still move. But much easier with the spacer in between the hinge and the A pillar, and tight as a nuns. ??? The thing that confuses and pisses me off is I tried real hard to use as much factory metal as possible, only the outer "cover" of the A pillar is repop steel, and it all seems to line up pretty well. I guess something somewhere has moved or whatever. Maybe I need to tap the threads out in the bottom of the A pillar? Ah fuck it! I'm looking forward to finishing up this side and starting the other.

fucking hell man, that's great work on the rear doors, the bugs doors need work like that, not looking forward to it. keep going, you must be nearly there?

can you see this page? http://s216.photobucket.com/user/sarahandgus/library/project?sort=3&page=1

they're just on holiday, should be back soon.

Top job man! well done.

Well that was worth the wait! and just as I hoped, a little bit of awesome housetruck style design and organization. I hate mess also, every thing has a place, every place has a thing etc. And congratulations on winning the work/life/lifestyle combo, full time self employed oldschooler, Yes. I to would like to one day take a dump in such a setting.

YEAH! looks so cool all laid out like that, good work.

I love it! i'm going to trademe to find one now.

fuckin cool.

Soon my pretty, soon. mocking up the twins

I haven't givin up on it yet! but yeah, that's the plan. keen to see the lemon.

um, you have read my thread right? no volksy on road at the mo. sorry

Keen

good luck with the mental breakdown.