63Ragtop

Time to get the sills sorted!

Great work on the welding bro, slow and steady eh?

plan some skids bro!

Yeah, very cool. Interesting how the vinyl roof stops short of the actual gutters.

wow, that makes the old one look shit! good job.

VERY COOL.

nice one bro, look after the old girl.

I'm going to have a crack at building a rotisserie for the bugs shell this weekend, stand by for updates in the fab fuck up thread.

Giz CB! good luck with the sporty

so cool man.

Right, re-learnt how to use the MIG, turns out it was missing all sorts of things a welder should have to make it actually work, so much better now. some of the welding I did on the driver side fender is a bit shit because of this. several pinholes still, so I'll have to go over it again. It's a real bitch cuz the more you weld and grind the thinner the metal can get making welding harder, which leads to more blow outs and more pinholes The front patch has came up well though, the doner needed some work. has had a hard life. welded it all back together and stuck it here tacked more tacks and after more tacking I ground it down on the weekend and hammered it flat. both fenders looking good heres a better shot of the other side, after it's beating. Shouldn't need too much bog. While I've been working on the front fenders, I've also been thinking about the rear fenders. The left one I had is a awful pattern panel that was about an inch to long where it matches the valance, was a stupid shape and the tail light (both actually) were on a angle. So I got this lovely old thing off the veedub shoppe in hamilton, Solid OG fender, Me happy. someone had painted over the factory paint with this lovely BLUE! Just two cracks in the bottom edge, which should weld up sweet. i though this was cool, check out the tracks. only problem now is it makes my other good fender look shitty! Also found this while looking at my pan wonder if that's why the electic's sucked on this thing? okay, time to build a spit.

just spent the last couple days reading that! cheers. Found this guys though another fourm, kinda steampunk shit, I like it. http://www.thechopperunderground.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=52612&page=1 his blog http://www.selectedgrub.blogspot.co.nz/search?updated-max=2014-01-17T18:12:00-08:00&max-results=100&start=21&by-date=false kiwi! how fuckin bad ass is this!

when you wrap this round a power pole, I'd like to buy the alloys.

Still chopping guys! Had a bit of a break on the bug, had to do housework/lawns/go away for the weekend and the kids where kind enough to give me both of their colds one after the next ah well. Right where was I? Spent a little time hammering the weld on the fender, bloody happy as, will need feck all bog! kinda hard to show, so just take my word it's awesome. better than massive rust holes! Got the valance all welded up just look at all those holes! not going to show the welding here, welding upsidedown sucks, looked like little metal stalactites, took ages laying on my back grinding that shit down! Started on the drivers side fender opened it up to fit the oval fender like the other side. weldy weldy And then I broke the welder! well sort of. I got the wire stuck in the torch, really stuck, Turns out the liner is worn out and it needs a couple other things sorted, should have it sorted soon. So onto the next thing!

Shit man, that's all black magic to me! but you look like you know what you're doing. I am in awe.

Apart from being slow as fuck, what's wrong with the stock engine? anything?

I like this car also.

looks like this is being done the right way, good shit son!

no sleeve needed inside the welds? looking very tidy, like the willwoods!

cheers bro, gotta just keep going! kids keep asking the wife who that strange man in the garage is!

thanks for the pep talk uncle, I'm at that shitty part of my build where it looks a bit hopeless, but parts are starting to look better. need some more pics of this sweet ol german lady. I love that pic of the rear door jam/quarter, in naked steel. oh er!

bit more of a update, patched the last two holes in the left rear fender bolting on side of car area thing(?) so except of the huge holes at the very bottom, those are sorted. Also did this the other night to check everything was where it should be, all seemed to work okay. the main reason was to check the bonnet release tube was working/in the right place etc. so I could weld thing back together, seemed to crack at some point. welded while I was at it I mocked the rest of the front up, had to adjust the bumper mount holes so the rubber seals would fit. looks like a car! nearly made it out the shed. I've pulled it all apart again, took about 5mins, and nearly finished welding the valance back on. more news at 11! talk here - //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/33947-63ragtops-63ragtop/page-2

very nice, any more plans?

got the fender looking like a fender needs a good smashing with the hammers and dollys lit this so you can see the wonkyness, i have since spent some time time hammering it, and it looks much better. ( no pic of that yet) happy with the overall shape also plugged up some rust pin holes, thought this might be better than patching, dunno now? still lots of work/fuckingabout.

So I scanned some old pics of the rag the other day, the first 2 where just after I first got it. The front was wound right up, with very old zx whereveryoucallem michelins,fucked shocks, stock seats(drivers side also shagged) nasty old 1200cc something something, one windscreen wiper But it was shiney, red and had mags! and this is the new engine being installed by my brother and myself at the VW shoppe in Hamilton.