63Ragtop

good work on that massive patch bro, did you do anything to kill the rust inside?

I like the look of that, well done.

I've be less than enthusiastic about was finishing the sandblasting on the rear of the body mount panel, it's dirty, hot, shitty job at the best of times and it's just to hot lately, once again the boys across the road sorted it out for me, they have a 400hp industrial sandblaster in a massive shed, prolly took about 2 minutes what took me 6 hours with my shitty little compressor, WIN! Finished up the left hand side, welded the mount back on and smoothed out, forgot to take many pics for a change, summer hoils is such a mental time of year. ground all those evil little spikes off the firewall. I did get to spend a whole day on the car during the holidays, so i ripped the right side body mount off in about 3 hour, this took about 3 weeks on the first one. you can also see I had to weld the bottom corners of the firewall back on to the quarter panels on both sides, the bug has had a couple knocks on it's ass over the years, which i think may have kinked the shell a little in this area and the spot welds had let go, so drilled a couple holes, hammered up nice and close and stuck together. just got this back from the boys across the road, looks brand new after blasting. the damage. inside of left side looks okay, will be covered up anyways. and the inside of the right. time to get inventing!

love the dash on this thing, almost as simple as the bugs! nice work on the seats, hope the ankle gets better, fuck that!

very nice roof, I wasn't sure about it as it looked so nice painted, but you have vision son. edit, the caps are the crowning glory, (sorry, bad pun)

Good work, there is a house I pass when I ride to work, people did it up real nice, new paint, deck, little planter box/ retained garden things, had a good size old skline double garage, then I see they pulled it down to sell the house. How is that improving the place? that's the deal breaker for me! no thanks. sorry spam.

Leyland,Holden and ford parts in my ride! = CUSTOM!

Very cool, lake pipes, dummy spots and flat paint would be sweet, very jellys you bastard!

Beast!

well done young man, need some more pics, are the floors rusted out? can buy new one fairly cheap for bugs but most buggys are shortened, have seen people make their own pans out of flat steel. dunno what that will do for the road legal side of things, engines are simple as and a few mods really wake them up well.

plan= pinch the stock carb/manifold/exhaust off the coupe and fit to the ute, sell ute. rebuild the 318 out of the coupe, fit carb/manifold/headers off ute to 318, put in my white VG. do panel, paint, half cage, tubs, etc and put turbo motor in coupe, do skids this sounds like a sound plan, this thing will look and go awesome, pro street FTW!

Fresh as Fuck man, well done, the flares look like they could be factory, I'd love to come check it out one day.

lots of light in there bro, would keep the insides light coloured.

Very cool man, you must be super happy. This is like our very our george's small spaces program, without the annoying welsh guy.

I want one! good work man.

good work on the paint etc... looks amazing. friggin clever speedo mod, well done.

Update time, stuff has been done. chopped out trimmed spent one afternoon sandblasting, did the side here, the body mount and gave the new patches a little blast. primed the outside see that black stuff on the right side, that needs more blasting. patches ready to go in took quite a lot of welding, had a few gaps to plug, I drilled four holes though the inside panel and used pop rivets to hold the patch in place while I tack it up, I then drilled out the pop rivets and plugged them up with more weld. The join at the top was the hardest bit, couldn't get clamps in, so I just worked it into place a inch at a time. with the car spun sideways, this is the workspace. and that's that bit done, well nearly, I did find one pin hole and I still need to grind down the inside, but the mount panel seems to fit back on sweet, so once I finish blasting the back of it, that can go back on, may need some more pop rivets.

Yeah bro, they came and took the guy down the road from me away with them for that shit.

That's one stout chassis, like like a mini harbor bridge!

As promised better photo's It's a bit cramped with all the bikes and other crap, I have rearranged things a little better now. the trolly makes working on the shell easy once the honda is outside. the bracing I welded inside First up, the body mounts sorry bad pic. this is up underneath, looking from the gearbox's view, I didn't know this was here until i pulled the body off, very well hidden. and after several days of drilling, banging and swearing. didn't really want to pull these things off, but I'm glad i did now. these are made of thicker metal like the bumper mounts, badly pitted but should be able to be reused after a sand blast. and after a quick grind to see what I've got to play with. cheers!

so photobucket is being a dick so I'll post up some better ones soon. Ed came round on friday night, roped in a car guy neighbour and the three of us lifted the shell off the chassis. floorpan is in tip top condition, stoked! world biggest skateboard! now shit gets real!

Just another amazing vw resurrection by a young fulla in aussie. form this (the yellow one) to this (mock up) to this. http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=101897&page=1

So i finished this up on the weekend. I wanted to build one like this but.... the body and indeed the cart need to be high enough to clear the tyres, about 64cm, but as my old skyline shed is only 7 foot from floor to ceiling, which means I can only raise the shell about 60cm before it hits the roof. The answer is that the wife should just keep that bloody honda outside! but at 13 years old I'd rather it stay under cover as much as possible, at the speed I work it will need a full resto by the time the bug is finished! The real answer is i need a tool shed to move all the lawnmower, wheelbarrow, bikes and assorted other crap in, A work mate has a awesomely large one he wants to get rid of, but it's way the fuck over in Howick, and i don't have the space sorted for it yet, soon my pretty, soon. Also got some steel to brace the shell, another box of woodstock for the boys across the road. I'm hoping to save the sills, but just in case. Car looks like this now. found this, the bottom hinge on the drivers door has been ripped off and welded back together. removed all the body to pan bolts, the big square washers under the sills have that gold coloured anodizing stuff on them, should have done the whole car! they are still mint and shiny as. notice one of the big allen head bolt is missing up the top? this is what it's friend looks like, it's just spinning while making crunching sounds and dropping red dust Ah well all the others came out pretty easy.

carefully! very easy to damage the surfaces. use one of these http://vwparts.aircooled.net/Oil-Pump-Puller-Type-1-p/7014.htm undoing the case half's will help?

front screen is out. not very pretty, but not as bad as I thought the entire bottom edge looks like this, looks like all the spot welds were drilled out at some point then quickly welded back together? this is how the water was getting under the dash, in a couple places the holes have not been sealed up very well. There is damage, and or course rust! gave it a quick wire wheeling, a huge bit of bog came off here. not so much rust in this side, but man the bog was thick! Upon further examination, it would appear that the scuttle panel has indeed been replaced before. Damn PO steeling my thunder! Also found rust hole half way up the pillars, past the patch job. This thing must have been so fucking rusty under that screen seal! from what I can see so far it looks like both corners on the front screen have been repaired/replaced at come point with some quite nice homemade patches, the weld has been ground down a little, you can see it in running across on a diagonal, then covered in several mm of bog, which is fine, but all these holes in the bottom lip have let water under that bog, which is not good. I pulled all the door and side glass also, only a few small holes under the rear left side window, right side is mint, door have been "converted" to one piece glass back in the 80-90's as was the fashion, quite badly done, like the quarter lights where just ripped out, so these will need some work, also the drivers side door has had a very hard life and will need the hinges fixed or replaced.