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Posted: **Fri Jan 18, 2008 7:53 pm**

finally got round to posting some pics of the bus.some of you will reconise it and know it but since i have had it i save gutted it back to a shell and starting from scratch with everything rebuilt/relaced a long the way,also added some extra windows now making a 13 window.The dreaded rot was everywhere so blasting was the go after months of welding and grinding the light is getting closer at the end of the panel work tunnel
hopefully over the next month i will be putting on the new side panels and finishing off the remainder of the panel work.
The underside is fully rebuilt with new metal and painted with the running gear back in

Posted: **Fri Jan 18, 2008 7:56 pm**

nice work, yeah i remember this one.. nice to see it's being done properly this time..

Posted: **Fri Jan 18, 2008 8:57 pm**

wow! is this the old fish bus?
good stuff looking good

Posted: **Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:29 pm**

haha the fish bus, glad you doing it right and giving the old girl justice, haha fish

Posted: **Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:31 pm**

this is what the inner front looked like before i started

after cutting away the old crap new inner & outer lower panels and door posts repaired its started to come together

new front skin and window screen apurtures repaired job done

Posted: **Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:36 pm**

this is what was left of the l/h door post

some of the pieces that were made to rebiuld the post

this is the finished job,done right no bog or fibreglass

Posted: **Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:48 pm**

underside shot,new front rear cross members,heater pipe etc

front section ready for beam

rear shot ready for gear box

Posted: **Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:30 am**

I knew it was full of rust but you sure found more than expected.
Is that a new nose skin and if so where from?

Posted: **Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:07 am**

Lookin good Surfbus, Those rust shots have similar characteristics to an inverted Violet Crumble..............mmmmmm!! oh, and love the detail

Posted: **Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:16 pm**

Surf bus thats exellent work very impressed......now this bus will last a lot longer.......good luck will check out some of your panels at Steve Hopkins think this is the only way to go cheers steve

Posted: **Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:40 pm**

Great work ...what happened to fishes other bus ???

Posted: **Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:47 pm**

yes it is a new front skin it was supplied by george at classic veedub,
as with all repro panels they need a bit of work to get them to fit and will need a fine skim over with some filler, but at least when you put a full skin like this on you have the chance to get rid of all the rust.We have done a complete front skin on another resto we are doing on a dsker's
ride and it needed the same work to get it to fit

Posted: **Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:33 pm**

does anyone know if a 66 13 window was made in oz.i have looked around and can only find a upto a 64 13window which was built in oz.were they imported from germany after that as i am unsure what vents would have been in it.If they made a 66 in oz it would have had 8 outward facing vents or if it was imported from europe it would have the 10 inward facing vents as we have started making the side panels and i am unsure which vents would be correct
cheers

Posted: **Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:48 pm**

Hoping you don't mind if I share your post

but on the same theme, my '62 15 window has 8 outward facing vents while others in Oz that I have seen photos of have 9 outward facing vents. Can anyone please explain this to me?

Posted: **Sat Apr 05, 2008 12:54 pm**

got some time on the bus today finished of the floor repairs ready to fit the side

trial fitted the side, ended up going with the 8 outward facing vents.
hopefully by next weekend i will have the side in,along with the dogleg.

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