My turquoise eleven window bus

joshroom · Post by **joshroom** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 11:39 pm

Just having a go at uploading some photos of my bus, these are some of the better shots it is solid up top but most of the lower stuff is pretty cancer ridden inner outer sills doglegs front cargo floor outriggers all need replacement ill do my best to put photos up from time to time. peace fellas!

joshroom · Post by **joshroom** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:40 am

these are some pics of the repairs ive started to the cargo floor support rails/stringers. I just had some steel folded to the correct profile so i can cut it up to the lengths i need then plug weld the sections back to back and fold the ends at 90 degrees to mate up with the inner sills.

splitbus · Post by **splitbus** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 6:46 am

Nice work. Cheers, Mike

OMR_007 · Post by **OMR_007** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 8:32 am

mmmm shinny new steel

looking good mate, keep cranking, looks like an awsome solid base to start with.

kroozzn62 · Post by **kroozzn62** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:29 am

gotta love naked metal ,ready to get zapped

Kombi Trip · Post by **Kombi Trip** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:32 am

Very nice work, front seats (on the roof) look good. Can you post a pic of them too?

joshroom · Post by **joshroom** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:45 pm

heres a few pics of them seats 67 they are pretty hammered they will probably get the blanket treatment untill i can aford an upholsterer to fix em.

doveblue · Post by **doveblue** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 8:02 pm

lookn sweet,did it have deluxe trim on it before or are u puttn some on

whats the other bus u got hiden there

joshroom · Post by **joshroom** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 8:29 pm

yeah i would love some ratty delux trim if anyone has got some for sale,dont think i'd fork out for new repro stuff (as nice as it is) but i will need something in all those holes,i think it would be a shame to weld them shut. the other bus i think is a 63 standard 11, nipples, slash-cuts,and different rear arches its probably in better nick but its covered in layers of house paint.and I had already started this one i'd feel like i was abandoning him if i swapped.

doveblue · Post by **doveblue** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 3:18 pm

cool,put some photo's of the other bus up

joshroom · Post by **joshroom** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 8:42 pm

Finally got my bus around at the workshop. given another look over and found some pretty krook farmyard hacks but I'll put up some photos of them later. so I kicked off with some windscreen surround repairs that I had left hacked up about four years ago.
Passenger side was the worst but "A"pillar was solid.

tried out FC's tek screw trick, I'll give that a big thumbs up!

Drivers side a bit pitted so I replaced the worst of it. Again the "A"pillar was in great nick.

I'm not sure about a couple of things about this bus. Firstly, what year is my bus? 61? and secondly is there anyway of telling if the deluxe trim was dealer/VW fitted, going by the compliance plate? I was also told about a local dealer that used to paint their bus roofs (white paint straight over the factory colour) so it may have been optioned then. If someone could work it from these numbers and possibly shed some light on anything else I' be grateful.

Leroy · Post by **Leroy** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 9:52 pm

Good to see you back on this old girl! Nice clean work as always mate

nick62 · Post by **nick62** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:06 pm

My bus is this colour, and the roof was also painted white. I have a 62, this is a GREAT colour! Looks from the dash shot you do not have a fuel gauge? I think they started to fit gauges and drop the reserve tap in 62. What tail light setup do you have? Double round lights were not on 62-they went to the "oval" shape that continued through to round 71-72. wouldnt be hard to reference the chassis no. great bus!

joshroom · Post by **joshroom** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:11 am

the front floor had some rust along the lip that is spotted to the headlight support panel. Patched with some funky green donated by the munster boys (cheers gents)

also notice the bumper bar mounting nuts missing from inside the chassis legs.

welded in some new ones

replaced the "A" pillar bottom and rebuilt the RHS of the headlight support panel.

the front and rear chassis cross members were replaced with big "T" shape beams and plates welded into the inner sections of the chassis. I've started cutting them out but its gonna take alot of grinding to clean it up.

joshroom · Post by **joshroom** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:56 pm

did some more tonight. Pics are a bit dark I forgot to turn the lights on. I fitted left and right front outriggers.
drivers side welded in

passenger side welded in

A pic showin the profile of the big steel plates welded into the chassis.