Decisions

greenbus · Post by **greenbus** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 4:20 pm

Looks awsome!! Can't beat the look of og paint!!

Frogsta · Post by **Frogsta** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 10:01 pm

That's frig'n'loud in real life....Eve-L.
Bound to see you around soon.

flamed splitty · Post by **flamed splitty** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 11:47 pm

ah ha the old girl does go a, got to love those flames.

flipflop · Post by **flipflop** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 8:32 am

Hey Guys

I'm hoping to be done by the end of the year, you still on for that time, Dean? We should have a out of the garage meet down at Moffs or somewhere.
Frog, you're banned from bringing the 21, it's too nice, too complete and stock and it will make my battered blue, primer and bare metal chickencoop look like something out of Scrapheap Challenge!

It's not that loud, after hearing a harley tearing along Caloundra rd, I reckon a stinger is legal! Dean, you can have the stinger when I'm done, run your carbs a little rich and you'll have all the flames you can handle.

Karmann1 · Post by **Karmann1** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 8:52 am

That's awesome flip. love the video.

Dan.

flamed splitty · Post by **flamed splitty** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 8:49 pm

going for cosmetic surgery at the end of the month (the splitty that is) so maybe the end of the year,or not.

Cruise sounds good when shes all go.

kombi1976 · Post by **kombi1976** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 12:58 am

That motor sounds totally HORN!!

And the flames are to die for.
Sorta reminds me of the rod that the leader of the Scorpions had in the movie Grease.
Except it's a Splitty Panel so it's cooler.

flipflop · Post by **flipflop** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 5:36 pm

After all this time I have half a roof to do and then tidy up all the edges and stuff. Look like this side was sanded a bit more to either get the logo's off before spraying or keyed, but there's a bit more primer and bare metal. I may try and paint match the worst bits or just run it as is under either wax or a matt clear coat.

crewcabconnection · Post by **crewcabconnection** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 6:46 pm

just gets better and better.

kombibob · Post by **kombibob** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 6:52 pm

wow big job but looking great!
must be a great feeling seeing that original paint coming back to life after so long.

FrankenCab · Post by **FrankenCab** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 6:55 pm

cool as , looks good with the brms

Leroy · Post by **Leroy** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:53 pm

Wow! Hats off mate, that is a huge effort. Looking forward to seeing this thing at the next show.

flipflop · Post by **flipflop** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 11:53 am

It's been forever, but I've finally dragged the thing out of the garage needed to swap vans around.
It's taken a little longer than expected, I knew the outer sills has been replaced because of tears rather than rust. Whoever did it decided to do a lap weld without the lap, the sill is welded behind the existing body panel, so they used bog 1/3rd of the way up the van and then went around and did the cargo door bottoms and doglegs to get it to match up.

Taking filler out while trying to preserve all the dove blue left was a nightmare. I've bare metalled the sill and left the dodgy lap (not) weld visible, I may even leave it as it stands. There's more bare metal patches than I thought, but it was a hard working van for a lot of years. I even have a bullet hole in the front panel that ricoched off the heater post and jammed the little rotating bit inside the cab (bloody yanks and guns).

All the little red dots are stone chips with the first of many paint coats still in there, that's how they'll stay

You can get a turd to shine, sort of.

Gave it a quick hit with the polisher and really fine abrasive swirl polisher, I didn't know how thick the paint was, but it seems pretty good for 52 years old.

Got a to finsh off putting the ancilleries on the engine, fit discs front and rear, polish the new wheels, the front and rear safaris need rechroming, along with handles, make interior panels and restitch the bench seat cover. looks like the 70 deluxe is the only driver for a bit longer.

warb · Post by **warb** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 12:12 pm

Dutchy · Post by **Dutchy** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 12:42 pm

havent seen this thread before, all that HARD work has paid off. 1 tough panel