Bude, Cornwall......theres no point thinking of stealing my car, as Gav only has 50% of it, i have the other 50% here in warks :lol:

Seriously, you wont get better workmanship or service from anyone else 😎

found an old pic the previous owner posted, just to keep the focus going :d

Nice work as usual from Gav, I can't wait to see some paint on it.

Assume Rob you're only painting the repaired area's?

yer, just paint where needed and blend the repairs, wanna keep as much as the og paint as poss.

The idea from the beginning was to make it as clean on the underside as the topside :)

After deciding the running board mats on the car needed replacing, ive purchased some new beige ones, and also splashed out on some new chromes trims for them. should make the car look alot cleaner 😎

Good decision!

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thanks :)

i know alot of people like the traditional black ones, but after seeing Roy Wilsons colour coded ones i couldnt resist 😎

Damn; plan foiled 😛

Roy's car is a great car to aspire to; wish I had the dosh to bring mine up to yours and his standards.

small update, but being doing lots of little jobs that take ages.

firstly i had a bag of misc bits to clean up, so they all got de-greased and then a session on the wirewheel.......the horn then got repainted in zinc coloured paint



then the last bit of the original interior needed a slight repair, the rear door cards had some loose foam, and also the vinyl was peeling on a small section, so out came the glue



and finally, the brake fluid reservoir got sandblasted then a coat of paint



trying to get all the little time consuming jobs ticked off, ready for when the body comes back. 😎

another detail job completed, ive had some of the original decals replicated

^^^ nice detail.

Looking forward to seeing the painted pics from Pasty Land, can't be too far off now eh Rob? :wink:

thanks martin :)

not sure, Gav has a little metalwork to finish off in the drivers rear wheelarch, then its time for paint. Its being done around other projects to keep costs down.

Im so pleased with the work so far 😎

Well Gav has been reshaping and modifying the channels to make them look like originals.

An og heater vent has been grafted in, and the hump removed









the underseal has been scraped off the underside of the sparewheel well, and has been sandblasted along with the area around the tank supports







:)

Ha! So, this where you've been and what you've been doing.

Great stuff Rob. Really enjoyed reading this thread. Has inspired me to push through my hangover and get out in the garage and do a spot of work on my bus. Great stuff mate.

:)

i cant take any credit for the work to the body, its all down to Gav.

I saw it in the flesh at the weekend, im over the moon with the work hes done, all of the repairs are invisible! Should be back with me sometime this month 😎

so more work......gav has finished smoothing the heater channel, using an nos section







he also ran into a problem, as 65-67 rear bumper mounts are totally different, even including the inner wing section, so the hookeys inner wing panel i got had to be modded

notice the difference



so a section was used, and grafted in







and finished with some og mounts that are correct, which i bought off martin :)


next he moved onto the inner wing body mount. all three skins needed work











before and after


then an og mount i sourced was dug out and sandblasted






gotta use og metal where possible. repro panels dont even look right. and then with the mount fitted



more later in the week i believe. Gav is trying to get this finished very soon, as hes got a barndoor coming in from Oslo. Paint should be flying next week! cant wait 😎

I bare metalled the running boards, and threw away the old rubbers. Spent a bit of time straightening them before priming and painting them in satin black. Next the new sand beige rubbers will be fitted.

There's still a few '67 bits in my shed that you might want. let me know if there's anything in particular you're after - suspension, stock brakes, etc.

thanks Ivan, you have pm.

fingers crossed it will be finished for Volksworld Show 2011 😎

aiming to reunite the body and chassis on the 20th Nov fingers crossed 😎