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Post by Walter Glaser on Jul 17, 2016 2:45:41 GMT -8
Well i thought i'd start a thread on my car
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Post by Walter Glaser on Jul 17, 2016 2:50:10 GMT -8
Gosh i hate forums, i can't even work out how to insert a photo - stuff it
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Post by Walter Glaser on Jul 20, 2016 1:28:50 GMT -8
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Post by Walter Glaser on Jul 20, 2016 2:10:29 GMT -8
When I saw it something was wrong. I measured all the diagonals and they were all out. Must have had a massive accident, so we stripped some panels back to bare metal to check it out. hard hit, bad repair, lots of bog hard hit, bad repair, lots of bog hard hit, bad repair, lots of bog rear 1/4 wind has massive gap at bottom and does not touch rubber very hard hit and bad repair at from of 1/4 even dash has creases old rust repair bootfloor at back still has creases from old accident
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Post by Walter Glaser on Jul 20, 2016 2:42:10 GMT -8
interior stripped out Then we worked out the car was originally white and had a brown interior
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Post by Walter Glaser on Jul 20, 2016 2:48:50 GMT -8
After more than a year I finally took it to the body shop
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Post by Walter Glaser on Jul 20, 2016 2:52:41 GMT -8
The body shop, sydney vintage car restorations SVCR, took the front guards and nose panel off. Bad old damage not repaired on the LH front, badly done rust repairs on the RH & LH fron pillars.
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Post by Walter Glaser on Jul 20, 2016 2:54:57 GMT -8
Either we repair the current body at a great cost or get a better body
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Post by Walter Glaser on Jul 20, 2016 3:02:36 GMT -8
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Post by Jürgen Klein on Jul 23, 2016 6:41:32 GMT -8
Hi Walter , is this the actual situation or have you done some work on this car-mix now ? Greetings from Germany Jurgen
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Post by Walter Glaser on Mar 18, 2017 18:32:57 GMT -8
Hi Walter , is this the actual situation or have you done some work on this car-mix now ? Greetings from Germany Jurgen Hi Jurgen, mate i am so sorry for the late response. I completely forgot about this my thread. I will clarify in the next few posts.
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Post by Walter Glaser on Mar 18, 2017 19:26:47 GMT -8
So back in June dropped off the body to the body shop, "Sydney Vintage Car Restorations". I was excited. Then when we put the new body next to the teak Karmann T34-1, I could see the following extra issues needing rectification: * The front and rear guards were flared. I am not interested in custom stuff, it's got to be a stock body. Shit more work. * Out in broad daylight I could also see the engine inner guards were also really butchered to fit custom brackets for the porsche motor More work again. F@#k!$g Hell! * the rear engine tray was gone, ok we could use the the tray from T34-3, problem was when the cut the tray from the car they must have used an air chisel and damaged the rest of the body. I did realise these needed fixing * The dash was removed, I can live with that, I can swap the dash from T34-1 * Front blinker lights welded up, minor work, cut out back to original * Rear apron butchered to fit some sort of custom taillights, not too bad because the T34-3 has a rear apron that seams OK, we could use and weld in. * LH & RH rear quarter panels modified for the custom taillights, not too bad this can be repaired with some new metal, oxy welding and hammer and dolly work However * The front guard had a petrol filler neck cut into it. I thought this was part of a stock volkswagen model change just like on the 1969 type 3's. I thought this was possible a '69 body. Boy was I wrong. This project is going from bad to worse.
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Post by Walter Glaser on Mar 18, 2017 19:39:33 GMT -8
Man, i need to see a psychiatrist for some counselling. They are too expensive. What can I do? I go see Greg who sold me the body, how can he help me? Well he has another really, really rusty T34, which he says I can use for spares. Great! So one Sunday morning in September he organises his friends Dick & Brad to help strip the rusty T34 down, I ask my mate Joe the my specialist VW mechanic who knows all these guys as well to help as well. So we pull it apart. All the boys help, given Brad's trade experience, best he gets the coffees and bbqs the bacon and eggs. I am a panel beater and haven't picked up tools since 1992, so back on the tools which feels really good. So now I'll call the rust bucket T34-3. A very very special thanks to Greg Jones.
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Post by Walter Glaser on Mar 18, 2017 20:06:27 GMT -8
So this karmann T-34-3 was originally sea blue.
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Post by Walter Glaser on Mar 18, 2017 20:31:15 GMT -8
So i drop the T34-3 off to Sydney Vintage Car Restorations (SVCR). Slight inconvenience they are 3 hours drive away from me. Gill who owns SVCR, looks on in horror at the body. Now he has 3 T34 karmann ghias at his shop, he's not that happy about it.
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