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Yet another long stint of no updates... but some work has been done on this project. The front nose piece gave me trouble when I mig welded the circle back in (the weld shrunk and warped the piece) So I purchased a new front nose piece and was very careful when welding the turn signal fillers...

So it's been a while since I've posted anything... It's also been a while since I've worked on the bus. But I do have updates. I finished up the left dogleg, finished up the front lower panels, and smoothed out the raised section on the nose piece. I ran into warping when I started welding the...

Then I dissected the outer and inner step and started piecing them in... with more fabricated pieces to make things fit better. It sucks that I have to cut up sheet metal that I just bought... but it will look a lot better in the end.

Here is my new left side lower step. I was excited to get this and the inner step piece in the mail, but excitement soon led to disgust when I started to test fit the new parts. First, I decided to fabricate a few pieces along the floor.

After a lot of clean up and new custom made metal pieces on the lower valance area... I'm at this point on the nose. Now, on to the left-side step area...

Another view of the nose-less Herman...

So I ordered some new sheet metal and started cutting... Here is Herman with his nose removed and the new nose at hand.

I unpacked the bus and started striping it down to see what has to be fixed... I also got to buy new tools. :P I thought I'd start on the area that looked like it would need the most work. So I took off the paint and filler to how bad the nose was from a past "bump".

So I obtained this 1969 Riviera Microbus in September 2014. He has been in the wife's family most of his life... and quietly resting in her dad's backyard for the last 22 years. It has a few war wounds that need fixing but the plan is to create new memories with him and the wife. I hope to...