1968 Campervan conversion

[joaonar]

there was a few more things to do. One of them, was to remove the brackets from the front home made frame that was used to carry the spare tire:

 

[joaonar]

and once we were fixing the front bumper, we decided to fix them all...

 

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and the rear bumper:

my original splash panels....

and some acessories I bought at that time...

 

[Guest]

i love that spot very cool! what brand/make is it?

 

[joaonar]

Johnny, the brand is Unity.

3 years later I've got three more (total of 4 - 2 to use and 2 for spare parts) and the correct brackets to use on a VW Bus:

 

[Guest]

lovely bit of kit. i love the way it works from the inside

 

[joaonar]

on the following days we decided to finish working on the bumpers....

But there was still more to do. We decided to close this area under the drivers seat....

... and on the roof, due to the old cut, there was more welding to do.:

 

[joaonar]

I then took both bumpers to be sand blasted. The idea was to remove all the putty my father in law used to cover all the rust holes :|

 

[joaonar]

while both bumpers were sandblasted, there was more to do.
I decided to use a litle of sand paper to remove some rust from this area:

... and some holes to weld the to pieces together....

... and Vlad welding them...

and the seats area was finished...

 

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... some anti-rust ....

Some primer for protection....

 

[joaonar]

a day later and after removing the rear bumper we found out there were a few more rust holes... again where my father in law had "fix" it:

After removing the panels behind the front seats, there were some welding spots to do... After I used a degreaser but some of the new paint started to peel... :shock:
I removed all the paint that was peeling until it stoped :roll:
what a nice paint job... :evil:

 

[Guest]

its coming alone at a pace, nice work 8)

 

[joaonar]

thanks johnny...
but there was a lot of mistakes done at this time... and I made more, like the second partial paint job :|

next day and after getting the bumpers sandblasted:

 

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bumpers were now ready to be painted....

these parts were lacquered....

and some primer where the paint peeled....

 

[joaonar]

meanwhile I received a package from VWheritage with a new pair of splash panels... what a piece of brazilian crap! :evil:

another mistake.... a couple years later (2009) I ended getting a 2nd hand pair in excellent condition. I will never use this ones from vwheritage :evil:

 

[joaonar]

another acessorie from ebay.co.uk

and the new splash panels and the original ones

.. no comments!

 

[joaonar]

with the new partial paintjob scheduled in a week we decided to solve this issue in a better way

... was by then that I realized that all this was being done wrong and that it had started on the wrong side.
The restoration should began at the bottom of the van and not from the outside.
I have never done this before and knew nothing about it....
Anyway, I decided to go ahead with the second paint job.
It was a bunch of bad decisions, one after the other ...
:|

...and from the engine bay. I decided I had to fiz it later....

 

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next week, it was time to take her to the paint shop.
Vlad help me taking the pop top out again....

and already at the paint shop....

 

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and a couple of days later....

They forgot to paint the bumpers interior...

... so I painted it with the rest of paint left

I had much to assemble, again....

 

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next day: assembling day 8)

seats in place

.. doors in place...

I left these parts for later on purpose ...

I needed new bumper screws...