71 Deluxe SA Import - used as it should be...

[windsurfer]

Sweet bus (as I said before) but the nicest thing about it is seeing your family enjoying it. That's the way it should be used :mrgreen:

 

[61 stu]

Sweet bus (as I said before) but the nicest thing about it is seeing your family enjoying it. That's the way it should be used :mrgreen:

Cheers bud, totally agree, its nice having a hobby but even better when my kids and missus enjoy it too, i think i might have brain washed my kids though :lol:

:mrgreen:

 

[windsurfer]

:lol: :lol: Excellent :mrgreen:

 

[61 stu]

My Mum always told me to never pick scabs.............

I never listened, ooopps

This is how it started, steadily over the past few months the front panel has been getting worse and trapping water, so i've started removing all the loose paint to stop it getting any worse and so i can repair it over the winter.

Before:

After:

Until i can get time in a booth to repair it properly i'll have to treat the surface rust and tosh a bit of paint at it. :roll:

 

[easy]

I would take off the front bumper trim and send it to me in case it gets damaged

Seriously tho, get it treated dooder, you dont want that getting any worse 8)

 

[gninnam]

Is it just surface rust at the mo (that's what it looks like)?

If so, good plan you have and keep us updated

 

[61 stu]

I would take off the front bumper trim and send it to me in case it gets damaged

Seriously tho, get it treated dooder, you dont want that getting any worse 8)

Thats a very kind offer :lol:

Thankfully its only suface rust so i'll get it treated as soon as and get some paint on it until i get the opputunity to strip the front panel and do a proper job in a booth

In the mean time it looks like 'I'm down with the kids' with the fake 'Ratlookhoodridepatina look'

 

[dubscum]

looks like its got a black eye, i like it

 

[61 stu]

Treated and thrown some temporary primer at the front, put in 'the' call to Slamwerks and ordered some new wheels from SSP, happy days :mrgreen:

 

[windsurfer]

So you're keeping it? :mrgreen:

 

[61 stu]

So you're keeping it? :mrgreen:

Yep what with one thing and another our plans have changed a bit so its going nowhere :mrgreen:

 

[windsurfer]

Good news, sweet decision :mrgreen:

 

[dagboyblue]

keeping the bus, going narrow and adding the bling - happy days 8)

 

[ant]

So you're keeping it? :mrgreen:

Yep what with one thing and another our plans have changed a bit so its going nowhere :mrgreen:

nice bus, good decision dude

 

[61 stu]

Cheers for the nice comments. :mrgreen:

So the idea was to leave the primer on over the winter and repair it properly come spring when i can get in a proper booth. Trouble is it looked crap and was bugging the hell out of me :roll:

So having treated the bare metal, a skim of filler, high build etch primer and some colour matched paint i got it looking halfway decent, its not been cut or polished yet but will add a little more protection.

By no means perfect (i may go back and add some stopper and repaint it) but considering i did it from cans, wet on wet, outside in December it at least looks less **** than it did :?

Just dont look too close

I'll do it properly come spring :mrgreen:

 

[flynster]

looks a whole lot better stu



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[61 stu]

Woohoo father Christmas has come early! :mrgreen:

 

[Grazy]

Get off the computer Stu , Get your tools out and get under the van :lol:

 

[slammedresto]

cool :mrgreen:

pm me ur address again stu, gonna be over my sisters in the next week or so

will be over for a sneeky peak and a cuppa if ur up for it

 

[BigG]

Thats going to look so sweet with those rims 8) 8) 8)

You ever want to sell those chrome beauty rings on your steels let me know