My 1971 bay project...

[Airtime]

Very, very impressive work, mister! :shock: 8)


Cool bug, btw! 8)

 

[Tofufi]

Thanks 8)

No more real updates I'm afraid. On saturday, my eye was a bit painful towards the end of the day, and on sunday it had got worse so a trip to the eye hospital followed. A lot of pain and they had dug a tiny bit of metal out my eye with a needle. :?

Anyway, this has put work on hold for a few days, although I have replaced the headlight bulbs for halogen ones (better than candles ) and I tidied everything up. Hopefully I'll get more work done after an exam I have tomorrow.

8)

 

[Tofufi]

Went out for a couple more minutes to work on the van today.

The results of the tidying:

Started welding up the drivers side C pillar, but my welder gave up rather abruptlys, so the outside isn't done - the welding tip snapped off inside the neck as I was trying to undo it. Also, the wire feed ate all the wire twice which didn't help too much.

As the previous pillar, I opened this one up to weld up the insides - still half of the outside edge to go...

Also, this morning I booked an MOT for the van - it will be being tested on the 1st June, giving me 28 days before I will (hopefully) be driving it to cornwall.
Fingers crossed :wink:

 

[Justin & Muttley]

...lot of pain and they had dug a tiny bit of metal out my eye with a needle. :?

Anyway, this has put work on hold for a few days...

And there was me thinking you were determined - call that an excuse?! :shock:

:lol:

Seriously though, I'm so impressed that you've done a complete roof swap - very brave and a great job too, mind you, that hole in the front panel looks quite bad!

 

[easy]

Dont forget to change that exhaust dude! Monza = NO! :wink:

 

[slammedkustom]

^^WHS^^^
Monza = BAD!

top work tho dude :wink:

 

[Scampi]

Did somebody say Monza :shock:

 

[slammedkustom]

yep, they is poopy!

 

[easy]

Did somebody say Monza :shock:

dont swear dude! :wink:

 

[Tofufi]

Justin & Mutley, the front panel is on the "to-do" list :lol:

Ez and everyone else, the monza is going as soon as I can afford to buy another exhaust... could be a while :?

Did a bit more work today

Hole...

Repair piece...

Tacked into place

Bent round and welded:

Now to do the outer skin...

welded...

Ground down:

Hole #2:

Welded.

Ran out of time as I'm off to work now

 

[gninnam]

:shock: 8) :wink: :lol:

 

[Tofufi]

:lol:


This evening, I finished welding the passenger rear pillar, before applying a bit of primer.
Only needs a small skim of filler to make it perfect

Big hole is the only thing left to weld on the passenger side top 24 inches...

Panel cut to fill the hole...

And finally, I got the passenger side inside welded up. Not quite such a neat job, but it will look fine when it's done

That's all for today folks.

 

[Scampi]

Progress is looking good dude and impressive!

V. 8) :wink:

 

[gninnam]

Still doing a blinding 8) job there dude - most impressive

 

[seabreeze2]

Inspirational dude, and so is your neighbour :lol:

 

[Tofufi]

Cheers guys - Seabreeze, I now can't work out if you mean the neighbour in the picture or if you somehow know Paul down the road :lol:

A bit of progress from today:

Remember this?

Repair panel trimmed and tacked into place:

Partially seamed:

Thought I had better check and see if the cover still fits... It does

Erm. Think this is the finished pictures.

Ready for some POR15 action to help protect from the elements.

 

[Tofufi]

Some work from today: Credit card fillering again

Could be tricky to rub down though

I hand made a repair panel for the sill below sliding door from the old roof skin (genuine wolfsberg metal )

And t'other side:

That's all I'm afraid, I went to play floor fitting with someone elses beetle this evening

 

[Tofufi]

Just a quick update:

the plan for sunday was to fit a new wheelarch tub bit (the bit below the seat) on the drivers side.

However, I got out there to find the panel I bought wasn't big enough. I'm gonna buy a new wheelarch to do the job properly

So I spent the day welding and filling the pillars. No pics of it though, I got a bit fed up

Hole:

Panel put into place, still a hole :roll:

Hopefully I'll go and buy the new panel tomrorow.

 

[Tofufi]

Been a while since an update, ho hum.

New panel:

Started removing old panel - below all the filler, it was held on with.... you've guessed it... Pop Rivets

Panel removed:

B pillar:

My handy helper Jo undoing some bumper bolts

edit: Picture removed before SHMBO attacks :lol:

Wheelarch held into place:

Unfortunately I was dragged off on a shopping expedition so no more van work today.

More to come

 

[Scampi]

Very impressive dude.

Keep them updates a coming :wink: