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Project Forums => ASF Member Projects => Topic started by: Lowrenzo on October 28, 2006, 05:56:50 AM
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Hi, here is one of my project, a poor 73 bus, bought in 2005 with 82.000 kilometers (51.000 miles), for 600$...
After one year using it, and 23.000 miles more, it was time to get restored....
It was like that:
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then the first job outside:
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The rust must go....
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So surprise.....
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img]http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/1383/od11rc.jpg[/img]
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And now, it's time to customize a little bit...:
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I want to change de frontlight for a pair of a split...:
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will be continued...
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good work mate. keep it up.
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The metalshaper continue, then we wan't to get this bus a little more \"oldies\", .....
before
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Just adjust!
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Rust paint....
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That's a good ajustment...:
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at end:
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Nice work! Keep posting the pictures!
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Thanks!
Also news, at the face:
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And work on to put it in 68/71 ...
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under:
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Rear works, to put rust at end, and to recover the rear lights...:
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from inside at the place of the battery
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And now, the fun!
the adaptation of 59 Caddy rear lights on the bus!:
At first, the lights:
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The steel in form:
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At start
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I pass on details, at end, it is looking like this:
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Now, we double the work:
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at end:
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Real crazy on a Vw bus, isn't it?
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