My 65 split bus

me and steve have been looking at light like that, chevy bullets, for the hot rod and that one would have been ace(if it was a pain, ) well done dude they are well nice.

Cheers bud, have you seen the rear chevy lights would look cool as on the back of a rod

Picked up my new autocraft windscreen repair panel yesterday. So thought i'd make a start on fitting..

Stripped the front apart and measured it all up..







Then made cut the old out.



Spent ages trying to get the panel to fit right it just wasn't right, then in the end i had to slice both sides of the front panel so i could reshape it slightly due to the front panel being fitted badly.



Fresh metal ready to go in..



Clamped in place..

Thats better

And then it starts raining

britain that says it all

thecrewkid wrote:

And then it starts raining

Tell me about it.

Fair play ....looking well cool ,auto craft panels are by far the best quality....bought mine from them,worth the wait

Cheers Steve i just can't wait to get the old dog back on the road.. The panels was a pretty good fit not perfect but hey i don't care

A few spot welds to hold it in place to check fitment ect.

Then i finished off all the spot welds.



Here it is all welded and sanded back, really happy with how well it fitted.



Oh and fitted the safaris back in as well

Damn, how do you get all that done so quickly?

Looks good

1584cc wrote:

Damn, how do you get all that done so quickly?

Looks good

Cheers Mark, i put it down to the fact i have no garage so gotta work faster to miss the rain..

Gonna do the outer sill tomorrow if the rain holds off long enough for me

looking great considring we was round the smorning aand youve done alot spot on dude

itsabuglife wrote:

looking great considring we was round the smorning aand youve done alot spot on dude

Cheers Sam. Yeah you 2 did hold me up a bit yesterday but than i'm used to Carl doing it


Outer sill work is a gogo

The outer sill wasn't to bad really but it needs sorting..



New outer sill and strenghtener.





Something missing

Good work, .... I'm also the 2000th viewee of this thread!

Thats your claim to fame is it then buddy

There we go all finished..





And the battery tray is finished as well



Just the o/s cab floor to do then thats al the welding done

For the last week in the spare bit's of time i get i've been tackling the bodywork, which is coming alone nicely if i do say so myself , if things keep going as they are and the weather holds out she'll be in primer on the weekend

bugger me dude top work.....you certainly dont hang around

kool may have to bring gem up and have a look see

spennyp wrote:

bugger me dude top work.....you certainly dont hang around

you certainly don't, and real quality job too .....what colour are you spraying it,are you spraying it yourself??.........how long before its on the road dude??

Cheers guys......


Anyones welcome, at nearly anytime, at nearly anyday the kettles never far from boiled so you'll get a drink as well. Or theres always a cold one in the fridge

i back that up frizz makes a good coffee

nomates wrote:

spennyp wrote:

bugger me dude top work.....you certainly dont hang around

you certainly don't, and real quality job too .....what colour are you spraying it,are you spraying it yourself??.........how long before its on the road dude??

I'm gonna run it in primer till we get some warmer weather then i'm gonna paint her myself on the drive in greycan't remember the code but you know the colour alot of vans are done in it....

As for being back on the road, if i get her in primer this week/weekend the the weekend after i'd hope to have the engine and box back in and back on the road

Cool dude ....can't wait to see her back on the road again....do you find that painting on the drive causes problem with over spray ect.....or do you make a temperary spry booth........i have access to massive sheets of poly if you want dude??

he dosnt worry about over spray the neighbours love it if not tough

I've painted about 10 cars on this drive and only 3 times they've been covered but i'm gonna be building a temp booth again for this one.. Cheers for the offer bud

dubberatlast wrote:

he dosnt worry about over spray the neighbours love it if not tough