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Just read your whole thread, looks like your doing a quality build! Love the rendering! What year is your wifes VW? Mine drives a 73 Its her first stickshift shes still learning.....pretty funny to watch actually.

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Nice job !!!!!!!!!

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Your progress is looking great. Keep it up and good luck with it.

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Great build, I gotta come see you soon!

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thanks guys!!! still a long way to go...
i don't get much time to get on the site during weekends and the home computer is slow and makes funny noises. but to finish the February report here is the interior colors so far. Some may not like the dash color but give it time it might grow on you. kinda of a metallic chocolate with a bunch of flattening agent dumped in. the floor and walls are fawn beige and i think it will work with the dark razorback red exterior and black top.

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her's is a morph of a 67 convert and a 68 baja. there is about 30 body mods so far with added louvers, shaved handles and wipers and all windows. the windshield was chopped 2.5" and a 40 ford divider bar added. has a disc brake suspension from a karman and a 1835 crate motor.
totally a fair weather car. thinking a full tonneau cover with zip-out driver area.

anyway it has been kicking my butt in the time department but it's what she wanted and what can i do, she is in charge of the groceries, and you gotta eat.

here's a couple of quick pics so you can enjoy my pain... and sorry about the off topic vehicle but i'm thinking some of you guys like the bugs.

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its been almost a month and March was another beautiful one here in the Ozarks. had pretty good progress this month and its time to update with news and views.

got 2 gals of razorback red paint. the paint store had the formula pre-figured out. i guess when you live in a college town, the school colors are a given...
the first color was laid down on the firewall so some of the fun assembly stuff could happen.

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noticed on the engine install that the top of the turbo 350 touched the flange between the firewall and the floor tunnel. i don't know if most of you guys grind down that flange or drop the trans a little to miss it. but with standard mounts and crossmember i was definately having a rubbing problem. keeping in mind that the intake needs to be as level as possible I opted to use a junk crossmember from the parts pile. trimmed it down and drilled for chevy mounts. worked great... but now my chevy has a ford part.

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the fender rear braces is one of the places where the years show up on these trucks. both mine had a collection of mud, road-tar and wasp nests in them. I STRONGLY DISLIKE rust, my wife tells me not to use the hate word... and then she says 'its metal, you can fix it". cut... blast... weld-thru primer... and stitch it up.

every part on this one needed blasting. must have been on a lot of dirt roads in its past. oh yeah, this is arkansas...

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Wow Thats gonna be one neat bug! Gotta keep momma happy;)

If you didnt say anything just glancing at the pictures i thought you just took a stock crossmember and drilled the rivets and took the up right mounts off...

looking good Clem!, looking forward to more updates!

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it's been a while since an update, but we've been busy.
lots of body work...

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got the cab to paint after many hours of bodyfun. i can't remember when i have laughed out loud so much. nothing like the smell of lacquer thinner in the morning and nothing better than an air file in your hand. sorry about the sarcasm but bodywork is the least fun way to spend a weekend. if you're lucky, the result will be worth it.

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got started on the seat this weekend. blasted and etched. took apart a couple of seats to get extra springs to stiffen up and replace rusted or broken ones.

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That's looking nice! I've got similar plans for my baby, so it's nice to see yours looking so good.

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Looking great man. I drive by your place daily. Always wanted to just stop and gawk!
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great work man!! looks like ur many hours of bodywork paid off!! that paint turned out great

btw do you have some more of the spare spring peices to the seat??? im bout to redo my seat and i need some of those.
If you do i will buy them if you are willing to ship them

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yeah, i've got a few seats for parts. just let me know what you need, maybe e-mail a pic of your damaged area. the part that is always bad is the outside kick-up and supports. i made them from other seat bottom springs. cut and did the basic shape with 4 different pieces. welded the pieces together with clothes hanger rod. the hanger rod is to help keep the spring steel tension. don't know why, just heard thats what to use. plus hit the pieces with cold wet rag while hot.

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just noticed where you're from... my home town.
i'm over that way occasionally to see friends and family. give you a shout out and maybe, delivery on the springs.
clem

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The work is coming along great. Its going to be one sharp truck when your done.

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stop by anytime. do you drive your old chevy when you come by?
like to see it....

clem

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heres the seat frame on the way to the upholstery shop. going to do a version of the factory red seat. replace the black fabric with a black textured vinyl.

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heres another shot of a pile of red parts. they're everywhere around here. all the painted stuff gets wet sanded with 600 and another trip to paint. always some dust and a few bugs doing their death dance in new paint. sand it out, smooth away orange peel and re-coat. i usually do a 3 coat walk around and let it cure.

also a close up of the wheel... i like to paint after mounting and balancing so the lead weights get color too. before mounting tires i sandblast the wheels, then fill rust pits, sand and prime.

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next challenge... shroud.
not sure how to get the mottled look of original fiberglass. this shroud is in great shape for an original. no cracks or deep scuffs but a lot of oil stains and fan belt etching. tried sanding and buffing, not much help. don't want to but i might have to paint...

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aight cool sounds good!! ive still gotta take the cover off of the seat to really find out what all springs im gonna need. Ill hit you up when i figure out what i need. thanx!!!!

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nice build looking forward to the final product! Paint looks awesome