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Some jobs are just tedious…  Does the car get most of its chassis strength through the roll cage IJ, or will this help as well?

Yep, a guy I worked for used to say “nobody has a mandate on good ideas”  And at least the wireframe as you say is setting the broad minimum envelope. Nice work.

OCD level 100

Hi mate, welcome to the forum.

Sure is!  Mines officially an “11 Window” Can’t really find a pic if exactly what I have planned. I think that’s a good thing!

Birdcage Maserati….

A little like this, although this is a 23 window Samba, whereas mine is an 11 window.  But more like this in the orange.

Thanks, Sands, yep had seen that one, I have to admit to becoming a bit of a Kombi youtube video junkie.  It’s great to see all the different style of builds there are.

This is not the greatest, but it sort of gives the vibe I want to go for.  I am going to go all polished aluminum window surrounds, all the side windows will be pop o…[Read more]

I certainly am going to!!  I actually want to purposely set amps and feed out either way, so he can show me what to look for and correct if that makes sense.  I have found once it’s set right I can do the thin panels pretty well, but when its off tbh I am just throwing darts trying to correct it.

Yea. I thought it interesting too. He has offered to come and give me a hands on lesson or two with mine, but your right it will be on my old bus.

That’s a very cool idea on how to do it, very smart indeed!!

Just out of interest, had a visit by a lad who is a panel guy on the week end who restores split window kombis (not just rat rods).  He actually uses 1 mm wire even on sheet metal.  According to him, a lot of it is in varying the distance from the gun to the workpiece.  I am not an ex…[Read more]

Thanks, IJ, will take a look.  My grandfather back in the day taught me as a kid to oxy weld.  Actually, I was OK at it.  I think that’s why I found TIG relatively straight forward.  Its sort of like an electric torch version of oxy.  Looking forwadr to getting the new welding helmet and having another crack

I think the first time you dummy drop the engine in, is a significant, beer cracking, happy “moment” in a build!

Yep tiger mica is so close!

This

Yea agree the rat is cool but not my thing.  Yep the colour combo is picked, ivory over a bronze/metallic orange that Ford did for the 5oth anniversary Falcon called Sunburst.  There’s a few similar colour, BMW have one too.  I keep coming back to the change is look with angle of the Ford colour.

Now the Senators almost done, can turn my attention back to the Kombi.  Plan is to order the panels, as it can take months to get some delivered.  That way late in the rear I am hoping to take 4 weeks leave and really get stuck into it.  Cooper lives not that far from me and is a Kombi specialist so he came around today in his rat ’60 van he ha…[Read more]

You nailed it, enough detail, and great to follow along.  Street Commodores forum was similar back in the day, I think a lot of people like to follow along but dont necessarily post.  I think it’s got a bit to do with FB.  That’s a good, quick and easy way for people to quickly post etc, forums are more about following along sort of like re…[Read more]

You nailed it, enough detail, and great to follow along.  Street Commodores forum was similar back in the day, I think a lot of people like to follow along but dont necessarily post.  I think its got a bit to do with FB.  That a good, quick and easy way for people to quickly post etc, forums are more about following along sort of like reading a…[Read more]