Where do I go from here with my 65 single?

[ryans65]

#16997

got my seats done, few wrinkles i gotta smooth but hey, it’s a truck

 

cut out that long side panel i was not happy with…. surprisingly easy to extract and will be nice to have a new panel in there

 

that is all for now

[Vwfool]

#17000

Making some good progress. Those seats look great

[ryans65]

#17001

thanks! what’s up with the shorty in your profile pic thing?

[C.Hamburg]

#17003

So you went and did it, you cut the whole side off. lol Nice work man!

I have the same covers in my bus. I used the horse hair pads but I should have put some batting material around the back and side tubes.

[ryans65]

#17009

haha! i had to, just didn’t sit right with me leaving that warped panel on. i’m going to clean up a few things “while i’m in there”

C.Hamburg wrote:

So you went and did it, you cut the whole side off. lol Nice work man! I have the same covers in my bus. I used the horse hair pads but I should have put some batting material around the back and side tubes.

[Vwfool]

#17013

It’s a another damn mini Type 2. These things seem to follow me home.  It’s a 1961 single cab.  Got it from a guy who has owned it since the early 1990’s.  I will eventually make a thread on it when I get a chance to work on it in the coming months and make some progress.

In the meantime keep cranking on your adult sized truck so I have some inspiration

[ryans65]

#17017

I’m trying! Should have some more work done this weekend. Need to fix the drivers wheel well splash panel thing and try to get this tar type stuff off the inside of the treasure chest that someone thought was a good idea to smear everywhere.

 

Vwfool wrote:

Pin the meantime keep cranking on your adult sized truck so I have some inspiration

[jp]

#17022

You learned to do a good job with the metal, and I’m sure you can learn how to spray primer.  I started with just water in the gun and practiced, then primer and paint is almost the same thing.

Nothing is perfect, just has to be ‘better than before.’  Keep’er going eh?!

[ryans65]

#17052

how do you practice with water? do you spray on something that lets the water soak in so you can see your overlaps?

[ryans65]

#17053

got this done yesterday, more projects to finish today!

[volksaddict]

#17054

Nice work! one bite at a time.

[Franz]

#17056

Be careful welding the side and supports on. Go slow, jump around and cool the welds.

[ryans65]

#17059

will do, do you usually quench with air or water?

 

Franz wrote:

Be careful welding the side and supports on. Go slow, jump around and cool the welds.

[ryans65]

#17076

took a heat gun to this tar mess in my fuel tank area. … i guess at some point someone thought it would be a good idea to stick some sort of tar backed plastic stuff under the tank and it just trapped water and debris in the ribs of the treasure chest floor where they didn’t stick the tar down good enough…. what a mess…. i have some floor sections coming to hopefully fix all this…. not going to be perfect but it will be better than this!!! i’m thinking a karosene solution will get rid of the rest of the tar

[John Jones]

#17080

making progress weekly!!!!  Keep at it…. Before you know it…. you’ll have it ready to move on to some color… 😎

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