Category: restoration
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the people have voted
tonight its time for this weeks evictions from the akciddento sock basket. and YOU, the public have voted. and the nominations are LONG BLUE SOCK SHORT BLUE AND WHITE BLACK WOOLLEN GLOVE and here is the blacl woollen glove waving goodbye as it goes off to the great sock basket in the sky. —- on…
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a lazy sunday…
captain venners called over to finish off the welding on the fugly so while he got stuck into that i did some quick electrical shopping at maplins… ten minutes later and i’ve got enough cable to plug the laptop into the ECU brain on the fuelinjection and secure the laptop into the harness on the…
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some tlc & more tyres !
getting my head straight after the vwaction show at the weekend and after a quick call to peter englezos at cogbox about the spec for a new transmission it’s off on a shopping trip in the bus, first stop protyre in bristol for MORE tyres. they’re nice people, helpful and have got a full lazer…
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good and bad…
spent the morning removing the rock n roll bed i put in last week and keying the frame ready to spray in blauweiss to match the interior. recovered the back of the seat back board so that when the bed is in seat position you dont see white formica through the back window.. got it…
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did you do this ?
here it is, the fugly 412 after a visit to mister MOT. investigating the ‘corrosion to o/s & n/s rear inner wheel arch’ i discovered that the MOT tester needed glasses. the ‘o/s & n/s rear inner wheel arch’ is made of expanding foam filler covered with p38 chopped strand. how could it be rusty…
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the fugly is ready !
for it’s first MOT, it’s booked in tomorrow lunchtime and i think it might be alright…. all the electrics are working, after a fashion… and most importantly, i cut all the jubilee clips off the front coil springs, that was entertaining, it now sits about 3 inches higher at the front. here is what had…
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opening presents!
just got a nice big parcel of TMI interior panels, ordered from Karmann Konnection in march. finally arrived today, new door panels, kick panels and long side panel for the inside of the bus. nice and shiny, no rips, no scuffs and no foot prints! that’ll last about a day ! Tim_BBB from the bristol…
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squirrels and curtain rails
the new t shirts are ready, with luck i might sell more than i give away at big bang… more rain, so i got down to serious race preparation on the samba. i spent most of the day fitting some silentgliss curtain rail. although it’s aluminium i know it still adds weight but i reckon…