KaMa's Aircooled VW

The countdown has begun for Splitbus Nation 2010
With only a few day to go and 76 registrered busses we can only hope for a nice weather and a lot of fun !!

See you all this weekend !!

Allready 38 buses from different countries registred
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Today i did the final work on the dash, started early this morning.
Gino's magic on the dash...very smooth now.

And again pulling the steering wheel, i've made a handy tool for that

I masked everything for some spraying

First some layers of filler

After sanding that again some layers of primer

And finally some layers of white paint

After the paint was dry I removed the masking tape and let it hard out for some time.
Then it was time for putting everything back in place.
Replaced the ashtray by a chrome one that i bought on Volksworld show.
The radio mounted in place...looks like a real dash now

I'm very satisfied with the result !

Since i bought my bus 12 years ago i always had a 'cleaned' dashboard, the previous owner had cutted a big hole for a modern radio  and filled the rest with filler...
Because i didn't know what was underneath i started by sanding the dash...i felt like an archaeologist

The clean dash...bad pic

Time for some sanding
my ashtray was stuck like hell...now i know it was because of the TEC7

As you can see, he messed up the total dash by cutting into the grill

So i searched a donor some time ago

 So did some cutting on the donorpart, and last Tuesday it was time for some action

Molested dash removed

Because i don't have a MIG welder my friend Gino helped me out, he's done lots of restorations and he's a pro!
Many thx Gino, couldn't do this without you!

Gino @ work doing some fine tuning

 prepare for welding

Spot welded

After some welding and grinding it is starting to look like a original dash again

Thursday...i did some filling and sanding

Took this back to Gino to get his opinion...and he did some magic to it !

To be continued...

A day to late...

Went for the first time to the volksworld show in Esher (UK).
Had a great time with the flatline lowriders!Thx guys for the invitation!!

Here are the pics...

First stop just before the french border..everybody in need for some coffee.

Arriving at Calais for the train to the UK.

checked in and stretching the legs

Time to head for the train

Ready for take off

Some of us started allraidy dreaming of the show...

Arrived and ready to go inside

Some nice cars on the parking

The Show

Auch

On the way home a stop at the Quick

Great day with lots of fun and nice cars, found some parts that i needed and bought lots of other stuff

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