Check out this bodywork

Damn, this is impressive. It's incredible the kinds of shapes this guy can make with just oldschool hammers, dollys, and sheet benders. Amazing work.

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=usetharch&action=display&thread=70135

Impressive!

I would hate to have to deal with a quarter of the rust they have in the UK.

Retro rides is the only other car forum I frequent. Their "Anything has potential" and if you don't have anything nice to say keep your trap shut guidelines make for a nice freindly group.

Really great stuff.

ditchdigger wrote: I would hate to have to deal with a quarter of the rust they have in the UK.

Heh. I still have to get used to keeping a closer eye on the mechanical condition of vehicles out here because I'm not used to the mechanical side of things going south before the rest of the car...

must be nice not buying cars based on how much MOT and tax they have left though.

It is. The tax part never bothered me that much, having grown up in Germany the vehicle taxes there are based on engine displacement so the UK taxes for the old stuff I had (which aren't really displacement based) always felt cheap to me.

The lack of a mandatory safety inspection out here just means you need to keep more of an eye on the safety-relevant parts of the car instead of just having a quick look at the state of the brakes and go straight on to looking for lots of rust.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGElSHzm0q8

ronholm wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGElSHzm0q8

yeah...buy my DVD and I'll show ya how

Jay wrote: Damn, this is impressive. It's incredible the kinds of shapes this guy can make with just oldschool hammers, dollys, and sheet benders. Amazing work.

That is really, really humbling.

I really want to learn how to do that sort of work. Maybe I shouldn't have gotten out of minitrucking :p

Do a search for the thread about the guy in SE Asia who restored a VW bus with little more than a few hammers and a O-A torch, making all of his own rust repair panels by hand.

I had a couple for friends that restored cars in the lower part of SC that, when I first met them, mainly used hammers, dollies and heat. They eventually got an English wheel. Sadly a few years ago, I learned that one of these guys and his father had both passed away. I bothers me to this day when I think about it.

The guy that died had hand-built a 1/4 scale MG TA. He would take it to shows and people would call him a liar when he told them he built it from sheet aluminum.

Ian F wrote: Do a search for the thread about the guy in SE Asia who restored a VW bus with little more than a few hammers and a O-A torch, making all of his own rust repair panels by hand.

Schwimmer replica?

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=389726

That guy in the original post is quite gifted to say the least.. I have read the thread... and checked out his other posts on that forum... WOW.. not bad at all..

Ian F wrote: Do a search for the thread about the guy in SE Asia who restored a VW bus with little more than a few hammers and a O-A torch, making all of his own rust repair panels by hand.

Here it is

http://www.vwrides.com/viewtopic.php?t=43

Still in awe of that

ronholm wrote: Schwimmer replica? http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=389726

That's friggen awesome!

But ditchdigger posted the one I was talking about.

I do love seeing threads like this as it gives me hope my crusty Volvo can be brought back.

That van build is pretty full of awesome...

In fact... there are a couple of the same pieces of steel being repaired in the van thread that were asked about later in the first link posted in this thread... They were asking the first magician how to shape stuff like that... Not sure if it the same people asking the questions... in fact I highly doubt it.. but still...