2003
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Adapting repair panels and painting the new nose on our Bay

Part 5 – lower outer valence to finish then paint


In the final part of our series of blogs we cover how the current repair panels do not have the frames for the lower indicators that epitomise the styling of our 1971 Bay window. Read the rest of this entry »

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1975
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Here we detail the crucial stage of wleding the nose panel onto our Bay project Havasu

Part 4 – reproduction nose prepped and welded on


Reproduction nose panels are mass produced in Brazil and need a fair amount of work to fit an earlybay Bus, here we detail what mods we performed and how we made our panel fit our Bus. Read the rest of this entry »

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1957
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A guide to replacing a common rust area on VW buses – a challenging repair

Part 3 – rebuilding our lower inner valence


Part 3 of our guide to repairing and replacing the metalwork on the front of a bay window bus – with the old nose cut off, the rusted areas cut back to good metal again we can start making good. Read the rest of this entry »

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1932
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Guide to the differences in a Brazilian LateBay nose and a German EarlyBay nose panel

Part 2 – cutting the old rusty nose panel off our earlybay


Although from Arizona – one of the hottest places in the US, our bus needed repairs to the lower nose panels. Here we show how we undertook that repair in a series of blog posts. Read the rest of this entry »

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1914
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Here we show how we set about restoring the nose panel on our Westy

Part 1 – replacing the nose panel on our VW Campervan


Reproduction nose panels only exist for later Bay windows – ours is an earlier model with the low indicators and flat badge area. This is how we replaced ours. Read the rest of this entry »

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1879
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If you find pop rivets and sheet aluminium on a VW Camper something aint right

VW Camper restoration – lets look at the nose of our Bus Havasu


So having jumped in and driven over 3000 miles across and America and in and around the Smoky Mountains a closer inspection is required to the rust condition of our VW Camper… Oh dear Read the rest of this entry »

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1862
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Sweetwater TN to Cornelius NC via the Great Smoky Mountains and hillbilly country

Day 8 – US129 The Dragon in our VW Camper


We were on a mission to get to the end of our journey – which for us was Lake Norman in North Carolina. The final challenge was choosing how to navigate the Great Smoky Mountain – via the Interstate or a seemingly more direct route and some twisty roads. Read the rest of this entry »

 
1764
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From Grants NM past Albuquerque and into Amarillo Texas

Day 4 driving Route 66 to the Big Texan Steak Ranch


We weren’t that enamoured with the KOA in Grants – there seemed to be an atmosphere of using this site as a stop over on your way somewhere else. Leaving Grants, a former Uranium mining town, we set off for the Rio Grande and Albuquerque – the largest city in New Mexico. Read the rest of this entry »

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1744
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Leaving AZ and onto the arrow straight roads of New Mexico – day 3 of our Route 66 trip

Route 66 from AZ to New Mexico


Route 66 – sometimes called the Mother Road of America is one of the original US Highways spanning over 2000 miles from Chicago to LA. Here we travel from Flagstaff Arizona to Grants in New Mexico. Read the rest of this entry »

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1720
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Roadkill cafe, a broken down Campervan and a wonder of the world

Route 66 – Day 2 The Grand Canyon


One of the wonders of the world – The Grand Canyon. Difficult to describe the shear size or scale of this land formation – you have to see it to believe it. breathtaking. Read the rest of this entry »

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