12/29/2023 0 Comments Rekord buddy 2 transfer lock statusMark´s extremely stunning job making this original paint come back to daylight again won´t be spoiled by a full new paint. I will transfer the Samba to my workshop in Bonn by the end of April and, as soon as the Bus is home again, there will be another job to do before we can start the big assembly puzzle: the paint job! All of you know by now the Samba won´t be painted entirely new, don´t you? Only the new body parts that Mark welded in will get a new paint, all of the original substance found in the Eifel mud back in May 2017 will either stay rusty or will show their precious original paint that was hidden under several resprays. You can expect very frequent Samba news to come during the next weeks… Also, I am just preparing the necessary legal action for the Samba´s new license, because I want to drive the Bus on its own wheels to the Hessisch-Oldendorf meeting end of June.Īll this side kick jobs will be featured in posts showing up very soon. Some of them so rare that it is impossible to find anywhere, but we have to reproduce them. Plus, I am organizing the last missing parts. That´s because this section is still original material, but contrary to the Samba´s outer skin we decided to give the surviving areas of the chassis a proper paint to avoid future corrosion.Īt the same time Adam, Mark´s upholstery expert, is working on the seats and the interior panels and I am struggling in Bonn with the small parts as semaphores, fog lights, the fuse boxes, the pop-out windows etc. If you look real close you can see rust scars on the curved section of the chassis rail. Note that all red you see here is original paint! Strange point of view in the engine compartment. Isn´t it amazing? Now when the Samba´s body is assembled the precentage of original material seems to be surprisingly higher than expected. Where did the old license plate go? Well, it is in Bonn and it is awaiting a very special comeback, stay tuned…… It´s hard to see on the picture, but the entire body especially the roof is near the final stage and it was a lot of work in the winter…. Doesn´t this look great? The floor pans are in, that´s the most obvious progress since last autumn, but be assured Mark did much more than that. The floor pans are in now, the wheel arches are done, the cargo doors as well. Mark is currently working full time on the remaining body jobs, adjusting and detailing here and there, but as you can see on the following pictures, the Samba´s shell looks pretty complete now. Today we can announce that the body work of the Samba is coming to an end soon.
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