My daughters 67 deluxe

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Perfect! Thanks ..I looked for that thread on there I knew it was there but couldnt find it or I was too lazy to go through 10 pages ....after the search.
I ended up doing all the top hats I beams..cross members.. on this thing
I will post some pics of my progress tomorrow

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A couple of weeks ago I was bored and not feeling too bad so I thought I would pick away at something on the bus
I figured the cargo doors were something I didn't have to contort my body too bad to work on so I began with those

I stayed old school and did not use any of my auto darkening helmets between the new bifocals and no auto helmet there was definitely a learning curve again. It didn't go to bad so I decided to lay out some of the metal that I knew I want to do

I originally planned on doing like most and not replace the whole tophat ..only the outer edge that is rotten but as I looked at it I thought it may be easier to replace it all..since I had some left over AC metal

Take a look at where the 3rd I beam should be ..there is a tophat there.. strange to me maybe its a 67 only thing

Anyways I took some measurements and started cutting then laid it all out numerous times and finally tacked it all in

Things were going pretty smooth so I figured I might as well work while the body is good

I predrilled a bunch of holes and Eric came over on Sat and we plugged some wire.

I am thinking of using this piece to repair the back of the seat pedestals for both sides

I know its not correct but couldn't care less on this pile

All in all it felt really good to get back at a project
The worst part was having to place an order for Green metal haha
Later

[SlashKirk]

Glad you're back at it!
That autocraft metal spoiled you...good luck with the green stuff

[Dual Port]

+1 here, glad to see you're back on it. Keep plugging away!

PS What color? I hope it's red/white.

[Six Volt]

Wow! That's a lot of work. It's great that it can be done and most impressive when some one actually tackles the challenge. Keep the pictures coming. Its a great project!

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Had a few good days out in the shop over the last couple of weeks I finished welding all the outriggers and Jack Points in solid. I got the inner rockers in and started looking things over to see how I was going to tackle lining up he cargo doors and cab doors. I knew it was going to be a lot of on and off with doors. I began by fixing the C pillar

I am a big fan of using trammels verses just taking measurements..Luckily there are enough extra holes all over this bus that I found a couple that I could use

I figured I might as well fix this first

I dup through some scrap and figured I could separate the outer skin and stitch this in

Once that was done I finished off the C pillar. The trammel made exact location easy enough

I moved over and took a look at the B pillar..well where the B pillar should have been I ended up having to add an extension onto the inner B pillar I was just about an inch or so short. I bent up a piece and tacked it together

I lost count of how many times I have had the doors on and off All of this end is just tacked as I am beginning to fit the cab doors and dog legs. I finished the short rocker I am pretty confident on the C pillar position.
I did a little test fitting of the cargo floors ...they are still half an inch short so I straightened out the end and rebent it

More dogleg and cab door alignment this week

[tferr]

+1 here, glad to see you're back on it. Keep plugging away!

PS What color? I hope it's red/white.

Sorry Bruce Velvet Green and white

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POR15'd

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One leg closer

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Did a little of work on the passenger side seat pedestal. It has some tough to get at rot

I figured I would start with the easy part I cut out the bad and made a cardboard template. Then cut the new piece and put a pressing in it and added the seat belt mount to the bottom

The other side of this pedestal is going to be tough to make I decided to move on to something that looks like progress

I had a full two days to spend out in the shop this weekend so I decided to tackle getting the nose back on I had a couple of small holes to fix on this really straight nose

Not a lot of pictures but I did spend 20 hours of on and off with the nose at the end of it all I had
reached a pretty big milestone in the rebirth of this pile. The nose is back on

Pretty happy ...now on to this

or the dogleg and drivers pedestal or the window rot...or the battery trays that were put in 5 inches too low, or the engine hinge carrier plate that was put in without nut plates