Thing project.

Grubby · Post by **Grubby** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 7:00 am

Eventually ladies and gentleman, here are some photos of the Thing project which I have undertaken. Been a long time coming and will still take a while. As you can see it has a dodgy front end that I cut off. My apologies for taking so long on posting some pics, but here they are.

Grubby · Post by **Grubby** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 7:01 am

Ah crap, still not there, let me try this again.

Grubby · Post by **Grubby** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 7:41 am

Lets try this again. If this doesn't work now then I'm going call it quits!

Post by **Pine** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:28 pm

I LOVE it!

Your twinport manifolds will be in the mail tomorrow. I managed to get another (non-broken) set with the yellow buggy I bought on Friday, so you can have them and don't need to worry about welding anymore.

Now that you know how to post pics, keep 'em coming!

bugspray · Post by **bugspray** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:26 pm

Awesome man. Looks goode. What are the plans?

Grubby · Post by **Grubby** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 9:19 pm

Pine - you Sir are a scholar and a gentleman, and hopefully a fine judge of whiskey!
Bugspray - As for plans, the new pans will be welded in by the weekend and then I can get the suspensions put back on and get the chassis rolling. As for body work, is anyone a whiz with metal work? It looks like I'm going to have to build a new front end.

bugspray · Post by **bugspray** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 9:24 pm

Hmm metal shapers are few and far between, specially regarding old school aircooleds in durbz. Panel beaters aplenty, but artists not many. But maybe i could get you a few numbers, and you could talk to them, im a complete noob with Tihngs.

Grubby · Post by **Grubby** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 9:29 pm

Your help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. As for the panelbeaters vs artists, I couldn't agree more. When you come back down to Dbn drop me a PM and I'll at least bring my old man's restored Thing around.

Post by **Pine** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 9:46 pm

You are welcome, Grubby, thanks for the compliments

I know this may sound sad, but there is a group of WW2 enthusiasts in Bloemfontein who modified at least two Things that I know of to look like Kubels, in other words they replaced the square mudguards with round ones. This was done about 4 years ago, IIRC. It is a long shot, but maybe they can help? I found this site, perhaps you should try them?

http://www.sawavv-vrijstaat.co.za/ "

Dutch_Diver · Post by **Dutch_Diver** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:21 pm

Like it but a lot of work ahead!

dsan · Post by **dsan** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:52 pm

that is so damn cool!

Grubby · Post by **Grubby** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:48 am

Pine wrote:You are welcome, Grubby, thanks for the compliments

I know this may sound sad, but there is a group of WW2 enthusiasts in Bloemfontein who modified at least two Things that I know of to look like Kubels, in other words they replaced the square mudguards with round ones. This was done about 4 years ago, IIRC. It is a long shot, but maybe they can help? I found this site, perhaps you should try them?

http://www.sawavv-vrijstaat.co.za/ "

Thanks Pine, I'll check it out and get hold of them. That does look really cool, but I don't think Adolf was a big fan of Klippies!

Grubby · Post by **Grubby** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:49 am

Dutch_Diver wrote:Like it but a lot of work ahead!

A "kakhuis vol werk!"

Blitzkrieg · Post by **Blitzkrieg** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:21 pm

All that's missing is the SS Flag

Grubby · Post by **Grubby** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:48 pm

And the small Hitler moustache!

Aircooled VW South Africa

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