1957 hardtop daily driver project.

jfpvw · Last edited by jfpvw on Fri Jul 30, 2004 11:16 am; edited 1 time in total

i just bought this almost two months ago, amazingly local to me. its a san diego car, very solid. seems like it spent its entire life in socal, since the birth cert says it was delivered to LA. according to the po, it sat for a little while in san diego, before he delivered it up to northern illinois, where it again sat for 3 years in his garage.

the og color is L378 Prairie Beige. what are your opinions on that color?? here is a link to a car that color. http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=12466
my car would probably look almost exactly like that.

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here some dumb po cut a huge hole, and another moron put a plate back there and filled it with bondo. i scraped most of the bondo, and bent back the plate, ill take a drill to the welds soon.

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Skim · Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 8:12 pm Post subject:

Other than the dash hole travesty, the car looks pretty nice and solid.
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jfpvw · Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 8:58 pm Post subject:

thanks skim, i think im gonna stray from the prairie beige color, it looks kinda ugly. im not a big fan of coffee either, which is what it looks like. now im looking at L324 polar silver. that is a sweet color.
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nik · Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2004 2:22 am Post subject:

That's a nasty hole you got there. I dig the car though. How's the interior?
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jfpvw · Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 3:41 pm Post subject:

sorry nik, i must not have seen your question before. the interiors also fairly ratty, but im gonna re-do that anyway. here's the latest progress:

it doesn't really come out that well in the pictures, but with some filler, i think it'll look ok. certainly looks much better than before.
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HotRodedXXX · Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 3:50 pm Post subject:

That patch looks great. Hope it turns out well when you put paint on it. The dash was cut on my oval to Sad

speed holes · Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 4:08 pm Post subject:

Prarie Beige, Polar Silver, whatever, as long as it's not yellow.

The dash work looks like it's coming along nicely.

inksling · Samba Member Joined: September 25, 2004 Posts: 123

i really dig the yellow, my 64 nova was that color and it got a lot of attention.

i like it...
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jfpvw · Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 6:59 pm Post subject:

oh yeah, i hate the yellow. i've been thinking in terms of porsche turkish red for a while now.
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Bklyn63 · Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 3:49 pm Post subject:

where did you get the replacement panel?

jfpvw · Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 4:51 pm Post subject:

i got it from this one old vw outfit in wisconsin. it was about a 2 hour drive from where i was, and the price was much better than the internet-hyped prices here. pm me if you want his number.
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