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first work on the body is done, we discovered that we had a different front, a 1960 front (dammm)

But no problems, we use the bottem of the this front en the upper of the old front and we have a new lakewood front

so little bit more time to fix it but it will be done = )
stay tuned Thanks Ralf

Dit upgrade my home workshop today,

New better electric, new carpet, more storage and better light, Ready to build up my lakewood
Greetings Ralf

I like the lovely lady on the wall who will encourage you! *grin*

Gregory_Miller wrote:I like the lovely lady on the wall who will encourage you! *grin*

SSST one more to come, to "hang on te wall" stay tuned hahahahahaha

Did a upgrade on the workshop: Air and a sandblasting device :)
now i can go further with the Lakewood,

Stay Tuned Ralf

That is a great upgrade, sandblaster cabinet is super cool.
You will be ready when it comes back from the body shop.

I've got what looks to be the identical sand blast cabinet, it is awesome to have!

Good the here, hope it works well, the air compressor should holt it it is small but powerfull, next weekend i'll get some sanding material and try it out :-)

one week waiting mmmmh

I tried out the sandblaster and it all works fine :-)

Did not yet the complete rim, but you can see what i did and need to be done.
A lot of more parts needs te be done,

thanks !!

rustbucket wrote:

TikiRalf wrote:

rustbucket wrote:I love your Lakewood Ralf, keep the resto pics coming.
I remember seeing your car at a show when it was in UK

Cool !! you don't have any pictures taken from that show ?? i'll like some history pictures of my car :-)

thanks everyone for the comments and yes i'm back on the corvair now :-) hahahaha

And nice to have neighbours who also like a good beer CHEERS !!

I've sent you a message bro.

Hi Ralf, just thought I'd drop you a message as a follow up to my pm.
I sent the previous owner of your car an e-mail but no reply.
Looks like you making a great job there.

rustbucket wrote:

rustbucket wrote:

TikiRalf wrote: Cool !! you don't have any pictures taken from that show ?? i'll like some history pictures of my car :-)

thanks everyone for the comments and yes i'm back on the corvair now :-) hahahaha

And nice to have neighbours who also like a good beer CHEERS !!

I've sent you a message bro.

Hi Ralf, just thought I'd drop you a message as a follow up to my pm.
I sent the previous owner of your car an e-mail but no reply.
Looks like you making a great job there.

YESS!!!!! found it , realy great pictures SUPER !!!!!! thanks for it, they go in my "collection" of pictures of the car

Thanks for the time and energy to look for it !!

only pleased to help.
I thought I had a show photo of it myself but can't seem to find it.

Long time since the previous post, but stil working here on the corvair

We did some bodywork, new trunk and complete new front, from 2 frontpanels we fixed a good one. enjoy the pictures we moving on now to the floors inside the car.
Thanks Ralf

Excellent work... makes me want to get mine painted even more...

Always great to see some in-progress photos, Thanks!

Thanks CAD-KID

A lot of more pictures will coming in de next year(s) i think so