{"id":2343,"date":"2022-03-26T21:05:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T20:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/?p=2343"},"modified":"2022-03-26T21:08:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T20:08:25","slug":"experienced-painter-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/?p=2343","title":{"rendered":"Experienced painter wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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today we can announce that the body work of the Samba is coming to an end soon. 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\u00b4s shell looks pretty complete now. The floor pans are in now, the wheel arches are done, the cargo doors as well. Doesn\u00b4t this look great?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The floor pans are in, that\u00b4s the most obvious progress since last autumn, but be assured Mark did much more than that. It\u00b4s 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\u2026..<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Where did the old license plate go? Well, it is in Bonn and it is awaiting a very special comeback, stay tuned\u2026\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Isn\u00b4t it amazing? Now when the Samba\u00b4s body is assembled the precentage of original material seems to be surprisingly higher than expected.<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Strange point of view in the engine compartment. Note that all red you see here is original paint!<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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If you look real close you can see rust scars on the curved section of the chassis rail. That\u00b4s because this section is still original material, but contrary to the Samba\u00b4s outer skin we decided to give the surviving areas of the chassis a proper paint to avoid future corrosion.<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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May 2018<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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March 2022<\/em><\/strong>


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May 2018<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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March 2022<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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At the same time Adam, Mark\u00b4s 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. Plus, I am organizing the last missing parts. Some of them so rare that it is impossible to find anywhere, but we have to reproduce them. Also, I am just preparing the necessary legal action for the Samba\u00b4s new license, because I want to drive the Bus on its own wheels to the Hessisch-Oldendorf meeting end of June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this side kick jobs will be featured in posts showing up very soon. You can expect very frequent Samba news to come during the next weeks…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00b4t be painted entirely new, don\u00b4t 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. Mark\u00b4s extremely stunning job making this original paint come back to daylight again won\u00b4t be spoiled by a full new paint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, the future paint job will be a very tricky task! Don\u00b4t blame me for distrusting the average car painter around the corner. This job deserves someone showing as much respect for the Bus and the project\u00b4s philosophy as possible and having extreme paint skills on the other hand. A job for you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seriously, I am searching for someone to do the paint job in my workshop while me and my team are working on the Bus as well. We have to hurry up to be finished by the end of June for Hessisch-Oldendorf, so there is no time to bring the Samba to you, you have to come to the Samba. The time table notices May 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0as the start for the paint job. You got the time, the experience and the right passion for this job? Drop me a mail!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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best regards from Bonn<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Florian<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dear VW-friends, today we can announce that the body work of the Samba is coming to an end soon. 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\u00b4s shell looks pretty complete now. The floor pans […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2361,"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions\/2361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}