That's a bit better...and a lot cooler inside the shop now with the sun hitting the cedar instead of the shingles on the walls. Going to soundproof the back wall next as the neighbors behind us were complaining. The speakers I put together and the rest of the sound system isn't too big and everything is pointed towards the end of the driveway, but I don't want to piss those people off if they can still hear it in their house.

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Any updates?

Very little. I put some Porsche style door pulls on the front doors and have been sanding the interior mid- and rear-sections getting ready to paint them. That's about it though. I've been too much of an audio whore the last few months. I'm going to take a break from that soon though.

I've been steadily sanding and prepping the rest of the interior to paint it.

Got some welding done this week on a bar for the rear seatbelts before I clean up the last of the firewall inside and the floor. Powder coated it today and did a test fit. I ran out of CO2 gas a while ago and have been using flux core wire. Doesn't look quite as pretty, but not bad. Took me a while to put speed holes in the bracket with my bench punch, but of course would've taken considerably longer drilling the holes.

You can see the paws of my helper there up on the shelf, :).

I got a break from graduate school and managed to get the rest of the interior painted and clear coated. Onward.

I have two more side windows restored and put back in. Going to pop the rear wheels off and replace the e-brake cables and go through the rear brakes.

I was in France with my family on vacation last week. We rented a Twingo. Damned thing couldn't get out of it's own way, but the rear-engine configuration was kind of cool as a balanced car through the mountains. No torque steer at all. Also went to a shop near Montpellier and bought a rally t-shirt. The shop owner was a sponsor of a recent rally there (I just missed watching it) but he gave me this plastic sign which was cool.

Anyhoo, also been sweating it out here in the dead of the Texas heat getting stuff done on the girl. Got some parts on order and put in a few interior panels, did the base of front seats with wicker, side door seals, my wife helped me sew a red limit strap for the side door, and put in one of the rear back-up lights (which are a bitch to put in!!!).

A funny story about the two little wood and brass rail shelves here, the one that sits behind the passenger front seat I bought years ago from I don't remember. Several years later I was in Goodwill and found two smaller shelves of the exact same design. :D

All three are finally getting mounted in the bus.

Looking good.

When I did the IRS swap years ago the lugs torqued down almost bottom out. I got some cheap 3mm wheel spacers, but figured it was time to cut some new spacers out of 1/4" aluminum plate with speedholes, powder coat the wheels lugs dark grey, then more panels and interior stuff.

Almost to the point hopefully when I have friends over and they look inside the bus they won't ask, "Are you gonna fix it up?" Sigh.

Anyhoo, also made a polished wooden shelf for phone to sit in the dash. Also saw this '54 Chevy wagon in Midland, Texas (Godforsaken place :rolleyes:) this week.

Got a little more done this weekend on the panels as my wife and daughter are out of town ;). Messed with the two interior lights for a long time yesterday until I could get them to work by cleaning up the connections and re-running some of the wiring.

Also picked up this afternoon the 2nd most powerful analog receivers Pioneer ever made in the late 1970s and sounds awesome in the shop now (it weighs almost 80lbs! :eek:).

More pics.

Seems to be almost no interest in this so going to find another forum. Probably because my bus doesn't have 6 pot calipers all around, turbo whatever, and carbon fiber ashtrays.

Anyhoo. It's been real.