Oh yeah!
These pics are pure gold!!!
These pics are pure gold!!!
WTB Ambulance Doors and Rear Clip
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- #84
Me, too.....
More sensical, thorough plans are evolving on the entire build and we all know what that means.
I peered from the edge of the rabbit hole from the first of August until now and, without even knowing the depths it extends into the dark abyss, I'm poised and ready to swan dive into it.
I spoke with Jessi tonight about fanning ambulance doors and he was thinking about cutting the tailgate in half, touting framed windows on each half and making them into ambulance doors. Nog sure how that would look but when I get back in town I'll sit down with him to try to get a better idea
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- #87
Your 1:45 away.
Considering the differences that I'd previously not taken into consideration and the short distance between you and a working model, it'd be prudent for either yourself, or you and body man to take a look-see.
The proposed would be a task and I don't know if the finished product would produce the results you're after. I'm glad I did not undertake the rear gate modification, having had a chance to see what is different, and I'm one of those that appreciates a challenge.
I'm now of a mind that, if the ultimate goal is to eliminate the powered rear glass and streamline waters' descent down the arse end, an upper hatch concept makes a thousand times more sense than trying to fab out of the rear gate....unless mimicking the OE ambi doors, which is possible....since anything with metal is.
If upper hatch is palatable, check out how WagonGear does the 80 glass. Thinking if the frame were white, something very similar could be adapted to the odd shape of the rear Pig opening, or could square off the upper jambs for sharper lines.
Lengthy post to say.....
If you're serious about ambi doors, you're more than welcome to come check out what I've got in Tulsa.
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- #88
The beauty, if that's how you look at it, of this forum is, there are many that are further down it and none are hollering back to throw the emergency chute.....more so, I hear a resounding echo
"JUMP IN....THE WATER'S
FIIIINNNNNNEEEEE!!!"
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- #91
If all goes as planned, which it hasn't since August, I should have the '76 body off its chassis and transplanted onto the donor '71 chassis by the end of December.
The '76 roller will be headed to Boulder to start the engine build and other items and the '76 body and rear clip headed to body, the latter location undetermined, as of yet.
That said, I will be taking a ton more pictures in greater detail in the coming weeks that, hopefully, will be as beneficial as seeing it in person. Will post up here, but, depending on body shop location, will be taking a thousand pics of the process to save for a future thread on how it was done.
The '76 roller will be headed to Boulder to start the engine build and other items and the '76 body and rear clip headed to body, the latter location undetermined, as of yet.
That said, I will be taking a ton more pictures in greater detail in the coming weeks that, hopefully, will be as beneficial as seeing it in person. Will post up here, but, depending on body shop location, will be taking a thousand pics of the process to save for a future thread on how it was done.
Chris,
I must of missed it, but what shop are you taking the 76 to, in Boulder, Co.
I must of missed it, but what shop are you taking the 76 to, in Boulder, Co.
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- #93
Robbie Antonson's.
If memory serves, it's Adventure Off Road. He'll be handling the Redheaded 2F (2F+3F+3FE) portion to the point of being driven.
Robbie is familiar with my borderline insane methods of doing things and I accept his say as definitive, so it should work out perfect.
Robbie is mechanical only, for the most part. No fabrication and no body work, so the initial plan is to separate the '76, so both aspects, mechanical and body, can occur simultaneously, then re-marry after, either here or Boulder.
That's the plan, anyway....
Weighing options on body work. Not that I'm unhappy nor have a bad thing to say about the current, because neither are accurate, but from a timing perspective, considering other options.
Britt has other builds that pay the bills and I fully understand how that works, as I did in the beginning, but the '72 may still be there come late spring, based on the paying customers and sliding scale, which I'm content with on the '72.
Like to get the '76 done before I go off the deep end.....or further off, one might say.
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- #94
Got a set of Ambulance doors in Costa Rica, comes with the car attached! Daily driver, very minor rust. 10k, 1200 to ship. Bill Sswampgass@gmail.com
Sorry, 9k for the ambulance doors in CR.
Pictures if you are going to come in talking like that!
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- #98
There's a thread in classifieds, but pics of the rig....since it does have the doors.
prime example of how the indented doors don't quite follow the pigs own rules for body lines^^^
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- #100
They are early doors and indented, in contrast to the later doors that aren't, along with the tail light difference.
Once again, though, it's a "focus on the forest or the trees" conundrum.
Should it matter that an earlier '76 US has a later non-US barn door set up?
No, but it's another prime example of the whole "staring at a madman" instance because, for some inexplicable reason, it does to me.
Think I can appease the voices by maintaining the earlier taillights, but if I there'd been an option for the indented doors, I would've chosen.
Once again, though, it's a "focus on the forest or the trees" conundrum.
Should it matter that an earlier '76 US has a later non-US barn door set up?
No, but it's another prime example of the whole "staring at a madman" instance because, for some inexplicable reason, it does to me.
Think I can appease the voices by maintaining the earlier taillights, but if I there'd been an option for the indented doors, I would've chosen.