- 1. Off to the body shop (score: 1)
- Author: "Harris Goodkind" <harris@lightspeed.net>
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:03:02 -0700
- Well, my poor little Bugeye is off to my friend the bodyman's! He has been hard up for work lately so I struck a deal with him to pull the body off the frame (which I will bring home in the meantime
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- 2. Re: Off to the body shop (score: 1)
- Author: "ldsp" <ldsp@flash.net>
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 21:02:22 -0500
- A little humor here! How are you going to pull all the body panel off the frame if I may ask? seeing as how the Bugeye is a unibody which means the frame is made up by all the panels? Just wondering
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg01405.html (8,612 bytes)
- 3. Re: Off to the body shop (score: 1)
- Author: "Harris Goodkind" <harris@lightspeed.net>
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:22:14 -0700
- Weelllll, that's a good question! There sure looked to be frame rails there under the bonnet! -- been out sure sum
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg01406.html (9,239 bytes)
- 4. Re: Off to the body shop (score: 1)
- Author: "ldsp" <ldsp@flash.net>
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 21:24:00 -0500
- Seriously harris there is not a frame that can be separated from the body. As to the color it most definitely is Iris Blue as it is the same as my car (IRIS). I would be glad to send you the formula
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg01407.html (10,168 bytes)
- 5. Re: Off to the body shop (score: 1)
- Author: Herb_Goede@amsinc.com
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 21:13:35 -0600
- Did I read correctly. You are going to pull the body off the frame of a Bugeye. How is this realistical, desireable or even possible with a monocoque car? Herb G.
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- 6. Re: Off to the body shop (score: 1)
- Author: "Harris Goodkind" <harris@lightspeed.net>
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 21:22:35 -0700
- OK, OK....I was wrong...there is no frame! That would explain the call I got today from my body guy that there is no frame! Harris '59 Bugeye Sprite AN520769 Still learning about my car... --Original
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- 7. RE: Off to the body shop (score: 1)
- Author: "Hanna, Mark" <mhanna@ball.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 10:22:18 -0600
- Hi Harris , Thanks for sharing the pictures with us .Body restoration is often the most expensive part of the whole restoration process . Luckily anything can be fixed . It looks like this car has a
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg01431.html (9,774 bytes)
- 8. Re: Off to the body shop (score: 1)
- Author: Lancer7676@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 12:52:31 EDT
- << . It is a very satisfying experience to save one of these wonderful cars . >> Lord knows!!! Just before readnig this post I turned my body shell back over to rightside up after welding both floor
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg01433.html (8,568 bytes)
- 9. Re: Off to the body shop (score: 1)
- Author: "Harris Goodkind" <harris@lightspeed.net>
- Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 13:23:56 -0700
- In all actuality this car is very rust-free. There is lots of surface rust on the floorboards, but it sat indoors in a woodworking shop on a concrete floor for 20+ years. There is NO rust-through any
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg01439.html (10,835 bytes)
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