tail fin progress

[vboyfl]

put a few hours in on the tail fins and got them roughed in almost done what do you guys think

[PapaG]

Looking good. Are they slanting down a bit or is it just me. I thought they were a little droupy on the first post, but I thought it was just me...

[Nick]

Looks great style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif Is the roof angle chopped also? Any other mods you're planning on doing? I say full length ragtop. Keep it up style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smokin.gif

Also I say leave the rear hatch open and attach a double layered spoiler instead on the hatch hinge arms style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dry.gif

[vwfanatic]

Bill Hines would be proud....the BATBACK!!! looks great! style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif

[Steve]

Looks great! They blow with the side body lines nicely. Good job! style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif

[Unkl Ian]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>They blow with the side body lines nicely. [/b][/quote]Steve,the word is FLOW,not blow. I think you need some help with proofreading.
style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/funny.gif style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/funny.gif style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dry.gif
Definately a good job on the tail fins. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif

[hotrodheb]

:D Looks Great!

How about some wheel skirts and slam it to the ground (dragging)
Go for the Lead Sled look.

[Steve]

Oh damn!

HAHAHAHAHA style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/funny.gif style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/funny.gif

Yeah... What Unkl Ian said.... They FLOW nicely! Sorry! style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/funny.gif

[Gearhead]

great job !!....... makes me think "now all that car needs is a 2-piece rear hatch"

Thomas

[vboyfl]

they look like they are sloped down because they are following the body line on the top of the fender and wheel skirts are my next project thanks for the compliments i really like the way they are coming out

[PapaG]

Doh!!!

I now see that they are following the fenders... I was trying to look at them like 57 Chevy fins....
Oh well I can't see the pictures in those funny designs that you have to stare at a long time. Even better when I finally see what everyone else sees.

Damn bi-focals....

[Kafer_Mike]

Looking clean and straight. Keep the pix coming... style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif

[LUMPY]

style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif Nice!!! Good to see more squares being rodded!

[Jon]

Looks great.

I vote for "Bubble Skirts"
But maybe thats me, I have always wanted a car to put them on.
Maybe next project. Chopped 51 Ford ?

[bugdust]

Lookin good :D How about a solid rear hatch with a maltese cross shaped window style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smokin.gif plus some shortened lake pipes draggin the sides...

[Nick]

How about a side opening hatch?? Hindge at the left post or something??

[LUMPY]

Hey Nick, The side opening hatch I have been trying to figure out.I know I have some old trends from the 80's that has a square with the side opening hatch....now if I can only find it :rolleyes:

[Steve]

I know they're not too easy to come by, but if you could get your hands on an old hearse body, you could scavenge the hinges off of it. Would think it'd be almost perfect.

[ahawes]

love the fins.... very original... you should paint it up like the ghost busters mobile... style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/funny.gif not really though... thats excellent work. how much did you pay for the one piece rear windows? i had a pair w/ rubbers and all that i was gonna get rid of and had them leanin against the shop outside one night. that was a windy night. it blew one of them about 30 and shattered it.... style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/yelling.gif well keep up the good work
adam

[crack monkey]

the fins look great.

[vwluvrs]

Looks Vaguely Familiar...
Hmmmm
http://thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/44184.jpg
:)

[vwfanatic]

now that is sweet, but i would like to see how it would look with big cruiser skirts.....and lakes pipes with tripple dumps perhaps.

[PapaG]

That is a awful low chop. Most people hit their head getting in mine :P
I am short @ 5'6" and I am right there at the roof... The seat must be on the floor in this one. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wub.gif

[Unkl Ian]

The rear wheel opening from a '57 Chevy would be cool.I'm sure patch panels are available cheap.

[vboyfl]

hey vwlovers whats up i dont know if you remember but you photo chopped my car and i told you iwas going to do the fins came out pretty good

[tommy-turtle]

It might take a second to get my idea accross but what if

You make the back hatch fo it get flush in the sides with a small part at the top so you could pop the deck lid open and then slide it into the car sort of like a garrage door. so if you went to a show you could open the back and not have to duck out of the way to get to the back of the car.

Hope that came across the way it look like in my head. I looks cool keep up the work
:thumbsup:

[lilbill]

i think he ought to rig up one of those phase dimension transducers. That way he can push a button and the rear lid will be shifted out of phase with this dimension into a parralell dimension and dissappear. of course the folks in the other dimension might be suprised to see a decklid suddenly appear. probably need to set the coordinates to a storage building.
but then again it might be easier to just put a small cloaking device on it but you would still bump your head. how about a vernegian matter reducer? he could shoot it with the reducer and put it in his pocket until after the show.

[vboyfl]

man lilbill thats what i was going to do now you went and gave it away thanks style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/funny.gif

[awshields]

I really thought long and hard about using early type 3 taillights on my Ghia. I have a 65 squareback sitting around but just could not bring myself to cut the quarter ends and tail light mounts off of it. I think they would look very good though.

[PapaG]

John:
I heard somewhere that some Type3's and KG's share the same taillights? Late model ones I think... I do liek the early ones... My only KG was a 73 and I think it had lights like my 71 squareback,

[Nick]

I always wanted to put a '60 Corevette taillight on a Ghia. Should work fine:
http://rowleycorvette.com/images/NORMAN3.jpg Makes it more Italian looking

[lilbill]

I read a story somewhere on the history of the KarmenGhia. Pretty sure it was Hot VW. anyway, they talked about how the designer from karmen went to ghia in italy and did a backdoor deal for a design cause he couldn't come up with a good one. What he was given was a concept car that ghia had built for ferarri. The article had a pic of the original concept car which is only slightly different than the vw version. i always thought it would be cool to rebuild a ghia to look like that ferarri version. then stuff a twin turbo 911 in it's butt :D

[grumpy]

Hey KG72 -

I know of a L7 back and a fastback, they are crusher bound. Need any parts, like the taillight area? That goes for everybody. The fastback is a '67, the squareback has the front bullet style signals, no year.

Let me know, the '67 is going away in a few weeks.

[vwluvrs]

Yeah, I remember the original idea....
Thanks for reminding me,,

[vwluvrs]

http://thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/44117.jpg

[lilbill]

Grumpy, shoot me an email with some details on those type 3s, I'd like to add some to my yard.

[Jimbo70]

Originally posted by grumpy@Jan 6 2003, 12:01 PM
Hey KG72 -

I know of a L7 back and a fastback, they are crusher bound. Need any parts, like the taillight area? That goes for everybody. The fastback is a '67, the squareback has the front bullet style signals, no year.

Let me know, the '67 is going away in a few weeks.
I need a rear apron to replace the crunched one on our '68

http://pages.cthome.net/jaltemus/images/rear%20apron.jpg

Its what is separating our Fastback from the bodyshop. Do either of the above mentioned, crusher-bound cars have a good rear apron?

[1slo3]

remember this 'nomad' to be looker? what ever happened to it?