The Split Screen Van Club

Stripped ready for blasting on Monday

Stripping the bus down.

Here is Burt a late lhd Splitscreen. We pulled this from its hiding place last weekend, it’s been sat for 8 years in a barn in the U.K. since being imported from California. Needs only the rear corners the battery tray, dent in the nose pulling and a few sections of cargo floor apart from that it is...

Stripping down the ragtop and all other parts that require paint or powder coat!

You need to remove the rust, that flaky rust will breed and get worse, if you start now you might save the panels but if you leave it that will pin hole etc if your putting a wax treatment in you need to get inside the panels as well by any means you can, if needed drill a hole then plug it with a r...

Very easy to do the conversion to Subaru with subarugears kit and it’s all bolt on.

Or you can go Audi TDI or v6-8 depending on budget but it all comes down to the gearbox really to take the BHP.

Outside of the shell is now prepped and ready for paint.

Time to move onto the inside areas and start the dry build up.

So just boring blocking, primer blocking etc

Getting ready to install the headlining and window trim.

The bus is sat in the booth nice and warm to stretch the material.

With the 23 in the booth drying out we had a time to start bolting on the doors etc

With Pete (67) painted it’s time for the Samba to get its turn in the booth.

A little bit of prep still to do on the inside, dry build up again for door gap checks then we can get started.

The chassis will be needing more work as a high gloss finish has been requested... should be fun.

Just before 5 months since its arrival the shell is painted.

Painting...

67 in Titan red....

Primer...

Blocking...

Ready for paint.