Should I remove my deluxe trim?
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Should I remove my deluxe trim?
The trim on my 71 deluxe is in bad shape. I've polished it up over the years, but now that I'm working on the body and cleaning it up and the trim is becoming more of an eyesore at this point. It's bent, scratched and dented. The pieces don't align anymore and the back corner ones are thrashed and held on by visible rusty screws from the outside! all pieces are thrashed except for maybe one or two!
I'm not totally in love with the trim and thought that maybe instead of trying to find an buy a NOS set for 200+ bucks, I could just start removing the pieces and sand the belt line down, bondo the holes and repaint the bus two tone like it once was without the trim and just not worry about it anymore?
Any thoughts or feelings on this?
I'm not totally in love with the trim and thought that maybe instead of trying to find an buy a NOS set for 200+ bucks, I could just start removing the pieces and sand the belt line down, bondo the holes and repaint the bus two tone like it once was without the trim and just not worry about it anymore?
Any thoughts or feelings on this?
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71 Sierra Yellow Adventurewagen
71 Sierra Yellow Adventurewagen
DjEep wrote:Velo? Are you being "over-run"? Do you need to swim through a sea of Mexican anchor-babies to get to your bus in the morning?
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Re: Should I remove my deluxe trim?
If it is a bone-stock exterior with the white interior and white above the belt line, I would plan to get the trim at some point. It will only get more expensive. It is a critical aesthetic contribution to the early deluxe bay.Adventurewagen wrote: Any thoughts or feelings on this?
Is too. Well it is, you know.
Colin
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
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My bus is anything but stock. It has large drilled on side mirrors, a huge herpe of a high top on it with a spoiler, I mean solar panel, on top. The front seats are from a later bay (blue/green plaid), the interior is a total custom job from Adventurewagen themselves back in the day.
I'm not worried about keeping it stock, just wondering if I'll be mad when i pull it and cover the holes. maybe I should pull all the trip and see how it looks first, then decide if i want to keep the trim.
I'm not worried about keeping it stock, just wondering if I'll be mad when i pull it and cover the holes. maybe I should pull all the trip and see how it looks first, then decide if i want to keep the trim.
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71 Sierra Yellow Adventurewagen
71 Sierra Yellow Adventurewagen
DjEep wrote:Velo? Are you being "over-run"? Do you need to swim through a sea of Mexican anchor-babies to get to your bus in the morning?
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If it is the avatar bus, I vote no trim.Adventurewagen wrote: I'm not worried about keeping it stock, just wondering if I'll be mad when i pull it and cover the holes.
Colin
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
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less holes=less rust in my book. I could go either way on the trim, it looks nice but not hundreds of $$$ nice...IMHO.Adventurewagen wrote:My bus is anything but stock. It has large drilled on side mirrors, a huge herpe of a high top on it with a spoiler, I mean solar panel, on top. The front seats are from a later bay (blue/green plaid), the interior is a total custom job from Adventurewagen themselves back in the day.
I'm not worried about keeping it stock, just wondering if I'll be mad when i pull it and cover the holes. maybe I should pull all the trip and see how it looks first, then decide if i want to keep the trim.
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Yes, the avatar is my bus. Here is another picture of it. kind of a funny one from a while ago, but you can see the trim and the funky mirrors and the top and the panel ;) My bus "Bert" is the left of the two images. heheheAmskeptic wrote:If it is the avatar bus, I vote no trim.Adventurewagen wrote: I'm not worried about keeping it stock, just wondering if I'll be mad when i pull it and cover the holes.
Colin
63 Gulf Blue Notch
71 Sierra Yellow Adventurewagen
71 Sierra Yellow Adventurewagen
DjEep wrote:Velo? Are you being "over-run"? Do you need to swim through a sea of Mexican anchor-babies to get to your bus in the morning?
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It dissapeared long ago when the bust got the front smashed in. I'm also missing window seal trim on both windows on the drivers side.Birdibus wrote:You are missing the trim around the front grill/vent, but you already knew that.
63 Gulf Blue Notch
71 Sierra Yellow Adventurewagen
71 Sierra Yellow Adventurewagen
DjEep wrote:Velo? Are you being "over-run"? Do you need to swim through a sea of Mexican anchor-babies to get to your bus in the morning?
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I never thought about that. I guess i have seen though where Bondo has changed over the years. Maybe I will just keep the trim for a while until I have a welder and can touch it up the first time the right way.tedebare wrote:Do not bondo the holes. In about a year, the bondo will sink and you will see every hole outlined under the paint. Weld the holes, grind, and sand and your ride will look a lot better, longer.
thanks for the input.
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71 Sierra Yellow Adventurewagen
71 Sierra Yellow Adventurewagen
DjEep wrote:Velo? Are you being "over-run"? Do you need to swim through a sea of Mexican anchor-babies to get to your bus in the morning?
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