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Here is a photo of the Van from Volksfling at Biggar in Scotland. Weekend was fantastic. Sun never stopped shinning. If anything it was too warm on the Sunday. I got the van back from the paint shop last week and I am well happy with it. I got the same colour but with extra metal flake. I had added some gold copper and green metal flake which has lightened it..

Lucky Git looks splendid.
Mine is in a mottled assortment or bare metal, zink primer original paint and combi colour at the moment - And that is an improvement

Cheers
Rich

Thanks mate. Been wanting to do it for ages.

My "friends" got me by strategically placing the string from a bit of gaffer tape on the new paint. It looked like a deep scratch. Boy did I freak. B@stards got it on video as well. Am expecting to see it on YouTube soon.

just out of intrest...was there a pipe band at the show? used to be a the national days..

slobbo wrote:Here is a photo of the Van from Volksfling at Biggar in Scotland. Weekend was fantastic. Sun never stopped shinning. If anything it was too warm on the Sunday. I got the van back from the paint shop last week and I am well happy with it. I got the same colour but with extra metal flake. I had added some gold copper and green metal flake which has lightened it..

I was there, I can vouch that your paint job was amazing, I can also vouch for the weather too, it was very very hot!

SLOBBO Syncro looked top class at the show
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I hope they didn't go down to bare metal in any places?

Simon Baxter wrote:I hope they didn't go down to bare metal in any places?

No they took special care. Saw it before paint.

Why not down to bare metal ?
Used to see loads of classic car ads boasting bare metal respray, I guess it shows every fault.
Cheers
Rich

My van went through the galvanizing tank at Hanover. Didn't want the galvy removed.

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Edited to replace the link? Sure it was there earlier!

Well if mine had any it will be long gone with the bitumous sludge some previous owner had covered the lower quarter of my van with.
Judging by the rust I doubt that it had any.
So was galvanising across the board or just on certain later models ? IIRC Audi introduced it in the late 80s and overnight cars stopped rusting.

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Err yeah thanks Simon, Sorry I am new to Syncros, T25s and VWs generally. I know it is all old hat to you and you must be bored of numpties asking the same old questions again and again. But your cryptic answers really don't help me learn any more. Most owners on this forum seem to have mint Syncros with many additional toys. So most of the discussion revolves around this rather than anything useful to me not westfalia, not 16", not lhd, not shiny van conversion. I have managed to get it back on the road, back to 4WD. I'm currently trying to sort the bodywork out. But it is a very long way from being mint and is unlikely to ever be so. I bought it to have adventures in that I can share with my family. Sorry if If I don't fit the clique of Syncro owners that know what you are referring to.

Apologies Slobbo for sidetracking your thread. Your bus looks great.

Cheers
Rich

The vans tended to have something applied but as is evident by the main problem being seam rash. The seam sealer between panels ages and cracks. The water gets between the panels and hey presto rot. If you look at a bay or split and they tend to rot just about anywhere . My van was immersed in a vat of galvanizing stuff so it gets everywhere. The net result is a van that needed very little tlc before painting. They also only took a layer off the paint and tried very hard to not get through to metal. That way it still has it's coating of galvy.

Simon Baxter wrote:I hope they didn't go down to bare metal in any places?

I too am in the dark here From what I can figure out from reading the above posts, it is summat to do with Galvanising, yes ? Is this just a Syncro thing ? (I don't own a Syncro)

The place currently sorting some rust issues on one of our (2) vans has gone down to bare metal in a few places.

My van is the only van that I know has been dipped. The first owner worked for VW and had it dipped at Hanover before he took delivery of the shell. He then built it up from a Syncro he had crashed. Every other T25 has had a coating added. When painting you cut out rust right back till you get good steel You sand until you have a good surface and are comfortable nothing lurks underneath. Sometimes you need to sand back to bare metal to be sure nothing bad lies under the surface. So bare metalling is good if you aren't sure of the condition of the metal.