New member greetings from Dave in Canada
 

Greetings
I am entering this website because I am interested in improving my metal working skills. I am 65 and retiring from an academic position. My hobbies include working on cars. I have restored a 1965 type 3 notchback, am in the process of doing a second 1965 notch and am about to begin the restoration of a 1958 Karmann Ghia. All of these cars require metal work and I am trying to learn the 'old school' ways. I have posted much of my work on this webpage, http://www.sandersonmotorsports.com if you're interested in having a look. I am pleased to report than none of these cars has bondo. I look forward to participating and learning from this site.
David Sanderson, Vancouver BC Canada
http://www.sandersonmotorsports.com

Welcome to the forum, Dave. I spent some time looking at your cars, you do very nice work. I share your enthusiasm for VWs, I flipped a lot of them in the '70s and '80s: loads of bugs, but also a couple vans, a ghia, and a 914. After that, all the starter cars were too far gone rot-wise to invest time in. Way too much salt here, and most of the cars were considered disposable by their owners.

Dave, welcome to the site. Your cars look great. Guaranteed you will get something from this group of metalmen.

HI Dave welcome to the forum
Peter

Peter
Thanks for the welcome. I see you live in Melbourne. I lived in Sydney for many years in the late '70s and early '80s. I have very fond memories of my time there and of the beaches. Somewhere around here I have a jacket that I bought on Toorak road. I didn't do much car stuff there - mostly surfed!
Dave

I David and welcome!:D

Welcome fellow Canuck. I just joined here myself. Your Ghia comment caught my eye. I had a '69 when I was in college. Ugly stock orange but zero rust. Despite school boy low funds, I had a mechanic friend help rebuild the engine to 2 liter displacement. Gotta love those VW bolt-on jugs. First time I dropped the clutch, the front wheels pulled off the ground! A classmate friend was an autobody guy, so I did the prep & he did the spraying, nice maroon fine metallic paint job.

So many years ago, kind of miss that weird little car. I was the only guy scraping the INSIDE of my wind shield in frozen Calgary wintesr!:D

Hi Peter and welcome to the site!

David