New member Bug of Indecision

[FasterThanUr]

Hello. My name is Mike. From the high Desert of Socal. Been lurking for some time now and after 8 months or so finally was approved for the site.
Little back ground.34 years old.I have owned a few bugs & Ghia's over the years. Been welding for 18 years but not as a profession just small fab stuff for my self and friends. Never gone quite this far with a project. I work nights for DHL Mars as a tasker & reach truck driver.
My project started as a 73 super. Its now sitting on a 80 Datsun/Nissan 720 chassis. I was going for a stretched heb inspired look, but after seeing some of the trucks others have done I've gone from plane A to plan F and back to Plan B and maybe somewhere in the middle.
With my work scheduled I haven't had much time to work on it.As of right now I was most of the way to the heb look and went 5 steps back and cut the rear back off and am now on the hunt for a 40's-50's truck cab to section. Anyway heres some picks and thanks for having me

[FasterThanUr]

Well since photobucket sucks big floppy donkey di@k I'm just gonna rebuild my thread with more of a cliff notes version and maybe back track with some of the older build picks here and there.

[FasterThanUr]

Haven't worked on the bug truck in about three months . Been working on some cars for me and some friends for this year's demolition derby. Did a 98 Volvo s70 for import class and no one else showed up with imports except a couple we brought back from last year. So I finished them off in a three man heat and ran the main event against 11 full size cars and placed 4th.

Here's a link of the YouTube video of the three car heat and the final. Also have lots of the build picks on my instagram

https://youtu.be/9Re-OE-sgpk

[FasterThanUr]

Well once again photo bucket screwed me and millions of other people who hosted there images with them. They killed all the photo links and want $399 a year to host 3rd party images. Good fing luck with that. Been using photobucket for over 15 years and now they pull this bs. WTF. I might as well kill this thread because I don't have the time or patience to find another 3rd party hosting site and fix this mess. As always you can see the build pics on instagram until till I get this worked out
https://www.instagram.com/p/BWJdjdsg437/

[FasterThanUr]

Gas filler patched up.







Pretty much all the welding is done on the cab. Just need to grind everything down and hammer out what I can.

[FasterThanUr]

Grinding welds takes a long time. Lot more grinding and hammering to reduce the need of filler.