MI60FB

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crashworthy
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Re: MI60FB

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i thought mine was a nightmare whats your beer tally so far i cant count anymore youve impressed me i will keep at it
cheers
great work :mrgreen:
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baker12
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crashworthy wrote:i thought mine was a nightmare whats your beer tally so far i cant count anymore youve impressed me i will keep at it
cheers
great work :mrgreen:
Go hard crashworthy! Its not as bad as it seems.
I have everyone giggling and taking the piss when they see what I got.
When I bought it though they were all "this car is mad" "awesome" and all the bullshit that goes with pissing in your pocket.
When they saw the rust "What a joke" " Burn it"
Now its like "Can I give you hand" "WOW"
So stick with it get a good welder and read up as much as you can, and more importantly ask for help.
This forum has given me a lot of direction and assistance members are the best sorces of knowledge.
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great to see Baker12 - a lesser man would have thrown his hands in the air and put the whole lot in the too hard basket :shock:
I started with nothing and still have most of it left.


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Re: MI60FB

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Back from a break and straight into it.
Cut out passenger rear floor pan today.
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Cut pan on floor
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Cleaned up subframe
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POR 15 Everything
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Tacked in front floor pan, bumped only spotlight left in shed so no more work till missus BAKER12 gets back from up the street.
Should have rear pan welded in tonight, finish off front pan then start on drivers side sills and pans.
My MIG and My Grinder are my best Friends!!
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love your mig,...just used a stick for the first time in about a year
not for car shit,(making gates)and its a nice lil dc unit,
but nuthin like me mig,might give the yellow phukka a cuddle :? :D :D
grinders are nice ,But Man they make the NOISE,when the hit metal
I luv me tools aswell all of em,even the shit ones
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great job youre doing on that car,youve past the hardest hurdle 8)
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Re: MI60FB

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Hi everyone.
Well after my post regarding LHD drive cars I decided to spend some time doing something usefull, finishing my car.
I stuffed around for 2 days getting the settings right on my MIG which caused me plenty of grief.
Got them set and all was good.
Welded in the rear floor pan and tidied up the front that I had previously tacked in.
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POR15 the lot and shes ready to rock.
Next job was to replace the rear parcel shelf.
I picked the spot welds of the original (what a sh!t job) and decided to cut the donor section out and pick the spot welds off on my bench.
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Due to the rear window channel being completely f@#$$d I cut out the whole channel section.
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Day off tommorrow hope to weld in parcel shelf and rear window channel.
Then turn car around and attack the drivers side pans and sills. F#$K Yeah!!!!
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nice,and you have enough left over for a couch :)
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Geez, you don't muck around :shock:
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Re: MI60FB

Post by mr.jones »

Fantastic stuff Baker, its coming along a treat.

Are you a panel beater or self taught? I looked at the rust in your subframe and sills and thought :shock: :cry:

Loving your work keep the updates coming


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And I thought it was a crap job doing my rust :shock:

Nice stuff!
My 6yr old daughter said
"Dad your car's looking great! Which end is the front?"
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Re: MI60FB

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Like what Blacky said. My hat's off to you Baker12. 8) After seeing your efforts and RustyEK's work with the concrete floored ute, nothing is unrestorable... :)
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Re: MI60FB

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I picked the spotwelds out of my donor parcel shelf this arvo.
What a prick of a job.
The guys at GM back in 1960 just through the spot welder in where they could no regard for standards or welding patterns just/This will do whens smoko?
Anyway got the stuff done that I wanted and POR 15 the shelf.
Marked out my cuts and ready to weld tommorrow night, the MI60FB will be getting a new parcel shelf and window channel.
Thank F#$k that the only thing I need to do is weld it in!!!!!!
Then on to drivers side sills and floorpans.
Deadline may 2011!!!
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Re: MI60FB

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:) top work baker :wink:
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danFBwagon
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Re: MI60FB

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Nice one Baker thats some great rust repairs goin on there.
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