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cheers thommo been trying to get it ready by x mas but time and money maybe stacked against me

paul

money can be an issue, but nobdy can use time as an excuse uless you work 12-14 hours a day but then money shouldn't be a problem, i've prolly only averaged 2 hours a day and maybe half a day on a couple of weekends and i've gone from basically a bare shell to a near driving car in a few weeks i'm taking the car for a rego inspection in 3 weeks and unless something goes bad basically motor or gearbox i'll have it done fairly easilly

bloody hell ratbox you must be preaty productive i tend to get in the shed and forgot why i went there half the time

yeah i usually have a plan on what i want to do when i go out there so i know exactly what i want to do and just go at it

So wasnt sure how the parcel shelf was gonna turn out as first attempt at giving one a go...






After bit of late nite drinkin at the water hole got up n finished it off this morning before work...

Hey, looks good. What vinal did you use for the parcel shelf? I am looking at doing the same thing, but was wondering if theres different types for different purposes.
Dave.

Pretty good for a first attempt
Nice work.

cheers guys, not sure what vinyl it was called just went to the local auto upholsterer and said what it was for the guy did a preaty decent job of gettin the same type of material.

So thought id put some more pics up finally as been a bit slack so here goes..



yes i know i cut the original door trims well they were off the ek so thought not so bad

used some sound deadner in the doors as well as parcel shelf for bit better sound.
completed look, resized the stainless on the door to suit.

Thought id also use the rear venetian out of the ek as well and spray it up in some spare bright white 2 pak i had lying around.



also put the rear seat in to make sure id done the parcel shelf correctly.
is a nice fit too!



next was to refit the venetian.. didn realise ya gotta take a few nicks out of the window rubber for the b@$tard to stay in there properly.


Thought id also pinch the EKs taillights for now as there in better nic too! and put all new rear lamps in from rares.


came up preaty good after a bit of a polish with mequires metal polish.



startin to look like a car again!

been workin a bit on it lately but its been 40 odd degres
heres a couple of pics of whats new...



window guys came to fit this but were 2 hours late then took it in and out 3 times before finally tellin me need to take it to there office so they can get the "specialist guy" to look at it. bloody aftermarket glass!

finally got the horns wired up and mounted...



this is hooked up via a switch to run original horn as well. so no defect! haha

ITS SMEAGAIN LOOKING good .what color is it going to be black is cool

yes the aftermarket glass sucks one years ago there was no way in the world it was going in and the one in the van was basically sikaflexed in, prolly best if you can find a good original even the rubbers cause some grief, i was lucky with this car as i had front and rear original glass with good rubbers on them i've never fitted a screen before and my mate had done some but never FB/EK which people say are quite difficult we had front and back in in 15 minutes

i'm onto a factory green front screen

its gonna be matt black for now so can just drive it, too many shiny cars cruisin round i say

maybe shiny down the track when drop the 202 ive got for it and hr front end .

yeah didnt realise the glass has a really bad green tinge too it! ive een other after market glass on old holdens that wasnt like this!

So has been a while since my last post and had the car on the road briefly before taking it off the road to " fix issues".

Here it is anyway back in 2010 after i had resprayed it in "factory" matte black

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