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The body is looking great mate wish I was that far along please keep the photos coming.

Regards
Neil H

front end parts getting ready for reassemble

a bit of blue

different angle

Looking good mate always fun to start spraying colour

looks great mate, what colour is it ? A stock one ??

Liking this 7

G'day Blacky,
sorry for the late response, stock color, well the best we can match, I would like to think its Lucerne Blue and Alpine Blue but cant confirm, I cant find any documentation which matches the paint code (sticker) (BALM) colors.
I am painting the car using two pack, and when we mixed the paint as per the recipe (dulux) old (BALM) they were close, but not quite right, the best way I could describe was they were too clean, the darker Blue was harder to get right, and had to make the color dirty.

regards
Thomo.

Different light, the black for the radiator surround will go on later.

G'day Sunny Tim,
please find the tag, not much info, the 225 is the only number which means anything too me.

G'day Sunny Tim,
There is no numbers stamped on the front sub frame. It would appear my NZ assembled car had the front sub-frame bolted to the body unpainted, as when disassembled raw galvanizing is showing where the panels meet, looks also to have the bonnet hinges and bonnet installed prior to paint, and the blue blown in as far as they could have reached, the radiator black surround applied after the blue, there was also blue under the small guard brace ( the small rod ).
In short, I reckon the complete car was painted its light blue as a whole, the darker blue applied, there was over spray inside the door pillar ( b pillar) , and then the car was rust proofed ( black tar shit) applied every where, which has ran through any holes.
regards
Thomo.

Still just chipping away, this is the FB as of Saturday the 2nd July

Just a couple of photos of the color, the new color against the glove box.

I have to pull my finger out today (Sunday) the plan is to get the car rolling this week, paint the inside of the car, I need to clean up the hinges, hang doors and the panels, when you see a bit of color it is a lot more motivating.
regards
Thomo.

Making a nice job of it. Regards Daz.