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All doors now reskinned, hi filled, basecoat, dustcoat, blocked back, hi filled again and left in 2K etch ready for paint.

Subrame braced and repairs underway, still so far to go

Still busy collecting parts, re-chroming, cleaning, sourcing old for new, buying, trading, swapping. Although sometimes frustrating, it's been a lot of fun.

New right hand subframe tie member and new subframe front member


2k etch primed, POR15, high filled and 2 coats of satin black


Old battery tray


New Battery Tray from Sam Crupi


Grill and bonnet bar off to the chrome guy


¼ vent window assembly courtesy of Blacky


They come up pretty good


The new front end good to go


Old water pump
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Old starter motor


Reconditioned locally


The old strommie, snapped during transport
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Reconditioned from Extreme Fuel Systems


The old manifold polished up nice


Reconditioned dizzy


The new radiator


Windscreen and sun visor trim polished up pretty good


Some more stuff back from the chrome guy
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Some more parts to be diamond blasted and primed


Ended up with about 3 buckets full of nuts, bolts, washers and other bits and pieces to get re-plated

Has been a productive bit of time off, still frustrating waiting for the body work to finish though.

Cleaning up the diff and rear axles









Some more stuff back from blasting




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Giving the courtesy lights a bit of clean up to

Nice work mate, getting close.

Gazza

yeah, its all th elittle bits that take up a lot of time, if everything is ready to reassemble once the shell comes back you will smash it together in no time ....

Ahhh memories.. hint make sure the door light switches earth to the body somewhere or the little buggers won't work..

Cheers for the tip Wayne.

Yeah I'm hoping I will have everything good to go, once I have a painted car that is Lesson learn't though, never buy a car in pieces

Well we are back on track, heading up to Toodyay for some new floor pans and rear quarter panel work. Happy days







Goin through some old photo's and found this. My Great Grand Fathers General Store in Calingiri, WA

Good to see you are still at it mate

Great work

Work, bills, life and stuff, always gets in the way of more important things

Just another update before Xmas,

While the body is still up in Toodyay, I've been starting to put a few things back together, which has been a pretty big learning curve but lots fun

Full recon on the Crashbox, bit of a tidy up and some paint.













Courtesy Lights all sorted







Stripped and cleaned the Rear View mirror, had a new mirror hand cut from Kalamunda Glass








Stripped, cleaned and rechromed the Heater/Air controls





New Pedal Box, blasted, powder coated and zinc plated







New hand brake assembly, painted and zinc plated





Bench seat metal side panels, sanded, high filled primed and ready to paint



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Stripped and cleaned 3 x ¼ Vent Window frames, soaked these in WD-40 for 3 days so I wouldn't snap the pivot pin



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Original Fuel Cap, re-chromed and zinc plated. It didn't have a key but was lucky enough to able to get one cut and the local Lock + Key joint



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Interior Light base plate rechromed, bakerlite repair kit came in very handy



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The original radio given the full treatment care of Vintage Wireless, bought the new fascia from the boys of here, polished and painted the SS trim, a new Diamond Dot and cleaned and painted the tuning knobs



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Anyway hope all is well, will the keep the updates coming. Be safe and have an awesome Xmas and a Happy New Year

Cheers Greg

Very nice indeed!

Love your work , this thing is going to look like a brand new one - hurry up , you have 6 months until the nats

Nice work ate will have to dropin and have another look