Standard Wagon

[58mintwag]

hey got her all ready for road worthy, my goal was to get it ready for this sunday, fe-fc show and shine ot morrabin airport. but i couldnt get my car roadworthied till wednesday. still i cant wait. here are some photo's of her all clean.

[58mintwag]

im about to take her in for road worthy, i am pretty nervous/excited, it should pass though i am fairly confident. at the very least i get to drive her around for a bit today hehe

[BLOK]

How did you go mate or are you still out driving around 

[58mintwag]

nah they said that there was to much play in my steering box, and ive gotta replace the rear shoes and cylinders, plus plug a few holes in the fires wall, have already sourced new steering column and box, and have oredered the break shoes and cylinders, should have it all done over the weekend and go back in next week. at least iverything i have done didnt get picked haha, so close. still took it for a bit of a drive whilst i had the permit. haha

[58mintwag]

fixed everthing they said to and got my road worthy yesterday, am trying to book it in at vicroads for reg asap, hopefully will all be on the road for rockabilly meltdown at ferntree gully hotel on the 16th. am so happy, been waiting two years for this moment.

[Old_Mt_Isa_Boy]

Hope all goes well and no need for anymore money.

Regards

[58mintwag]

am booked in for tomorrow, have done all my paperwork and a few last minute touch ups. hopefully all goes well and as of tomorrow i shall be enjoying my labour efforts.

[58mintwag]

got her on the road, am so excited, got white wall inserts on yesterday and am putting some lowering blocks on her later today, heres some pics of the whitewalls.

[NosFEratu]

congratulations! looks very sweet - the whitewalls really lift it! enjoy yourself 

[TTV6FC]

Yes Kathi and the blocks will really dump it! .Very,very cool mate...I'm very,very jealous .

[pedro]

Amazing how much difference a set of white walls can make, looking forward to seeing her with the lowering blocks in.
         Pedro

[58mintwag]

thanks everyone, am very happy to finally have her on the road, i put the lowering blocks in and made it to the rod show, only i forgot to take photo's of my own car there haha, maybe someone will have a photo of it. it was a great day though, there was another fc there that looked great white and blue sedan with twin carbed grey. here is some photo's of it lowered.

[58mintwag]

hmm those photo's dont do it justice, they were all taken whilst the car was on an angle, looks a lot lower in life.

here is a lace bonnet that i did at tafe, step by step

firstly i preped and painted the bonnet in basecoat white then measured and masked up the shape i wanted to remain white




i was kind of making it up as i went along adding extra scallops and curves




then i placed the lace down on the bonnet made sure it looked semetrical taped it in place then painted a verycourse silver over the lace (forgot to take a photo at this stage)



then i made up some binder with a green candy in it. i wanted the candy to be darker on the edges and kind of blend into the middle so i painted evenly around the taped lines.




then a couple more coats over the entire thing with appropriate flash off times in-between.




then i unmasked it (carefully)





you can see how the silver really stands up through the candy. then i gave it a few coats of clear.








i ran out of time, but i would like to block the whole thing back with 1200p grit paper (wet) and the clear the whole thing again just to try remove all the lines on the edges.

hope you like it, would love to do a whole like this would be grrrreat!