Adelaide Business sedan Production

[mcl1959]

mc59 One thing that's missing is the date you bought the car  . Was the black paint the original paint or had it been resprayed already?

When you say that you bought the car as a 17 yo, was this 20 years ago or 50 years ago?

Ken

[mc59]

I bought it in 1986... I think   My first car, I was still at high school, 30 years of memories now. I took a day off school and drove with my dad to pick it up. Broke down in the middle of a busy intersection on the way home  . It was my daily drive for nearly 10 years. Back when occasionally you'd pass another old one on the road. Rarely see one now.

I'm not sure if it had been resprayed. I've only just learned in the last few months that the original colour was black. I used to think the original colour was that of the dash face in this picture.



There was some bad crows feet / cracking in the paint on the rear panel between the boot lid and rear window which made me think it had been resprayed a bit thick in that area. I recently discovered it was originally a high gloss black with fall red interior so maybe it was the original paint.

[mcl1959]

Ah yes, the black sedans are a bit of a mystery, the all black specials almost always had a coloured interior. Either silver or red paint on the dash, doors and pillars.
Most black standard sedans had black interiors same as the exterior but the business sedans appear to have the coloured interior paint like the specials.

Ken

[detective]

..On a general note, a  friends father had an FB 217 around 1976-77....much info on them ones Ken ?

[mcl1959]

If the FB 217 could be proved to exist, it would be pretty special since GMH never made them.
217 production ended in late 1959.


Ken

[detective]

...thanks Ken  ..  it was a long time ago, and i'm probably confusing it being a 217 because it had been a taxi in her previous life and must've been a 215...Cheers

[Glen]

Hi MC59 beautifull car you have.

How did you fit the special stainless strips to the doors and guards? Did you make holes for the clips in the panels? I have new old stock doors I'd like to fit to my special but I really don't want to make the slotted holed in them.

[mc59]

Hi and thanks.
From memory I measured carefully where the strips were to go then inserted the clips into position in the strips. I then put a dab of grease onto the clips and screws and touched them to the panels. Where there was a dab of grease on the panels I drilled a hole. To do it without drilling you would need a good quality double sided tape. If you do end up using clips, I ruined a strip using too much force pushing it on. So use caution.

[hsv-001]

Blu-tac when your close ?

[mcl1959]

I've added stripe kits to cars before and the way I do it is to place masking tape along the area where the stripe goes and then place the stripe in position. Use more masking tape to hold a series of stripes on until everything is perfect.
Then with a pencil mark out the stripe position above and below.
Then Remove the stripes and Mark out a mid position at even spacings along the stripe.
The masking tape also helps stop drill slip as well.
I would use the S type clips which have a bolt attached. Insert clips in the stripes and Slide all the bolts through the newly drilled holes and then attach washers and nuts.

Ken

[Glen]

I slighty dinted the rear quarter strips on my grey one when I fitted them years ago. I reckon they are the hardest ones to fit on a '58 special if original clips are used.

I bought this one recently. Its a 215 and the stainless strips are all just siliconed on.

[mc59]

That's a great picture Glen. Those 2 look like they have a lot of stories to tell.