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« Reply #60 on: February 23, 2004, 11:59:41 AM » |
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Applying some base coat to the inner bits...
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« Reply #61 on: February 23, 2004, 12:02:58 PM » |
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being careful to get coverage . Note the extra primer added where it was getting a bit thin from rub throughs...
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« Reply #62 on: February 23, 2004, 12:06:27 PM » |
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innards are painted final adjustments made and the car is jacked up and put on stands for stability and ease of painting. It has had its final wet rub and is now ready for colour. Now days we tint the primer to suit the colour.. this just helps when you get stone chips...
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« Reply #63 on: February 23, 2004, 12:11:14 PM » |
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The grey spots are some extra bits Graham th epainter found needing some more attention. The masking is something that took a whole day to apply. we did not want any dry spray inside.This was about the time Graham came and worked with me. Up until then I did all the work - body and paint.
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« Reply #64 on: February 23, 2004, 12:16:08 PM » |
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Graham has applied a few coats of base coat and is tacking off any bits of dust during the painting process This also allows him to survey how its all going  |
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« Reply #65 on: February 23, 2004, 12:29:23 PM » |
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Paint application is followed by the Clear coats.. two of them.. all products are PPG Deltron... Nothing but the best. The clear is the two pack part. The base coat is rather like a highly refined acrylic...it has to be clear coated within 24 hrs or its no good.
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« Reply #66 on: February 23, 2004, 12:32:54 PM » |
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« Reply #67 on: February 23, 2004, 12:38:50 PM » |
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Assembly of as much stuff as I could has taken place .Car is rewired and drivable. I am giving it a quick bath b4 taking it to the trimmers on the Gold coast.
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« Reply #68 on: February 23, 2004, 12:43:17 PM » |
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Lots of nice new shiny bits. Loaded onto trailer to take to the trimmers. It had not been registered nor had the engineer seen my new roof chop . He was involved much earlier in the peace and was confident I had given him enough info on the car...
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« Reply #69 on: February 23, 2004, 12:48:13 PM » |
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I left the conti kit off so the trimmers did not have to work around it. Note the fender spears . Using FE ones meant it had a Holden script on them .The rears are EK Standard or commercial front guard moulds.
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« Reply #70 on: February 23, 2004, 12:57:01 PM » |
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the finished interior... Wife wanted leopard skin so I told her to catch and skin them herself... Note the VT Calais handles turned upside down and the stainless trim on the door used to be a peice of straight stainless from the exterior of a VW Beetle. Floor console(early sixties Chev we think) houses the Trimatic shifter which came from a ToranaFront arm rests are FE and rears are FC fronts... Seats are '85 Celica with the head rests removed. Cd player hides in the glovebox.
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« Reply #71 on: February 23, 2004, 01:06:02 PM » |
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My Mate Little Mick giving the car some stripes at its first show ( 2001 Brisbane Hot rod show) two days after it was finished! It passed engineering and rego with flying colours. (phew!)... It won top radical custom at the this show and has remained un beaten for the last three years at this same show. The following year the car was made a star attraction and was heavily featured in and on all the promotional goodies and trophies... That was a shock to say the least!... The car never saw a trailer the entire time it has been registered on the road. I Strongly dislike trailer queens and all that sail with them...
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« Reply #72 on: February 23, 2004, 08:38:56 PM » |
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The difference between stock and Modified.I actually bought the stocker for these photos.I sold it three days late. Ironically I have bought two more the same colour since and sold off one to my mate who did the sandblasting for me. I now have another with same colours but built after may 1959( no blue bum).
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« Reply #73 on: February 23, 2004, 08:44:10 PM » |
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I dont need to rabbit on with the diffferences ..you can see them yourselves..
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« Reply #74 on: February 23, 2004, 08:50:28 PM » |
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a view from the front... You can spend a while picking the changes here.. BTW the rego plates on the white one are from my HG Ute put on for the pics...
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« Reply #75 on: February 23, 2004, 08:55:55 PM » |
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Rear view... The boot lid on the coupe is the only standard panel on the entire car. Astute observers of this series will note that this Triton garage was not there at the beginniong of the project...
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« Reply #76 on: February 23, 2004, 09:09:12 PM » |
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Summernats 15 Canberra (in case you did not know the location of the countries largest bomb shelter)2002 .We drove straight from Brisbane in this car...(through the bushfires and 50 degree heat... 17 hrs !) Put it into street class judging ..I was making a silent (?) protest at show ponies that are too precious to be driven too far from their trailers... I won top custom, top cruiser and top body work for my efforts... Went to Canberra again in 2004 and won top custom and top cruiser again...Did you know that flag pole cost 6 million to build? must be holding everything together at that price... Personally I think they could have done much better with an old Holden ute with a Flag bearing mutt in the back parked on the roof... Thats what happens when they dont consult the people.....No point saving them money though ..they would just waste it on something else...
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« Reply #77 on: February 23, 2004, 09:18:25 PM » |
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The car was featured in many magazines . Here Larry OTool is doing the photo shoot for Aust Street rodding...I always photograph the photographers. This is in Canberra.
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« Reply #78 on: February 23, 2004, 09:23:53 PM » |
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After two years on the road and 7200 Miles It was time to get away from that Gold...There was a minute crack in the left door that caused me to pull it fro the road and adress it...Got sort of carried away and addressed my boredom at the whole colour scheme... was a hard thing to do to pull a perfectly good nearly new car into the workshop and set to it with power tools...Here graham is prepping the body for primer...
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« Reply #79 on: February 23, 2004, 09:27:59 PM » |
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Goodbye gold...The colour of cyan Blue was chosen at the 11th hour..until then I was going to touch up the areas that needed it .... The primer is tinted blue for stone chips in the future...
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