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« Reply #180 on: February 07, 2006, 12:31:41 PM » |
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Leon,
I haven't been posting much here lately, a little bit over the whole thing. But I just wanted to agree with Alex on both fronts.
Leon, row your own boat any way YOU want. I cannot understand for the life of me why Nicko or anyone would put a post up that so blatantly degrades a fellow enthusiasts efforts, especially one so dedicated (and crazy :-) ) as Leon's. This guy deserves your admiration, not your derision.
And for the record Alex's car is a personal favourite of mine, its a great reminder of the fabulous customs of the sixties.
Power on Leon.
Cheers,
Craig.
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« Reply #181 on: February 07, 2006, 10:21:40 PM » |
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leon you are truly an inspiration as to what can be achieved, considering what you had started with and even more so what you found on the way, it still hasnt deterred you from your vision, also from what i have seen in the pics the conditions you have been working in at times would crack a lesser man. keep at it and i cant wait to see it in the flesh, maybe not these nats but certainly the next!!
and alex for what its worth i to like your headlights in fact the whole car, as craig stated it is great to see a reminder of where customising all started from, for in my mind without someone prepared to go out on a limb and try something different we would all be driving around in identical little shoeboxes.
keep at, both of you deserve high praise for what your doing.
cheers
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« Reply #182 on: February 08, 2006, 01:15:31 PM » |
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Good luck. Would be cool to have another custom in the club. A few of those resto guys and gals are gunna sh!t.
Regards
Alex Well you were'nt wrong there Alex Thanks for the comments guys, very motivating, guess I am gonna have to try and get this thing to phillip island. No offence taken by me Nicko I am used to it, but that was a pretty harsh on Alex's car, may even upset all those people that love the style of Alex's car and there are alot of them, I ve seen this thing pop up all the time in variuos magazines. I could think of ugly mods but canted quads dont seem ugly to me. Prior to 1958 canted quads had been seen on a few kustoms and detroit noticed, from 58 on quad headlights were fitted to all but poverty cars in the US wich then gave kustomisers a good range of headlights to use, yep chevy, ford, cadillac, chrysler all of a sudden brought out all there new models in 58 with quad headlights and some uppermarket cars even had them canted to add class and style to go with there bigger price tags. any way, check this top secret webpage out about the coolest ever restyling trick. http://www.theroadagents.com/Canted%20Quadspage.htm |
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« Reply #183 on: February 08, 2006, 01:23:50 PM » |
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Keep up the good work Leon.
I'm really looking forward to seeing it progress in the next few months.
Cheers
Dave
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« Reply #184 on: February 08, 2006, 11:11:47 PM » |
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Good on you, Leon. You must be the most determined & tenacious person on this site. The rust bug has NO chance when you are about. Style is you own choice & I love Alex's car, so it is great to see someone who has the nads to do exactly what they want, without bowing to the pressure of armchair critics. I have seen a quad light set up on an FB that was in an old "Modern Motor" Magazine & although not canted as yours & Alex's, I would oneday love to do it (But being crap at metalwork, I would proabably get someone else to do it). Looking forward to the finished result. Alex, I love it when you are angry! You tell them my man! It is the quiet ones you gotta watch   Rob J |
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« Reply #185 on: February 09, 2006, 01:20:59 AM » |
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ok ive done it again,foot in mouth disease. yes i dont like those canted HLights as i think the FE and FC's are great cars and i love modded ones also, i personally just dont like mods that make them almost unreconisable. i dont mind if you hate my comments that could have been written a bit more tactfully,ok, a lot more tactfully,  and i have nothing but admiration for all the good (read Hard)work that you have done to get it back on the road, and as i saw one normal guard and one canted guard in last photo,i thought you were at a crossroad on which way to go and spoke my mind (even if that mind is dumb as dog shit)lol.maybe it is ,i dont think so though  |
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« Reply #186 on: February 09, 2006, 09:09:23 AM » |
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everyone has different tastes it makes the world a bit more interesting, it would suck if everyone drove their earlys as they left the factory, no offence to the restorers (I love originals to) but when you can add some personality to your car it sets it appart from the rest.
Its funny how many people will say "don't do that", then comment on how good it looks afterward.
Go tha wagons
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« Reply #187 on: February 09, 2006, 10:09:33 AM » |
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gee, i have seen that wagon before fcwgn, any chance of a few pics.
I worked back a little tonight but still got a patch in wich was the inner top of the rear pass side wheel arch, went slightly over the 8pm grinding and welding curfew the council gave me but the guy across the road is still grinding, hope I dont get the blame.
overtime brings good money but takes time away from the car, the balance currently is evenly bad, I used all my 5c peices to put fuel in the car today. payday tomorow, more parts and materials food and bourbon, woo hoo.
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« Reply #189 on: February 09, 2006, 11:44:35 AM » |
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Very very nice wagon Ben.... you should start a new thread with some larger pics of it and a bit of a story about it, so it doesn't get lost amongst Leon's post... Nick looking forward to hearing more about it |
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« Reply #190 on: February 09, 2006, 11:53:19 AM » |
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What?! A Tassie wagon in that scheme & I don't know about it. Must be getting old. Are you based North or South, Ben? Wagon looks great. One of my Pastrychefs was telling me of an FC wagon in Green & creme the other day, but I thought she must have meant my old wagon. I am in Hobart & keen to see more of that car. I apologise about the thread hijack, Leon.  Rob J |
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« Reply #191 on: February 27, 2006, 10:39:11 AM » |
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I know you guys are probably expecting too see filler and primer stages beginning but I am stiil gutting out rust, The nationals are starting too look out of the question, Ive been working pretty slow probably coz I am now completely sick of doing rust repairs after 12 months with 2 sundays off for the nostalgia drags and every other weekend doing rust. I no longer think about what the new engine will sound like or how cool the finnished car will look coming down the road, I just think of all the things I have missed through the year with all my time and money going into the car, I dont know how you guys do it. Any way, enough sobbing, I now have about 95% of the motor here and am stuck on working out my pushrod length with the new rocker, lifters, cam and head, I bought the steel yestrday to make the supercharger brackets. here is the latest pics.    Its amazing how much shape in these things are lead, at the bottom of its rear pillars it was nearly 1/2" thick  Here is a recent repair, looks rough but there will be another peice welded her to attach the guards to the cowl andmake the curves up around the bonnet corners  In the picture of the tailight area you may be just able to make out the frame for the new frenched tail light openning, not yet happy with the shape, needs more tweaking.  rear pass side weel arc is done I wanted to do this car by myself, its good in the end to say you did it yourself but at this stage and with what is left< If any one has any time Up there sleeve I could probably do with a hand, welding, stripping (paint)bogging, etc, it would be good to start squirting some primer around it soon and get it rolling again. once I get it in the shed I should be pretty rite to bog and sand through the night without too much hassle from the neighbours. car is currently drowning in the rain with all the weekends fresh welds and steel, the tarps have become pretty holly from sparks. Rain Sucks |
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« Reply #192 on: March 03, 2006, 11:28:55 AM » |
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Its on again, 12 months ago I took of a week for a tidy up, now 12 months later I seem to be behind were I thought I was 12 months ago thanks to all the hidden rust and extra stuff I decided to add through the year. A bit out of plan I put in for my holidays late and next week was the only week I could get off. This means I would have to form up the tail light areas, headlight and grill area, finnish the rust, sand, clean and bog the lot, do seat belts, finnish the motor, fix all the transmission leaks, make a crossmember and handbrake link, make the exhuast and source some efi extractors to suit a FC, sort out the brakes and steering, wire everything, primer, white on top, prep and paint subframe with washer and methanol tanks hidden but acsessable, rebuild and paint front end etc, etc all next week to attempt to get this thing to the nats. I had planned to get into a booth to paint the lower half on the 19th of march, a near impossible target since I was going to drive it there. any way, I thought the bottom of the back was finnished for rust repairs but I spotted a small crack in the lead, I decided to investigate and found what I find 100% of the time when I do this, rust holes on the outside skin and parts behind, I remade all this on the other side, should have expected the same on this side and taken a better look.   Looks like this sunday will be a flat out day, after last year my fingers are crossed tite as a nuns rusty nuts to keep the rain away for the week off. |
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« Reply #193 on: March 03, 2006, 08:42:21 PM » |
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Good luck with the rain, I am praying too, with next week off to do the ute, panel, rust and paint work.
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« Reply #194 on: March 04, 2006, 04:13:17 PM » |
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I apologise for hijacking your thread Leon,
Rob, I believe that Ben is in Launceston, or close to it. Bugger me if I didn't see that FJ ute today, whilst I was walking down a street near Launceston's City Park.
Once again, I apologise Leon.
Ol Girl
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« Reply #195 on: March 05, 2006, 09:34:07 AM » |
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Man this is taking forever, Today I finnished of the rust below the tailgate opening but then when I went to look behind I found more rust in the part behind wich extends from the rear pillar, I had made up a patch for the back of it as you can see in the previous photos it had rust aswell, however I didnt give it a thourough enough check and must have poked out a hole when I was cleaning it out and just didnt look probably because it was getting dark. on the other side this whole bit was remade back when the car was on its side. Being totally pissed of with rust I took a break from it and started doing a bit more tail light stuff. The passenger side bucket (?) is about 2/3's done and in the pic it is just sitting there not completely in its right spot, this is the inner tunnel kind of part with the lense screwed in to do a check up and make sure its not getting ugly.    |
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« Reply #196 on: March 06, 2006, 10:19:17 AM » |
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didnt get very far for 12 hours work, sick of the back I worked on the front today so the pic will not be for the faint hearted any way, I just put paint stripper on my doors and now cant find the hose connecter to wash it of, its set hard after a bit of a scraping. I want to go over the hole thing with striping discs, I bought the discs but cant find the rest of what I need to fit them to the buff with all the parts and dtuff packed into the garage. by today I wanted to have all the bog in the top half and subframe ready to prime but it didnt happen, guess its getting more on the definate side that she wont make it to the natoinals but I will give it a few more days before I chuck it in and finally take my boat out instead, tomorrow is the first day of my 5 day holiday break.  |
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« Reply #197 on: March 07, 2006, 09:24:40 AM » |
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1 holiday day down 4 days left, sure chews time fast, my understandably hasnt been real happy with all the time and money going on the car but today she came out and gave me a hand for about 45 mins going around all the edges with a cup brush. A little has been done on the front again and a little at the back. Weather has been good, a little sunburn, still crossing my figers as its now a little cloudy and windy, a day like today is what I wish I could save for the day I prime it, If that ever comes.   |
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« Reply #198 on: March 07, 2006, 10:02:07 AM » |
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If nothing else, at least the car is smiling  , I can't wait to see those cantered quads. |
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« Reply #199 on: March 08, 2006, 12:53:20 PM » |
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today was a pretty crappy day, I just about destroyed my tailights I spent most of yesterday I was working so I changed to the front of the car. I was upto the stage of shaping the leading edge around the grill and headlights but ended up stuffing that too.
I decided to go for some shopping therapy, hundreds of dollars later I bought some more vinyl, piping and windlace as well as some thinner rod for the front (8mm) wich should be much easier to work with. I also bought some threaded bar for my home made adjustable pushrod to figure out my pushrod length.
hopefully tomorow I will get something done.
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