FB Special project

EffBee · Post by **EffBee** » Thu Oct 16, 2014 7:27 pm

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

EffBee · Post by **EffBee** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 1:53 pm

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

EffBee · Post by **EffBee** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 10:33 pm

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

WesternWagon · Post by **WesternWagon** » Sat Nov 01, 2014 10:00 pm

Nice work mate, getting close.

Gazza

Post by **Blacky** » Sat Nov 01, 2014 11:17 pm

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 ....

Post by **WayneXG95** » Sun Nov 02, 2014 10:18 am

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

EffBee · Post by **EffBee** » Sun Nov 02, 2014 11:27 pm

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

EffBee · Post by **EffBee** » Sun Nov 08, 2015 11:11 pm

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

Post by **Blacky** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 12:29 am

Good to see you are still at it mate

parisian62 · Post by **parisian62** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 8:00 am

Great work

EffBee · Post by **EffBee** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 9:20 pm

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

EffBee · Post by **EffBee** » Wed Dec 23, 2015 6:26 pm

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