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  1. I did manage to force myself to get something done to the actual project car the last 6 months though. Managed to find a torque tube rubber mount in Australia, now installed so the car can finally move under its own power again. Cleaned up the front left guard and drowned the thing in fish oil: Reassembled the rear bumper installed, didnt realise the numerplate lights went between the steel bracket and the plastic until after I put it on the car the first time.. Drowned that in fish oil too: Test fitted the front bumper, amazingly everythig lines up! Now I just need to finish panel beating the front right guard, a spot of rust by the fuel flap and clean up the hatch and it will be ready for paint.
  2. ^ and I only purchased that car because the same guy was selling this (little did I know when I made the offer to buy both they were in different islands...) JR130 Isuzu Piazza with an Isuzu G200W Twin Cam engine, like all good 60's Japanese engines this can trace its roots back to the UK, specifically the "Rootes Group" of engines AFAIK: Sadly this one was left outside for a few years so has developed quite a lot of rust (and the interior rotted out), really on the fence of whether this should be repaired or just move the drivetrain accross to a better body.. The water pumps bearings have failed and in the process of removing it we managed to snap a bolt off in the block, nothing is ever easy is it?
  3. Yeah i'm hopeless, I got distracted buying other cars and didnt work on this for a while.. Just a little side swiped, too good to use for parts (so I guess I will have to fix this one up too..)
  4. Well dark, it's cold and it's raining.. But I got my free shake!
  5. Anyone still doing this? I'll going to get my free shake tomorrow whether anyone comes or not:
  6. Gave the underside a bit of a Dulux overhaul, everything was getting a little brown down there..
  7. Started looking at rust under the car, found the torque tube rubber mount had split on both sides =( Not sure if I will still find a replacement for this, next weeks challenge..
  8. Bumper brackets sandblasted and painted Covered everything in fish oil, hopefully slows down the rust...
  9. Will I actually finish this project? It's always easier in theory right..
  10. First I had to find some donor parts, the bumper mounts were well past saving economically by this stage: Thankfully me and @piazzanoob have been saving a few parts up of the last couple of years, out came the poor rotten black parts car for bumper parts: Also managed to get my old mate to clean up the huge rust hole, it's now about twice as thick as it should be so hopefully will outlast the rest of the car.. Then my 2020 Holiday ran out, that year turned out to be a bit of a write off and so the car sat untouched until a few weeks ago....
  11. Well I found what anyone would expect, rust, and lots of it.. Started off reasonably minor, Isuzu must have known they would rust here because they cam factory with a nice plastic bit of trim that hides this: Not the end of the world: Getting a little hard to reach: Not really sure what was holding the bumper on, a good pot hole would have finished this off: Thats a pretty big hole.... So by the end of the afternoon I had taken a nice driving car and pulled all the lower trim off, once again I am getting in over my head trying to fix too many issues at once. Anyone that knows my family knows we have a lifetime of projects in the shed that started with a few rust repairs...
  12. Started cleaning my car and getting it ready for a WOF about a year ago and found a few horrors, I need to document this so I get some motivation to complete.. It actually didn't look too bad on the surface when I got it, they somehow managed to keep a WOF on it: Had a good few months fun driving it around before the WOF expired, then it sat in the shed...
  13. I won't be able to make it to drags but will make to burgers
  14. Will be there in whatever I can get started tomorrow morning...
  15. I'm in if I remember, someone should tag me on the day..
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