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  1. Really? That is pretty rad! Where was it taken? I wonder how it got into the car. You wouldn't know of anyone who possibly owned it at some point? Rude card???
  2. The next bit was sorting the paint and dealing to the underside. Good ol Brigade Red was actually a pain to get correct but well worth the effort. Thanks to the budget rotisserie it made life much easier. We managed to prime and paint the underside over a long weekend. Once this was done the car came back home where it sat for some time. As we went into lock downs, I got busy on the panel beating. With only the bonnet and boot lid under my belt previously, I did what I thought was right and it came up pretty bloody well.
  3. While I was going through these bits of work, I managed to track down the original owner of the car. He still lived locally and managed to find me some photos of the car from when he had it. He sold it in 1996 as they had their first kid and were realizing how bad of an idea a two door car was for baby seats.
  4. Once in its little corner of the shop I removed the suspension and got her entirely in the nud. There wasn't a screw, bolt or nut left on it. I built a little rotisserie for it and was able to work on the underside nice and easy. The engine I pulled a few things off which quickly became everything. Everything looked great apart from a broken ring. After looking at all different options, I settled on going down the sandblasting route. Mainly because I didn't want to acid dip and remove all of the glues and sealants and also be unable to paint the areas that weren't accessible. Shaun at Plateau Sand & Soda Blasting in Upper Hutt was amazing. The car eventually went up to him where he carefully took the car back to bare metal, cleaned and etch primed her straight away. I got back a black shell and very thankful there were very few surprises. We blasted the exterior, engine bay and underside and left the interior as this wasn't suffering from surface rust hidden under the paint.
  5. Once I realized that we had to actually do this to the entire car, we took the car to Prestige Tuning and Motorsport where Chris and I quickly pulled the car apart. We were critical in our bagging and tagging of parts and screws. It was cool to see a bare rolling shell at the end of the day. I rented a small bit of workshop space from Ash at Kaizen Works and the car went there to be stripped even further.
  6. After the bonnet and a good number of months rest, we did the same thing to the boot.
  7. Almost 6 years since I last posted a build update... A lot has changed in those 6 years. Let me try and do some updates over the coming days. The car had a bunch of surface rust under the factory paint. It had been resprayed at some point but just thrown on over top of everything else. My good friend Zac Haar from Carboglass in Wellington called around. He suggested taking the bonnet off, taking it down to his shop and stripping the paint off, treating the rust and getting it looking new. If i liked the process, then I could do the entire car, if I hated it, I could put it back on and save to pay someone else to do it. I am the type of person who hates paying for things and would much rather have a go and fail, than to fork out hard earned dollars for something. This will definitely bite me later in the build, but you now know the type of person I am. Here are some more pics of her the day I got her, and some of the bonnet work. I am not sure I really enjoyed this work but please I was giving it a go.
  8. What a cool project Pete. I have just about finished my 1980 Sport build. Looking forward to seeing her painted! Well done.
  9. Reba, haha. I was going to have a look at that today. Nice looking car!!!
  10. Well, started giving the interior a bit of a clean while I decide what's going to be done first. Have a look at what I found!!! A photo of another Sport being worked on.
  11. Thanks mate. As I said earlier, bring on the cruising around Welly!
  12. I bought that book last month and it arrived here on Thursday. Perfect timing!!! Might just take you up on the 1.6 badge and I really appreciate the links. Where would be the best place too for the decals?
  13. Today was a great day. Thought I would go and see if the engine would turn over. I removed the spark plugs, checked oil and connected up a battery. A few taps on the starter and solenoid got the engine turning over nicely. I could hear it picking up speed and knew oil was starting to get around the engine and then the oil pressure light went out. Excellent. Well if that went well, let's try and fire her up... Back in went the plugs, some fresh fuel in the tank and I was flicking the key. Cranked with good, even compression but no start. I had fuel at the carb, but no spark. I have spent the last 16 years working on things with fuel injection/electronic ignitions so it took a little while to remember how a points ignition system worked. A bit of fault finding and found the points needed a good clean and adjustment. We have spark. Put the cap on the distributor, turned the key and she fired into life. Next test she passed with flying colours too, it moves. Brakes will want a bit of work to them and a new clutch but I am beyond happy!!! While she was out in the drive I gave her a quick wash. Video Proof
  14. Wow. That's awesome mate. Yea will do. Looks like the only bits I'm short on at the moment is some door cards, a clock and rear badges. Where abouts are you based?
  15. The previous owner bought it after it had a respray. It then sat in his garage as he originally bought it to turn it into a racer but could never bring himself to take an angle grinder near it as it was too tidy to throw wide guards etc on. So it sat for over 10 years in the corner of his garage collecting dust.
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