davidian

new front end getting ready for new struts and springs

doing some exploratory work i found some shoddy past repairs up in the guards that needs urgent attention so im currently unstitching the panels to cut out the rot

cool as wagon allright dude. If you ever get rid of the steel rims giz a bell will ya

everyone’s got one or five of those ‘i shoulda kept that’ aye i wonder if a booster is needed for disk conversion? its gor drums all round at the mo. it is a fairly early one being 68

already got 'em

I don't hate that

yeah that's what I'm thinking. The rear left door will have to have rust repaired quite a bit but I'm taking photos as I go so I can restore all the signage by hand. The patina will likely stay, at least for quite sometime. The wife says it will need to make us money back, so if you see me selling burgers out the back come and buy one

Cheers man. I used to have an orange MK1 2 door which made an appearance at one of the ancient/early nats in Taupo in '07. It's actually my mate that's been recently looking for a 2door also and kept sending me escort ads to check out with him. After telling me to stop sending me the mentioned ads cause I will impulse buy something, the cup runneth over when he sent me the ad for this van. That was it I had to have it. It was basically an old fella's work van for many years in Hastings until it came off the road in 94. Rego was cancelled then. I have no idea what the go was for over 20 years until it was sold to a dude in Wellington who I bought it off. I may hit up the original owner or his family once this is going and chase up some of the story details. Shes got a rusty floor that needs fixing. Needs interior sorted, the seats are totally decayed as are the door cards and dash. In the process of refurbing a MK2 front end to fit in. If anyone knows if the MK2 crossmember takes the early mk1 control arms please let me know (they have 'track bar' things from the xmember going back rather than the mk2 style sway bar going forward) For the time being, i will keep the 1.1 as the money is too tight to go through compliance and low volume.

Spose I should chuck up a couple of pics for posterity's sake

Happened upon a chance to get back to Mk1 land, after a long time. Didn't think it would happen but stoked. Mightly 1100 with a rotten floor. Seeing it in the flesh its bloody awesome, lots and lots of character, runs strong albeit with slightly seized front drums. the Lazda is just about running and ready so this will be the next fun project. Good times.

pozdrav tomice, super ti je mici. nekako mi lichi na renoa 25 onako malo da bodykitom. super si se potrudio

been a while, she's almost going. here are some bad pix

finidng rims for these fwd (or any) fiats is seriously shit. i follow car/parts sites in europe (mostly Balkan) and you can get ANYTHING 13-18'' for 80-300 euro a set