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Paint I decided on was red, but nothing like the faded ugly terrible red that was once on it. I picked velocity red (with gold syrelic pearl) similar to the rx8 red, looks very candyish. Very low key colour its completely different under sunlight. While having the panel done I had my battery box removed and smoothed, as well as the firewall touched up a bit with brakeline holders gone. Battery is now going to be moved to the boot.

Skip forward various months and my car has been at the paint shop receiving more panel and prep, which at the end got logged at over 150hours. >_< The car was stripped by me to a bare rolling shell, no interior, underseal, front end dropped out, steering column taken out, you name it. The only thing left was the rear end and a bit of wiring loom. Full inside and outside spray was on the cards, mainly because most of the interior is actually metal and the same colour as exterior of the car. Didn't really get any pics during apart from this one Meanwhile, was having a long hard think about what wheels to put on the wagon. I had decided that I was going to look for some simmons, preferably 15-16" Would have to buy them second hand, especially if I wanted 15s because they were no longer made, and new simmons cost $3000+.

After struggling to find an uncracked dash pad (impossible) or one that was even recoverable.. I purchased a brand new one off ebay for around $250 usd >_<

Bottom of the guards got done To And the tailgate got a entire new bottom lip(bottom 1") for it. *Have now changed my front end from the one seen in the pics up the top (flat front) To a late model point front, I found a NOS bonnet so was very happy with the condition to say the least. Car after prime with new bonnet on it Have bought new rubbers off ebay for front and rear windscreens

Sills off. Fixed New sill on. More During Fixed End result.

So the rust situation was worse than first thought A lot of bog hiding a lot of rust... operation : remove bog and rust, replace with new metal. Too many pictures and details to go into so i'll just put up a few. Guards were taken off. Behind the front guards we found this.. Upon further inspection this is what the full extent was. Time to start fixing. End result. So the sills had a bit of bog in them, wonder what was behind it?

Meanwhile I found a parts car on trademe and hauled her up from Otago (to Christchurch) using jeffs. With 4 flat tyres and no engine Parts car Parts car Parts garage

Taking it to a guy who was going to do some rust work for me.

This has been my project now for 2 years and have decided to try document the progress and stages it has/is going through. 1972 Toyota Corolla 2dr wagon (ke26) Wanted one for ages but couldn't find one for sale, one finally popped up in the buy sell. Went and checked it out. Average red pretty much enamel paint job, 15"advanti flash mags :vom: 1 monza bucket seat :vom: king springs ke70 diffhead k50 5 speed gearbox 5k engine with twin sides, race cam, extractors to a straight through 2.25" exhaust. Solid lifters and about $600 head work with larger intake and exhaust ports. Bought it off a mechanic and the drivetrain was great, but the body was piss poor. Obvious dents and rust with a primer patch on each lower guard rusting through where a plate had previously been welded over. My mission was a panel and paint, but it ended up taking a bit longer than that (1 year) and in that time it had extensive panel and prep, and my plans changed to pretty much changing the entire car to my own, and to build a very nice looking street car without getting too carried away. A few pics of how it was when I bought it; Messy Starting to take her apart

Seems like it I'll start a project thread up for my ke its nearly done

Cheers mate yours turned out mint, i'll try there tomorrow.

Where's a good panelbeating outfit that will do bumpers? I've got steel bumpers that have been dipped to remove all chrome etc and now they need small pindents taken out. Went into two panelbeaters the other day and they said they would rather not do them... Not wasting my time anymore so wondering if anyones had experience in getting their bumpers touched up before rechroming? Cheers

Yo thanks for the replies an the offer runamuck. Found someone willing to do it mid January so all going well she should be on the road by the end of January, will have to post a thread up in the projects section.

After someone who is handy with wiring or electrical work in chch region and is keen on making some cash! $ Can't really take into an auto sparky because they all full before xmas and I can't really move my car as it is... Putting together my ke26 and need a hand wiring it back up, wiring a bit messy Dash loom + most of engine. Engine is just a k series, nothing too extreme. PM me or 0274911364 Need this sorted asap

My bet is all theminiman read was the topic and then posted that, his post makes sense that way

My bad that will teach me for skim reading. For some reason I thought the 2t was turbed so was wondering why it was chosen over the 3tGTE but I see it's NA Good choice then, looks mint bet it goes nuts and sounds beaut.

What was the reason for the 2t over the 3t?