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Sweet as, I have a really good one here at the moment.

I'm busy trying to sort out why my 1300 GT is constantly running hotter than it should be.

I have some parts for these if you need any. Good luck with the project

If you need any parts, I have heaps. Local in CHCH also.

I found out what the hole in the roof was for. Another optional location for a radio antenna. I now have an original rubber bung to cover it, but i've also found an original antenna to fill the hole. So i'll use that and weld up the holes on the A-Pillar.

I'm having trouble remembering where I was up to.....

I bought a set of wheels. 13" SSR Formula Mesh in Gold with polished lip. All had original centre caps and valve caps. Wheels are near perfect, so very happy purchase they were. I just need to get the right size tyres now which isn't going to be as easy as i'd like.

The guards will need a slight pumping. I have thought about bolt on flares but finding the right shape etc is a bit more work that I need at the moment.

Hopefully these images work - Please let me know if they don't.

Seats are going to cost more than they're worth to fix. They're not that bad and it would involve a complete re-trim to fix them, so I'll leave that for now. I acquired a set of N600 seats in black with headrests. They might find their way into the car at some stage. I kinda like the blue/white interior for now.

I also needed a new steering wheel due to mine cracking when I bought it. It had a seized rear wheel bearing and I put too much pressure on the steering wheel trying to push the car. Thankfully a guy got hold of me who helped out significantly. N600 Steering wheel (MUCH nicer), a fourth hubcap, tools and Jack. It was awesome.

I've pieced the car pretty much back together now. I also went down to Oamaru to pick up a parts car. Got a few got bits off it, including a fuel cap which I desperately needed. I'm selling a few parts off it that I don't need. I think i've pretty much got rid of most of it to people I know, hah.

I have got heaps of little bits of interior plastics that I needed that mine were either missing or broken.

It's a shame it's not closer! I do need a few parts, but pickapart means removing parts yourself?

Do you know thier contact details?

Cheers.

Long time no update.

I have a new window, exciting stuff that. Actually feels like I have achieved something - going forwards, not backwards.

Whilst going over the car looking for surface rust to attack with some paint, I noticed a fully paint cracking crease in the roof, just above the B pillar. gave it a wee tap with a screwdriver handle to find it caved in effortlessly. [More backwards]. Was a perfect spherical hold cut into the roof and then patched up with bog. I don't know why. But now it's something else I need to get welded back into place. Which means the roof liner needs to come out - which I really don't want to considering how mint it actually is. Will probably never go back in the same way. To be completely honest, I don't even know where to start it taking it out! Damn you, well built 70's Japanese cars.

Little struck for spare cash at the moment so things are moving slowly....

I'm STILL waiting to hear back on a QUOTE to get my seats fixed up. I need them back so I can get the seatbelts made.

Once Ive got this surface rust sorted, i'll start re-assembling the vehicle getting it ready to take for re-vin and/or repair certification.

You have an MG?

I have 11 cars hah. But yea, 65 Midget.

How much you looking/got auction up? Missus might want one.

Im actually just setting up an auction on TM at the moment.

Looking at 15k, is very tidy/original spec'd but fully restored except roof.

Open to part trades for something cheap. Will be up on TM later tonight. Cheers

Hooray for new parts coming soon.

Managed to finally get a window made. For a good price too. That'll be ready next week. Still waiting to hear back about the seats. I need the seats back before I can order the new seat belts. as I need to measure the length of the stalk.

Going to get some material for the door cards over the weekend. I just need to find a very shallow stapler.

Not this car, but the Triumph will have a fully refreshed cooling system. Radiator be back next week too. Looking forward to having it available to drive again seeing as my daily driver seemed to be a target for thieves last night. Got the car back without all the stereo equipment.

So please, keep an eye out for a 12" Atomic Sub, Clif Designs Amplifier and Sony CD/MP3/USB Faceplate only.

Other car news, taking the Austin to work tomorrow for a leak down test to see what the #@$% is going on.

MG is still for sale, struggling to justify Trade Me's price increases in order to list it.

Civic, Awaiting some info to get it going again. Stupid Vacuum systems.

Commer, Collecting dust.

Other Austin, the gf doesn't believe it's exists cos she's never seen it. Thinks it's a cardboard cut-out :/

Fucken sweet filter your using on those pics.

love it

Cheers, just a simple android app that I like playing around with.

cheers Rich, will go check them out

Did you contact Patricks about the upholstery?

Anyway, I used 3mm hardboard (or high density fibreboard) when I made door cards from scratch. Doesn't absorb moisture like MDF does, and is stiffer.

yea I sent an enquirey through and they never replied.

Where would I get that type of board from Rich?

If you have a jigsaw get some 'clean cut' blades, even with the 3mm ply they will leave a nice smooth edge

btw sweet little car!

Cheers

Will see what i can find.

Thanks man. Will get some tomorrow hopefully.

Does anyone know where I can buy some board that the door cards are made from?

Have found that maybe something like 3mm MDF might be good?

Have gone and got some prices for the seatbelts. I've been given a choice in colours..... If I don't just settle for black, I'm looking at a nice light blue colour (Very 70's sty) that is very similar to the paint colour but a little lighter than the seats themselves.

Help me decide!?

Good price, so I just need to phone the order through.

I also dropped the seats off at a local upholsterer (Again, bigger companies didn't bother replying to my inquires, so my business goes elsewhere.)

He's going to strip down the worst seat and see what he can work with. He tells me they've been home sowed before and there may be very little material to work with. Will see how we get on....

Does anyone know where I can buy some board that the door cards are made from?

More photos, I must be bored. My kitchen looks like a wreckers yard.

Tail lights, before and after. A screw has rust seized in the bacl of the other tail light, may need to drill it out :/

And front grill. Will need more polishing.

Time for some random photos! Biches love photos.

On the way home from auction:

OMG, I just bought another car v - What I said the the GF once the auction had finished.

Teaser photos:

Halfway through stripping:

Original Sales Brochure: Complete with pictures of Luggage that would NEVER fit in this car.

Brand new parts! With JDM packaging and all.

What I've done tonight...

They did come twin carb on the 600 I think, but yea, mine is nothing like that.

Im just uploading some more photos into the build thread now.

I had the same with a lot of people in my CL1. Gathered a little respect from hters haha.

Both my ado16's are Austin 1300 GT's

You have an MG?

I have 11 cars hah. But yea, 65 Midget.

Finish other projects off..... I can't help myself. I picked up a 1969 Commer Camper a few weeks ago as well. Shits never ending.

Have decided to sell the MG though. Will free up some money and a small amount of room.

Rust repair.

Stage one, the body....

And what you see here is some of the rust that's been cut out. Long parts are the Sills.

So now, I need to find out what parts of this are actual structural rust and need to be Repair Certified. Which is another massive expense.

Later this week I'll have the Drivers door and both front gaurds back. Then it's just the passenger door and bonnet left

on my phone so cant real back but anybody know what the N series honda went for?

I bought the tidier Blue one for 'a few hundred' and the Yellow one went for $250.

I knew I wanted the blue one but the Yellow one was up for auction first, didnt want to end up buying the yellow one and then being restricted on how much money I had left to bid on the blue one. (As I didnt actually go to buy myself a car)

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Here is a list of prices from the auction:

http://www.christchurchauctions.co.nz/vehiclelist.html

As for the Skyline, I spoke to the guy who bought it and filled me in on the details. He told me he'd rather spend ~11k and have a car than $6.5k and not have a car. Was an interesting auction that one, the auctioneer dismissed a very late bid.

The Bellet GT Coupe was an absolute shocker. There was so much rust and so much damage and yet it still went for a massive price. Rumour had it, that someone wanted to buy the coupe and sedan and use the engine from the coupe. Don't actually know how that worked out however.

There was some very good bargains there, a lot of stuff needed a lot of work to be put back on the road. Red Corolla coupe was another my partner was looking at, but price just went too high.

I think the Lancer was a good buy, I spoke to the new owner briefly when I picked up my car.

You kind of wonder, who's done what to those cars - I know i'm waiting for parts off the Yellow N360 to pop up on Trade Me but that might never happen. But I've already spent some large money on the Honda already getting it ready for Re-Registration.

Everything was sold as-is, no idea if most of the cars would even turn over but I was happy to find some fuel and a jumpstart sprung the Honda into action.

I've bought myself a new windsceen, just in case I ever need one. It was brand new (Still in JDM packaging) and cheap.

Ive pulled the brakes apart, checked all the hoses, seals and linings as the MC was empty when I got the car.

Everything was in really good condition, so I bled some new fluid through the whole system and the brakes all work fine.

I waterblasted the floormats which would be ideally replaced due to holes in the driver foot well but it'll have to do for now.

Have started stipping the rear parcel tray and repainting actual black, not sunburnt grey...

Have had a little trouble finding the correct paint code for the vehicle though.

Found a spare rim now, wasnt as hard as I thought it would be.

But aside from that, Slowly but surely i'm finding things I want to replace. I need a side window, one was made of perspex and doesnt roll well with compliance, nor actual vision.

So, got onto it and started stripping it back.

Once this was done, I inspected it all for rust and decided what I was going to do with what. Seats etc

I gave the car a good waterblast with everything out of it and peeled back old sealer. Vacuumed all teh crap from the interior.

Also chucked a couple of new spark plugs in to help it run a little better, still needs to be correctly timed. Will probably replace the points at some stage too. But one thing at a time.

Ive got the seatbelts out ready to take down to Fiddymonts to get priced up and the seats are going to a local upholsterer on Tuesday.

One thing i've learnt is to go to the smaller companies for this type of work. All the bigger companies i have approached are simply not all that interested in helping.

I am still waiting to hear back from Smith and Smith about the window. They're pretty slack and misleading.

More updates to come!