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so many buttons to push and knobs to turn! well done kempy! you done gone and done it now.

Ah fuck wrong fucking thread! good work on the boot bro!

I'd ditch all the stickers and crap, with that bright bright paint, I think less is more. great car though mate, top work!

fuckin choice man.

that's my mates old man sitting with his Tbucket, real OSGC.

slowly getting there with the front screen, this thing had me shitting my pants at one point, WHAT HAVE I DONE!! etc. made a completely new lip for the dashboard side, using the new panel as a template cut a 12mm strip and welded it on welded up these holes looks like this after much fucking about. getting there. stuck the hinges and bonnet back on to have a look tonight. just need to get the last details matching up and trim the posts down to match and should be able weld it in. cheers

nice find, don't fuck it up!

Got to the show early Saturday, said hello to mr midnight uphols,(bug looked sick!) had a nice chat to mr azzurros, cheers bro, then I went and looked at some stuff before it got to hot, which was about 20 minutes later! pics to follow?

sweet.

so, usually I post up stuff when I thinks it's coming together well, but most of the time I've got no idea what I'm doing, like the last two days. start with this. I have not been looking forward to trying to seperate these. take a not quite as stuffed example. this panel was on the old baja I cut up, seems the short baja fibreglass bonnet needed some clearance. spot the diff this side is rough! started hammering it into shape. than I chopped this out, just past the old welds still trying to suss out the best way to stick it all back together. tried to save the dash side of the lip, but as you see.... so I guess I'll have to make a new one? I also sprayed some primer on the roof, for now, and cut out and patched the holes. trimmed the new panel up and had it blasted by the same crowd on henderson valley road. pulled the dash out, thought about cutting the lip off it as a doner. so now I've just got to make this all fit back together again. oh, and I welded up about 15 holes under the dash from radios and stuff over the years. was hoping to have this finished and back on the spit soon to finish up the sills. ah well!

Hi everyone, managed to get a few things done in the madness between christmas and new years. I folded the gutter seams back over the new metal, tidied up alot of small details like s few of the spot welds had burned right thought both layers of metal so I had to plug them up, tidied up the inside of the window, pretty happy. Stripped the bog off the weld to the rear of the sunroof, shit was over a cm deep in places. it's a bit of a mess, heaps of warpage, dents surface rust and even a nice rust hole to fix. Then the other day I finally bit the bullet and fixed my cockup were I had tried to weld up a 1 inch hole in the firewall, I think I had the welder on the wrong setting and just kept trying and trying to plug up the holes, but just blasted more and more holes in the flippin thing! so I cut it all out. and very carefully welded in a patch. much better! also, Santa (Beaver what a GC!) brought these up from kapiti for me. they fit good, are comfortable as and not nearly as fucked as I thought they would be. right i gotta go pack for a week of family camping, after which I'll be hanging out for more shed time! All the best for 2016 people!

must be the cleanest starlet in the world. very nice.

yes, yes you should.

finishing up the rear window. half way done. happy with the body lines all lining up. so many spot welds, so fast, so clean! and primed, still need to hammer the folds down. blind man would be happy to see it. still need to grind the welds under the vents, inside the engine bay, where the inner vent panel is welded to the firewall, ran out of time on the weekend. merry christmas everyone! hope you all have a good rest and don't drink to much!

That looks better.

yeah that's what i thought, a mate was all,"yeah nah, she'll be right, paint don't need much air" really? should be okay for the underneth bits?

better than than to small, I've only got a little supercheap 20ltr thing, not up to painting a car is it?

true, dem fancy camera people know all the tricks! I've been on the look out for a nice red myself, so I'm keen to see how this turns out. has been a great thread to follow, keep up the good work!

rossi red? I like it, no orange, just a nice deep red.

update time. Had to fix a heap of small problem with the doner panel just small fiddly stuff like this. where the ends were spot welded down. a tiny bit of rust and a bit of damage from taking it off the old car. did as much as I could before getting the inner and out vent panels sandblasted. I damaged three of these, wasn't as bad as I thought to fix. I also welded up the drill hole in the window frame, as I still have the spot welder i thought it will make a nicer job than big old plug welds, i was right. bit of a close up, only just see one spot weld on the side there. everything seems to line up! So I started welding it all in place, scary! not finished yet, should be done this week. getting there! that's the last of the rust in the shell done!

imagine what that would look like in matt black.

blue gun it is!

Seat belts points started in 61-62 on the tunnel I think? No number under the back seat? Cool car, good luck with the Wof man wombles.

Yep, checked the gun the other day, 4. 4mm or number 4, I don't know, just has a 4 on the tip. one of china's best. I'm going to give some primer a go soon so we'll see how that goes! I was looking at those wellmade guns at the paint shop the other day, was about $150, might be worth getting one.

This isn't a build or a restoration, it's a historical recreation! can't want to see more rusti.