666DAN
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Yeah it's there for compliance
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Spotted this at VTNZ Porirua today!
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Bahaha, he asked last time but I had forgotten them. THIS TIME, I SWEAR
Hahahaha I will believe it when I see it
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Will there be stickers? My Esky needs one...
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Thanks brother! Next time you are in Best city I will take you for a "spirited" drive!
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I may need to send you the plates once they are made for that!!
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Yes this is something I have conflicting emotions about also.
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Not a huge update but an update none the less.
First off, yet another OS member has been generous enough to donate to this car! After seeing my pics and noticing my temporary oil cap he hooked me up with a spare one he had at the last OS meet!! Much love brother!
After searching for number late lights that don't cost $60 odd dollars each from Palmside I decided to go with some LED ones from Repco. They were a good price, look modern, are hella functional and don't look like shit. To me that is a win.
Next up with another functional piece of equipment. An aftermarket Tach. I have mounted it for funtion and IMO in the least horrible place I could.
I also put the first sticker on her. I'm not going to plaster decals everywhere but this one seems to fit the car really well.
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For my birthday my lady put my personalised plate on layby
Looking forward to getting it on the car once it is all paid!!-
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Colour is gorgeous and Hotwires are rad!
Love your work bro!
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Had a great time! U are all genuine gc's!
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+1 for SupplyRoom. Good food, good beer and good staff.
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Such a rad wagon getting along the road! Gave ya wave yesterday evening going around Paremata
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I will actually make this one!!
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Yep I am heading along in the Escort
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I love the community feel of this forum! LOWMK11/Andrew who was a complete stranger a part from talking on these pages said he had a rear bumper for my Escort and sent it down to me. He even did this with no cash exchanging hands.
Top bloke.
So seeing as I received the bumper I chucked it on. It is chrome rather than black like I had but I wanted to see what it looked like.
I love the chrome!!!
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I don't envy you having to scrape all the old underseal off. We are building a LS powered '57 4 door pillarless Belair at work and we have just finished scraping the underside. So worth it now the paint has gone on but still a dirty bastard of a job
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Great talking to you today! and again thank you so much for the bumper
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You sir a legend! Thank you so much
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You have PM good sir
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Dude that would be fantastic!
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Cheers, I really appreciate the kind words.
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4 doors is where its at!
Love it dude, can't wait to see it with colour on it
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I went today since I missed the drive there on Thursday. Not nearly as cool as hanging out with you cats tho xx
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On Thursday I headed to a Panel Beater that a mate recommended to me to get a quote, top bloke and really got enthused about my wee car. Got my quote and decided to pop down to The Surgery (where this was rebuilt) and see if the owner Mike would be interested in shedding some light on the history of my car.
Mike is a good man and at work we do The Surgery's exhaust work so when I said that I owned the car now he was thrilled. He talked me through a lot of what was done and I finally got the true figure of what was actually spent on this thing and I can tell you it was LOTS. We had a good chat, I told him what I paid for it and he told me I was an asshole, but went on to say he would dig out the build pics and put them on a disc for me and drop them off at work.
After leaving I stopped in at work to see the boys, we are currently building an exhaust system for a vintage Landcruiser The Surgery is building and the tailpipe was sitting back at The Surgery. Well I had no problem heading back to see Mike and he just so happened to be waiting at the computer to show me build pics of my car.
Holy shit some serious work went into this Escort body! The Engine and Gearbox were rebuilt and I should be getting all the receipts, I should also be getting the Upholstery receipts and when I asked Mike what he thinks I should do with the damage he said I should get a Crash Repair shop to pull it straight and then him and I should talk about him/The Surgery doing the repairs.
I am still unsure of who is more excited me or Mike. He is super stoked that it has a loving home.
In his words, He really likes me but hates me at the same time.
This brings us to today, what a fantastic afternoon for cruising with my ladies (Wife, 3 daughters and the Escort) in The Best City!
We started off heading from Whitby out to Makara Beach from J'ville side. Love NZ back roads, this wee gem just eats up the corners. Got to the beach, chilled out for a while then carried on through to Karori.
Cruised through Wellington and parked on the waterfront next to a Ford Galaxy and an Impala both of which had broken down! The Galaxy had a fucked Fuel Pump and the Impala was having Transmission issues.
We carried on around to Oriental Bay for a perv. You really can't beat Wellington on a good day!
Cruised home via SH1. 80km round trip for a Sunday arvo was awesome!
Couple of pics of The Black Pearl down at Makara
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Looking forward to getting it on the car once it is all paid!!
666DAN's 1980 Mk2 Escort
in Projects and Build Ups
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The rocker cover gasket has been leaking for some time but due to the summer season, working 6 days and having car events on most Sundays it has been put on the back burner.
bought my $7 gasket this week and then last night I got all motivated and decided to start pulling shit a part in order to paint the r/c while it was removed.
After a couple of hours and a cup or 2 of coffee I was happy with the prep'd surface.
Got up nice and early this morning and laid down a couple of layers of silver basecoat
I then layered on the anodized purple
and ended up with this
Chucked the gasket on and reinstalled
While I was waiting on paint drying I painted the rear bumper satin black to match the front
Pretty stoked with the outcome. I have intentions of relocating the battery, changing the route of the heater hose, painting or wrapping the extractors and getting some pretty HT leads but as with everything it all takes time.