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Bluebear01's 1983 1uz powered Toyota Crown


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It's been a while since I've shown the Crown any love, but we have put 20,000km on it since the motor swap. It hit the 400,000km mark the other day! I stopped for a pic at the exact spot it clocked over.

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Mechanically its been going like a champ, but the rust has been creeping up on me. Keen eyed viewers may notice the black boot, courtesy of @JustHarry. He's been helping me out with some relatively rust free panels from a decent donor car. The boot lower lip was gone and both back doors have some issues. The left rear is the worst with some big holes hiding behind the trim!

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Time to stop ignoring it I think. I've also got to clean up the right rear panel which has been in primer since I welded in some new metal 2 years ago, and the bumpers need a respray also.

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Bumpers off completes the bogan look! I kind of knew the bumper bars had a bit of rust on them, but man the front was bad! It's been holding moisture between the foam and the steel, pitting it badly and completely rotting away the clamping brackets.

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I've had the bumper bars blasted and gone and welded up the holes in the front one, next will be a bit of epoxy and making up some new brackets to put the skins on securely.

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