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Ghost's 1985 Isuzu Piazza


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Started cleaning my car and getting it ready for a WOF about a year ago and found a few horrors, I need to document this so I get some motivation to complete..

It actually didn't look too bad on the surface when I got it, they somehow managed to keep a WOF on it:

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Had a good few months fun driving it around before the WOF expired, then it sat in the shed...

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Well I found what anyone would expect, rust, and lots of it..

Started off reasonably minor, Isuzu must have known they would rust here because they cam factory with a nice plastic bit of trim that hides this:

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Not the end of the world:

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Getting a little hard to reach:

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Not really sure what was holding the bumper on, a good pot hole would have finished this off:

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Thats a pretty big hole....

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So by the end of the afternoon I had taken a nice driving car and pulled all the lower trim off, once again I am getting in over my head trying to fix too many issues at once.

Anyone that knows my family knows we have a lifetime of projects in the shed that started with a few rust repairs...

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Yeah i'm hopeless, I got distracted buying other cars and didnt work on this for a while..

Just a little side swiped, too good to use for parts (so I guess I will have to fix this one up too..)

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^ and I only purchased that car because the same guy was selling this (little did I know when I made the offer to buy both they were in different islands...)

JR130 Isuzu Piazza with an Isuzu G200W Twin Cam engine, like all good 60's Japanese engines this can trace its roots back to the UK, specifically the "Rootes Group" of engines AFAIK:

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Sadly this one was left outside for a few years so has developed quite a lot of rust (and the interior rotted out), really on the fence of whether this should be repaired or just move the drivetrain accross to a better body..

The water pumps bearings have failed and in the process of removing it we managed to snap a bolt off in the block, nothing is ever easy is it?

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