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This will be an intermittent and drawn out topic as time for cars outside work is hard to come by...

I wish I was this slow!

$200 Complete With hubbies Motor goes
Dream find! Good work.

Is she an auto?
I have a 1500 badge for you, PM me your address if you'd like it.
Fuel caps can be difficult, bit the ones on Isuzu KB/ Chev Luv are the same.

Cheers, keep us posted,
Matt.

Great work Ledmeter

It's good to see them being saved. Apart from the minor dings and scratches it looks good
Keep the pics coming
YP

Bonnet repaired, primed and back on car. Looks great but is still only about 90% good enough - upon return from Europe in July I will start the repairs on the remainder of the damage and put each panel into primer. Then all panels will be aligned, blocked & shaped, re-primed and then painted! After a nice in&out refinish in solid 2-part cream it will be decorated with wasp blue lacing along the sides, then a high-solid 2-part clear all over the outside of the car. I'm not sure how to rotate an image file sorry..

once again welcome to the nett mate you have got the bug i can see it when you start looking for bits let us know most are avail good bit of repairing there are you gonna be at merrimbula cheers davo

Ouch - sore neck......

**update**
After being in storage under a cover and under cover for a year,
I am pleased to announce that Suzie has come home! She is in fine shape with minimal spiders and bugs. A mouse seems to have lived in her passenger seat for a time.
I have taken the seats to the upholstery place for re-covering in plush dark red velvet. I bought plush red carpet to match. The brakes have been reconditioned as has the master cylinder. The interior is getting tidied up at the moment. The chrome shift selector plate was bad... but a bath in warm water, some soap and fine steel wool and a soft brass brush for the grooves later and she's shining like new!! Same for the ashtray.
I have the guards off and in at my work for straightening and shaping. I found a bonnet badge and member Farmer was kind enough to donate the 1500 badge and the missing trims. I'm off to order some clips after work tonight.
I'm so happy she's happening!
There are some mechanical bits I will need so I will post in the wanted section later.

Fan-Tastic! Great to hear you're into it.
Glad I could help, and I'll watch for the 'wanted' posts.

Make sure you take pics! (And post 'em!)

Cheers, Matt.

Hi all... a lot has happened and it's been ages since I was here last...anyhow update time. Engine has been tuned, new distributor setup installed, upholstery done, 70% installed, red velvet and plush carpet looking fab three panels are with slow panel beaters. No that's not a panelbeating technique, the guys are just slow.

ps looking for decent tail lamp surrounds plus maybe passenger side lens, a driver's side door lock cover, and does anybody know what goes beneath the glovebox? Is there supposed to be a shelf/compartment?

looks bloody great shaping up well , the parcel tray under the passenger side you can sort of see it in the picture of the gt just sold have a look at the replies , the taillights ...the chrome ..well most are r/s and need of chroming the tail lights put it on the wish list the drivers door I presume is the little sliding key arrangement?? make a list and put it on here there are some guys out there with spares to spread around cheers davo

My Sport has a front parcel shelf but I am unsure if any other models had them, apart from GT.

Well something used to be there, I can see something was bolted in under there and has been removed, and the space looks empty.

Sedans never had a tray under the dash from factory.
Only GT's without factory air con and later Sport's had them.
Sedans do have the mounting points tho, as this was all common between all models.

Hmm interesting! Well I wonder what used to be there? It's not just empty bolt holes, there are rubbings and markings showing something was once there. I guess I'll never know

May have had a tape player or even 8 track player fitted there, as we did in those days. I had a state of the are player in mine, would take 8 track as well as tape.

Hi led, good to see you're back at it. Seats look great!
Some people fitted GT shelves in there, easy job if you can find one. Gary Carter's auto has one fitted.
No spare ones here I'm afraid, but plenty of door lock covers. Rechroming is probably the go for light surrounds as Davo said.
Hopefully we will see you at the Tassie Nats!

Cheers, Matt.

It was cheaper to buy new rear lights from Dick than rechrome the old ones on Isabell, as most are pitted with pimples ect.

Geoff.

Well all the chrome had fallen off the horn ring, so I just faced it right back and polished it, it looks quite nice. Not as blinging as chrome was though. I'll try that on the tail lamp surrounds and see how it looks then.
Farmer if you have a lock cover, can I buy it?
Also I'll see about the tassie show, I'll come along with or without Belle as it's an arduous process. As we all know

Well that only took a month! Finally sent that door lock today.
Good idea about the hornring, '68 & later cars actually have dull silver rings to reduce glare. Safety feature!
Tail light surrounds may be fine too, there is one nice car with silver painted bumpers and it looks good.

Cheers, Matt.

Hello everyone!
A quick update - I ditched the electric fuel pump and restored my original pump. I even retrofitted a fuel filter to fit inside the original one! Now the car is purring. I've sent the gear shift shaft and button, along with the taillight surrounds, off to the plater's for rechroming.
But I have bad news! I had the passenger side front guard being repaired by a coworker.
I since left that job and the guy just won't return my calls!
I can't get in contact with him. I bumped into him once and he said he still had the guard - but this was ages ago.
Can anyone sell me a replacement guard? This is such a bummer.