Hi All
I have just arrived back from Tauranga with the rear cut and also a couple of strut tops The rear will be cut into sections to repair what areas are in the worst condition and the strut tops will replace the rusty ones that I have so it was a very succesful weekend I also caught some Jazz as Tauranga holds a Jazz music weekend every easter so in all I am a happy man and on the bonus side my better half managed to get in some shopping with her best freind so she returned to Auckland happy as well
Peter

from the right side

Inner right

across the rear

the left side

inner left

boot floor this does have some rust but it is minor

The left strut top

the right strut

As I have mentioned I have managed to locate a ew things for the car here are photos of what I have bought to date and this morning we are heading to Tauranga about 2 1/2 hours drive away to get a rear cut

Sorry about the colour it was like ths when I got it and I will repaint it and it will be rebuilt before going in te car 

This is a large tunnel from Palmside in Chistchurch

Well it has been a couple of good weeks. I have picked up the engine and gearbox, I have purchased a large gearbox tunnel which I will be picking up today and it looks like I have sourced a good rear cut and hopefully struttops which I will pick up this coming weekend. so we should see some serious progress in the coming weeks. Keep coming back to check on how I am going.
Peter

I have now had over 2400 visits to the site so to all of you I say thanks. I have not done much to the car except for cleaning off underseal and welding up the old bolt and paint drain holes and giving the floor a good coat of undercoat so I won't bother putting up any pics. However there has been a change of direction for the power plant I have purchased a 2.0 pinto with a 5speed box at a good price so it looks like she will be a rs2000 replica now. I will pick up the engine and box this weekend so will post pics next week when I get the engine home
Until then have a good week
Peter

All ford day Auckland

Hi guys here are some photos from the All Ford day at North Harbour Stadium.

Finished stripping the underseal on the L/H side passengers side floor and welded up the rust holes and gave it a coat of POR15 oher than that not too much achieved this weekend

the front inner and outer section showing the amount of welding I have had to do. It doesnt look tidy but when I cover it with under seal it will hide most of the bad stuff

the center section is not too rusty bt has a number of old bolt holes which needed to be filled

Th un cleaned rear section still to do this area

and with a coat of POR 15

Well I have finally managed to get something done this week. I have stripped the R/R footwell back to bare steel and POR15ed that area and started to clean off the L/H underside floor I have found a few rust spots here but thank fully I will be able to repair these with the mig welder.  However I have found a goodsized kink in the L/H chassis rail so will need to see what I can do about that. It looks like I will be needing to source a donor car to get some patch panels off. I have found a 4door runner with a 1600 and a 5speed so that is looking promising but it is in another city and I will need to go and check it out before I buy it and getting time off at the moment is difficult as I seem to be working 7 days a week.

half way through stripping the floor no rust located in this section

The ear section stripped prior to a final clean and paint

And with a good coating of POR15

Unfortunatley I have missed out on that 4 door so I will keep looking