I believe this was "doomwagon 3". AKA Thunderbird 2 when painted.
I bought this off a lad in Loughborough. It had awful brakes and wyward steering. It was apaprently the only car he'd ever driven so he thought thery were all like that. Yeah, learnt to drive in this and everything. Anyway, I gave him sensible money for it and drove it away.
Odd thing is he lived on the same street my wife did when she lived in Loughborough. Small world.
First jobs were a couple of tie bar bushes to sort out the wobbly front end and IIRC a brake master cylinder.
This is "as bought"
Solid old thing but with some typical Vauxhall rot
So I set about it.
Bodywork was handled by me and a couple of mates including props to Adam for much of the welding.
followed by much of my expert plod-work
God knows what the right order for those photos should be...
Anyway, started doing a basic strip down
Then red lead
Then started with the colour. Now I ordered this in a correct for period "Oyster Grey" which is a non-metalic grey with a hit of blue in it. Looks great. However using a cheapass paint supplier and the fact this was in synthetic rather than celly means a rather odd colour discrepancy and the thing came out "bathroom green". But I kinda liked this "custom" shade....
Started by painting all the shuts and panel reverses
Notice correct use of paper dust mask, spraying outside, youthful AlistairK in short-quiff stage.... LOL
Then my mates Steve and Martin came round to help unwrap it and help with the clean up and polishing.
Then it was just a case of putting the trim, door cards, etc. back on / in it.
Red interior would have worked better with the grey, but hey!
Sold the thing not so long after this. Knew the guy who bought it as he was a Mopar club guy. He did a lot of work on the mechanical stuff and sold it on last year. No idea where it is now.
I bought this off a lad in Loughborough. It had awful brakes and wyward steering. It was apaprently the only car he'd ever driven so he thought thery were all like that. Yeah, learnt to drive in this and everything. Anyway, I gave him sensible money for it and drove it away.
Odd thing is he lived on the same street my wife did when she lived in Loughborough. Small world.
First jobs were a couple of tie bar bushes to sort out the wobbly front end and IIRC a brake master cylinder.
This is "as bought"
Solid old thing but with some typical Vauxhall rot
So I set about it.
Bodywork was handled by me and a couple of mates including props to Adam for much of the welding.
followed by much of my expert plod-work
God knows what the right order for those photos should be...
Anyway, started doing a basic strip down
Then red lead
Then started with the colour. Now I ordered this in a correct for period "Oyster Grey" which is a non-metalic grey with a hit of blue in it. Looks great. However using a cheapass paint supplier and the fact this was in synthetic rather than celly means a rather odd colour discrepancy and the thing came out "bathroom green". But I kinda liked this "custom" shade....
Started by painting all the shuts and panel reverses
Notice correct use of paper dust mask, spraying outside, youthful AlistairK in short-quiff stage.... LOL
Then my mates Steve and Martin came round to help unwrap it and help with the clean up and polishing.
Then it was just a case of putting the trim, door cards, etc. back on / in it.
Red interior would have worked better with the grey, but hey!
Sold the thing not so long after this. Knew the guy who bought it as he was a Mopar club guy. He did a lot of work on the mechanical stuff and sold it on last year. No idea where it is now.
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