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chaz
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Love your plans mate, will look cool.
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Was wondering when this was going to resurface  Looks like a fair bit of work there, just in time for winter too!  |
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Faster. Faster. Until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.
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ishan
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ah cant believe this is still about. I was originally going to get this but instead passed over the really obscure advert details to Reanimation about 3 years ago. The original owner was really weird! a little inspiration..  |
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COOOOL!
My first car was a 1975 Estate... Still got it but standing in a field now... Seeing yours, I realize that my Kadett are in a quite good condition actually... This encourages me to start restoring it again...
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194? Willys Jeep MB 1965 Volvo 544 Special 1968 Opel Rekord 1975 Opel Kadett Estate 1985 Mercedes-Benz 230E 1985 Datsun 720 King Cab 4x4 diesel 1997 Volvo S70 2.5SE (ex. "Volvo544special65" - changed to more reader friendly username. ) |
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wow, that's a whole lot of work you bought there, but nice car. I allways liked the kadett C series. Are you going to switch the engine?
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Omg!! Love it ;D. It looks finished already tbh, a bit of rat look lol  ;D What are your engine/drivetrain plans?? |
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78 Kadett C 2.0 8 valve turbo, holset, rust&other stuff..
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He's putting a Big Block Chevy in it and airride suspension, wait til you see it!!  |
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carmad
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cooooool!!!!!!!!!!!!! tho is that pizza gonna give up its rear axel  |
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Only just caught up with this thread on here! First off, Carmad, no, ideally that Pizza isn't giving up its axle...yet, and won't be if someone nice buys it off Dugong (still for sale) wink wink. Its a fair bit of work, but its a charming wee thing, a bit like the cat off Shrek. Its mostly been locked away (from me a lot of the time) in a string of indoor and outdoor locations while we experienced much drama finding and losing workspaces. With so much absence I was never gonna miss it. Coggers has been Godfather since day one anyway. He's gonna do it proud I know.  |
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 it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts |
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curse word, i chucked my front panel and wings in with the scrap, i should have kept them and given them to you coggers, the paint was fooked from the resin but they didn't have any rust on them   |
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78 Kadett C 2.0 8 valve turbo, holset, rust&other stuff..
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you did what?? have you seen what panels cost on dr-manta?
about the only place you can buy the front panels these days....
you should have kept them mate, or at least ebayed them for someone else to use. oh well.
love the car coggers. always thouhgt the kadett was a cool estate car. how's the hatch coming on?
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thats one rusty Kadett! But he's worth restoring, especially cause it's an estate. Good luck with it |
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Dec 19, 2009 17:00:15 GMT
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He's putting a Big Block Chevy in it and airride suspension, wait til you see it!! Oh Leigh I thought you were gonna keep that quiet man . The original owner was really weird! Hmm . Some of the 'repairs' I've found would bear that out . . curse word, I chucked my front panel and wings in with the scrap, I should have kept them and given them to you coggers Well before you chuck anything else in the skip , pm me will you ? ;D how's the hatch coming on? Sitting naked in a lockup whilst I try to find a decent painter , then it just needs all the nice shiny stuff put back on it Had a bit more poke at it the last few weeks . cut the front panel off  and offered up the new one with my spare wings just to have a look like..  Whipped the nsr window out to make sure the new seal I bought from Germany was correct - it was. But I can see now why most of the nsr/back corner is rotten..   A knackered window rubber + no rubber seal around the fuel tank filler neck = rain straight in and rotting out all the seams Can I get a 'Hooray' for the Bodgers ?!   ^^ That is where the nsr light would sit , you can see the hole underneath where the water has just leaked through and rotted the seam out . All covered with a nice skim of filler Chipped all the sound deadening pad things off the floors and it's not actually too bad ,just got a couple of holes to weld up there in the 'normal' Kadett/Chevette places. And I removed the front screen , pretty glad I did as most of the scuttle panel is goosed too - I best crack the welder open .. Oh and if anybody has a spare rubber thingy that goes around the top of the tank filler neck could you pm me please , ta muchly  Thanks for your interest guys |
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craig
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Dec 19, 2009 18:28:52 GMT
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I'm not sure i'd have the patients to do all the welding but glad it's in good hands. I'm sure it will look the nuts when your done.
How small is that rad! ;D
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Last Edit: Dec 19, 2009 18:29:13 GMT by craig
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Dec 20, 2009 13:58:51 GMT
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My estate is suffering in the rear window corners too Coggers!! Spent my week off playing spot the leak!! too all week lol. Starting to slowly take shape now, great stuff  |
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Dec 20, 2009 17:31:27 GMT
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Yeah thanks Adam , haven't had any experience of Chev/Kad estates so wasn't sure whether rear window rot was common or not on them tbh.. Few pics from today , was going to fire the welder up but managed to blow the fuse in it . Twice. Drivers side scuttle  middle bit..  Passenger side  Drivers side middle window , poor pic but it's solid thankfully  Passenger side middle window - knackered   As previously mentioned , chipped all the soundproof pads off the floor - what a great job that was , wish I could do that for a living .. Offside gone in the normal places  Nearside needs a weld too  Rear section of floor looks okayish , someone's been here before me though   more to come |
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carmad
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some work to do there mate
were is the thread of your 73 firenza?
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Dec 21, 2009 13:08:52 GMT
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Would you be interested in a whole scuttle panel ??
How about complete with screen pillars??
Doors?
I still have the red 4dr saloon from bay of E that needs scrapping soon.
I was going to cut it out and keep it "just in case" as its in perfect condition, but your needs look to be greater than mine!
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Sittin' here in a hired tuxedo. Wanna see my bacon torpedo?
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Reet then , bit of work done today. The scuttle panel/a pillars were goosed if you recall. So young Foggy was called into action . He had a simple brief. 'Reet Foogy son . Chop this oot and that oot and if you XXXX it up I'll chin ya'So no pressure on young Foggy then .. drivers side got it first   Now I'm not normally a nervous chap but I can assure you that me  was twitching like a rabbit's nostril at this point . Then the A pillar bit was cut from the scuttle..  Then a bit of a clean up  and repeat for t'other side.. I'd recently bought 3.8% worth of Curryracers saloon that he was breaking -  sooo plan is to cut that ^^ into three sections ( two pillar pieces and the scuttle ) and weld the blighters in at a later date Oh yeah and Foggy hoiked the scuttle off too.. Actually I'm only kidding about Foggy , he's a panel beater and he certainly knows a lot more than me so I left him to work it out for himself , although I did manage to eat three Penguin biccies and offer some moral support whilst he was cutting ..  Yes this is the drivers door , yes the filler is that thick . This door shall be returning as a bean tin sometime in the not too distant future , a better replacement beckons..  In slightly more exciting news a parcel turned up the other day containing Darcy's old suspension. If the estate turns out with a stance like Darcys saloon did I'll be a happy chappy.  So I got some loooooooow Mattzel springs , already have an extra coil off the rears . Fair enough , when I fitted my lowered springs to my hatch the back end was up slightly so one coil removed and it sat nice and level. They're a shotblast and paint away from being hunky dory.  Nearly new Spax Krypton adjustable thingies for the front and not new in the slightest rear Bilsteins . Bilsteins could perhaps benefit from a lick of paint and some new bushes ( well , any bushes ! )  All for £100 ? Bargainous seeing as I would have paid more than that just for springs alone. Whilst at filthyjohns we shifted obsol33t's Viva HB to the other side of the unit , needs a bit of tlc but a nice little car , great shape to them in my humble opnion.  And that was todays adventure but just remember guys and girls when everything is getting on top of you -----------  |
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