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A very rusty z.

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thriller:
My new old car.



An interesting place for rust:

Passenger side is pretty well shot to shiver.

Sneaky hole underneath the passenger fender

Finally part of the car without rust:

Engine bay looks tidier than the rest of the car

Almost complete lack of passenger floor. This is a little bit concerning as I don't think the standard replacement floors reach this far back. Might have to find someone splitting up a shell and get a donor patch

After a few hours with the car I had a bit of a poke under a tiny hole I'd spotted, opened it up a bit and found a bit of a nightmare... The worst thing is I have no idea the extent of the rust under here



Anyway now onto the actual work. I've started stripping the bonnet back using one of those 3M strip discs (drill type. bunnings didn't have the grinder one last time I went?) and it's taking a very long time because there seems to be more than a few layers of paint on the bonnet. It seems to go metal-factory red-primer-red respray-primer. Would I be better off using chemical stripper for this? Doesn't seem like a problem on any of the other panels, they all strip back quickly.

dat2kman:
Will be interesting to see how the top inner rails are like, when you remove the front guards.

This will for sure give you a bit of work to do.
At least the air cleaners on the carbs look good!

Sirpent:
Welcome.

What 3 letters would better describe your journey other than

OMG !

thriller:
Yeah, guards will be coming off as soon as the bonnet is stripped bare. Hopefully won't be in for too big a shock.

No better way to learn something than to dive in headfirst... Before my last car I didn't know how to do an oil change, two months later and I decided to finally swap swap the trans over from auto-manual


At least there's enough metal to bolt the flares onto, that's a good start hahaha. Anyway; the z bug has bitten me. Well and truly in love with this bucket of rust.

EDIT: I should also mention I want to aim to get this registered with S.A.'s historic registration scheme. Not sure how the sunroof will go with that, but even if I have to replace the roof skin, the difference in cost between historic and normal will pay for the roofskin in just one year. Build #1001 too

mossy:
Thats a lot of rust, good luck with it mate, hopefully it doesn't turn into a basket case for you.

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