Well most of you may not know me as I am new on here, I have just brought a (i think) 1965 notch (as an impulse buy of course). so here it is.







yes i have a slightly inquisitive dog




And yes that is a hole in the floor pan you see, at the moment i'm am flinstone powered







At the moment the only thing i have managed to do in the two days i have had it is to remove the seats, dash, instruments, having a fight with the steering wheel and removing the head and tail lights.

at the moment it seems my first step will to try and get the body separated from the half floorpan, any advice on this would be much appreciated

Zach

bit of work there mate.
but you will receive all the help you need,right here.
Welcome and good luck.

Zach I dont know if your dog is going to see you much over the next few months !! Good luck will be good to see your progress .Keep pics coming! cheers matt

Good on ya mate for saving another type 3 notch .
My best advise for you at this time is to take plenty of pics so as to give you a good referal when you come to reassembly plus bag and label where all those little items come from because trust me , come 3 months time when you look in that great bucket of screws and bits and bolts etc you will be seriosly scratching your head as to where the whing wang came from and as nice as your dog looks , he or she won't be much help .

Andrew

Third digit in the compliance plate is a 5 = 1965

Thanks guys, does anybody know of anywhere on here that shows the removal of the body from the floor pan? seems i'll have no problem getting the right hand side off considering its held on by rope. I've found already that you're right andrew, so many little screws. Finn is just looking forward to the day he gets to ride in it for now he's claimed sleeping in it. Thanks empi do you know what all the individual weights on the plate are?

Hi, and good luck
Max total weight = 1310kg , Max front axle load 550 kg and Max Rear axle load 790 kg
Cheers, Pat

go on ya mate for saving another one....that is one crazy hole in the floor!! I thought mine was bad!

will keep a look out for your progress mate!

Scarab (aka: Paul)

Will be good to see this old girl getting the treatment she deseves. Best of luvk with it mate!

Cheers Bill

Well



Yes I am one of those people that enjoy getting wet and cold on the water for fun, today i had my fireball delivered while at school

After that was out of the way it was back to working on the notch

Everything Clear from the dash apart from the indicator lever.









I. do admire how easy they have made it to take apart all in an hours good work


very surprisingly unless covered i haven't found that much filler and rust on the body, but the panels well that's a different story

Those front wheels look unique, not quite a stock style wheel I think??

That fireball (the boat) needs some TLC too or maybe a match?

Yeah the fireball is going to need a lot of TLC as does the notch and Tasmanian weather isn't helping at all...

Well I haven"t done much this week apart from taking the fuel tank out and I have started to clean up the spare floor pan. Starting to build up a bit of a tool collection as I am new to this I started off with next to none, i wonder when my father will realise that his grinder has gone missing . Still looking for a engine if any of you Tassie people have anything hiding that you want to sell I would be quite interested

wow can't believe that there seems to be no rust at all in the body yet the floor is completely gone

Yeah I'm hoping that's how it'll stay when I manage to get the glass and rubber seals off

hey mate, like your Selecta pic....

I guess thats the direction you are heading??

I personally like the lines of your two tone effect!! Nice!!

Scarab (aka: Paul)

Yeah i think that is the direction I am heading, i tested it out to see what it'd look like and those two colour look good on a notch i think. the only thing i wont be able to do is the rear indicators that wrap around as I don't have them

Zach.

Anybody have an idea on how to get this off? apart from having to cut it off.. it's fairly well rusted on.



After a few hours with the grinder my spare floor pan is starting to look promising. Although i still may need to find another pan.

looking forward to getting more garage space with the move coming up



soon I should hopefully be able to remove the body and start repairs to the existing pan

more updates coming soon.

Zach

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Originally posted by Scarab hey mate, like your Selecta pic.... I guess thats the direction you are heading?? I personally like the lines of your two tone effect!! Nice!! Scarab (aka: Paul)