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 Moulie175
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Ground up Restoration - Where to start ?
Just bought a 56 Oval in need of a complete restoration. I plan on doing most of the work myself and learning as I go along. I've bought all the book
though don't have them yet but can anyone who's done this before at home tell me a good order to start with ?
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| posted on May 16th, 2008 at 03:06 PM |
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Start at the ground and work ...... up ......?
You could do worse than reading dasdubber's 63 ragtop resto thread here:
http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=21201&page=1
hth
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| posted on May 16th, 2008 at 03:22 PM |
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Seperate pan from body
HAve a look at this
http://www.manxgallery.org/gallery/album95?page=1
they are the pictures from Alan (Dasdubber) rag
Go to any of Dasdubbers posts in mambers rides and copy what he does
Also look here
http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=24785&page=1#pid190416
Jon had NO experience and has done a wonderful job
He did some night tech courses
Have a look at the panel beating and channel replacement
Brilliant
Good luck
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| posted on May 16th, 2008 at 08:27 PM |
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ah so u got Judys oval
i had dibs on that bug for years LOL and of coarse it came up for sale at just the wrong time
good to see it went to a good home
GL with the resto
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Moulie175
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| posted on May 16th, 2008 at 09:59 PM |
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Yeah Dub74L it has definitely gone to a good home. Got it shipped down to sydney and recieved it today. Big job ahead of me but can't wait. I check
out the classifieds maybe once a month a just checked at the right time to see it for sale. I hadn't planned on doing this for a couple years to come
but when you see the opportunity you have to take them. All the best mate.
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| posted on May 18th, 2008 at 03:55 PM |
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[size=5]Hi M....Glad to see my girl is going to a good home...Annie was going to be my resto but I bought another in better nic than Annie...am sopleased you have joined here...now I can keep in contact with her ...keep me posted ...Judy[/size]
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| posted on May 19th, 2008 at 07:41 AM |
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If you have not done something like this before I would start with the 4 guards
Unbolt them and remove the healights and taillights
Paint strip back to bare metal inside out out and do the repairs / welding filling etc etc on these
appy 2 pak undercoat and put into storage and see how long this has taken
dont go pull or stripping the entire car and get dis heartened with the project as it will take up lots of room
so of my project have taken several years to do depeneding on time and funds available 15 years for the Sea Blue 3 years for the Orange smoothie
3 1/2 years for the 56 Oval so this will give you an idea
then when there complete do the engine lid and bonnent same as above
then the doors
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| posted on May 19th, 2008 at 08:02 AM |
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Good advice Dave
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| posted on May 19th, 2008 at 09:37 AM |
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Buy lots of those zip-lock freezer bags and a big black texta pen; put all the nuts and bolts in them as you take them off the car and write what the
bolts etc came off
Pay your debts, CxxT
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| posted on May 19th, 2008 at 09:39 AM |
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for got to say you also have to work out how you want the car either stock or modified do you have all the right bits to do the correct
resto and if you dont makea listing of the bits need and you can start shopping for them while yr doing the guards
also if your going to take it back to stock or modify the car you can start purchasing all the rubbers and trim panels and necessary bits dto do
the assy when after you have the car painted then it wont be a big cash outlay all in one go
I suggest you get a WCM catalogue from Vintage 02-9789-1777 and usea highlighter pen to mark each part number thats applicable to your year model
car and body type then you can start buying these and or deciding if your going to use the old ones or buy
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| posted on May 19th, 2008 at 10:14 AM |
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If you have never welded before and are plannning on tackling this yourself i would reacomend doing a TAFE evening coarse , they even have a Basic
panel beating coarse.
Don't let body work get in the way of real suspension travel
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