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Post by Walter Glaser on Mar 18, 2017 20:35:40 GMT -8
Am I the only person in Australia with 3 x T34s?? What would a therapist say about this? Don't know, but my answer would be, hey I'm dominating the market. If there are 40 T34's in Australia, then I would have 7.5% market share. I sound like a lunatic justifying my insanity.
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Post by Walter Glaser on Mar 18, 2017 20:42:38 GMT -8
In October the boys at SVCR strip the body back with paint stripper.
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Post by Walter Glaser on Mar 18, 2017 22:57:35 GMT -8
November, SVCR start working on the engine bay of the body, unfortunately badly butchered.
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Post by Walter Glaser on Mar 18, 2017 23:00:08 GMT -8
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Post by Walter Glaser on Mar 18, 2017 23:13:04 GMT -8
So inner engine bay panels fit, now let's sort out the rear apron. Unfortunately the rear apron from T34-3 was also in a bad accident and was full of nicky/bog/filler/bondo whatever you ant to call it. So we use a NOS apron I bought and repair the quarter panels. The quarter panels are repaired by oxy welding in new metal, so it an be dressed up with a hammer and dolly. Trial fit, still need to do some more work to the quarter panels.
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Post by Walter Glaser on Mar 18, 2017 23:26:06 GMT -8
To continue with the fitting of the rear apron I need this rear engine piece, it was removed from the T34-2 body, the one in T34-3 was rusted away, I didn't want to chop up the body of T34-1. So I put the feelers out.
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Post by Walter Glaser on Mar 18, 2017 23:28:31 GMT -8
Low and behold, there's one in Holland. Pieter Grabijn kindly gives it to me. However it is too long to freight cheaply so he cuts it and sends it.
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Post by Walter Glaser on Mar 18, 2017 23:41:26 GMT -8
However it still needs some rust repairs and needs to be joined together. So it's all nicely oxy welded together.
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Post by Walter Glaser on Mar 18, 2017 23:42:31 GMT -8
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Post by Walter Glaser on Mar 18, 2017 23:52:43 GMT -8
After some rust repairs the engine bay is finished. Yee haa! The boys want to paint it first before its all welded together and installed so paint can get into all the nooks and crannies to prevent any corrosion.
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Post by Walter Glaser on Mar 19, 2017 0:01:07 GMT -8
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Post by Walter Glaser on Mar 19, 2017 1:21:08 GMT -8
Now I'm at a cross roads.
Do I use the body to be my teak car?
or do I use the body and build a sea blue car like T34-3 was and shelve the teak for a few years?
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Post by Walter Glaser on Mar 25, 2017 23:14:19 GMT -8
Well, I made my mind up. No body swap for the teak. I'm shelving the Teak for a few more years. All systems go on restoring a 1965 sea blue 1500s T34. T34-2 & T34-3 are both originally sea blue. Birth certificate on its way. So this is the end of the RHD 1966 teak T34 thread for now.
I'll start the new thread for the 1965 sea blue 1500s T34.
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