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[Shadow17]

Hi my name is James I have been a member for a while and I have been loving all the info and projects that are up here especially the Marty report.

 I am 18 and live in Perth, a while ago I bought an lj 2 door to do up with my dad this is a long term project as dad has had a stroke and I thought that this would be good therapy to keep him busy and help him recover. (So I thought I should start a project thread)

Dad restored another lj for me as my first car as I love toranas, before he got sick, and I am looking forward to trying most of this one myself with his help and hopefully lots of advice from the members of this forum.

The car needs a lot of work with lots of rust in all the usual places and a few missing parts so it’s going to be a steep learning curve for me. I have started to strip the car down and find some parts that I need to complete the car.

The goal is to make it into an xu1 copy with a Holden v8 in it, I have already got the approval from the licensing department and I want to paint it Purr Pull.

 

[sibhs]

About time James, you'll do a great job of it.

Plenty of help here.

[N/A-PWR]

Excellent Work James,

 

Good on You for doing Your Torana Project,

 

Help is near.

and a Special Recovery for Dad

[Shadow17]

Thanks guys for the warm welcome and kind thoughts I will try to work out out to put some pics up

[N/A-PWR]

 Here You Go James:-

 

http://www.gmh-toran...e-2#entry762617

 

I will try to work out out to put some pics up

[Shadow17]

Thanks Dave Ill give it a try

[Shadow17]

This is what it looked like when we picked it up

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[Shadow17]

Transporting it home to begin the rebuild

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[limo]

welcome to the forum, looks good at first glace. be interesting to see more

[Shadow17]

After getting it home and starting to strip the car we found a few nasty areas that the last rebuild had just filled with bog. It was good fun getting the doors off and it saw me making my first custom tool for pin removal

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[LJ383]

Did you by this from place in Osborne park?

[Shadow17]

No it was in Welshpool

[Ice]

Welcome James
Hope your dad gets better nice look green torana in the pic tell us more about that one
Gene.

[N/A-PWR]

I remember the Grey Torana Picture, from around a Year ago James,

 

was the Hub Caps on the Wall, that rings the Bell

Great Job with the Pictures Mate

[Shadow17]

Thanks Dave it was your post that told me how to do the photo thing Ive got lots more that I will try and post later

Thanks Gene dad will take time to get better the green one is the one he rebuilt for my first car  

[N/A-PWR]

Great Man,

 

and looking forward.

 

Ive got lots more that I will try and post later

[Shadow17]

The original colour under a lot of filler

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[N/A-PWR]

not bad

 

 

 

Lucky

[Ice]

Nice clean qtr panel there James good sign of a good body

[Shadow17]

Thanks Gene I found quite a bit of rust in other spots so I will cut it out and replace i slowly starting in the boot for practice

[Shadow17]

Here are some of the nasty bits that I have found so far

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[Shadow17]

Started to cut the rust out of the passenger side of the boot. I have picked up a rare spares replacement section that I will trim to fit and weld into the boot. Whats the best product to protect the exposed rail and can someone tell me the best weld through primer?

 

Thanks

 

 

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[Shadow17]

this is what the interior was like, (dad was giving me a hand as best he could) I need to find a steering column for a floor shift as i am getting rid of the auto and putting in a 4 speed. Does anyone a column one they want to sell?

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