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rust in front of lc

Started by _jamesl1600_ , Mar 30 2007 09:08 PM

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#1 _jamesl1600_

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Posted 30 March 2007 - 09:08 PM

hi brought the car a while ago, not long after i found a piece of tin covering this rust section.

me an dad tryed fibreglassing it up but are both not happy with how it turned out, so my question is are there any place i can get a replacment bit from either fibreglass or metal??

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also what is this bit called?

regards james

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#2 _jamesl1600_

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Posted 30 March 2007 - 09:15 PM

forgot to add im in Adelaide

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#3 orangeLJ

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Posted 30 March 2007 - 09:17 PM

the only way to fix that would be to
a) find a donor and cut and weld in a new section.

neatly remove the damaged section and fabricate a new panel. this is the harder one, but in the end you have NEW steel in there.

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#4 _jamesl1600_

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Posted 30 March 2007 - 09:23 PM

thanks for the quick reply orangelj, i have asked all the wreakers i could find no one has a doner car.

i rang rarespares an ask they said they sell fibregalss stone trays that will fix it, but a friend said thats not the stone tray.

any other ideas??

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#5 _why-psi_

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Posted 30 March 2007 - 09:45 PM

u can get fibreglass front aprons. although fibreglsaa to metal joins arent the best. search wreckers for one in better condition an cut it out an weld it in.

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#6 _jamesl1600_

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Posted 30 March 2007 - 09:54 PM

thanks why-psi, ill drive down u-pull it tomorrow an have a look. where do ya get the fibreglass front aprons from? thanks

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#7 _brocky_2006_

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Posted 31 March 2007 - 12:31 AM

look in general hb-lc-ta-lj under fibreglass i think front clips r 1200 not sure if they have finished making them yet.

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Posted 31 March 2007 - 11:36 AM

thats worse than my lower front apron!!! i am going to buy 1/2 front cut and remove ..but finding good one is the hardest part!!!
good luck finding one

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#9 _jamesl1600_

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Posted 31 March 2007 - 02:56 PM

its all good problem was solved 5 min ago, drove past a wreakers around the corner from me. he has a lc out the back, getting the whole front up to the the radiator good condition no big rust holes, bumper(no dents), front grill, 1 head light sorund, heater controls, an lower dash all for $250.

picking it up friday.

thanks for all the help :spoton:

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#10 shanegtr

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Posted 05 April 2007 - 03:14 PM

Would be nice if rares started making them in steel - I know I'd be up for one

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#11 _boynuz_

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Posted 06 April 2007 - 12:36 AM

Would be nice if rares started making them in steel - I know I'd be up for one

I emailed Les a few months ago and he told me that if he made them he would need to sell at least 300.
I put a post up about it and not many people showed interest.

They are nearly 40 years old so very hard to get second hand as they are all rusted out, The fiberglass one's are no good.

Maybe if the moderators made a thread and see how many people would be interested and we can send it to Les..

Cheers

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Posted 06 April 2007 - 09:10 AM

Theres a suggestion Mods, can we get a thread that counts the number of people that needs this part in steel - give Rares an idea how many they may sell?

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Posted 06 April 2007 - 11:47 AM

good idea ..i would buy 1

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#14 _boynuz_

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Posted 06 April 2007 - 08:11 PM

I have pm'd Dattoman will se if he can set something up.

Cheers

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#15 _gstar_

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Posted 06 April 2007 - 09:33 PM

Ill take one providing its less than $200

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#16 _les_

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Posted 08 April 2007 - 06:07 PM

We cannot make this panel ourselves economically so we sent a sample to Asia unfortunately the manufacture lost it and now does not want to make it. This is a panel we want to have made as we believe it would be a good start to making complete panels for older cars in Asia. We will persist with this panel and let you know of our progress. In the mean time we will look at a rust repair section for them

Les

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#17 _boynuz_

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Posted 08 April 2007 - 08:36 PM

I can't belive they lost the panel would be great if you can make them as they are one of the main panels that rust out even before the front floor pans.

Looks like will just have to wait and see what happens.

Thanks Les

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