LC 2Door S Project to XU1
#1 _squirralien_
Posted 06 June 2008 - 03:01 PM
I will make it look right and get a motor built to as close to xu1 specs that I can and get it on the road as soon as I can realisticly and add things like the triple carbs and bathurst tank later as they become available to the budget.
Apart from getting some media blasting done I will do all the body work and interior will be done through a friend and mechanical will be done with a friend helping apart from the engineering work to the head and block.
Now the budget is money I get from selling another vehicle so I am doing the most expensive parts of the job with that and see how we go. My time is limited on the project as I also have a disabled daughter that I spend a lot of time with and if you want to read her story it is at www.melissas.net its a must read for parents, well for anyone as the message is don't let doctors tell you that a siezure isn't a seizure or that it's not dangerous,, anyway back to the topic.
I am not sure how this will work but here is a link to my photobucket slideshow, If it doesn't work I will change it.
I would be interested to find some locals with the same interest, im in Adelaide.
#2 _Skapinad_
Posted 06 June 2008 - 04:01 PM
#3 _squirralien_
Posted 06 June 2008 - 04:10 PM
#4
Posted 06 June 2008 - 04:20 PM
my gtr is done in yellow dolly and i love it! nice and bright, and stands out too.
#5
Posted 06 June 2008 - 04:26 PM
Thats horrible. And im caught between wanting to break things in anger and wanting to ball my eyes out for you guys.
Hospitals can be horrible places. My great uncle is now mentally and physically disabled due to incompetency of a hospital on the north coast of NSW.
It cant be easy to deal with, but good on you for soldiering on.
Welcome to GMH torana.
Looks like you have a great base for what you want to accomplish, pity about the sunroof hole though!
Cheers,
Chris
#6 _squirralien_
Posted 06 June 2008 - 04:38 PM
Yes its not a nice story but it happens and there is nothing to be done than to get on with it and do the best for the ones we love,,
I am considering repairing the hole but the wreckers so far have all wanted $80 for a small piece of roof steel, its not that I can't affor that but more the principal, I won't pay 80 for a piece of metal when the shell is already cut to bits, understandable if the shell was complete and good, I just wouldn't cut it out. maybe Ill find one somewhere that is stuffed and I can get the small bit of the roof skin and then Ill repair it. maybe the wrong attitude but I just can't get past $80 for a piece of steel thats would otherwise be useless to the wrecker. Maybe Ill overcome that attitude in time when I have to make the disicion to repair or sunroof the hole.
I have started to UNflair the guards, Ill add the photos when I take them
#7 _P51_
Posted 06 June 2008 - 05:13 PM
Just plug away and don't get discoraged by small hurdles, most can be overcome, as im sure you know all too well..........
#8 _rorym_
Posted 06 June 2008 - 05:30 PM
There was a LC GTR in the Canberra Club, I think, called Toll Yellow that was a real washed out colour.Yes I also love the yellow, but theres a yellow thats very washed out and I am not so keen on that one, Yellow dolly for mine I think,
R
#9
Posted 06 June 2008 - 06:43 PM
#10 _squirralien_
Posted 06 June 2008 - 07:19 PM
#11 _Skapinad_
Posted 06 June 2008 - 08:47 PM
My sister works in the emergency department of a major hospital, and mother has worked with specialists all her life. I cannot believe that their would have been that level of neglect for extended periods. I am sure they would have done everything in their powers to maintain her life, and regardless of who was or wasnt right, I think for you personally , that moving on and enjoying life, as it would seem you are trying to do, would be the best thing...
Hopefully this is not offensive to you, I am simply giving you my honest opinion, and from the bottom of my heart, I wish you and your family the best for the future.....
As a side note... and this is way off topic for members projects, and indeed this thread.... but as i am expecting (well the wife is anyway).. I have elected at considerable expense to harvest cord blood stem cells for long term storage... has anyone had any experience in this..? and steven, do you think this technology could have benefited Melissa ?
Adam
Edited by skapinad, 06 June 2008 - 08:51 PM.
#12 _squirralien_
Posted 06 June 2008 - 09:37 PM
I don't mind talking about this anytime but maybe from now on if anyone wants to write to me about it we should use either the pm private message or email me from the link on the website so as not to take up the forum space.
It is just to easy to forget and write to much.
Thank you to everyone, I love my Torana and I am enjoying this forum, I have been going through some of the other project threads and loving every bit of it,
#13 _squirralien_
Posted 08 June 2008 - 03:32 PM
#14 _squirralien_
Posted 08 June 2008 - 03:35 PM
Edited by squirralien, 08 June 2008 - 03:49 PM.
#15 _squirralien_
Posted 08 June 2008 - 03:40 PM
#16 _squirralien_
Posted 08 June 2008 - 03:43 PM
#17 _P51_
Posted 08 June 2008 - 03:45 PM
#18 _squirralien_
Posted 08 June 2008 - 03:47 PM
And until mine is finished this is a mate of mine's dash that is finished sitting in place in all its glory
#19 _squirralien_
Posted 08 June 2008 - 04:17 PM
#20 _P51_
Posted 08 June 2008 - 09:13 PM
#21 _squirralien_
Posted 08 June 2008 - 09:32 PM
#22 _squirralien_
Posted 13 June 2008 - 05:38 PM
This is the Drivers Side Front Guard
This is the Passengers Side Front Guard
#23 _P51_
Posted 13 June 2008 - 10:41 PM
#24 _squirralien_
Posted 14 June 2008 - 12:28 AM
#25
Posted 14 June 2008 - 01:09 AM
A bit like chasing women?Yes it was a bit of that, not to bad I thought it was going to be a real pain but it wasn't that difficult really, I quite enjoyed it.
Nice work!
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