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[MARKL]

Wow! Just read this thread from start to finish, what an awesome car and brother. 

[dirtbag]

Hey guys. This car is going up for sale so anyone with $50k should get in contact with Simon. Or, give me $50k for my torana ute and I'll buy this myself : )

[dirtbag]

Jase, I don't think so.

 

ott308 the chassis number is still there, the smoothing was done around it.

[LOOKING4HATCH]

Found a couple of nice things when stripping paint from the roof. You've got to love all these good repairs : )I thought the yanks were the only ones stupid enough to drill holes in sheetmetal to pull dents??? I'm proven wrong : )There was a fairly large low spot on each side above the doors too.It took a while to dig all the bog out of these low spots.Getting the paint off this thing was a pain. It just melted into the sanding discs, so took a while.I was amazed at how badly the hatch lined up. No wonder they put that horrid rear spoiler on it, to cover this up : )The C pillar after a bit of sanding.The rear panel under the lights was a mess too. The whole rear end is pushed in, and full of bog. Awesome : )

When sanding the paint back to bare metal, what sanding disc's do you use.

[dirtbag]

24 grit discs on a 2 speed sander/buffer

[SmacT]

Just thought I'd have a look at this thread again - three days of solid on/off reading later... :-) So good.

[burty]

This is one of the best threads on here, I relied on it heavily converting my UC. What's the story with key board wankers?

[Rockoz]

Hi I followed this awesome build many moons ago just wandering what happened to all the images on the post I’m want to do a uc to lx conversion?

Have a look on Youtube for Tim Johnston.

Some collages of jobs that might help, as well as a pretty good starters guide to body work.

He was reasonably active on Facebook, but seems to have dropped his contributions there as well.

[ls2lxhatch]

The forum software appears to have corrupted the links to the photos.

 

The forum link below does not work.

https:// cache.gmh-torana.com.au/i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/pur308/Simons%20torana/Image00001-10.jpg

 

If you remove cache.gmh-torana.com.au/ from the links then the photo will load.

 

https:// i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/pur308/Simons%20torana/Image00001-10.jpg

 

[HDT166]

The forum software appears to have corrupted the links to the photos.
 
The forum link below does not work.
https:// cache.gmh-torana.com.au/i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/pur308/Simons torana/Image00001-10.jpg
 
If you remove cache.gmh-torana.com.au/ from the links then the photo will load.
 
https:// i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/pur308/Simons torana/Image00001-10.jpg
 

You sir , are a champion !

[LOOKING4HATCH]

Hi Guys, ive come back to this thread for some inspiration and get back into my hatch an i cant access the pictures, tried the link above but no go. 

did anyone download and save the pics ?

 

thanks guys, i will be hovering around the forum to get some motivation

[ls2lxhatch]

I have a copy of the pictures however the original pictures are still available in photobucket.

 

If you click on the image link then a page will open with an address like the one below.

 

https://cache.gmh-to...na/_MG_0552.jpg

 

The correct address is

 

https://i567.photobu...na/_MG_0552.jpg

 

 

A forum admin could fix the links.

 

Just remove "cache.gmh-torana.com.au/" from the image address.