So I finally got around to rescuing the first car I ever bought, a 74 SLR Torana. Bought it around 1990 or so and was last registered in 92. It sat around for a long time before I brought the car to a panel beaters to get rust repairs and a paint job. Boy did I pick the wrong guy as you'll see later on when I put up the pix of his "repairs."
First, here's a pic of the car the day before it was loaded onto a trailer.
And now at a safe place where a proper resto can begin.
Luckilly I'd pulled the car from idiots place of business before he'd had time to wreck the front of the car in the same way as he'd attacked the back. The car went to his place as a running complete car wearing a new bonnet, passenger side front guard and nose cone all supplied straight from Holden. They didn't have stock of the drivers side guards so that was replaced with one from a wreckers though it was just about in new condition. If he'd stuffed the new panels up too badly I'd of been mortified. As it was he'd only hit them with undercoat and sandpaper.
The weather had really gotten to the car. I actually drove it to the panel beaters over 10 years ago as a complete thing. So sad to see it in this state now.
Just wait till you see what's lurking under these rear quarters. When all the bog was ground out it was kinda heart breaking.
Someone in another forum asked why you'd chop bits out of the dash steel support. In my car someone had done it to mount guages. I asked to have this restored back to factory. He at least did a half decent job here but given he'd been supplied with another dash to cut from it wasn't a huge ask. I'll redo this bit though as I'm not happy with it, and this'd be the best of all of the "repairs" that he did.
The car was moved from my place to resto central late March 2013 and work began pretty much straight away. A lot of his crap workmanship (if you can call what he did workmanship) has already been cut out and rectified but I thought I'd start at the start and, well this is what I had to work with.
Part two to follow.