Category: Our Cars

The new chassis is now getting a little heavy on Jan’s Dad’s old wooden trestles. The rear is now finished with its new brake pipework, grease, and a lick of paint. The springs are on, but I’m having difficulty doing up the inner 26mm nuts, as it seems to me I need a very slim…

Firstly I had to clear some blocks left over from some building work I’ve been doing last year, and so used them to securely “block” up the the old chassis. I decided that the brake pipes would have to be done, as it was silly not to replace these whilst the suspension was off the…

Prep and Paint At the weekend I started to clean off the rear suspension units using an angle grinder and wire brushes see http://www.holden.co.uk/displayproduct.asp?pCode=092.229 and http://www.holden.co.uk/displayproduct.asp?pCode=095.080 Then using Por15 I’ve cleaned prepped and painted the exhaust and started the rear units. Por15 paint wont come off the skin so I’ve used draper latex gloves, and…

Body off….Simon and Adam from work helped lift the body off the chassis on Friday evening, this is now outside, where it will remain ’till the end of March when it will go to Sparrow Automotive, http://www.sparrowautomotive.co.uk for a new floor to be welded in. When I purchased the new chassis from Ken Hanner, he kindly sent…

“Houston we have lift off!” Well I thought this was going to be awkward, and I haven’t dropped the fuel tank out yet, as the previous repairs to the floor had been welded onto the chassis. All the fixing bolts have been removed, and not all were in place in the first place, and I…

Last night I encountered a “that’s not very good” moment. The last 2 bits to strip from inside the car that go through the bulkhead were the clutch pedal assembly and steering column. Photos show that I have been driving the car for the last couple of years with a dangerously faulty column, only about…

A little less active last weekend, but have started to remove all the fittings that go through the bulkhead prior to lifting the body clear of the chassis.. I’ve got the brake master cylinder, clutch cable and steering still to do, which I’ll do this week.