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Tuesday, 02-Oct 2012 @ 4:09pm
I came across this little beauty almost a fortnight ago, but only took photos the other night. Slack I know... I promise to do better next time! 
I touched on her specs in my "SOS" post, but here it is in more detail: '69 4dr sedan, 4spd manual, A15 running a DGV & 4-1 extractors. She started life as an auto and still has all the linkages on the column, but the conversion is very dodgy i.e. engine & gearbox mounts don't inspire much confidence. The diff has been locked as well and as fun as it may be, I will have to come out. The suspension has been seriously lowered by resetting the front spring (of what I can tell) and home-made lowering blocks in the rear by (ahem!) square steel tubing. Nevertheless, she does look badass slammed the way she is!
The body is fantastic, with rust only in replacable panels (boot lid, doors, fenders). The interior shows her age, but the dashboard and crash pad are perfect! No hacking or drilling evident, all electrics work, including the original radio. The glovebox AND parcel shelf are perfect and inside the glvebox is the original service books and owners manual. AWESOME!! Oh yeah, even the rego plates are the originals.
She has one brand new LH front (fore) wheel cylinder now too.
When I picked her up, she was riding on 13" steelies shod with whitewalls, but unfortunately being so low, the fronts were scraping on the wheels arches every time a slight bump was driven over. Luckily I still had the 12's and whel trims I bought from Mal when I was toying with the idea of widening them for my Wag, so I pumped the tyres up, cleaned the rims with a wire brush and scotch-brite, gave them a lick of Wildfire Red, polished up the trims and but them on. Other jobs she needed right away (besides the brakes) was replace the headlights (both lows were blown), replaced F & R LH indicator globes, re-wire and connect the reverse lights, top up both the gearbox and diff oils, seal up an exhaust leak in one of the joins in the extractors and tune the carby. The rest will happen over time.
Now, the photos! You'll have to excuse the poor lighting; they were taken in my new, yet to have power & lights hooked up.
I'll take some more photos soon, in particular the dash etc.
I touched on her specs in my "SOS" post, but here it is in more detail: '69 4dr sedan, 4spd manual, A15 running a DGV & 4-1 extractors. She started life as an auto and still has all the linkages on the column, but the conversion is very dodgy i.e. engine & gearbox mounts don't inspire much confidence. The diff has been locked as well and as fun as it may be, I will have to come out. The suspension has been seriously lowered by resetting the front spring (of what I can tell) and home-made lowering blocks in the rear by (ahem!) square steel tubing. Nevertheless, she does look badass slammed the way she is!
The body is fantastic, with rust only in replacable panels (boot lid, doors, fenders). The interior shows her age, but the dashboard and crash pad are perfect! No hacking or drilling evident, all electrics work, including the original radio. The glovebox AND parcel shelf are perfect and inside the glvebox is the original service books and owners manual. AWESOME!! Oh yeah, even the rego plates are the originals.
She has one brand new LH front (fore) wheel cylinder now too.
When I picked her up, she was riding on 13" steelies shod with whitewalls, but unfortunately being so low, the fronts were scraping on the wheels arches every time a slight bump was driven over. Luckily I still had the 12's and whel trims I bought from Mal when I was toying with the idea of widening them for my Wag, so I pumped the tyres up, cleaned the rims with a wire brush and scotch-brite, gave them a lick of Wildfire Red, polished up the trims and but them on. Other jobs she needed right away (besides the brakes) was replace the headlights (both lows were blown), replaced F & R LH indicator globes, re-wire and connect the reverse lights, top up both the gearbox and diff oils, seal up an exhaust leak in one of the joins in the extractors and tune the carby. The rest will happen over time.
Now, the photos! You'll have to excuse the poor lighting; they were taken in my new, yet to have power & lights hooked up.
I'll take some more photos soon, in particular the dash etc.
When the "D" hits your eye, like a txt smiley guy...
I'm guessing they've all been used as boat anchors after an auto to manual conversion was done...
