ok Ron - never thought of that. Ill have a look. The mags are magnum eliminators - I figure the smooth alloy dish will look good with the pewter.....

Silver with red looks good, I first saw this used on a VB C H ?? commodore and recall thinking yes theres an alturnative colour stripe to use with silver

The gt stripes r fairly wide - very in your face with red? ( I still have that orange set you sold me JR - but I do that silver fox I could use them on). I'll see how the car looks when it's in colour ....

we used one of those "dremill" thingos to do the final ease on the guards and bonnet - enough gap (hopefully to include paint) to allow for door opening/closing

After all of the stuffing around fitting the last pair of guards - the panel beater wants to glue the glass guards on to go for the original look (no bolts) - good idea - so we decided to start again. I'm lucky that I have quite a few sets of new glass guards, so out of interest I decided to try them all on the shell - they are all out of the same mould but interestingly some fitted easier (not better) than others. So we selected the best (easiest) pair for the job. They sat on and it was obvious that they will require little work - certainly a lot less than the  first pair we bolted on. I guess the lesson is - every shell/glass guard is different and if u are going to use glass and CAN try a few different guards on it - do it.
these pics show the new guards just plonked on - he'll adjust, trim and glue them.


 

I had issues fitting fibreglass guards as well, I ended up having to cut the web that runs down the rear edge of the guard to get it to fit properly.
I had wondered whether it was because I didn't fit the guards to the car when I first got them and they cured over time the way they were stored.
Next time I need to use fibreglass guards I will make sure I can fit them to the body sooner.

The panel beater is a bit fussy - we pulled the scuttle off - to clean up underneath. We'll replace it - ive  prepared the new one - except ill coat the underside before we install

the vent opening is quite clean but did have paint build up - years of re-sprays

he stripped the whole car back - again - getting it ready for epoxy



 

and on goes the jam - again..
 
 
 

and he wants steel - all round - so we tackled the original bonnet  first. It still has the original paint on it - underneath a coat of red. Its been smacked and has rust  in the front. Ive sliced the internal frame off - makes the repair easier. Ill repair the  rusted frame before I reinstall.
First - lashings of paint stripper, then wrap it in plastic to bake over night (comes off easier)



its the longest resto ive done - keep getting side tracked - and each time I re-start - end up replacing more panels. But it is a very nice shell with all of the lines there..
 
 
 

 good stuff  spud looks good so far