exciting cant wait for the pics.
have you built the engine yet

Well folks its back.................
Very happy with the outcome the painter did a great job. It's eye stinging yellow at the moment but should settle down with some trim fitted. There are a couple of little blemishes that only I'm going to notice (haha spent an hour just staring at it) The only other thing is the mirrors have been sprayed yellow by mistake, not a drama we can change that but they're sort of growing on me so might stay that way.....
I'm not going to touch it today, waiting for the weekend to start when I have more time and the excitement has worn off a bit. In the mean time I'll be doing plenty more staring with a coopers vintage homebrew I did especially for this day, haha might even splash a bit on the car, cleaning it off straight away

It's starting to look a bit more of a car now as opposed to a bare shell....... Got the rear wiring, lights, headlight mounts and quarter windows in. Its slow going but nice to be fitting new parts to a clean shell. All the panel prep has paid off, its dead straight now, very happy with it.......... another Saturday well spent................

It's starting to look like an RS2000 again..... Got up at sparrows fart and started hanging the nosecone. Slow going, it took a fair bit of fitting and adjusting to get the panel gaps right, they came up a treat in the end. I'll be fitting the headlight surrounds after the engine goes in so I can get the headlights adjusted when the cars at driving height..... The colour coded mirrors, although a **** up by the painter, are growing on me so I think they'll stay....
Cheers Drewdog..............

Feel like I'm just chipping away at the moment but things are coming along nicely.
Got the rear bumper and numberplate mount on, the bumper took a whole arvo to get it gapped and hung straight, slowly tightening one bolt, loosening another etc....
The battery box and electrical cut off went in then came straight out again, the bolts are visible from the outside and while they were nice stainless they screamed 'gutter bolt' I ended up using round headed stud types, much better
Some of the underdash has gone in along with the aerial and windscreen wipers, I couldn't find the plastic washers for the wipers so ended up using nylon tap washers, you'd never know....
Under the bonnet I've polished the vin plates, put on some decals (thanks Spanner they're perfect) and painted the vin number silver as it should be.
Finished riveting the nosecone and chrome strips on the doors, It's getting expensive using marine stainless nuts, bolts and rivets but I'm glad I'm doing it.
Windows were going to be this weekend but I've had the run around from rare spares with the bailey channel, they sold me the wrong kit then only had enough for one door on the shelf, two week wait for the others, bummer.....
Anyway that's it for now, heading out to the shed to finish buffing the sill trims....
Cheers Drew......

I need to come see this in person as the photos are too small!  I tried calling you a couple of weeks back, but couldn't get through.

Hey Flighter, sorry I missed you over easter, I was covered in paint getting the other house ready for sale, phew glad the reno's are finally over, had a play on the computer this morn not my thing but worked out how to insert the pics a bit bigger still not that flash, having to take low res pics to post them up.....

It's been a wet few weekends here in Perth so I've been hiding in the shed working on a head, that's been a whole other project in itself....
Finally found a decent radiator/ fan shround that I've been hunting for one for a couple of years now, carefully gave it a going over with the acrylic buff and it looks like new....
The suns been out this weekend though so I managed to get some work done on the car itself. The door windows have gone in after a bit of messing around with rare spares over the bailey channel rubbers. The factory green tint looks good against the yellow but probably not visible in the photo's.
I got up under the front guards and got rid of the overspray with a fresh coat of por15, haha it's tight under there and I'm still scrubbing the stuff off face and hair  Mounted up the splash guards with my home made rubber skirts, fitted a treat....


 
 
 
 

Still slowly chipping away at the car,
 
Got the engine bay wired now and all wrapped in nice new conduit.
 
Heater box has been re-foamed, assembled, fitted and plumbed, along with the air con and its wiring. Spent a bit of time polishing the a/c fittings that protrude into the engine bay and managed to get an original rubber for the bulkhead.
 
The seatbelts have been dyed aswell, theres a before and after for these.... it was an easy but time consuming fix, they had to be done in two parts each at an hour a time. With a bit of help from the ladies at the local textile shop I found a suitable colourfast and uv stable product, settled on blue black, I had no idea how many shades of black there are. Felt like a goth in a candy shop. They've all been tested and aren't leaving any marks happy with the outcome....
Cheers Drew.......
 
 
 

Work on the cars been a bit slow of late, I took a break for a couple of months after the Mk1 GT Cortina I drove when I built the car the first time came up for sale, I'd always regrated selling it and had been looking for it for 16 years, I found it after an hour of listing on gumtree, but missed out by a few minutes....
I needed a break from the cars after that and now works taken off with the festival season.....
Anyway, underside has been painted, there was a couple of 'bald' spots from the floor repairs, rather that set up the spraygun and mask it all off I managed to texture the areas by hand, came up a treat you'd have to look pretty hard to spot it, haha that stint as a plasterer many years ago still comes in handy.....

 
Decals have gone on aswell, what a job that was!!!!! lots of measuring, checking and measuring again.... They were never straight on the car when I got it but they're as good as I can get them, the small sections were the worst, it took a fair bit of tweaking of the rear bumper to get them to fit straight.
After all that fitting I stood back with a beer to admire my work and noticed a small pin dent in the bumper that myself and the painter missed so it was off with the bumper for the tenth time, lol, it was only small but it bothered me.....

Hopefully get to spend some more time on it over the Christmas break....
Cheers Drew.....