Thanks guys, as I said I gave into my obsessive compulsive side on this one. I'm blaming the Falcon GT nationals held in Perth a couple of weeks back, next level stuff, cars showing detailed drum brake innards, lol. Gave me a bit of drive to lift my game. Drew the line at having the part number sticker re-made, although I did manage to keep it for later.
Cheers Drew

Fun and games over the weekend.
Went to start the car up over the weekend but no luck. It'd been running a bit flat last time I drove it but I put it down to tune and just wound a bit more mixture into it
On closer inspection its drawn a heap of dirt from the tank. The tank was sourced during the build and I saw it coming so I installed an extra filter before my fancy regulator/ filter. Didn't think it'd be this bad though. The tank was scrubbed and vacumned, rinsed and flushed before installation to no avail. Pulled the pump apart, thats spottless and the gauze filters on the carbs are clean too so it doesn't look like its reached the carbs. Might pull the tops off later today to be sure theres nothing in the bowls...
Cheers Drew

Nasty!

The orange 70' Esky fits the scene.

Its been a while, so I thought I'd do a quick update on the car. I've been driving the car regularly and with a few thousand kms now its running nicely. The golf course shut for a couple of weeks over the covid lockdowns so I took the chance to give it a nut and bolt check over, fix an annoying rattle from the parcel shelf and fit a new started motor. The old one was slowly giving up the ghost and whilst it hadn't left me stranded it was only a matter of time.
A couple of gratuitous glamour pics...