im dreading redoing the blackouts on my car you make it look easy!!
SLR 5000 LH Orchid Metallic Resto.
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Posted 10 December 2008 - 05:55 PM
its looking awesome, any pics of it outside ? Great work
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Posted 10 December 2008 - 06:34 PM
im dreading redoing the blackouts on my car you make it look easy!!
It might have looked easy but it's not. especially if its a sunday and you can't get 6 mm tape.
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Posted 10 December 2008 - 06:37 PM
its looking awesome, any pics of it outside ? Great work
Not yet will get some soon. Thanks. Its been some hard work.
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Posted 10 December 2008 - 06:39 PM
Mmmm Orchid Met. is one hell of a colour, even better when it's fresh!
Looks awesome, and the 6cyl SLR is an unbelievable buy. What is it like for rust? I woulda killed for that as a project
Plenty, but all fixable with some time.
will be great when its done. Aswell
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Posted 10 December 2008 - 07:08 PM
great looking car , purple is better !!! despite what all the taxi cab orange lovers will say !! 
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Posted 10 December 2008 - 07:11 PM
great looking car , purple is better !!! despite what all the taxi cab orange lovers will say !!
Personally i like red. If it wasn't real it would be a differnt colour. and thanks
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Red is goodPersonally i like red. If it wasn't real it would be a differnt colour. and thanks
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Posted 11 December 2008 - 09:20 PM
Looking great Darren
Would love to see your shed will be coming through Vicco in a coupla months {have a thread running FATSLR round Oz trip } be great to chew the fat
Would love to see your shed will be coming through Vicco in a coupla months {have a thread running FATSLR round Oz trip } be great to chew the fat
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Posted 17 December 2008 - 06:06 PM
Did the rear Brakes, All newly chromed to Protect the metal. Looks ok, very happy with it.
still gota do the diff but want to get the thing RWC first, just collecting diff parts at the moment.
Engine in.
Got a new Master Cylinder to go on
Radiator to get re done
Get the new headers installed.
Just putting the headliner in. Not as easy as you would think.
Just a update.
Ordered Screen seals, bailey channel. Rear Quater window rubbers, got the right brake pedal thanks TM64, and a spare V8 clutch pedal.
Underlay being installed, carpet on weekend.
Screens next week
Guy quoted me $220.00 to supply front and fit both front and rear. not bad i thought, i got a quote from windscreens Obrien and it was $495.00 what a rip off.
still gota do the diff but want to get the thing RWC first, just collecting diff parts at the moment.
Engine in.
Got a new Master Cylinder to go on
Radiator to get re done
Get the new headers installed.
Just putting the headliner in. Not as easy as you would think.
Just a update.
Ordered Screen seals, bailey channel. Rear Quater window rubbers, got the right brake pedal thanks TM64, and a spare V8 clutch pedal.
Underlay being installed, carpet on weekend.
Screens next week
Guy quoted me $220.00 to supply front and fit both front and rear. not bad i thought, i got a quote from windscreens Obrien and it was $495.00 what a rip off.
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Posted 17 December 2008 - 07:01 PM
Got new Door handles they look excellent, expensive tho. just repo, debating if i should put scratch plates on aswell
i think they look pretty cool i have a set, in not to bad a nick.
Without scratch plates
With scratch plates
What do you think?
i think they look pretty cool i have a set, in not to bad a nick.
Without scratch plates
With scratch plates
What do you think?
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Posted 17 December 2008 - 07:03 PM
Sounds like good news all round
O'Briens sounds typical, but that $220 quote sounds insane! Are they new screens? Or at least a new front? That is awesome value. I'm paying $165 for the front screen alone (high quality new product, not the crappy chinese ones with the black lines around the outside)Guy quoted me $220.00 to supply front and fit both front and rear. not bad i thought, i got a quote from windscreens Obrien and it was $495.00 what a rip off.
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Posted 17 December 2008 - 07:08 PM
Sounds like good news all round
O'Briens sounds typical, but that $220 quote sounds insane! Are they new screens? Or at least a new front? That is awesome value. I'm paying $165 for the front screen alone (high quality new product, not the crappy chinese ones with the black lines around the outside)
Cash is king!!
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Posted 17 December 2008 - 07:18 PM
Personally i would leave the scratch plates off. I could never quite get my head around drilling holes in the door to add a dust collector to protect the paint.
Do what you want though.
Do what you want though.
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Posted 17 December 2008 - 07:37 PM
Personally i would leave the scratch plates off. I could never quite get my head around drilling holes in the door to add a dust collector to protect the paint.
Do what you want though.
I agree, looks much better without.
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Posted 18 December 2008 - 10:58 AM
Yep agreed. Your car though 
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Posted 18 December 2008 - 11:10 AM
All coming together fantastic mate!!
I too would would probably leave the scratch plates off, but its your car. So in the end its up to you!
I too would would probably leave the scratch plates off, but its your car. So in the end its up to you!
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Posted 18 December 2008 - 11:44 AM
I bought new door handles for my car, but I don't like how it doesn't really seal where it protrudes from the door skin. I'm taking about the bits that move when you lift the handle. It has some o-rings to seal it, but maybe it just needs time to settle.
How are yours sealing?
Car is looking great by the way...
How are yours sealing?
Car is looking great by the way...
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Posted 18 December 2008 - 12:10 PM
I bought new door handles for my car, but I don't like how it doesn't really seal where it protrudes from the door skin. I'm taking about the bits that move when you lift the handle. It has some o-rings to seal it, but maybe it just needs time to settle.
How are yours sealing?
Car is looking great by the way...
Mate as you see in the pic they are noy bolted on yet but when i do on the weekend i will let you know if they stick out and yes the rubber seals are thick. So maybe they need time to settle down, but i will let you know.
Thanks Darren
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Posted 18 December 2008 - 01:38 PM
Leave the scratch plates off, your doors are perfect as they are.
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Posted 18 December 2008 - 07:22 PM
Nice job on you're 5000 Darren, Do you know how many SL/R 5000�s were produced in Orchid Metallic as I have only seen one in my time?, I know I�ve led a sheltered life up here in QLD!!
A friend of mine from Melbourne who worked in Townsville was a Torana fan, so much so he purchased a new Plumdinger LC XU-1, then updated to the next model LJ when it was released, a Glacier White XU-1, and then a new Orchid Metallic SL/R 5000 all from Melbourne and drove them back to Townsville.
When he first got his 5000 he wasn�t use to the look of the large spoilers and reckoned they were a police magnet so he took them off.
When I visited Townsville at the time in my Jade Green 5000 I caught up with him and took this photo of his 5000 without the spoilers, it�s a shame I didn�t get both cars in the photo together.
Photo below���regards
A friend of mine from Melbourne who worked in Townsville was a Torana fan, so much so he purchased a new Plumdinger LC XU-1, then updated to the next model LJ when it was released, a Glacier White XU-1, and then a new Orchid Metallic SL/R 5000 all from Melbourne and drove them back to Townsville.
When he first got his 5000 he wasn�t use to the look of the large spoilers and reckoned they were a police magnet so he took them off.
When I visited Townsville at the time in my Jade Green 5000 I caught up with him and took this photo of his 5000 without the spoilers, it�s a shame I didn�t get both cars in the photo together.
Photo below���regards
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Posted 18 December 2008 - 08:37 PM
Nice job on you're 5000 Darren, Do you know how many SL/R 5000�s were produced in Orchid Metallic as I have only seen one in my time?, I know I�ve led a sheltered life up here in QLD!!
A friend of mine from Melbourne who worked in Townsville was a Torana fan, so much so he purchased a new Plumdinger LC XU-1, then updated to the next model LJ when it was released, a Glacier White XU-1, and then a new Orchid Metallic SL/R 5000 all from Melbourne and drove them back to Townsville.
When he first got his 5000 he wasn�t use to the look of the large spoilers and reckoned they were a police magnet so he took them off.
When I visited Townsville at the time in my Jade Green 5000 I caught up with him and took this photo of his 5000 without the spoilers, it�s a shame I didn�t get both cars in the photo together.
Photo below���regards
Thanks
Mate i have a picture of only one other, which is a L34, which lives in QLD.
I sold the guy a V8 clutch bracket and got talking and he asked me what i thought of the colour, and sent me a picture,
i was going to paint it red but original is best, i thought so that would be three that i know off. Unless that pic is of this car. The L34 hasn't been on the road for 10 years. Shame its a really outstanding car.
I must compliment you on the black hatch. I always wanted a black hatch. i had a black A9x when i was younger but can't
justify the 100K+ for one now.
Thanks for the comments and the picture of the SLR 5000
Mate can you remember if it had a aerial on the roof? mine has and it has been stamped out not drilled. and the front guard has no
hole for the aerial. do you know what happened to it? maybe it's this car, i got it in sydney tho. flew up on a friday morning and bought it,
the guy told me that it was a show car in it's day. Not that you would think that to look at it when i bought it. When we stripped it even the front crossmember (K frame) and control arms stub axles was in the factory finish paint. Orchid Metallic.
Darren
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Posted 19 December 2008 - 08:03 PM
If your guard has never had a hole then its had a prang early in its life and had a new GM replacement guard fitted.
Guards didn't come with aerial drilled out when they were a replacement panel, due to some models not having radio etc.
So if your car went in for some panel work and you needed a guard, the panel beater would drill the hole for the aerial.
Guards didn't come with aerial drilled out when they were a replacement panel, due to some models not having radio etc.
So if your car went in for some panel work and you needed a guard, the panel beater would drill the hole for the aerial.
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Posted 19 December 2008 - 09:15 PM
If your guard has never had a hole then its had a prang early in its life and had a new GM replacement guard fitted.
Guards didn't come with aerial drilled out when they were a replacement panel, due to some models not having radio etc.
So if your car went in for some panel work and you needed a guard, the panel beater would drill the hole for the aerial.
Mate i would agree if i hadn't taken it back to bare metal, it still had the factory undercoat and paint, but maybe I'm wrong. And the roof aerial has definitley been stamped out not drilled. i cant see any after market radio installer taking the roof lining out to stamp a aerial hole in the roof. So i just can't see it. But who knows the car is 35 years old.
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Posted 19 December 2008 - 09:44 PM
Remember seeing a nice little tool ages ago for doing things such as aerial holes.
Drilled a small pilot hole then put a punch and die type setup either side and wound it together.
Presto nice neat punched hole.
The kit had a few different sizes and shapes too.
Drilled a small pilot hole then put a punch and die type setup either side and wound it together.
Presto nice neat punched hole.
The kit had a few different sizes and shapes too.
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