Wow! Just read this thread from start to finish, what an awesome car and brother.
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Fixing my brothers UC hatch
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, Dec 30 2009 01:19 PM
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Posted 08 October 2013 - 10:30 PM
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Posted 28 December 2013 - 07:18 PM
Hey guys. This car is going up for sale so anyone with $50k should get in contact with Simon. Or, give me $50k for my torana ute and I'll buy this myself : )
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Posted 29 December 2013 - 10:22 AM
Wow, that seems pretty cheap considering what work has gone in to the car Tim. Is Simon (via your good self) gonna do another car?
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Posted 30 December 2013 - 09:41 AM
Awesome job Dirtbag!! How do you go about the chassis number? As you would have cut it off and plated over it? Did you just restamp it?
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Posted 30 December 2013 - 01:15 PM
Jase, I don't think so.
ott308 the chassis number is still there, the smoothing was done around it.
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Posted 28 January 2014 - 01:10 AM
Found a couple of nice things when stripping paint from the roof. You've got to love all these good repairs : )
I thought the yanks were the only ones stupid enough to drill holes in sheetmetal to pull dents??? I'm proven wrong : )There was a fairly large low spot on each side above the doors too.
It took a while to dig all the bog out of these low spots.Getting the paint off this thing was a pain. It just melted into the sanding discs, so took a while.
I was amazed at how badly the hatch lined up. No wonder they put that horrid rear spoiler on it, to cover this up : )
The C pillar after a bit of sanding.
The rear panel under the lights was a mess too. The whole rear end is pushed in, and full of bog. Awesome : )
When sanding the paint back to bare metal, what sanding disc's do you use.
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Posted 29 January 2014 - 11:01 AM
24 grit discs on a 2 speed sander/buffer
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Posted 04 October 2016 - 07:30 PM
Just thought I'd have a look at this thread again - three days of solid on/off reading later... :-) So good.
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Posted 12 June 2017 - 10:46 PM
Again so sad to have lost someone that was happy to help anyone because of key board wankers
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Posted 21 February 2019 - 06:51 PM
Hi I followed this awesome build many moons ago just wandering what happened to all the images on the post I’m want to do a uc to lx conversion?
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Posted 24 February 2019 - 04:46 PM
This is one of the best threads on here, I relied on it heavily converting my UC. What's the story with key board wankers?
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Posted 25 February 2019 - 08:39 AM
Hi I followed this awesome build many moons ago just wandering what happened to all the images on the post I’m want to do a uc to lx conversion?
Have a look on Youtube for Tim Johnston.
Some collages of jobs that might help, as well as a pretty good starters guide to body work.
He was reasonably active on Facebook, but seems to have dropped his contributions there as well.
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Posted 04 March 2019 - 03:35 AM
The forum software appears to have corrupted the links to the photos.
The forum link below does not work.
https:// cache.gmh-torana.com.au/i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/pur308/Simons%20torana/Image00001-10.jpg
If you remove cache.gmh-torana.com.au/ from the links then the photo will load.
https:// i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/pur308/Simons%20torana/Image00001-10.jpg
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Posted 04 March 2019 - 11:12 PM
The forum software appears to have corrupted the links to the photos.
The forum link below does not work.
https:// cache.gmh-torana.com.au/i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/pur308/Simons torana/Image00001-10.jpg
If you remove cache.gmh-torana.com.au/ from the links then the photo will load.
https:// i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/pur308/Simons torana/Image00001-10.jpg
You sir , are a champion !
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Posted 24 August 2023 - 04:31 PM
Hi Guys, ive come back to this thread for some inspiration and get back into my hatch an i cant access the pictures, tried the link above but no go.
did anyone download and save the pics ?
thanks guys, i will be hovering around the forum to get some motivation 
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Posted 25 August 2023 - 02:05 AM
I have a copy of the pictures however the original pictures are still available in photobucket.
If you click on the image link then a page will open with an address like the one below.
https://cache.gmh-to...na/_MG_0552.jpg
The correct address is
https://i567.photobu...na/_MG_0552.jpg
A forum admin could fix the links.
Just remove "cache.gmh-torana.com.au/" from the image address.
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