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[hanra]

What does the LH Torana orginal rivet look like?

Does anyone have a pic of a 100% un-molestered/un-removed ID/VIN or ADR tag?

[wot179]

And dont forget to count them. 

[tuxedoss]

The rivets on yours look just the same as the original ones in my LX

[hanra]

Thanks mate. Do you believe your rivets are original?

Heres my ID plate for reference before I painted the engine bay.





And ADR plate





I'm not interested in plate info, just rivet appearance. Cheers.

[tuxedoss]

I'm quite sure mine are original. And from what I've seen yours look original. The obvious thing is the options plate has the left rivet painted and right not. Something I have noticed with mine and others is there is a slight bend mark or crease in the plate on the left side. My guess is the plate was fitted with one rivet and bent up, then the body color was put on then the other plates were fitted and the right rivet fitted to the options plate, just a guess though. Hers mine as a comparison.

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[Ice]

You can get those rivets from bunnings nothing special about them.

[tuxedoss]

The ones at bunnings are different

[Ice]

Ok if you say so

There just your run of the mill rivets seen plenty that look like that

[BIG KEV]

i was just on the Torana Resteration parts and accesories .....they have the ones you need

[tuxedoss]

sure they're all rivets but the hardware store ones and the ones used by holden and the ones you get from Torana Resteration parts are slightly different in the shape of the head.

[tuxedoss]

these look non original to me compared to the ones above, the originals have a flat head with a bevelled edge, most hardware store rivets are domed shape

 

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[Mort]

Yes that is true, the ones I have are at work in my tool box. I acquired them when I worked for a Holden dealer a few years ago & used some for an LH resto I did. For those who are interested I can bring them home & post a pic.

 

It probably wouldn't hurt to post a pic of one of yours next to a hardware one if possible just to show the difference.

[dattoman]

Well

 

My original rivets don't look like your original rivets

 

 

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[Ice]

Thats what was left over from the lc lj range neil

[dattoman]

Yep

But they are also LH rivets

Just early ones

No idea what date they changed them to the Bunnings rivet

[wot179]

[arrimar]

A 74 LH has the fat rivet and 75 onwards the smaller.

[wot179]

Just for the hell of it, I went to the shed to look at blind rivets.

 

Yeah...I know...strange behavior,eh.....

 

It turns out that I have some of these rare and exotic beasts with the bevelled heads.

 

They are a sealed waterproof rivet.

 

Here are some pics.

 

Please keep your pants on regardless of your excitement.

 

 

[Collo]

Well
 
My original rivets don't look like your original rivets

Pretty sure my LH rivets are like these. 5/74 build car.

[hanra]

I agree that there was obviously an overlap period from 74 and 75 LH using the older style LC/LJ rivets. But in my opinion,  I dont think Brett's or mine are Bunnings rivets. The inner hole diam also looks smaller to most other bunnings rivets...

 

My personal un-educated non-expert opinion to the way I see them is this:

 

Old style rivet:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Newer style (non-bunning)

 

 

 

Mine

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bunnings