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Clare's 79 280zx 2x2 (85_z31 wife)
Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2013 6:23 pm
by 79_280zx
Hi All
I have just brought a 1979 280zx today, I won't have it in the garage for a couple of weeks.
James (85_z31) will be giving me hand.
I look forward to posting here as the project goes.
Re: Clare's 79 280zx 2x2 (85_z31 wife)
Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2013 6:33 pm
by 85_Z31
Well Done Clare Fantastic purchase !
For those wondering its DJZ's 2+2 that he has done a lot of really great work on, I will let My awesome Z wife update you with details
Clare's 79 280zx 2x2 (85_z31 wife)
Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2013 7:01 pm
by torqued
Well done guys/girls on your new addition . I bet you both are swimming with joy over the new bundle
Re: Clare's 79 280zx 2x2 (85_z31 wife)
Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2013 7:09 pm
by DJZ
I'm a sad to see it go but I know it's going to a good home. This is what it looked like in about 2002:
Re: Clare's 79 280zx 2x2 (85_z31 wife)
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 8:38 pm
by Bartman
Re: Clare's 79 280zx 2x2 (85_z31 wife)
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 10:43 pm
by ProZac
Whoa, looks suspiciously like someone's old Starion parked in the background.... I wonder who's that could be.....
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Looking forward to seeing this 2+2 bought back to former glory
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Re: Clare's 79 280zx 2x2 (85_z31 wife)
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2014 11:25 am
by 85_Z31
Clare wasn't feeling to flash last night So i will sneak in here an update for her.
So after some further inspection of the car we decided to lift up the cowl panel to see what was underneath, turns out it was a good call as the folder section that links the strut tower supports to the body was quite rusty, and underneath the cowl was starting to get a lot of surface rust. So we can now treat that and it should never have any issues again
As it stands I think Clare has caught everything just at the right time where its easily repairable and there is plenty of good steel to work with.
Does anybody have any free time to tidy up the removed Cowl panel ?
It needs a new lip that sits along the windscreen, it needs each side sectioned back in about 150mm from each edge and a small amount of hammer and dolly work. I am quite happy to provide all the patch templates.
Re: Clare's 79 280zx 2x2 (85_z31 wife)
Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 12:56 pm
by 85_Z31
bit of an update for the Wife
She got the Cowl off a while back and its sat around since we didn't have acess to a welder for a while. So we borrowed the old mans mig to get a crack onto some of these jobs.
This is my First attempt at a real rust repair and I'm pretty happy with it considering the welder wasn't performing very well in todays 30deg conditions
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Re: Clare's 79 280zx 2x2 (85_z31 wife)
Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2014 10:19 am
by 2 doors
well done that man
looks like you have a bit of talent.
Re: Clare's 79 280zx 2x2 (85_z31 wife)
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 11:41 am
by 280zx_nz
Very nice work man, looking forward to seeing some more progress.
