Thread: Repairing a Disco

That'll buff out!

Bit of paint and a new donk, no worries

new donk? nahh, bit of devcon and some machining and that'll be right as rain, paint? only if your going to be pedantic about it...

So would you have call that colour charcoal gray? Inside Decor might have been burnt orange? Vehicle in the back ground also looks like it has been fired up recently.
Cheers Hall

I guess that those in the South Island need all the opportunities for interstate trade (car re-birthing) that they can get ?

Originally Posted by Sleepy

That'll buff out!

Damn it....somebody beat me to it.

LOL!!!

Maybe if you didn't re-paint it you wouldn't be so bothered by the Lantana scratches.....

nows the chance for me to get a cheap D3

Hi All

It's restorable, but in a different form.

Years ago when Adam was one of the boys and I was a young member of the Four Wheel Drive Club of Tasmania. Some of the lads in the club, decided that a club grill badge would be a good thing to have, so they set about and drew up then carved out several patterns.
Selecting the best one , it was taken to a old foundry worker and asked if that a badge could be made from that pattern, which the old bloke agreed it could.

The next step was to supply some suitable metal to do the casting with, this pile of metal was duly found up the bush where an old 80" Land Rover had recently met its demise, melted into a puddle of birmabrite,the result of being burnt in the 1967 Tasmanian bush fires.

A lot of these badges were made, more enough for each member to obtain as many as they wanted. I still have one of mine, it's somewhere in my workshop, buried under half a life-times collection of rubbish!

Now, that this Discovery as been noticed, I reckon that the opportunity has arisen to produce some metal for some new design badges.


Cheers Arthur