Thread: Restoring Cars

Chops,

I restored/rebuilt an LE Monaro in my younger days. The advantage was parts were easy to come by except for the 8 track cassette which I put a normal radio/cassette in place of. It was an absolute lovely car to drive with a slightly worked 308, headers, turbo 400 transmission and LSD.

If I had the time and money I'd love to restore a Citroen Traction Avant. They made them for 20+ years and in RHD format as well.

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_Traction_Avant"]Citroën Traction Avant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

Mike

Originally Posted by mike123

Chops,

I restored/rebuilt an LE Monaro in my younger days. The advantage was parts were easy to come by except for the 8 track cassette which I put a normal radio/cassette in place of. It was an absolute lovely car to drive with a slightly worked 308, headers, turbo 400 transmission and LSD.

If I had the time and money I'd love to restore a Citroen Traction Avant. They made them for 20+ years and in RHD format as well.

Citroën Traction Avant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mike

There's a guy down in the late model range rover forum that has a Big 6 Droooooolllll...........

one of the guys over on aussiefrogs is rebuilding a '6 at the moment ... Look at the size of the motor in the bloody thing (how on earth would you ever turn the steering wheel ?).



I'm hoping to drag my father French Built RHD Traction home and rebuild it's gearbox this winter.... It's just time .... and money ....

seeya,
shane L.

Here are a few of my restorations I have done over the years.
The Mk7 Jagiar is an ongoing restoration for my brother to keep it on the race track ( was a winning concourse car before he took it racing) The second is my 1967 MGBGT which was a full restoration over a year 6 years ago. 3rd is my Ebay car where all parts have neen bought on Ebay & is being built to what spec Iwant. 4th is one of 2 p3 rover 75's I had ,got this one to this stage & got a quote for $12000 to do the trim so sold it about 7 years ago. & there is my 1950 80" Landrover which i restored 26years ago. there has been abou 4 Morris Minors , 3 Morris 1100's , a 1925 Dodge, 1932 Studebaker, a 100E prefect & a Mk 2 Jaguar which I helped my brother restore. I like the British cars the best , they have more class & are more refined than the American.

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

There's a guy down in the late model range rover forum that has a Big 6 Droooooolllll...........

one of the guys over on aussiefrogs is rebuilding a '6 at the moment ... Look at the size of the motor in the bloody thing (how on earth would you ever turn the steering wheel ?).



I'm hoping to drag my father French Built RHD Traction home and rebuild it's gearbox this winter.... It's just time .... and money ....

seeya,
shane L.

Citroen built good cars back then . My wife has a Citroen C4 not good at all , almost as bad as the VB Commodore I once owned ( VB stood for very bad) The C4 is true to its name (LEMON). Have you read the book on Citroen , very interesting reading , couldn't put it down . He was a very smart man but life was a gamble & he liked to gamble.

Originally Posted by 1950landy

Citroen built good cars back then . My wife has a Citroen C4 not good at all , almost as bad as the VB Commodore I once owned ( VB stood for very bad) The C4 is true to its name (LEMON). Have you read the book on Citroen , very interesting reading , couldn't put it down . He was a very smart man but life was a gamble & he liked to gamble.

Modern poogoes and citroens ?? .... DO NOT BUY ANYTHING WITH A 4spd slugomatic gearbox..... It's an pile of **** named AL4 when used by poogoe and citroen and DPO when used by Renault.

My mother bought a C4 HDi EGS new.... It's ride quality was bloody awful after my proper hydraulic citroens. But the EGS ( clutchless manual) was ok (there all jerky crappy things .... nature of the beast with clutchless manuals). the 1.6 HDi was a bloody ripper. heaps of grunt while sipping 4.xx L/100kms

Citroens turned to **** in the mid '80 when poogoe took over. The latest one I own is my (never for sale... i'll own it until the day I die no doubt) Citroen CX2500 GTi Turbo Series II that my father imported from the UK in 1996. between me and my parents we have many D's, a Traction Avant Legere, a 2cv .... I even have a ****ty old GS1220 sitting out in the paddock. It's a mental affliction I assure you.

Do NOT by a Citroen, the bloody things breed in your backyard whenever your not looking.

seeya,
Shane L.

Originally Posted by 1950landy

Here are a few of my restorations I have done over the years.
The Mk7 Jagiar is an ongoing restoration for my brother to keep it on the race track ( was a winning concourse car before he took it racing) The second is my 1967 MGBGT which was a full restoration over a year 6 years ago. 3rd is my Ebay car where all parts have neen bought on Ebay & is being built to what spec Iwant. 4th is one of 2 p3 rover 75's I had ,got this one to this stage & got a quote for $12000 to do the trim so sold it about 7 years ago. & there is my 1950 80" Landrover which i restored 26years ago. there has been abou 4 Morris Minors , 3 Morris 1100's , a 1925 Dodge, 1932 Studebaker, a 100E prefect & a Mk 2 Jaguar which I helped my brother restore. I like the British cars the best , they have more class & are more refined than the American.

Your going to think I'm nuts... but out them the piccies my favorite it the land rover ........................

seeya,
Shane L.

Originally Posted by cjc_td5

I would say that your top priority must be that the car is one you love or have a deep interest in. You will find motivation hard to come by sometimes, but if there is a love of the vehicle there, things have more chance of being finished rather than ending up a dusty project in the corner.

Cheers,

X2 Bingo!

And Chops.. I too have a Love of old English cars

Originally Posted by 3doug6

This is my long term project. A Suzuki LJ-81. I'm a student so don't have all that much time which is why it a long term project. There really isn't much car to be restored so I'm lucky there.



This is our original one. Spent too many lonely years in the rain at our block of land.

The one below is the "donor" vehical. In reality it will have to be a frankenJ-81 because both are pretty bad. Original is straight but more rusted, red one is pretty bashed but less rusted.



Had to convince mum to let me leave the original and the new chassis in the back yard back home while I bring the body (below) to my apartment in Brisbane to de-rust and cut up.



It really is small. The body fit on half a trailer and can be lifted easily by two people.

Motor of the original is fine if just a bit leaky. Will be restored to original condition and now have lots of spares to keep it going forever.

Another Suzuki Lj lover!

I got 3 LJ 81's myself!