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Conditions MUST have been tough to kill a Bellet!

Originally Posted by Tins

Conditions MUST have been tough to kill a Bellet!

For their time, they were a pretty quick little car, too.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

A lot of that was due to the third rate steel Russia supplied in exchange for the blueprints from Italy, who got done like a dinner.

Back in the days when I was on the tools, I participated in relocating a piece of equipment for GM Holden from The Woodville Plant to the new Elizabeth plant. Circa 1962.


It was a large FRIDGIDAIRE Dual Compressor (tandem) Water chiller Refrigerated system incorporated into a package frame.

Was referred to as an "Under body Dip" & kept the paint at a safe & workable temperature. Oddly enough I couldn't find out much about it then, & really still none the wiser today.
The production line bodies sort of dipped into a bath of paint to a level of about 50% of the doors. I have no idea of the type of "paint" it circulated or how effective it was on Holden Bodies. Could have been a Cold Galv. paint or some other brew. Did it ever stop rust in Holdens, who knows?

After recommissioning I never had reason to visit that Plant again as GMH employed their own Fridgies, so I never actually did find out, but thought I'd mention it in this thread FWIW.

EDIT. Was this the sequence? I don't know but sounds very much like it.

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