Thread: My series 1 Snowy

Ive been wanting a series 1 for a long while now. I really wanted one that had some form of history attached to it as well. Ended up picking this one up. Its a ex snowy mountains scheme vehicle. Needs a complete resto, hopefully ill be able to handle it. Plan on stripping it down to a chassis and starting from there slowly rebuilding piece by piece. The holden 6 that's in it will be turfed out and an original motor put back in. I plan on restoring it back to the way it was in 1957.
As it sits atm

I think most people will finish their rebuilds before me lol.. Im in no hurry to finish. Now that i have the car ill slowly start collecting all the peices i need then later on ill start. Rust wise there isn't much at all. Theres a little bit on top of the passenger side dash below the windscreen and a small bubble on the drivers side in the same spot. Not much at all really for a car that old thats been in the weather all its life. When i do eventually pull it apart ill be getting the firewall reparied and im thinking of getting it galvaised as well? Ill definatly be getting the chassis galvanised when the time comes. Chassis wise its pretty good. Its rust free. The front cross member needs to be replaced as the original one has been butchered/removed to fit the holden 6. A good replacment front cross member came with it. Shouldnt be to hard to fit that. Ill also need to replace the gearbox member as its had a hard life and is battered and bruised.
So far all ive done is sprayed a couple of litres on lanolin over everything to give it some protection and hopefully start penetrating the nuts and bolts so they come out later when i want them to.

What are peoples thoughts on the colour of the interior? Could it have been red?