Thread: My 1955 Project!

OK - sit back - smoke 'em if you've got 'em - I have a few posts to add here and I won't be stopping until I'm done...

The story?

This is a story about Toad, his wife, his mates and his 1955 86" Series 1 rebuild.

Toad and Toadette (if I may be so bold) took delivery of a pretty well run down vehicle in 2009. In November 2009, Toad posted the following pics of the vehicle:











The original mission was to have the vehicle registered, roadworthy and participating in the Outback Heritage Drive.

Toad and his wife worked steadily on the project over a period of months, stripping, sanding, cleaning, painting, buying, awaiting parts...

At a club meeting on the 3rd May, 2010, Toad asked if there were any volunteers to help with the build - he was running out of time for the Outback Heritage Drive.

Well - a heap of us turned up on the Saturday (8th May) and found a well restored chassis sitting on the garage floor, two reconditioned diffs and a lot of body panels outside awaiting sanding and painting...

It is also fair to say that there were a HEAP of new parts in their packets awaiting the installers...

At the end of day 1 we had a rolling chassis and a lot of sanded panels:

More panels:

The original firewall was a little worse for wear:

Installing the clutch activating assembly - and watching *someone* coveting the wheels:

By the 22nd May, things were progressing:

Less essential (for now) bits were still being processed: