Rob's late Toledo restoration

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Re: Rob's late Toledo restoration

#61 Post by JPB »

They'll look cool, they'll also prevent stone chipping to the sills, but they'll cause mud traps where they attach to the lips of the arches, six of one, half a dozen of the other, I'd tend not to drill virgin bodywork though but.
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#62 Post by Purplebargeken »

Try Woolies for the carpet, they have a good selection of colours and types. The website is a good un and they are helpful folk. It would indeed make a good article mate.
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Re: Rob's late Toledo restoration

#63 Post by Howard81 »

Excellent photos indeed, this is going to be one fantastic Toledo once finished! :)
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Re: Rob's late Toledo restoration

#64 Post by triumphtoledo »

Thanks to work taking many of my evenings, I have not managed to touch the car, until Sunday, when I continued reassembling it.

Most of the exterior trim has now been fitted but the following is left:

Rear bumper
Two door handles.
Rear vents
One door rubbing strip (ran out of clips!)
Rebuild driver’s seat
Replace carpet
Refit entire interior

At 8pm, I took the car for a run, as I felt I needed a treat. It went really well and, as I had my little camera with me, I took a few shots…

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#65 Post by DoloWIGHTY »

Wow doesn't that just look sooooo brilliant eh?

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Re: Rob's late Toledo restoration

#66 Post by andrew_27 »

Excellent! i hope mine looks as good when its finished :)
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Re: Rob's late Toledo restoration

#67 Post by triumphtoledo »

Thanks everyone. I have a few little trim bits on the exterior to sort, prior to fixing the interior.

However, the white 1500HL resto is taking priority...

R
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#68 Post by toledo boyz »

thats brilliant. Andy
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#69 Post by straylight »

what a fantastic job. Great location for the pics too, thanks for putting them up Rob, very pleasing to see this kind of resto.

I'll second the idea on making up a carpet set.

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#70 Post by jw67 »

Beautiful Toledo :mrgreen: .Thanks for the pictures :D
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#71 Post by grifterkid »

That looks beautiful sir...!!! I really do hope to get my Toledo looking that good soon... What a wonderful car you have there, top job... :wink:
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#72 Post by Toledo Man »

Rob, you're doing for Toledos what mad Mart is doing for Sprints.

Keep up the good work!
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