progress to report.
main effort has been around the home, wife bought an above ground pool last january 2008, and it has taken 3 weeks of solid work (after many months of procrastination) to get the thing in so we can swim in it. But, this last week I've been able to sneak down to george's shed of sin for some triumph time.
George got me rubbing back everything in sight, except anything that would be on the outside of the car in a critical location
Spent yesterday rubbing back the engine bay and front of the car back to the A pillars, wet and dry, 320. Rub, rub, rub. Did the underside of the bonnet and grill, lots of mess but quite relaxing work, even in the heat. George did the front guards.
george then hit it with undercoat
It was good to see how the guide coat (blue in our case) worked. Pretty straightforward really.
today we wheeled her out, gave her a good blow down and wet and dried the rest of the vehicle. Whole day rubbing back. Roof first, then pillars, sills, boot, back end. George fiddled around sorting out all the door hinges while I slaved away with the wet and dry
while we were putting the trolley jack in place, we noticed the rear subframe mounting tubes were different.
this is the offiside, complete with extension tube.
this is the nearside, without.
Now I'm guessing the nearside one has snapped off. No sign of it anywhere, not on the mounting bolts, not on the subframe bushes. Can someone confirm what is supposed to happen here ? I have new polybushes (SPRINTPARTS), new bolts and nylocs, new washers, new steel tubes for the front subframe mounts, I can fabricate and weld on a new tube if needed. I did cut off a rear subframe bolt when I took the car apart, but didn't cut through a tube.
I also found some splits in the floorpan, around where the front seat mountings are (rear), so we have to weld those up. Sad moment explaining to George how the split in the passenger side mount occured.
driver's side
passenger side
parts have been rolling in slowly. New bottom ball joint, poly bush set, upper ball joints on order, complete interior carpet set arrived (Rimmers), plastic mounting lugs for the side trim.
The plan from here is we spend tomorrow welding, complete the rubbing back (we need to go back over some spots), clean out the interior, remove the rear axle and put the car on stands while we wire brush the underside. Order the paint (yippee), hit the underside and under mud guards with stoneguard and spray the back of the car with undercoat.
Plan early next week is to rub back the undercoat, hit the hinge areas with top coat and spray topcoat on the interior surfaces (selectively on the floorpan), then mount the doors and boot and spray the outside.
Then I get to take her home, without the roof and vinyl being done to fit out the engine, door cards and furniture etc up to the stage where george can drop over finish the vinyl (I'll fit the headlining) and install the windscreen and rear screen. Headlining is in the pipeline at Mt gambier, MikeyB has kindly sorted Martrim to do the vinyl roof and C pillars for me and when ready will post it (I'm praying it will be under 2 kg).
so, with the subframe tubes to ponder over, only a few sleeps to seeing colour on the car. then I go back to work.
stu
). Didn't get the fast road cam though, scared off by talk of it being a regrind. Bad news on waiting for the roof vinyl/headlining and a few other bits so I can move ahead. Still going to try making the headlining up at home. 
