Blue's Barracuda

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Blue wrote: Sat Dec 16, 17 5:37 pm Cah, you don't want much you do ya? Shall I write a bleedin' how to manual while I'm at it?......
Blue if you do I will have a copy to follow and get mine done :thumbright:

Good work by the way, wish I could do the same as your
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Great work and great thread!!!
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Rallye dash. Cluster had to come out to replace the voltage regulator with a solid state unit, the original is part of the fuel gauge on these panels. Someone had it all apart before and decided to paint the fascia gloss black which looked 'orrible so I thought I'd have a go at making it look more like it should while it was out. I left the grained section at the top black and masked it off. Sprayed the bottom half with wheel silver then masked that off. Finally sloshed the rest with plastic kote chrome spray. The "chrome" looks more like polished aluminium but I'm happy with the finished result.
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looks excellent blue! I quite like the soft silver chrome finish on that... :rr:
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Looks very good Blue :thumbright:
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Torque boxes made and ready to weld in after Christmas.
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Looking good Blue.
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Torque boxes look great, same as standard fit on Aussie Chargers.

Dash is superb, great job.
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perfect for taking the skin off your knuckles as you remove the rear spring hangers :)
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Back in 1968 some bloke on the production line made a particularly lousy job of fitting the o/s inner wing. Fast forward 50 years and some random bloke in a shed far far away thought he'd drill out the spot welds and make a better job of it...
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You amaze me at times Blue. =D> Keep up the great work. :salute:
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Great work as always mate.
Surprising our cars even lasted 50 years considering they were pretty much slung together !!!
Good design I suppose ! :thumbright:
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more likely had a crash early in its life and a lousy body shop did that repair 40 yrs on it would be hard to tell
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No definatly came out of the factory that way, you can tell by the spot welds and the original paint and undercoat on the underside, it's never been repaired or hit there.
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