What started as a tidy-up exercise
became............
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In 1996 I recieved a phone call from a friend
asking if I was interested in two P76's that he had and would deliver from Bendigo to
Melbourne for an all inclusive $250
Upon their arrival one was discovered to be far too good to wreck so I decided to get rid
of a lot of my spares by building a car.
In the Spares I had a new set of blue door trims, this and the desire to paint it yellow
were the basis upon which I started. I also decided to eliminate all exterior bright work
to be replaced by either paint or powdercoat.
The bits I had lying around included Hotwire wheels, electric sunroof, Ford sports mirrors
and wing, Pioneer Stereo, V8 and 4 speed, Airconditioning and power steering, cruise
control, Bilsteen and Kmac suspension including front and rear sway bars and some EA Ghia
seats and wheels which I sold to pay for the retrimed seats and window tinting.
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1974
Executive
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who is a gifted panel beater, prepare the car for painting which took him
a couple of weeks. I then painted the car yellow all over which I mixed up
from some paint that I had under the house.
After fitting the mechanicals and hoodlining I decided it
needed more!
A trip to Racepaint
in Braeside soon fixed this!
I basically gave John Evans and his team a free hand only
stating that I wanted the Yellow to be |
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the dominant colour. What you see before you is
the result! I was very Impressed.
Meantime I set about composing the interior which was to be
quite a departure from the predominately black trim P76's are endowed
with!
The first thing to receive attention was the dashboard and
instruments.
I set about making my own faces for them!
to be continued................. |
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