Thursday, March 11, 2010

What's Required?

So, where to start, and what needs doing? Ideally I'd hope to have the Corona completed by Bay to Birdwood 2011. Dreaming? Probably. There's some rust spots in the bootlid and the bottom of the front guards and the passenger door. The rear quarter may have taken a knock at some stage as I can see what looks like bog, but not sure to what extent. Not sure what to do about any of that at this stage either. My spray painting skills are quite okay, but my bodywork is terrible. No matter how much practice I've had, I just can't get rust removal to an acceptable level, so most of these parts I'll have to take it somewhere. Any suggestions?

Rear number plate light is rusted out which is common, but apart from that it's pretty clean. That's it's a one family car is obvious. Oh and Craig the previous owner sent through a scan of the ad from the paper. What an awesome bit of provenance!

The Corona pictured in this ad is the one I bought! The 1000th car sold by John Cahill Motors.
Interior is pretty clean too, although the crashpad is utterly cracked, not sure if it's even salvageable. I might take it to Dash Original and wait for 3 years for them to have a look at it. The passenger seat has some splitting on one of the seams, I'm going to take this to a trimmer, my usual is Jim's Trim is Salisbury, great service and turnaround, but they are a bit pricey.