“I HAD THE THING LAID OUT ON THE LOUNGE FLOOR. NOT POPULAR”
dismantled it, put in all the extra wires to run the XU-1 dash we have in it. I had that whole thing laid out on the loungeroom floor for a week! It wasn’t popular. We even had it all on the floor, including the wiper motor, hooked up to a 12 volt battery and tested everything before we put it in the car.
The dash we ended up buying second-hand and we paid around $300 for it – almost as much as the car! I was pretty lucky they were all matching gauges and it’s date code correct for that shell. We’ve had a pretty good run with it.
If you were going to tackle a project like this, the priority is 100 per cent a really straight body to start with and minimal rust. That on its own drops the build cost in a big way.
As for my car, I’m going to tidy up a few bits and pieces. We’ll put in some new brake lines to tidy it up and do a full repaint of the engine bay
Apart from that, we just enjoy and drive it. It’s done 30,000km. We go up to Toranafest in Newcastle, and the All Torana Day in Adelaide, we’ve been to Bathurst in it, done the Great Ocean Road three or four times. It gets used!