With most of the front end apart, we decided to taking the tail end apart and finding out what work was required there. As with the front end, the rust effected nuts’n’bolts gave us a hard time, but at least the grinder was only required on one occasion.
Went down to Brighton Nissan in Moorabbin this morning and ordered in a new bonnet. It will be coming in from Japan, so it will take a couple of weeks to get here. Ended up costing $650, which I’m pretty happy about. I had a quote from allzparts in NSW for the same thing for […]
At last, the weekend has arrived and I can go work on the Z. Dad showed me his handy work on the bonnet and it didn’t look too good. For the amount of work that it will take, we have opted to look into getting a replacement bonnet.
Dad decided to start doing a little investigative work on the bonnet today. He used a little paint stripper to see what was under the paint. He had always looked at it and commented that it just didn’t look right. Well, under the stripper he found body filler, and lots of it. He gave up […]