240z.drago.com.au - Adventures of rebuilding a 1973 Datsun 240Z

Once again, I have been very slack in updating the blog. Since my last post, a lot of work has been done on the body of the car and it is just one gentle sand with 600 grit paper away from being undercoated and ready for final painting. The car looks absolutely fantastic and will be everything that we want it to be once the final paint is applied. We now have to find someone that will be able to spray it for us. I think that Dad wants to spray it, but I don’t think spraying the car in 2-pak in the garage is a good health choice 😉

I’ve also done a little work on some interior bits’n’pieces. I took the seats down to an upholsterer in Dromana and he said (and they looked it too) that they need to be completely rebuilt. On both seats, the back and the base had tears and there were different types of vinyl all over the place (indicating that the seats had been worked on before).

He took the seats completely apart for me and allowed me to clean up the runners and get the back, springs and hinges powder coated. I took the hinges completely apart, except for the piece with the heavy duty spring. I had everything powdercoated in satin black. I should have been a little careful with getting everything powdercoated though. Well, I couldn’t put things back together due to the thickness of the coating. I had to sand/file off the coating on the parts that needed to be seated into each other. After a bit of work, I was able to get the mechanisms all back together and they are ready to be taken back to the upholsterer. The next issue will be sourcing the vinyls, as I am trying to keep the car as close to original as my bank balance will allow.

I have also done some work on the heater box. I have taken it all apart and given it a good sand down and treated the bare metal with Metal Ready. I then painted the box, inside and out, with POR-15. That should hopefully keep the rust at bay from any leaking coolant.

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