Gizzys Ke25 Rebuild No. 3

[Elvin]

wow, I didnt know you had this Build thread listed here dean.

 

It's coming along.

 

I love your 3 Car Garage.

[Gizzys25]

Yeah thought I'd document and share this project.

And the 3 car garage is smoke and mirrors, but made a good picture. One of the doors is realy the side gate.

 

Been at the stearing wheel again, wasn't happy with the finish, so a quick sand and now to wait for finer weather to spray it again.

The wife thought I was using a jack hammer till I told her all of Victoria was shaking and not just us. :lmao:

Edited June 19, 2012 by Gizzys25

[Gizzys25]

Due to the sudden unexpected passing of my lovely wife this project will be put on hold. Once we sort our selves out and know what we are doing the cars are going to collect some dust.

But since I met my wife because I had it,it will be done even though she didn't understand my passion for the car.

[flyinwall]

not good....Sorry to hear of your wife's passing

[parrot]

That's really awful Dean. Very sorry to hear this. In my line of work I unfortunately see things like this regularly.

 

All I can say is that it is so important to have something in your life outside of work, and hopefully your love of cars will help you get through this as best you can.

 

You will always have friends here.

[Gizzys25]

Thanks for the support rolla clubbers.

 

My 15 year old son is still keen so hopefully once we are back on track we can afford to do it sooner rather than later.

Still don't know what it means to be a single dad to 3 boys yet.

 

 

[Gizzys25]

Well the cars are at a panel shop so the project is once again under way.

Best bit I my son is doing work experience there and I too can drop in and work on the car any time I like.

So far fully stripped the roof and started on the rest of the car.

Mostly going bare metal on it now. Everywhere that was repaired last time.

The roof is now in epoxy primer.

 

Also what was the blue one turned out to be in the best shape of all 3 even though the roof was totaled.

So the newest of the 3 has lost it's roof and front end so far.

Rear qtrs and door frames are next.

I'll be getting updates from my son each week as he will be put to work on it when there are no other jobs in. And he is now getting the second one.

He is already putting ideas of how it will be built.

Edited February 26, 2014 by Gizzys25

[Gizzys25]

Here are a couple of pics

 

So at last it is progressing

[Skellington]

Have you done any welding on the rust in the engine bay? I am interested in how you do this, because I will be doing the same thing on my TE27.

[Gizzys25]

Getting the panel better to do it. He's taken the front out of one and doing a full replacement of the chassis rail and inner fender.

That way no more rust. Doing the same for the rest of the rust sections.

Lucky for me I have 3 cars and between them they are all have major rust in different places. So I can cut up one to fix the other 2.

[Gizzys25]

In answer to how the chassis rail was fixed, the inner fender was unstitched next to the strut tower and he rail cut just below on the outer section ad the inner further up. then the new section put in.

 

Did similar on the rear qtr. While he was at it pumped the rear guards out an inch by putting and extra inch of metal in the rear tub then attaching the qtr over the new wider tubs. now has the same roundness as the front guards have. Now able to cover 215's on 6 inch rims fitted to a wider K30 rear end. Wouldn't know it was done unless you put it next to another one.

 

 

Well the garage needs to be a bit bigger now, my son brought hi own and I picked up another one.

 

so that brings the total to 4 KE25's, 3x74s and one 73.

Just a little repair work and a couple of resprays.

Guess I'm on the parts hunt once again.

 

For the life of me can't get the pictures in the right order or spots

[Gizzys25]

Well its been a while, but the Panel beater is back on the job again. (Nearly all ready for paint)

 

And my now 18 year old son is getting into action on his one.

Picked up another compete 74 model KE25. Some rust but nothing we don't have spares for. So here goes this Easter. Really hope to get something accomplished in the next 2 weeks.

Edited March 29, 2015 by Gizzys25