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unfinished project

got this car from a irish dude here in Canada in summer 2013
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im British by the way you could say im on a extended holiday:lol:been here since oct 2012 from the day i got here i was looking for mk1 diesel then i came across this baby 1981 4 door car so the previous guy bit of more than he could chew some pics of the car how i got it the day i got it 

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so it lay in the garage for the rest of the summer as you can see by the blue skys in the previous pictures who want to work in the weathers like that :lol: so a few bbqs later and  winter getting closer some part arrived i decided to do some work on the old girl front end was off any way so lets start with the rusty inner wings front end was taken off by previous owner to do a round light conversion so it came with a genuine used front panel used genuine front wings rusty tho lol so i had to look for replacements    amjad pic 545.jpg amjad pic 549.jpg amjad pic 602.jpg

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one side down one side to go oh look its done dam im good;) amjad pic 1206.jpg amjad pic 1209.jpg
i was a body guy back home helps a little when you done it before 

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so it was a effing cold winter had to get a protemp 45000 btu multi fuel burner worked wonders 

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in the mean time grinding filling and shults done  amjad pic 1641.jpg amjad pic 1644.jpg

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that was as far as i got so il have updates as they happen thanks for looking let me know what ya think 

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Nice project, keep the updates coming  :thumbs:

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nice one, another diesel  :cool:

am i the only person that cant see the pics?

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inner wings filled and primed today. Browner01 no one else has said they cant see the pictures
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oh yes waiting for battery tray and a few other bits from werk34 did say it would be round 6 weeks any one dealt with them is 6 weeks normal?

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done nothing on the car still waiting for battery try and spare wheel well ordered them may still  waiting :'(
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