Jules n Ru's 66 Coronet

mike jones · Post by **mike jones** » Thu Dec 29, 11 11:21 am

Hi Jules
I knew someone would see the potential in that car. If you live close to Rupert you can't be far from me, are you West End as in Chobham or Esher ?

Jules · Post by **Jules** » Thu Dec 29, 11 3:35 pm

Hi Mike. Tis a sweet little project. Thanks for advertising it for Jon.
Say Hi for us both if you speak to him.
Everything needs sorting, but the body's never been welded which is really good.
We're slowly getting through it

1 job opens up a can of worms, which opens another can and so on

but we're getting there

Yes mate, West End nr Bisley. 2 minutes from Gordon's School

Jules

Jules · Post by **Jules** » Sat Dec 31, 11 12:06 am

After a lovely christmas break with the family, a trip down to the shed was in order on Wednesday for a continuation of the saga of recommissioning the '66.

We had a box of goodies arrive just before Santa got here. Makes a change for our Post Man to be early

Anyway, christmas came early for Rupert and I with a few new goodies for the '66

New stainless fuel sender. New grommet for filler neck. New coil, HT leads, vacuum canister for dizzy, ignition switch aswell as some stuff for my '68.

So, we decided to crack on with cleaning up & repainting bits for the column, and re-detailing the dash facia. Also made up a new gasket for the column base.

Just waiting on new clock faces to be sorted by a friend of Ru's, then we can refit it all.
Hope you like the piccies. Ru and I had a laugh anyway.
You don't need a sense of humour in this game, but it bloody helps!!

Merry Christmas

Jules · Post by **Jules** » Wed Jan 11, 12 12:03 am

Had abit more progress on the '66 this weekend

(and the '68 too

)

Last week I got some paint matched up for the dash and steering column.
I matched it from a section of the top column piece that shows the P R N D etc. which had been shaded from the light so hadn't faded over the years.

The colour used was a Fiat / Alfa colour, and I don't think I could have got the match any better. Believe it or not, the match was even better with the naked eye than in the photo

So, the dash and column got a new coat of paint this weekend.
Also, the cancel cam was renewed so at least the turn signals will switch themselves off. (Something I need to do on my '68 when I get the chance)

Also, sorted out the dizzy too. Ru stripped it out and gave it a good service. Also put in a new vacuum canister.

Unfortunately we never had any luck with the gauge faces with Ru's mate, so we cleaned them up as best we could, and thankfully they came out better than we had initially hoped, so the dash binacle is all back together now ready to be installed hopefully at the weekend.

sinny · Post by **sinny** » Wed Jan 11, 12 9:05 am

Lovin' the colour Jules

Nice work.

R.RUNNER · Post by **R.RUNNER** » Thu Jan 12, 12 4:36 pm

sinny wrote:Lovin' the colour Jules

r.runner wrote: Lovin the colour, Jules :[/qoute]

Ivor · Post by **Ivor** » Thu Jan 12, 12 5:14 pm

There's some great work going on in this club at the moment, keep on keeping on!

R.RUNNER · Post by **R.RUNNER** » Thu Jan 12, 12 5:34 pm

Ivor wrote:There's some great work going on in this club at the moment,

Not in "Near Bicester" though

Ivor · Post by **Ivor** » Thu Jan 12, 12 5:49 pm

Yes there is, they are building a railway in my garden!

Bought yourself a Hurst yet?

R.RUNNER · Post by **R.RUNNER** » Thu Jan 12, 12 7:14 pm

Jules · Post by **Jules** » Thu Jan 12, 12 11:57 pm

Did you have any luck with that phone number Andy???

R.RUNNER · Post by **R.RUNNER** » Fri Jan 13, 12 12:37 pm

Cheers "J"

but JC had already brought his hood some months ago.....wrong type for the "SUPERBEE"

Thanks

Jules · Post by **Jules** » Fri Jan 13, 12 2:25 pm

Ahh.

You need 1 of these then ....

See the join I was talking about at the front for the '69 add on piece?

R.RUNNER · Post by **R.RUNNER** » Sun Jan 15, 12 4:10 pm

Thats the type

Jules · Post by **Jules** » Tue Jan 24, 12 9:53 pm

Well, a few more jobs have been sorted now on the old girl

After painting the dash we cleaned up the chrome trims that go round it's base and refitted them

We then set about the dash pad to see what we could do with that

Grime, dirt, grease, cob webbs and nicotine is the best way to describe that

Anyway after a good scrub for an hour or 2 we soon brought it back to life

Once dried we re-fitted that too, and wow did it look good against the dash and trim

(enjoy the before and after pics)

That colour match was better than we 1st thought.
The dash pad matches perfectly

We thought the pad might have faded over the years in the sun, so we weren't expecting a 100% match but thankfully not this one.
Makes us wonder if this was a "Garaged Car" most of it's life

After that was time for the column re-assembly.

All was going well until we realised we needed to get the wiring threaded through, and the only way to do that was to take it all apart and start again as there was no room to feed the wires through and get them where they needed to go but hey, you live and learn