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1976 280Z Restoration Project

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Aaarh, Bonding with the son in law. So, he has past all the other tests and now he is allowed to work on your Zed[emoji3][emoji3][emoji3]
Mark, Good to see you back at. Enjoy.


Yup! One of the tests was providing me another grandson on October 7th!
He's a good father and fellow car enthusiast. He bought an old Skyline GTR for his first car (which he promptly wrote off).... now he drives a minivan.....
He is also a professional welder. That helps too...
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Did some more welding tonight. Well, my son in law did at least. I worked on cleaning up the nacelle pieces from a donor car. Still need the centre splitter.
The sand blaster is a huge help.

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I may have a center valance for a 280, I would have to look. Zkars might have it also and he's on the correct side of the border...

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Passenger floor pan going in...

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Bottom view...

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Inside

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Still needs trimming at the footwell and final welding. 10,000 times easier than the driver side..

  been there, done that  very nice!

Looks familiar.  You gonna media blast the rust around the seam (left side of last pic)?  That's what kept me awake at night on my project.  Worrying that there was some source of hidden rust between a seam or something waiting to pop up.  

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The interior has already been blasted. That is flash rust and it will be cleaned up after the rest of the welding is done...

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Looking at the original photo and the car, what you might be seeing is some of the seam filler that is still in place as well. It is rust coloured and brown in a lot of places. That will be cleaned out and replaced as well.

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No pictures tonight but I cut the footwell section out and formed a corner piece that was needed. Tacked it in for Travis (son in law) to finish weld. Very happy with the progress! Good solid metal to work with!

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