Z Kid

One more, sorry to hear about your predicament, but its not over till you start thinking that it is. We had a family friend who was diagnosed, and told to take advantage of the next few months, because that was all he had, three years later, he's still going relatively strong.(the broken back, and crushed sternum weren't from the cancer:))

What's worse than the bastards who use metal filings is the fact that you can now ever here get bog which contains a steel wool type compound, and is specifically sold for bridging largish body work holes etc. The company should be shot, or at least someone within the company.

Sorry to ruing the party, congrats on the Z, but now the missus will soon be at you to get rid of it so you can take the kid with you. Tough Choice to make. Seriously congrats on it all

Isn't the X-type built on a Taurus floorpan, or frame or whatever its called?

Asessing all options, don't suppose you have a full front on shot?

Either way, the guy with the porsche is still a whole heap better off than this bloke. Ahh Only in America, and maybe a few other small lesser developed coutries.

Try Ashley Maclurkin" <zr240@hotmail.com> i think he has the moulds to make them and they are resonably priced

You mean a Zed that's spent its whole life surrounded on four sides by salty water? I think not, it'd have more rust than mine

I too was told that all Aussie spec 260's 2+2 came out with an R200 rear diff, but i'm still not sure what the hell is lying on my shed floor taking up space.

Been there, seen it and done it and have a shabby car as a result, by all means do the prep work, but for christs sake get someone to put on the top coat. Its not as easy as it looks, and two pac has isocyinates in it (bad).

Its pretty impossible to determine the cost of a decent paint job, but somewhere about 5-7 thousand seems about right for a good 2-pac paint with minor bodywork etc thrown in. However you can buy the 260, but who is to say what's underneath the paint, other than the guy who is trying to offload it. When it comes to shifty paint jobs, its not that hard to cover up rust etc with bog, newspaper etc etc. THe list of potential bodges is amazing, and unless the guy will guarentee the quality, or you can "fix" him at a later date if he was lying, it may be best to steer away from a fresh repeaint. 2000 for a 260 shell seems a bit over the top to me, but i may be wrong.