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low350		#1 Posted : Saturday, 7 April 2012 5:35:41 AM(UTC)
Rank: Member Reputation: Groups: Registered Joined: 6/04/2012(UTC) Posts: 5		Hi guys, I'm super new to this forum! I'm just about to embark on the rebuild of my Monaro. I have a deadline for April next year as I'm using it as my wedding car! It's originally a base model 6 but I'll be making it a GTS mock up with a few mods. Not being a GTS i don't feel so bad not making it perfectly original. It's quite rusty and pretty shabby but thanks to eBay I have pretty much all the parts I need, just a hell of a lot of hard work to be done!
		PROJECT: MONARO - Game far from over!


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low350		#2 Posted : Saturday, 7 April 2012 8:26:26 AM(UTC)
Rank: Member Reputation: Groups: Registered Joined: 6/04/2012(UTC) Posts: 5		I bought the Monaro off a friend that was moving interstate for the bargain price of $100 on the condition that I also purchased his pretty shagged HG Prem for $100... DEAL DONE! Here's a pic of my old collection, the ute was owned by my mate and the EK by my dad. Still have the white HK Kingswood and of course the Monaro!
		PROJECT: MONARO - Game far from over!


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low350		#3 Posted : Thursday, 12 April 2012 7:25:03 PM(UTC)
Rank: Member Reputation: Groups: Registered Joined: 6/04/2012(UTC) Posts: 5		So I haven't been able to actually work on the car so I have been playing with some of the smaller bit... I picked up a pretty trashed HK Monaro dash in a million pieces a while back for $40 so I thought I would start restoring it.. The front glass came up a treat with a wash and some toothpaste polishing! then I took a look at the dial faces.. they are all pretty rusty and deteriorated. so I took the above photo and created a scale template on the computer actually had to hand draw the font because none of the windows fonts were quite right.. and came up with this: Then I started playing with the idea of a black on white inverted dash.. The purists will be reaching for the barf bag right about now!! Not sure yet, I will make up both black and white and see how bad/good it looks... Feedback?...GO!
		PROJECT: MONARO - Game far from over!


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80569K		#4 Posted : Thursday, 27 September 2012 6:45:02 AM(UTC)
Rank: Member Reputation: Groups: Registered Joined: 11/08/2008(UTC) Posts: 916 Thanks: 2 times		I'd like to see the "inverted" dash cluster complete, it might not be for the purists but it's not a fatal mod. When I did mine I used the Dash Original decals and it came up a treat. Did put a scare into the purists though when I drilled through the temp gauge face and installed the LED.


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