Its finally in etch prime! Woohoo

[damienengland]

Looks fantastic. Your body worker is doing a real professional job. Good to see a skilled tradesman. With the Ice and beer idea are you going to coat the inside of the " boot" in a spray on insulation type product? I was just thinking of the heat from the road, exhaust etc. Cheers
Also did you fit a drain bung to allow you to wash it out and drain the melted ice out and such?

Hi RAEME, thanks and you have some good ideas, I suspect you are a professional piss head to have that much respect for protecting the beer! I will be popping a bung into it as you suggested, but it would probably only be used to hold ice and drinks for a show....to show off. On the subject of exhaust, if the pipes came out the back, they would track right next to the tub but i want to drop them out behind the rear wheels so i shouldn't have too much heat issues.

With regards to the professional at work, his name is Dennis and he is a career panel beater, now i his 60's. He travels around in his truck, fully tooled up to do custom or difficult repairs and worked at Holden from the mid 60's to the mid 70's. He was telling me a story about being asked to cut a corner mounted tail light into the HQ sedan body, so the Holden engineers could look at it as a design option. This became the HJ sedan tail light, which i reckon is a cool story.

Cheers

[we wreck xx7s only]

With regards to the professional at work, his name is Dennis and he is a career panel beater, now i his 60's. He travels around in his truck, fully tooled up to do custom or difficult repairs and worked at Holden from the mid 60's to the mid 70's. He was telling me a story about being asked to cut a corner mounted tail light into the HQ sedan body, so the Holden engineers could look at it as a design option. This became the HJ sedan tail light, which i reckon is a cool story.

Cheers

ole dennis ($20bux a tap)Robertson..very good tradesman, his alloy work was mighty fine in the pro street "alloy interior days" of the 80's etc. I'm tippin your car is at roadster panels??

[damienengland]

looks like its green, green or green. barbados or lettuce alone like Rob said would get my vote too

Barbados looks awesome with blackouts and is not overwhelming (like white or red etc) given the large volume of surface area on a van

Yes, green is the choice, its now just a matter of which one. My most favourite panel van, was Jamaican Lime and i have always remembered it fondly, but as this unit isn't a Sandman, I'm tempted to go a bit radical on the paint. The missus reckons the metal fleck sample I got, looks like priscilla queen of the desert!

ole dennis ($20bux a tap)Robertson..very good tradesman, his alloy work was mighty fine in the pro street "alloy interior days" of the 80's etc. I'm tippin your car is at roadster panels??

Yep correct on all fronts, that's good detective work XX7. Panel shop suggested Dennis for the custom bit when i told them how i wanted all the profiles and ribs to look factory. I wish i had known him when he scored the rep of $20 bux a tap....it would have been way cheaper Just kidding, his work is excellent and i can't complain about his hourly rate. In hindsight, to stay cost effective I would do more of the design and prep work before i got Dennis in.

[we wreck xx7s only]

Yep correct on all fronts, that's good detective work XX7. Panel shop suggested Dennis for the custom bit when i told them how i wanted all the profiles and ribs to look factory. I wish i had known him when he scored the rep of $20 bux a tap....it would have been way cheaper Just kidding, his work is excellent and i can't complain about his hourly rate. In hindsight, to stay cost effective I would do more of the design and prep work before i got Dennis in.

yes, "TT" is something very few put into a project these days. no doubt dennis is very very good, but don't be fooled bout the GMH story with the taillight, HJ was well on the way to being design made and tested well prior to dennis working there