GTS dash repairs part 2

[Absinth]

Second fascia is a HJ one and I needed to cut bits from Kingswood fascia's and weld them together to make a big enough infill piece




Panel welded in for non radio fascia as per HJ Sandman



There are 10 holes all together in this fascia that need to be filled in to repair it



These take a hell of a lot of work to repair and are very time consuming, I hope they are worth the effort.

I would like to ask you guys out there what you think a restored HJ/HX fascia would worth to you. These will be either black or the correct Portland Grey depending on model and will have the silver outline applied. Most have missing light lenses so until Jason gets his finger out and produces repro's I can't do much about them.....

Repro HZ ones are $200 so I doubt I will bother restoring too many original HZ ones...

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We are lucky enough to have two repaired by you, and we would like to say to all that read this thread, you are a true craftsman in this area...yellow van's dash looks awesome repaired....

We would like to put our name on one more as we now have some gauges to go in a GTS dash but we have a woodgrain one which we are selling.....

thanks
J and R

For you Jennie.... not a problem.

How about some pics of the dash now it's all installed......

I'll have your speedo all ready for you when you come down as well... sorry it's taken a while but I wasn't expecting to be uprooted and moving across two States....

[wbute]

I will second Jennies comment as to the quality of your work Absinth! After looking at the dash you repaired in their yellow van I was amazed.

They are worth more than any repro dash facia in my opinion.

[HZSandman]

I would say double a repro one. Rares does not do the HJ, HX ones anyway so they are next to impossible to get in good nick.

Pop them on ebay one at a time and let people know they have been restored and I reckon the price will be very good.

I would rather have a retored original than a repro one anyday.

[stickthis]

Nice one Sean. Cheers for the pics. Im pretty sure I have some of the HX ones here. I will be sorting out my shed stuff on the weekend so will dig them up then.

Cheers
Jason

[TwoTees]

Repro HZ ones are $200 so I doubt I will bother restoring too many original HZ ones...

Absinth,
I would think at least $300 maybe $400 for a non HZ. Where else are you going to get a nice one. As HZSandman said stick a few on ebay and test the market.
Most of my HZ was made in Australia and I'm sure none of it was made in China.
I am trying really hard to keep it that way!

Having said that, can you do my HZ one? If not I would be really keen to know a little more about plastic welding and your finishing techniques. Keep the great pics coming.

[Absinth]

Having said that, can you do my HZ one? If not I would be really keen to know a little more about plastic welding and your finishing techniques. Keep the great pics coming.

I don't find plastic welding that hard but I am also naturally good with my hands and have picked up a lot of skills from 30yrs in the Building industry. I already had a plastic welder as I did quite a bit of vinyl floor welding many years ago, a good welder is $700. I had to buy a pack of ABS plastic welding rods at $80 and already had sanding blocks, clamps, dremel tool and attachments etc.

If you needed to buy all the tools to restore your fascia it really wouldn't be worth it if you were only doing one or two.

I am happy to restore your fascia for you but need to see a pic of it to see how hard it will be and how far you want to go with it.

As said, they do take a lot of time to restore properly..... Jennie and Rodney can attest to how much work is involved as Rodney helped with the two I did for them.

[ozbox]

you guys are dreaming...
300 to 400 for a restored portland grey fascia.?..
you friggin wish...:(
send em up here and i would get 600 plus from realists..the black ones are gunna be less and confused with a rare spares item..

[jennie285]

Absinth and Rodney restoring Dash fascias......



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For you Jennie.... not a problem.

How about some pics of the dash now it's all installed......

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[Absinth]

Looks good fitted up Jennie.....


This is the first GTS fascia I did last year, looking good now it's painted in the correct suede black. Needs a rub back with 1200 wet and dry to cover the slightly visible repair outline in a couple of spots and then paint the silver border.





I also bought a few repro RTS badges from Mick (sstorana) for some of the HZ fascias and I have to say they are bloody good reproductions.

Look great on the Fascia........



NOW I JUST NEED TO FIND A SOURCE FOR GOOD REPRO LIGHT LENSES...... hint hint :lifesaver:

[Absinth]

Had a busy weekend so far doing some dash fascia's to take to Phillip Island next weekend.

A restored HJ fascia top and HX bottom, just need to do the silver border on them.

Jennie wrote:

We would like to put our name on one more as we now have some gauges to go in a GTS dash but we have a woodgrain one which we are selling.....

This HX one came up really well except someone had glued a RTS badge on and it left an imprint from the glue.....



So.... I drilled two holes and fitted one of Micks repro RTS badges to it..... this ones for you Jennie if you want it.... Looks bloody great to....



You'll probably want to put this one in the red Sandman as these are far better than the two I originally did for you...... except for the missing lenses....