What can we say is a big bravo!!!! for this wonderful work . .
Thank to you for sharing all these photos , sure that it can help
others in the process of a restoration .
Gilbert Gauthier
Diligui au site internet
http://www.austinhealeyquebec.com/
Le 10-09-10 ` 01:44, Tadeusz Malkiewicz a icrit :
> Hello all,
>
> I would like to thank all who helped me in getting my car from the
> state it
> was in:
> http://picasaweb.google.pl/Volvo1800S/AH100Detailed
>
> to the state it's in today:
> http://picasaweb.google.pl/Volvo1800S/AssemblyPhase2#
>
>
> Great thanks go to Rich C. whom I have practically killed with
> questions..
> Also, great thanks go to Rich Korn for providing photos of his very
> original
> BN2.. And all others! The list is truly so wonderfully spirited!!
>
>
> The next stage will be the engine (almost done, just waiting for the
> last
> coat of paint with the gearbox):
> http://picasaweb.google.pl/Volvo1800S/HealeyEngine#
>
> The paint process looked like this:
> http://picasaweb.google.pl/Volvo1800S/Paint#
>
>
> Now the small print: I am aware that:
> - brake pipes are copper (cannot find anything else in Poland)
> - I used Koolmat (as a kind of a substitute for tar paper :-) ) as I
> wanted
> to insulate against heat
> - flasher is not original (looking for one)
> - speedometer face & back color is not correct (winter project)
> - the VIN tag looks terrible (looking for someone to re print it)
> - fuel & oil flex pipes have wrong red thread (could not find proper
> one
> here)
> - no twin batteries - (will be there maybe next year)
> - gas pedal shaft not insulated yet
> - handbrake not insulated yet
> - instrument panel not silver - I could not find a trace of silver
> before
> paint job, so I felt I had a good excuse to leave it in white which
> although
> probably not correct, looks better to me :-)
> - master switch is of newer type, I still have not rebuild my
> previous one
> - few items are still missing
>
>
> Tadek
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