yeah, my last exam is next Thursday but the car is such a distraction!!!

i'm at padua in mornington, doing the "asian five" (english, methods, spesh, physics and chem) dont ask me why, i'm still working that out.

as for the body, its fairly good, the paint job is pretty bad, few bubbles and lots of paint chips but thats just an excuse to paint it and getting it looking great! but the past few days i'm striped the interior and found some rust but i'll get on top of that asap.

cheers
Darcy

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Currently whizzing around the streets of hobart in the imported orange '72 180b sss named Phillip

sadly, the 120y blew up and the old sss was sold to a better home.

dw im almost in the same situation with school, doing physics chem methords bio and english, i did genral B last year and didnt keep up with the work so there was no way i was doing spesh this year. but i reckon we get it easier, ppl doing arts have to work their ass off to get a semi decent grade cos most their subjects go down where as we can jst do average and because everything is marked up we do fair well. My gf is doing an arts type coarse and if we got the same raw score for all our subjects my enter would be 12 around points higher.

Happens that i have a 180b SSS as well, though urs looks like a show car compared to myne, which im going to start restoring over summer. also got two sedans, one as a parts car and the other as a daily. do you plan on completly stripping ur car before u go for roadie?? cos from photos it dosent look that far from RWC anyway. you should get a RWC and drive it for a while. if you start stripping it you will prob want to do a respray/resto and wont be able to drive it for ages, i reckon you should have some fun first. Is it an auto or manual?

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My garage:
180b sedan daily (needs some TLC)
180B sss (under restoration)
180b Wagon daily
http://ozdat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f= ... 9&start=30

so all in all, school sucks

its not show room, far from it. the pictures dont show the many paint chips and terrible paint job on it, so i've already started striping in slowly, the interior is pretty shot, complete but just rips and a lot of paint stains so i'm planning on restoring, re trimming the interior close to original as possible, but i'm thinking a black and gray colour scheme rather then brown on brown. whatch you all think?

gettting a roady would be smart in one sense, but if i go get one with it yellow, drive it for a bit then strip in and respray, and change the colour (not sure if i will or not, my girlfriends want me to go deep purple) it it has to go thru the painful process of changing details with VICroads, which i will try to avoid.

cheers
Darcy

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Currently whizzing around the streets of hobart in the imported orange '72 180b sss named Phillip

sadly, the 120y blew up and the old sss was sold to a better home.

A purple 180B SSS would look pretty cool. Look for Riley's old 180B, that's purple and looks nice. Although never listen to girl's advice on cars! Otherwise you'll end up with a pink car with a love heart chrome tip and other horrible accessories

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green200b - aka Alistair

The fleet:

Australia:
'80 200B GX - the green200b - hibernating
'81 RX-7 - 12A extend port - daily
'74 RX-2 - 13B bridgeport - cruiser

Europe:
'93 200SX - CA18DET - tourer

my mum also wants it purple

but purple was my idea too, but still undecided.

gun metal gray would also look nice, like this 2000GT one.

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Currently whizzing around the streets of hobart in the imported orange '72 180b sss named Phillip

sadly, the 120y blew up and the old sss was sold to a better home.

I saw a nice one up near Greensborough once, I was just explaining to some friends how rare they were and then one drove past...

Anyway, it was a really nice red colour. I thought it looked awesome! But I guess do a Google picture search and see which colours they look nice in.

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green200b - aka Alistair

The fleet:

Australia:
'80 200B GX - the green200b - hibernating
'81 RX-7 - 12A extend port - daily
'74 RX-2 - 13B bridgeport - cruiser

Europe:
'93 200SX - CA18DET - tourer

i didnt know there were any over here!

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Currently whizzing around the streets of hobart in the imported orange '72 180b sss named Phillip

sadly, the 120y blew up and the old sss was sold to a better home.

I reckon keep the yellow, but go a shade or three darker. Will look old school 70's tough.

Going with your mum's advice is never a good idea. I told my mum your car had twin SU's on it and she said it was a "cop magnet"

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The one time I got pulled over in my 200B, it was about as stock as it has been for almost two years...with a single carbie!

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green200b - aka Alistair

The fleet:

Australia:
'80 200B GX - the green200b - hibernating
'81 RX-7 - 12A extend port - daily
'74 RX-2 - 13B bridgeport - cruiser

Europe:
'93 200SX - CA18DET - tourer

hey guys

yesterday SSS 610 came round and in suspected my (mostly) stripped car for rust. looks like i'm lucky, just surface rust, nothing structural. so he's gonna come round in a few weeks(when i get around to organizing it) and help/ teach me how to remove rust and make everything look pretty . should be fun.

in the mean time i'll be working working and working(might even get a second job) to pay for parts to get it on the road. hopefully the engine doesnt need much work/new bits and pieces.

i also have a decision to make, with the car completely striped, no interior and chrome and what not for the rust repair, i can get it sprayed and have the PERFECT body/shell/base to start with. so i have some questions,

- A - lets start easy, Should i get it sprayed?

- B - what colour??

any opinions welcome

cheers
Darcy

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Currently whizzing around the streets of hobart in the imported orange '72 180b sss named Phillip

sadly, the 120y blew up and the old sss was sold to a better home.

POLL!!!

here are some examples for the colours in the poll

Gun Metal Gray: White: Blue, like Fr3aks old sss: Purple:


yellow: opinions?

thanks in advanced

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Currently whizzing around the streets of hobart in the imported orange '72 180b sss named Phillip

sadly, the 120y blew up and the old sss was sold to a better home.

i say fully sick canary yellow with silver bottom bro!

nah jks

Yellow or White, come on my car needs a sibling lol

gun metal is my top pic tho!

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"You stay classy OzDat"

lol

i'm torn between the yellow, white and gun metal!

the white just looks so nice and clean.
the yellow is original.
and the gun metal just looks ace.

have a look at this Z i found in gun metal (on an ebay listing for the fender mirrors )

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Currently whizzing around the streets of hobart in the imported orange '72 180b sss named Phillip

sadly, the 120y blew up and the old sss was sold to a better home.

This is why I went with white in the first place, it is a safe colour, you can get away with small inperfections and it also looks real neat specially in the sun, can be touched up fairly easy but sometimes it can look borring specially when it's dirty.

Yellow is not too bad but it really stands out, nice colour to look at and its the original color of the car which means you can get away with not painting the boot or the enginebay which also will save you money, it will also be pretty unique because I've hardly ever seen a yellow 180B.

Gun metal gray is sick colour I contemplated this colour too and I love it to bits, BMW have heaps of nice hues but since it is a metalic the body has to be real nice and straight, it will also be expensive and will be a pain to touch up and if you get some damage the panel beater will most likely have to spray a whole panel or two to blend it in because metalic colours show up inperfections quite a bit, trust me I had a burgundy Integra that looked candy apple in the sun but if someone tapped it with their door at the carpark or soemthign it will show up for sure!

white and yellow can be done in acrylic which means it could be done on a budget and get real good results also doesn't have to be done in a both opposed to 2pak, also they're easy to touch up specially white, but the gun metalic will highlight the lines of the SSS and wont be too over the top like white and yellow, just do expect having to strip the whole car since I doubt you would want a nice gun metalic exterior and a Yellow engine bay or boot.

The choises are real good but it's up to you in the end.

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"You stay classy OzDat"

BTW here is a couple of pics of mine in the sun to give you and idea, oh and if you go purple the only purple I suggest is Morpheous <- (spell) purple which is the new VE SS colour.

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"You stay classy OzDat"