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Offline vangremlin

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Re: My 81 Wagon Project
« Reply #195 on: October 09, 2012, 10:22:57 PM »
Looks cool!  What color will you use for the trim?
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Re: My 81 Wagon Project
« Reply #196 on: October 09, 2012, 11:41:02 PM »
Fender flares are matt black now. They are quite mess too. Tried to fix those, but they are far from perfect.  :P

But grey, matt black and polished aluminium/ stainless steel goes well together, I think... and some chrome stripes...
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Re: My 81 Wagon Project
« Reply #197 on: October 10, 2012, 08:50:04 AM »
Like the color and with the trim black should look really good. Can't wait to see more photos along with your progress. Nice work my friend!
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Re: My 81 Wagon Project
« Reply #198 on: October 15, 2012, 04:34:04 PM »
Parts are coming together...





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Re: My 81 Wagon Project
« Reply #199 on: October 15, 2012, 06:04:37 PM »
Quote from: Mernsy on October 15, 2012, 05:09:54 PM
Lookin' good!!

Ditto, can't wait to see it all back together and out of the garage!
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Re: My 81 Wagon Project
« Reply #200 on: October 16, 2012, 01:13:16 PM »
Hmm...

Before




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Re: My 81 Wagon Project
« Reply #201 on: October 24, 2012, 06:59:45 PM »
Lookin good my friend, lookin good!
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Re: My 81 Wagon Project
« Reply #202 on: October 25, 2012, 08:13:51 AM »
Last week I took this project out of my garage. I´m going to paint my Matador Coupe some day and after that some other jobs too. I´ll start with this when it is spring time. Brakes, interior and wiring needs some attention... then road test... I have made an order of a new set of 205/70x15 wheels.















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Re: My 81 Wagon Project
« Reply #203 on: October 25, 2012, 10:43:37 AM »
Congratulations, on your rebuild. All your hard work is finally coming together,and looking great.
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Re: My 81 Wagon Project
« Reply #204 on: October 28, 2012, 07:09:19 AM »
I found a copy of a copy of a pic of Eagle between dutch plates...

This was a false alarm...   :o

thank you mudkicker715

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Re: My 81 Wagon Project
« Reply #205 on: October 28, 2012, 08:07:36 AM »
that would have been jurjen's eagle of the month picture from a few years back
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Re: My 81 Wagon Project
« Reply #206 on: June 14, 2013, 02:58:30 PM »
Something new...

I bought a "new" set of wheels. They are from a Mercury Cougar of a Jeeper from our AMC club.



Inner lining was terrible. So it needed some attention.

Someone had glued a leather like vinyl to it after he had fixed that hardened material. After that second crash it has been fixed with duct tape. That dark stuff is just dust.



I took that vinyl off. It looks much better in pic that it really is...



Used some packaking tape to give right shape and fix holes. Notice those sophisticated supports...



Some woven fiberglass...



...and resin.

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Re: My 81 Wagon Project
« Reply #207 on: June 14, 2013, 08:04:17 PM »
Looks good Juhap!  That will be a great improvement for the inside.
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Re: My 81 Wagon Project
« Reply #208 on: June 14, 2013, 09:01:03 PM »
Great idea using the fiberglass mat, that will really give it some strength !
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Re: My 81 Wagon Project
« Reply #209 on: June 14, 2013, 11:31:16 PM »
This one needs some extra strenght, because it had broken into pieces.

If there were more AMC Eagle/Hornet/Concord wagons in Finland, it would be time to make a fiberglass mould for new inner linings... But it is waste of money... We have here about  15 wagons... and this was one of the worst...
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