1981 Holden Commodore Wagon

sweet VC mate, looks like a fair bit of work ahead of you still. By the way, are you on www.streetwagons.com as well?

 

Cheers & yeah a we ways to go yet, stinking hot weather & my new compressor springing an oil leak has slowed me down but will get back into it soon....
And yeah i'm on Street Wagons as well - the full threads on there, this is just a quick run down on here pretty much

 

haha cool, thought i'd seen it before

 

Small world huh lol ....... Been on here checking out the american wagons so thought i'd chuck mine up for something different......

 

hahaha yeah same thing man... got a bit bored with only seeing commodores wanted to see something different

 

Yeah same with me, they've sure got some awesome wagon's ......

 

Nice work, Dave!
That's going to be one neat little rig!

 

Cheers - She should come up quite well yeah, she's a keeper so no corners are getting cut

 

I got out in the shed today, still to hot really to do much but got a bit done.
I put a guide coat on the drivers door the other day & rubbed that back, had two small high spots to sort which is pretty good considering how much work that has gone into this door. So today sorted those high spots, couple of taps then blew a couple of coats of primer on. Blocked that back & she was sweet, i sanded up the top section of the door as well. Couple of coats of primer then sanded that back & blew some black over that, left it for a couple of hours then rubbed it back & shot it with a final coat. Came up good to, hard to show the gloss in the pics, so i'll leave that to dry for a few days then blow the top coat on the door. The Gunmetal Grey lower section for the 2 tone will be done down the track a bit - well time for a well earned cold beer me thinks, that shed was like an oven

 

Haven't got much done this week, got some more supplies so i'm good to go which is a bonus. Probably get something done this arvo, will get the top coat on the outside door sometime very soon then be panel after panel till she's done.
Got a good score yesterday, a guy had put 4 litre's of medium silver on the auction site i use over here. Was $20 start but not the reserve & $80 buy now so i waited till near the end & banged a $50 bid on which as i thought hit the reserve so i'm rapt on that, $200 worth of paint so a good bargain there. Will darken it up with some black to get the colour i want, hope to pick that up over the weekend but no rush on that as i'll do the 2 tone with all panels on the car as any silver/gunmetal is a witch if you do it panel by panel. Well i'll update this some more when i get some paint on

 

Just blew two coats on, will leave that to shrink back for a couple of days then rub it back with some 800 then blow another coat over it. My old mans an old schools painter & he's given me plenty of tips over the years so even though this isn't base coat i will be putting two or three clear coats over it.........

 

What a great project. I'm partial to Holdens since I own a fine example of one (Pontiac GTO). I'd love to get my hands on a sportwagon. Anyway, keep the updates coming. They are great to see.

 

This is sooooo cool!

Did you know that in europe your car would be a Opel rekord, commondore? Or a Vauxhall in UK..

Great job, always nice to see a good craftsman doing his thing!

 

Cheers Guys - And yeah they are sold under a few other names around the world, not a lot of updates on this at present. Just doing some saving and acquiring more parts for her, autumn here now so probably wont get a lot done till spring but when that comes there be some updates coming quite often

 

I don't know how I missed this thread. Rather impressive. I can't wait to see the finished product.