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Old 02-19-2020, 04:47 AM
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Love Noski the garage buddy!
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Old 02-21-2020, 02:08 AM
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Marcus,

I spotted a Jeep in the dark green you showed.

Looks great in the flesh.

I'd vote for the green.
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Old 02-21-2020, 03:49 AM
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I wouldn't be afraid to paint it with clear varnish. But it is not color, only for yours a perfect details.
I would choose light silver. The car will look bigger, there will be no dirt on it, and there will be less heat in the sun. Accessories can be dark and stand out perfectly on the car. It's a modern car anyway, I wouldn't be afraid of light silver metallic. Stainless steel look. You will see in paint a lot of kangaroos and admirers with big eyes.....

It will be like jewel. And the new cat will polish him.
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Old 02-21-2020, 04:35 AM
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Love Noski the garage buddy!
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Marcus,

I spotted a Jeep in the dark green you showed.

Looks great in the flesh.

I'd vote for the green.
Glad you like it too. It changes quite a bit and not a solid colour like people think, but not too much colour flip either.
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I wouldn't be afraid to paint it with clear varnish. But it is not color, only for yours a perfect details.
I would choose light silver. The car will look bigger, there will be no dirt on it, and there will be less heat in the sun. Accessories can be dark and stand out perfectly on the car. It's a modern car anyway, I wouldn't be afraid of light silver metallic. Stainless steel look. You will see in paint a lot of kangaroos and admirers with big eyes.....

It will be like jewel. And the new cat will polish him.
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Old 02-29-2020, 06:32 AM
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Grille is out so I can modify it for the new headlight buckets. Fortunately everything else can stay where it is and not have to come out as well, so it is a quick job.


The new steel headlight buckets from NARVA, https://www.narva.com.au/products/72193, have a smaller mounting flange than the Willys Truck ones. Rather than cutting out a ring and welding it, I welded a disc in as the extra metal helps with the distortion control. These were welded in without stopping as you can tell by the HAZ.


Welding the disc in also allows any change of position if needed. In this case the factory headlight holes are out by 3mm-1/8" from one side to the other. So I moved the centre point over before scribing the new hole and cutting it out with a jigsaw. I had already planished the welds to make everything flat again.


Once the holes were cut and mounting holes etc drilled, final working of the area was done to make it all flat.


Fitted the indicators back in so they could be wired along with the headlights which I am converting to H4 plugs instead of the separate high and low beam sockets that the donor had.


We finally have 'eyes'! I wanted better than halogen so used these LED headlights which fit the old/new theme. Didn't want the bug eyed look of other LED headlights. These are popular on Kenworth Trucks here and were an OEM fitment on the last of the series of Land Rover Defenders.


Top half gives a little blackout look to them as well. You can also see why I chose the spacing of the extra bead I added after widening the grille. The space each side of the bead next to the headlight is the same.


These headlights offer a parking, DRL plus low and high beam. https://www.narva.com.au/products/72104 They also do a version that has no low beam, so check your part numbers. These are fully ADR approved so I will have no problem getting them certified. They are for RHD so dip to the left instead of the right like for the left hand drive market. Made by GiantLight who make LHD versions for other manufacturers as well like Nolden. https://giantlight.en.taiwantrade.co...-1497370.html# Also without the parkers and DRL. https://giantlight.en.taiwantrade.co...le-570300.html
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Old 02-29-2020, 06:53 AM
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Just perfect. The words are to popor.

Normaly without color only clear coat.
But if its necesary to be a colour and then
Silver its best.
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Old 03-01-2020, 04:09 AM
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I was shown this one after my last post about the royal crimson and black combination on an old truck.
Looks pretty good to me!
My fear with the Jeep olive is that it will lose too much of the 40's look and will just come across as a newer Jeep with a front sheet metal change.
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Old 03-01-2020, 05:03 AM
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Well done Marcus on you getting metal shaper of the month
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Old 03-01-2020, 05:03 AM
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Well done on MSOTM Marcus! Richly deserved mate.
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Old 03-01-2020, 05:38 AM
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I THIRD that!


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