Ted's 61 DC

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Ted's 61 DC

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I've had this 61 DC for a while now. Apparently its history is well known around Sydney - probably due to the canary yellow paint job it got in the 90's.

My original intention was to remove the canary yellow to reveal the original paint of nimbus white and get it roadworthy (last registered in 2006). Unfortunately there was little or no original paint left due to previous accident repairs (on every panel) so it was time for Plan B.

I'll let the pics tell the story to date...
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Pickup in Western Sydney
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Nice banana :D Keep the pics coming!
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I'll try and get them in order this time :?
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Nice keen to see the build on this
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As you would expect the blasting has revealed a little more rust than the naked eye detected. All in all it's not too bad - just starting to doubt whether my welding skills are good enough :?
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Oh yea, just to clarify, the oval tail lights were welded in after an accident, replacing the twin tail lights :x

I've got replacement twin tail light metal ready to go in
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Cool what's the chassis and body number ? Interested to see how far off my 61's are to yours
Straight axle is better than IRS
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FrankenCab wrote:Cool what's the chassis and body number ? Interested to see how far off my 61's are to yours
DPU1086 & 785513. How close?
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Ha, got sent a pic if this the other day when it was sitting at AA, wondered who it belonged to.
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HELMUT wrote:Ha, got sent a pic if this the other day when it was sitting at AA, wondered who it belonged to.
Yea Marty, the blaster told me he had just finished another splitty which was getting a lot of love & $$$.
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758107 march I think for one the other ill check in the morning but its a may 61 DC with oval tailights
Straight axle is better than IRS
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mine is 758097
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Here's my chassis no ..785457
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