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Re: Fiat 125s in South Africa
Posted: December 2nd, 2011, 8:11 pm
by Rishal
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Re: Fiat 125s in South Africa
Posted: December 5th, 2011, 8:52 am
by TomLouwrier
hi Rishal,
Making good progress here, you're not wasting time.
Good restoration, nice to follow it by pictures.
regards
Tom
Re: Fiat 125s in South Africa
Posted: December 5th, 2011, 3:45 pm
by Rishal
Thanks Tom,
A 1962 Fiat 1500. This was the best Fiat that my dad owned. This car was original.
Wish we never sold it.
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Re: Fiat 125s in South Africa
Posted: December 5th, 2011, 10:35 pm
by WhizzMan
You may want to be a bit more careful with the paint work. Even tho you will probably polish it later, it's a waste to damage it even more now. Working on that steering rack is a lot "safer" if you'd at least put a bit of cardboard between the rack and the trunk lid. Proper would be not to use the trunk as a work bench, but I know how these things happen. I have a few cars with things stuffed on them in the workshop as well, but they have cardboard or plaids on the paintwork to protect them.
Re: Fiat 125s in South Africa
Posted: December 13th, 2011, 5:34 pm
by Rishal
Re: Fiat 125s in South Africa
Posted: December 13th, 2011, 5:45 pm
by Guy Croft
a pink 124 Special.
Love it!
G
Re: Fiat 125s in South Africa
Posted: December 27th, 2011, 11:47 pm
by badlyworntoy
Hi Rishal
Good work with what looks like limited resources.
I'm 32 and even with my photographic memory I can't ever rember seeing any Fiat 124 saloons on Uk roads,they where sold here in their thousands aswell......now judging by how rotten that one is in a place like South Africa its no wonder, they must of all turned to dust within 6 months of coming off the production line!
Re: Fiat 125s in South Africa
Posted: January 2nd, 2012, 10:57 am
by Rishal
Re: Fiat 125s in South Africa
Posted: January 2nd, 2012, 11:04 am
by Guy Croft
Can you do something about your photo quality please? They look rather 'fuzzy'. Taken with mobile phone?
Let me know by pm if this is a problem for you please.
Thanks,
G
Re: Fiat 125s in South Africa
Posted: January 2nd, 2012, 4:35 pm
by Urbancamo
Hi Guy, i think Rishal takes photos with traditional camera and then scans them. They look just like that and some of them have a name of "Scan..." wich is generated by scanner. I'm I right?
Otherwise nice project!
Re: Fiat 125s in South Africa
Posted: January 2nd, 2012, 6:27 pm
by Rishal
Yes, traditional camera and then scanned. Mobile phone as well. Sorry for the bad quality pictures. At that time I did not know about this forum so image quality never crossed my mind. I still have more pictures to post so please forgive me for quality, but the good news is that I now own a digital camera.
Re: Fiat 125s in South Africa
Posted: February 29th, 2012, 2:58 pm
by Rishal
Weber 34 ADF
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Re: Fiat 125s in South Africa
Posted: February 29th, 2012, 4:18 pm
by Guy Croft
you are getting there!!
G
Re: Fiat 125s in South Africa
Posted: March 1st, 2012, 11:47 am
by Brit01
Well done Rishal.
Doing well with the limited resources.
I know how that is. I see some cheap tools on your bench the same as I bought here one time. Unfortunately they didn't last long. The screwdriver heads you have in the red rubber thing is the same as I have (had).
I used it on some tight screws and the bits actually twisted and broke before the screw even moved!
Do you have a torque wrench?
Regards
Chris