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A french Beauty (1970 simca 1501 estate)
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Sun Feb 12, 2012 8:30 amby Freakydeakydutch
My first car its a 1970 Simca 1501 Special Station wagon or (as the Aussies call it) Estate, it"s in a deteriorated condition. Its currebtly undergoing a WOF restauration By (mostly) my dad, my dog, and me.
Just one pic for now
Cheers
Re: A french piece of **** (1970 simca 1501 estate)
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Sun Feb 12, 2012 8:55 amby gero45
Ohh a Simca kinda rare
Are you French like me?
Re: A french piece of **** (1970 simca 1501 estate)
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Sun Feb 12, 2012 10:01 amby Freakydeakydutch
No I'm Dutch, but i live in NZ.
Re: A french piece of **** (1970 simca 1501 estate)
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Sun Feb 12, 2012 4:10 pmby Freakydeakydutch
Here is some pics of the engine and some other very recent progress.
Freaky
Re: A french piece of **** (1970 simca 1501 estate)
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Mon Feb 13, 2012 5:31 pmby Orbitstrider
thats an AMAZING job on the engine bay. they don't even look like the same cars.
Re: A french piece of **** (1970 simca 1501 estate)
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Mon Feb 13, 2012 5:45 pmby Daffyflyer
Orbitstrider wrote:thats an AMAZING job on the engine bay. they don't even look like the same cars.
THIS
Re: A french piece of **** (1970 simca 1501 estate)
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Mon Feb 13, 2012 7:10 pmby Freakydeakydutch
YAY! I got a reply from Daffy!!
I'm to young to do the work myself, It's my dad that does most of the work. He also had one back in Holland. It didn't pass the Warrant a week ago. So now we're just renewing the bad stuff, that's why there is a hole in the roof. Here's the bottom new and old. Also some new roof progress, got a bit more done already
Cheers
Re: A french piece of **** (1970 simca 1501 estate)
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Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:30 amby Harm
That's a cool car! Of zoals ik blijkbaar ook kan zeggen, gave bak! Mijn MG is gelukkig niet zo roestig als jouw Simca. Wel cool als eerste auto!
Re: A french piece of **** (1970 simca 1501 estate)
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Tue Feb 14, 2012 2:31 amby oxygen
Harm wrote:That's a cool car! Of zoals ik blijkbaar ook kan zeggen, gave bak! Mijn MG is gelukkig niet zo roestig als jouw Simca. Wel cool als eerste auto!
Like wat?!
Car looks great. I'm studying to car mechanic myself and i have been getting some of that kinda jobs as well.
One Opel Calibra had so big hole in its bottom, over the rear suspension that i could have putted my head through it..
Re: A french piece of **** (1970 simca 1501 estate)
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Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:17 amby Harm
oxygen wrote:Harm wrote:That's a cool car! Of zoals ik blijkbaar ook kan zeggen, gave bak! Mijn MG is gelukkig niet zo roestig als jouw Simca. Wel cool als eerste auto!
Like wat?!
Like Dutch
Re: A french piece of **** (1970 simca 1501 estate)
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Tue Feb 14, 2012 7:56 amby krussel
I ve seen a lot worse condition than that, its not too bad. The underside looks reasonable.
I helped (well off and on, mainly off to be honest) with the resto of a Triumph Dolomite Sprint and it was far more gone than your Simca.
Re: A french piece of **** (1970 simca 1501 estate)
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Tue Feb 14, 2012 8:26 amby Azurael
krussel wrote:I ve seen a lot worse condition than that, its not too bad. The underside looks reasonable.
I helped (well off and on, mainly off to be honest) with the resto of a Triumph Dolomite Sprint and it was far more gone than your Simca.
As was my mate's then-12 year old Ford Escort which we ended up scrapping a few years back when the welding bill to get it through the MOT became laughable. Funnily enough, it rotted in the same place as the Simca (and numerous other places, mainly suspension mountings
), but took a lot less time to do so. I wonder if Ford have fixed that... It seems like they (and the Mercedes E-class, of course) were the only people still building cars (and vans!) that had poor enough galvanising to rust without any body damage in the 90s. Even the Italians had got the hang of it by then!
Re: A french piece of **** (1970 simca 1501 estate)
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Tue Feb 14, 2012 2:55 pmby Freakydeakydutch
Azurael wrote:As was my mate's then-12 year old Ford Escort which we ended up scrapping a few years back when the welding bill to get it through the MOT became laughable. Funnily enough, it rotted in the same place as the Simca (and numerous other places, mainly suspension mountings
), but took a lot less time to do so. I wonder if Ford have fixed that... It seems like they (and the Mercedes E-class, of course) were the only people still building cars (and vans!) that had poor enough galvanising to rust without any body damage in the 90s. Even the Italians had got the hang of it by then!
Azurael We have had to replace the shock absorbers and redone the whole brake fluid network and still theres something wrong with the brakes, we suspect it is a rubber somewhere so were getting a new one shipped from Germany it costs about 14 Euros but sending it to nz cost 39,99 Euros WTF where they thinking
anyway sending it to friends in holland then they´ll send it to NZ
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Freaky
Re: A french piece of **** (1970 simca 1501 estate)
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Wed Feb 15, 2012 6:07 amby krussel
Looks good stuff going on.
Whats happening with the calipier are you pressure testing it or stripping for a rebuild ?
Re: A french piece of **** (1970 simca 1501 estate)
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Wed Feb 15, 2012 6:53 amby Freakydeakydutch
krussel wrote:Looks good stuff going on.
Whats happening with the calipier are you pressure testing it or stripping for a rebuild ?
Krussel we already have rebuildt it
, sorry for saying now but we had to cut the hole ourself to take the old thingy mabob out
Freaky