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84 4wd Touring wagon

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  • Hi to all just bought this 1984 4WD Touring wagon,have kinda of liked them as learnt to drive in one,my father had a plain wagon as company car,when he worked at Motor Holdings Ltd in New Zealand.This

  • Sweet! I saw this on TradeMe and was really hoping someone would pick it up, there's precious few EA81s on the road here anymore, let alone touring wagons (probably my favourite). One of my neighbours

  • The turbo wagon is dead unfortunately. Terminal rust in the firewall and windscreen pillars/corners, and the paint had gone through on the roof and bonnet and was starting to rust badly. Also had a lo

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Was going get the engine for internal bits,cosmetic stuff if useable,decided not to,no room.

like the leone wagon pic you have,had a sedan while ago.

Thanks for heads up..

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sanding down the body from windscreen to back of car,reseal seam joins as removed old stuff from

repairs,stone chip sills,rocker panels, as my filler lines wonky on bottom,stone chip disguises

it,as did not want to go back and redo,sill edge was damaged and dented from 4wdriving or

jacking the car on it in places,quite soft,block sand some funny bits,wonky lines and slightly under

filled bits. redo bits wasn't happy

with,and use green scotch pad on fiddley bits.

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oops double posts ,please remove them.black stone chip on sills.

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repaired rear 1/4 panel 8months ago,now the small area fixed, rear quarter

accident damage, filler work poorly done shape wise,ground filler out

and redo,filler covers just about the whole 1/4 panel,not much else you

can do with it.

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3 wet coats of primer ,4 on outside parts

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hopefully enough primer on for wetsanding ,or spot prime?

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Hi from the deep south

 

Nice example and work,  These were terrible for rust  here along with Brumby (brat)  in 70s  80s models.

 

One  of these similar was my 1st Subaru 23 to 20 years ago  83 EA81 wagon 4MT D/R unfortunately don't have any digital pix of it..

 

Still have an 87  Brumby EA81  4MT  D/R in good original condition, was my late fathers (from Alexandra so body really good)

 

see pix link below 

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Hi, Nice Brumby (brat) most are knocked around or age related problems.Rust was bad on them.was

keen on a ute not much room to push the seat back.nice subarus

cheers for comments.

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sanding primer on inside areas, fine scotch pad or p500 sanding pads fro from

DA sander.forgot to take pictures of sanded areas, so no before shot.

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basecoat and clearcoat on,done at home the painting, engine and

front guards next.Trying to get a day that's not winding or wind blowing in to

garage,

I did wet the floor before spraying,careful not flick water off air hose onto

job.Once inside work painted, bolt on panels,and sand outside , and

paint outside.

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more progress,the prep goes on,inside paint work from

firewall to front of car.

bonnet

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colour different in photos,from the lighting,you sure wonder

sometimes why i did start it,its a lot of work.heres some pics.

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if only I had a engine,plenty more to do on it,later.

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Love it, looks great. Is that the original colour?

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