Here is a great testament to the do-it-yourself approach. We first ‘met’ Anthony when he was looking for info on re-spraying his Wolseley and through a number of emails back and forth I think we helped him somewhat, although I’m far from an expert on the subject.

For the historians amongst us (according to Wikipedia) the Wolseley 6/80’s were the Wolseley Motor Company’s first post-war vehicles (as were the similar 4/50 model). They were rushed into production in 1948 and the 6/80 was based on the Morris Six MS. The 6/80 used a 2215 cc 72 hp (54kw) straight six single overhead cam.

The cars were well equipped and looked impressive with a round Morris rear end and upright Wolseley grille and were used extensively by the Police at the time.

These models were built at Morris’s Cowley factory alongside the ‘Oxford’. They were replaced in 1953 and 1954 by the Wolseley 4/44 and 6/90.

Back to Anthony’s car, of which he has three I believe, a 2480 and another 680, he has put a lot of time and effort into the panel and paint in a shed at his farm and I think the results speak for themselves. Enjoy!

A job well done, wouldn’t you agree?

Glenn sent through some more pics and info on the build up of his Monaro. If you have no idea what I’m talking about head over to the FIRST POST and take a look.

What’s remarkable about Glenn’s car is that the majority of the ’shiny’ bits are made from scratch in his back shed, often with little more than a drill press, die grinder and some hand files. The info he sent over explains the process he goes through to create these awesome looking pieces and rather than putting it into my own words (and probably leaving a number of things out!) this is the process straight from the horses mouth.

In the early days of this car’s build I was lucky enough to talk to one of the judges at the Brisbane Hotrod show, he told me that big points come from innovative engineering. Custom, one-off mods are the key, any fool can bolt on store-bought shiny bits but beware, custom work can make you or break you creative ideas are great but it’s all in the execution, it has to look like it grew there and attention to detail, the really really big points come from attention to microscopic detail.

All of my custom parts started as pencil sketches, moved onto CAD drawings, some cardboard modelling, then the real thing. The attached photos help to illustrate. I chose brass, copper and bronze to make most things in they’re easy metals to work with, simple to join (silver solder with relatively low heat) and return a chrome finish better than any other metal and you can get supplies quite cheaply from the local non-ferris scrap merchant.

Can’t even estimate the hours that went into this stuff probably hundreds and somewhere out there, there’s a chrome plater driving around in a Porsche I paid for!!!