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Old 10-08-2009, 04:03 PM   #811
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yes the trusty old plenum rust trap. Hats off to you for havin a go at doing the work yourself, I have a mate doing it for me. Its actually a lot further along now, this pic is from about 6 months ago.
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Old 11-08-2009, 01:50 PM   #812
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yes the trusty old plenum rust trap. Hats off to you for havin a go at doing the work yourself, I have a mate doing it for me. Its actually a lot further along now, this pic is from about 6 months ago.
I'm cheating - I found a complete NOS plenum to replace my rusted one.

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Old 11-08-2009, 09:25 PM   #813
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Few pics of Dad's cobra that im building for him
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Old 11-08-2009, 10:51 PM   #814
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Well mine is now in a worthy enough state to put here, 351, c4, 9 inch, tramp rods, all te good stuff, manual steer, originally a 76 fairmont GS, now my fake GT project thats gettting thrown together for Echuca








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Old 12-08-2009, 07:27 AM   #815
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Few pics of Dad's cobra that im building for him
i want my sons to build me a coupe one day as well: ) dads a lucky fellow
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Old 12-08-2009, 05:25 PM   #816
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He has owned it for 30years this year so thought ill go out and get her back on the road for him
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Old 24-09-2009, 06:05 PM   #817
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G'Day

Done a bit of work to the coupe and thought I would post a couple of pics. Fitted new 9" with 3.5 gears, GT Finned drums on the rear and Hoppers Stoppers Drilled & Slotted Discs on the front, Lowered all round with Lovell springs in the front, GT leaf springs in the back and Koni adjustables all round, all steering parts and bushes replaced, new foam filled Veem Tailshaft, reconditioned GT/GS Steering wheel and lastly red walls on the tyres.

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Old 25-09-2009, 01:21 AM   #818
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^ That's one very clean and tasteful looking Coupe, nice work, tell us more.
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Old 25-09-2009, 08:08 PM   #819
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Hi Guys,
here are a couple of pics of my Goss...










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Old 25-09-2009, 08:11 PM   #820
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Verrrrrry nice!
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Old 25-09-2009, 08:11 PM   #821
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Welcome to the forums Jon JGS302. Nice coupe
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Old 25-09-2009, 08:13 PM   #822
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Goss's are special ... especially the blue ones.

The car mats look great ..... wouldnt be an off the shelf item??



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Old 25-09-2009, 08:40 PM   #823
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Nice looking Goss, the blue ones do look nice but I might be a bit bias :
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Old 25-09-2009, 11:49 PM   #824
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That is a nice Goss. I might be biassed too - but I like sublte custom touches that make it exclusively yours.

Not the right thread I know - but is it true blue Goss' were all Auto, and green Goss' were all manual? Tailem Bend fuel stop on the way back from Echuca some bozo decided to tell me he had a John Goss from brand new, a blue one. I said "Ahh so a nice automatic one, the white trim?" And he goes "Nup, it was manual - FIVE speed" obviously at that point I stop listenning to this idiot, they were not 5 speed. But are the blue and green respective to auto and manual?
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Old 26-09-2009, 12:15 AM   #825
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Not the right thread I know - but is it true blue Goss' were all Auto, and green Goss' were all manual? But are the blue and green respective to auto and manual?
To answer your question, No, either colour was available with either transmission.

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Old 26-09-2009, 01:56 PM   #826
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drcoupe, thats a beautiful coupe you have there I'm loving the redwalls...
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Old 26-09-2009, 05:43 PM   #827
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To answer your question, No, either colour was available with either transmission.

Where did you hear that garbage from Mike?
I don't recall where I heard that, thought it made some sense but wasn't sure, thanks for clarifying!
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Old 01-10-2009, 07:12 PM   #828
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G'Day Gossy and MontyV8 thanks for the comments, sorry for the late reply but work gets in the way!

Not much else to tell about the car Gossy apart from the 9" is an LSD shortened to XY length, standard C4 and Stock 302. The car was in pretty good original nick. I have a 351 crank in the shed so next up is to rebuild the 302 using the crank, put a 3" system on it, get the C4 rebuilt and fit a B&M shifter. I am also thinking of fitting a shaker scoop with the standard bonnet. Another pic of the redwall tyres montyV8:

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Old 13-10-2009, 02:50 PM   #829
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FINALLY got a good set of over riders...


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Old 13-10-2009, 08:06 PM   #830
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Looking good Greg, nice finishing touch!!
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Old 22-10-2009, 09:51 AM   #831
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Here is a pic of mine B4 i started to pull her apart for a rebuild
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Old 02-11-2009, 02:03 PM   #832
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2 Coups. White one 6cyl balanced and blueprinted, beat V8's at Calder.
Green one on gas, was going to race, now a Sunday cruiser.

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Old 19-11-2009, 12:24 PM   #833
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Now she's finished....THANK GOD!! Will never restore another one.

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Old 17-12-2009, 10:08 PM   #834
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My XA with 460 big block, C6 auto and 9 inch, done it GT scheme but by no means a replica.







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Old 18-12-2009, 10:32 PM   #835
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Nice looking coupe. Love the number plates
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Old 19-12-2009, 08:13 AM   #836
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And the mustang bonnet scoop !!
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Old 19-12-2009, 08:15 AM   #837
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Now she's finished....THANK GOD!! Will never restore another one.

That looks fantastic, and I know what you mean about restoration work. I'm onto my second one and thats it. No more !!!
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Old 27-12-2009, 05:33 PM   #838
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This was taken on the way home from Echuca by the guys in the yellow ex Bond race car. We got cought in torrential rain comming into Tallem Bend and by the time we pulled into the servo, most of the place was compleatly flooded. This photo was around the Murray Bridge area and was just a great shot to post. All the best
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Old 27-12-2009, 07:31 PM   #839
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Old 27-12-2009, 07:39 PM   #840
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