1970 Subaru FF-1 Project car

Kostamojen · **Posted:** Sat Jul 31, 2010 2:19 pm

Visited the car today:

All of the Lead was removed from the roof connections and welded. Lead leaches through body filler and ruins the paint, so it had to go. The roof is going to be done early next week, the rest of the car will be worked on next week. The week after, probably some priming.

Saw this while I was there too:

Oh, and this mustang gives you an idea of the quality of paint job they do, :

Kostamojen · **Posted:** Mon Aug 09, 2010 7:08 pm

Yes/No?

bajasoobnut · **Posted:** Mon Aug 09, 2010 8:59 pm

Kostamojen wrote:

Yes/No?

Is that a STI can?

Kostamojen · **Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2010 1:28 pm

Indeed. Freebie too.

ben · **Posted:** Wed Aug 11, 2010 6:40 pm

It really depends on whether the rear sheetmetal has a "cutout" for the tips.

Kostamojen · **Posted:** Wed Aug 11, 2010 8:36 pm

Sheetmetal? The muffler just hangs under this car :p

I doubt I will use it, but I might use the muffler itself, although its quite large probably too big for under the car.

Kostamojen · **Posted:** Sat Aug 14, 2010 3:17 pm

Small, little update... The exterior is primered, next up is the interior and painting and then color sanding/buffing

It looks ABSOLUTELY fantastic so far, especially how well the hood has been fixed (doesn't flex anymore, and ALL the dents are gone!) Everything is amazingly silky smooth, its going to look like a new car when its done!

Kostamojen · **Posted:** Sun Aug 22, 2010 3:58 pm

FF-1 at a Gymkhana!

No i'm not kidding!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s_OQ-DV9z0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5ug5UaLdLE

I hope my car handles this well...

john · **Posted:** Tue Aug 24, 2010 3:56 pm

I hope it sounds that awesome.

Kostamojen · **Posted:** Thu Sep 09, 2010 7:20 pm

At long last...

ITS PAINTED!!!

The paint hasn't even been polished/etc. yet! It looks fantastic!

Picking it up Saturday!

Datsunrides · **Posted:** Thu Sep 09, 2010 7:49 pm

Looks great Steve! :tu:

Did you decide to keep it a solid color or are you going with stripes / 2 tone?

Mark

Kostamojen · **Posted:** Thu Sep 09, 2010 7:56 pm

Solid color, possible decal stripes later or other decals later.

Kostamojen · **Posted:** Sat Sep 11, 2010 8:06 pm

Photos from picking up the car today.

Sorry, nothing of it getting loaded/unloaded, I had my camera buried by a fender!

Kostamojen · **Posted:** Sat Sep 11, 2010 8:09 pm

I'll get more photos of the fenders/valence/trunk etc. later probably next weekend, and push it outside for better lighting too.

Lincoln Stax · **Posted:** Sat Sep 11, 2010 9:33 pm

The body and paint look fantastic.

werami · **Posted:** Sun Sep 19, 2010 7:13 pm

Kosta, with the quality and coverage of the paint work that i see, you wont have any hassles of rust down the track, you make me enviouse that i dont have my ff1's anymore, but you see what i am driving from my facebook profile.
Cheers you are doing a great job
Thierry

Kostamojen · **Posted:** Sat Oct 02, 2010 4:53 pm

Some test fitting done today, along with a few installed parts.

The fenders and grill and such are not installed permanently, however the trunk is done:

Datsunrides · **Posted:** Sat Oct 02, 2010 9:13 pm

Coming along nicely. That paint sure did polish out beautifully! :tu:

Mark

Adam · **Posted:** Mon Oct 04, 2010 1:34 pm

Hi I am a recent follower of your project. I own a 1971 Subaru FF-1 1300G Sports. My project is a restoration but I could give you some interior tips as mine is original.

werami · **Posted:** Mon Oct 04, 2010 6:30 pm

Hi Adam, good to see someone else who has or had a 1300g sport, i got mine back in 89 and now it resides in Ipswich queensland been in storage for about 20yrs now. Somewhere i posted pics of that car and others but i no longer have those as the computer crashed once and lost them all, but maybe kosta has those pics somewhere on his file and repost them
Cheers Thierry

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