Mazda 800 wagon quick tidy up.

RestoreMaz · **Posted:** Wed Jun 01, 2011 5:51 am

The mazda 800.

Unloved, unpopular, worthless...

Somebody has to care right?

A mate of mine, Mik and i are cleaning up this old wagon, to put on club rego. Its his car, hes had it in storage for a few years and has decided to get it on the road. Hes on a tight budget with the car, as he has another drag Rx3 in the build. We are not sand blasting the car or giving it a major resto, as its simply not worth it , but a quick tidy up and some hard work should have it looking fairly respectable.

pulled out of the shed.

Engine bay.

cleaning out the rubish and telling the rats who called it home to take a hike,,,,

The strip down begins.
We are not taking this car back to metal, just sanding it down and repairing damage, puting it in primer and repainting.A cheap as possible paint job.

The door and gaurd had some damage right on the edges, so i removed them to repair off the car, and refitted.

Engine removal..

Lower front apron was damaged, so i sliced it off to repair off the car.

bashing and welding on the bench.

skim of nicky , and sanded..

welding back onto the car..

Repairing the gaurds..and bare metaling around the front screen , due to fairly wicked surface rust.

All in primer here.

Hoping to have the roof done tomorow...more updates on the way.

VintageRotaryDecals · **Posted:** Wed Jun 01, 2011 11:05 am

Gotta say... I care!

There's something about this late 60's early 70's Japanese styling, I can't put my finger on it, but I love it!!
Great to see all these Mazdas we never got in the States, I'd love to get my hands on one of these. Are there plans to keep the original power plant or is it going to get "rotorized"? I hope you keep the original motor in it if possible. I love me some Rotors, but I'm gaining a new appreciation for the older piston Mazdas.

I reproduce and collect Mazda Chassis plates, whats the serial number prefix? What year is it?

Camshaft · **Posted:** Wed Jun 01, 2011 12:50 pm

I hope your friend won't get offended if I say it's cute.

I rather like it and I can't wait to see it finished!

mazdajon · **Posted:** Wed Jun 01, 2011 1:18 pm

One of the forgotten Mazdas. Glad to see I am not the only one restoring these.

Let me know if you need any bits for the resto, I may be able to help.

Dave77 · **Posted:** Wed Jun 01, 2011 3:31 pm

Great car - glad to see someone fixing it up.

RestoreMaz · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 3:58 am

Im not sure what year it is? it would be between 64 and 68 i think?

mazda jon would know, he has a few of these.

Yes , we need some parts. He has a parts car, but we know for sure we need hubcaps for it.

Got the roof done today.

Few rust worms , took it back to metal in those spots, repaired a few dents and in primer.

Doors should be done tomorow hopefully.

mazdajon · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 1:18 pm

The wagon will be a 1965 model. The 1964 model has big air ducts down both sides of the engine bay and the 1966 model has the indicators in the grille.

I should have a good set of wagon hubcaps if needed.

ToolZ · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 1:37 pm

Your idea of a "quick tidy up" demands respect! :tu:

Would love to see one of your "slight restorations".

mik20b · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 7:19 pm

Hey guys. I'm the owner along with my mate vinni. We actually have 2 of these bad boys. We found one at a wreckers in cooma and this one we are the second owners of, we got it from an old guy near Griffith who bought it new!

We just want to tidy it up and get it going again to use on the club days. Out of the 2 we should get a very tidy unit in the end... We want to put the coupe grille and steering wheel on. We wanted to put te twin round tacho dash from the coupe on it as well, but we are going to give that a miss.

We are chasing a set of hub caps if anyone can help??

RestoreMaz · **Posted:** Fri Jun 03, 2011 2:09 am

Doors repaired and in primer today.

Working on sills and quater panels , should be in primer tomorow arvo.

mazdajon · **Posted:** Fri Jun 03, 2011 2:12 am

MIK20B wrote:

Hey guys. I'm the owner along with my mate vinni. We actually have 2 of these bad boys. We found one at a wreckers in cooma and this one we are the second owners of, we got it from an old guy near Griffith who bought it new!

We just want to tidy it up and get it going again to use on the club days. Out of the 2 we should get a very tidy unit in the end... We want to put the coupe grille and steering wheel on. We wanted to put te twin round tacho dash from the coupe on it as well, but we are going to give that a miss.

We are chasing a set of hub caps if anyone can help??

You will need to change the headlight surrounds as well to put the Coupe grille on. Plus remove the lower indicators but you already knew that.

As per previous post I have hubcaps for a wagon.

RestoreMaz · **Posted:** Sat Jun 04, 2011 10:51 pm

Got stuck into the engine bay on the weekend.

Welding up non factory holes and cleaning rust away.

Masked up, ready for primer.

In primer. For a quick and lovely job, its come out very nice.

Rubbing the inside of the doors for primer.

Done.

Quater panel and door jam, finishing off, and primer.

More updates on monday.

jdmrx2 · **Posted:** Sun Jun 05, 2011 12:55 am

Holy shit.....you guys don't mess around!!

Coming along nice, should be a great cruiser when its done. Nice work!!

mik20b · **Posted:** Sun Jun 05, 2011 6:10 pm

It's looking great and it's all happening so fast!

Hope to order the paint today and the way it's going we should see some colour very soon. Being long weekend, we might go away and not much will happen this weekend.

mik20b · **Posted:** Sun Jun 05, 2011 6:11 pm

Sorry... Double post...

RestoreMaz · **Posted:** Mon Jun 06, 2011 3:21 am

Left quater panel and top section of tail gate finished today.

Quater panel.

RestoreMaz · **Posted:** Tue Jun 07, 2011 2:05 am

Tail gate jam, and lower tail gate section finished today.

RestoreMaz · **Posted:** Thu Jun 09, 2011 3:52 am

Got in side the doors painted today, and bolted up.

Hoping to paint the car on the weekend.

ozzyincali · **Posted:** Fri Jun 10, 2011 10:13 am

Watching this one closely very nice work. Ever since seeing the work restoremaz does on trims, grills etc I have become a groupy lol

RestoreMaz · **Posted:** Sat Jun 11, 2011 1:24 am

Engine bay done on friday night.

all rubbed here and masked up.

painted. I threw a quick coat of clear over it to make it look nicer.

Mazda 800 wagon quick tidy up.

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