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xm-221
Posts : 105
Join date : 2011-07-04
Age : 52
Location : Clifton Springs
| | Subject: 1964 XM Coupe Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:36 pm | |
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Glenn
Model:
XM Falcon Coupe.
Colour:
Crap at the moment, to go back to factory Arctic White.
Body Kit:
You're kidding right?
Engine:
221ci
Engine Mods:
A few.
Power:
Alot (for a loghead 6cyl)
Exhaust:
Yes.
Gearbox:
4-5spd (haven't decided on that one yet)
Diff:
XM Ute 3.9 LSD
Brakes:
Upgraded fronts to XF and standard rear ute drums.
Suspension:
Standard height.
Wheels and Tyres:
15x6 Steelies, hubcaps & rings. Undecided on tyres yet.
Interior:
Standard retrim.
Build Period:
I'll most likely be dead before it's finished (it's been 14yrs already).
14yrs ago I was unfortunate enough to have the tips of 3 fingers taken off via a Gilmer Belt Drive on a woolen carpet machine.
After a full recovery and a couple of years full of Lawyers and Queens Counsels, I came away with enough of a payout to buy everything new for the house (carpets curtains beds kids stuff) and also to buy the one car that I had always wanted since I was a little tacker.
A 1964 XM Falcon Coupe 
I bought it from a guy here in Geelong who wrecked and restored them, Steve Colbert.
It wasn't much to look at when it dropped off the back of Steve's tandem.
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At that point in time it cost me $3200. Had I known that 12mths later the bum was going to fall out of the early falcon market, I would have put off buying it, but I didn't know that and still don't regret paying what I did at the time.
Also around that time I was renting a shed out with a few friends chipping in when their cars needed working on as well.
So the strip down started in earnest in between doing jobs for other people.
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There was a bit of filler in the rear quarter panels
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Almost 3/4inch in this one alone.
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Those weren't the only pics that I took of it back then, but a breakup with my now ex wife resulted in most of the pics dissappearing before I could claim them.
A mate bought an XW Falcon that had a boot load of NOS parts and a spankin' new interior. I was lucky enough to score the 221 & bw35 auto for the measly sum of $150.
That now explains my nickname of xm-221 for those who wonder "why?" 
During the divorce period I lost all interest in the Coupe and it sat at a mates shed out in the weather, as you see it in this pic (minus seats) :'(
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So now both front floors need doing, I have original floor panels to put back in.
And there is now copious amounts of surface rust on all those bare metal spots you can see, plus all the dash and half the roof.
It ended up back at the ex wife's house in the garage for 5 or so years until they decided to move house and I got another towie mate to bring my baby girl home.
It then sat in the garage at my house and turned itself into a great workbench and parts holder.
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Then my partner and I decided to buy the house we're in now and she has been under cover ever since (still as a parts holder too lol)
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I slowly started buying the few bits and pieces that I knew I needed to make a good start on her.
Front bar I scored on ebay for $40, it has a water bag bracket bolted through the top of it but other than that it's straighter than a truckie on the long haul across the nullabor plain!
When I went to pick it up I managed to pick up the rest of the front end parts I needed for the measly sum of $50, front guards, bonnet, grille, headlight surrounds & front guard moulds. Looks like Karma has started to pay me back for all those good deeds I've done over the years
So this is her as she sat nearly 24mths ago.
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I originally had huge plans for her. With a full kustom steel headlining flowing down the C pillars and into a dash section grafted into the top of the rear parcel shelf, that rear dash graft was also going to flow down into a full floor length centre console and up into the dash.
I love the look of the XK/L tail lights so I was going to do a rear cut'n'shut of that tail section onto the XM to give it the Falcon Sprint look.
All painted in Candy Red with a Purple Metalflake roof
But as time has gone by I've changed my mind on what I want.
I've always wanted to do a "Full Sleeper", the XM is now going to be that car , total Grandpa on the outside and race car in the engine bay.
It will now be painted the original Arctic White, with factory red interior, and have a killer 221 engine with either triple webers or Motec based EFI system.
I'll update this thread over the next few days to where she sits currently.
Cheers.
Glenn.
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xm-221
Posts : 105
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Age : 52
Location : Clifton Springs
| | Subject: Re: 1964 XM Coupe Tue Jul 05, 2011 4:11 pm | |
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xm-221
Posts : 105
Join date : 2011-07-04
Age : 52
Location : Clifton Springs
| | Subject: Re: 1964 XM Coupe Wed Jul 06, 2011 12:29 pm | |
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xr6_ghia
Posts : 22
Join date : 2011-06-30
Age : 36
Location : geelong
| | Subject: Re: 1964 XM Coupe Thu Jul 07, 2011 12:23 am | |
| glenn ur work is awesome...i speak for anyone that hasnt seen his work...hes a machine! lol coming along well...let me know when u want the electrics sorted out | |
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TUFF4D
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Join date : 2011-06-23
Age : 34
Location : Leopold
| | Subject: Re: 1964 XM Coupe Thu Jul 07, 2011 3:35 am | |
| Nice work glen. Good idea with the disc brake front end, I was meaning to do it on my old HR before I sold it, the drums were awfull. Will be watching this thread closely | |
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xm-221
Posts : 105
Join date : 2011-07-04
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Location : Clifton Springs
| | Subject: Re: 1964 XM Coupe Thu Jul 07, 2011 2:19 pm | |
| Took a guard off and shoved it in the back seat of the XE and stripped it at work while I was doing a customers guards.
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The big patch at the bottom here wouldn't soak up the paint stripper. Looks like I'll have to give it a buzz with 40grit on the orbital sander before I whack another coat on. I also had a sneaking suspicion that there was a fair amount of bog under this as well.
So more paint stripper went on.
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The next day I finished off the top section.
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Sneaking suspicion confirmed, there's a fair bit of filler under that patch that still didn't come off, I'll have to get the wire wheel out and get rid of that.
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xm-221
Posts : 105
Join date : 2011-07-04
Age : 52
Location : Clifton Springs
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xm-221
Posts : 105
Join date : 2011-07-04
Age : 52
Location : Clifton Springs
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xm-221
Posts : 105
Join date : 2011-07-04
Age : 52
Location : Clifton Springs
| | Subject: Re: 1964 XM Coupe Mon Jul 11, 2011 12:31 pm | |
| This was the end product of taking the nose off the LH front guard.
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Played with the nose on the RH front guard.
Drilled out the headlight bucket again for easy access.
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Damage.
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Quick fix. Have to play with these a bit more to get some of the ripples out before I weld it all back together.
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Got the orbital sander out and cleaned up all the stoneguard, dirt, original paint and surface rust. Then I hit it all with rust convertor paint and welded the nose panel back into place after giving it a clean up in the sand blast booth and a rust treating it as well.
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When you undo the bottom of the guard without first using WD40 (or something of the equivalent) to loosen the dirt and muck on the threads the nut will bind on the thread and the captive clip that holds the bolt into position breaks free and spins it little butt off. Now to get this out you sometimes have to lever the bottom of the guard out and smash the living bejesus out of the capitve clip until it breaks free. Which in effect also mangles the hole that captive clip sits in and bends the rear brace.
This had happened with this guard, so I unpicked all the spots and took the brace out, gave it a few love taps with a hammer and dolly, cleaned it up and rust converted it, then welded it back into place.
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Then I cut sick on the rest of the paint left around the edges on the outside of the guard.
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There's still a few bits of ingrained rust that I have to hit with the hand sandblaster.
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elmaso69
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Location : bell park.
| | Subject: Re: 1964 XM Coupe Tue Jul 12, 2011 8:38 am | |
| decent progress mate, im surprised at how straight most of the guards are hahaha
you should have it on bags, and matte it out hahaha but they do look alright rat-rod style. | |
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xm-221
Posts : 105
Join date : 2011-07-04
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Location : Clifton Springs
| | Subject: Re: 1964 XM Coupe Tue Jul 12, 2011 2:39 pm | |
| What surprised me the most Mason was how little rust there was in these guards. A bit of surface rust which I expected, but no major rust that I would need to have bought reproduction panels for.
I bought bags for it 13yrs ago from the US, but had to sell them to stay alive during hard times 
I love ratrods too but I'm quite impartial to the sleeper look, so this one will be painted original colour, Arctic White, but have a slightly warm 221 in it
The lower guard to body mount hole has been fixed. Made up a template so I could make a new section to weld in.
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Cut the centre of the marked section out so you can transfer the design onto a fresh bit of steel, then drill/grind/file that out so you have an exact copy to replace the mangled section.
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Also had a small problem with the headlight inner, it was missing a mount point altogether as the nut had bound up on the bolt so the previous owner oxy cut the head off the bolt, which then blew through the mount point.
Made up another template from the RH guard and transferred it across to the mangled LH guard.
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I welded this one from the back so I didn't have to get the die grinder out to clean up the inside edge.
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Then prepped it all up for some epoxy.
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Got the RH guard inner masked up and into etch primer. I'm not decided yet on how I'm going to do the inner (stoneguard or body colour).
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Got the LH guard rear reo unpicked, all cleaned up & rust treated.
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The large patch of filler (circular shaped) is hiding a previous repair that had been shrunk back with an oxy torch, hammer and dolly.
Hidden behind the smaller section of filler beside it (where the blue paint is) was a deep gouge which I had to shrink myself. It was deep enough that I could lay my little finger in it and hold a straight edge over the top and clear my finger by about 2mm
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Then I Cleco'd the reo back in and welded it up.
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The only bit of rust that has broken through and needs a patch made.
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Axle
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| | Subject: Re: 1964 XM Coupe Tue Jul 12, 2011 11:52 pm | |
| Gee wiz this is comIng along nicely.. Alot of works gone into the old girl l, I know exactly what your going threw I have been doing the same with my EJ Holden in the shed for the past few years.. Everything is dine body wise just need to find another guard and it's ready for paint.. keep up the good work | |
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xm-221
Posts : 105
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Location : Clifton Springs
| | Subject: Re: 1964 XM Coupe Wed Jul 13, 2011 1:41 am | |
| What guard are you after Axle? I know an old customer who has a few of these old girls and a shyte load of spares to go with them.
I've also got a spare top rad support if you know of anyone who wants it, needs a good sandblast though as it's been stripped previously then left out in the weather. | |
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TUFF4D
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| | Subject: Re: 1964 XM Coupe Wed Jul 13, 2011 2:52 am | |
| This thread keeps getting better and better, kinds makes me wish I kept my HR Should show some pics of the XE. A guy I know in my street also has an eclipse. Full grandpa spec blue over white but sitting on some Simmons wheels. It's awesome | |
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xm-221
Posts : 105
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| | Subject: Re: 1964 XM Coupe Wed Jul 13, 2011 4:27 pm | |
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Axle
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| | Subject: Re: 1964 XM Coupe Thu Jul 14, 2011 12:33 am | |
| That would be awesome I'm chasing a passenger side guard!!!! - xm-221 wrote:
- What guard are you after Axle? I know an old customer who has a few of these old girls and a shyte load of spares to go with them.
I've also got a spare top rad support if you know of anyone who wants it, needs a good sandblast though as it's been stripped previously then left out in the weather. | |
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xm-221
Posts : 105
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xm-221
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| | Subject: Re: 1964 XM Coupe Tue Jul 19, 2011 12:09 pm | |
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xm-221
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| | Subject: Re: 1964 XM Coupe Wed Jul 20, 2011 1:19 pm | |
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Tony.G
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| | Subject: Re: 1964 XM Coupe Fri Jul 22, 2011 10:47 pm | |
| that cluster looks fantastic. you did a good job on that. as for the needles, i suggest either re-do them orange or do the orange tip coz black is actually quite hard to see with the green lights in smaller gauges; unless you plan on changing the illumination color as well?
i did it with the xd. i have the faces yellow with black needles. when i first did it i still had the green illumination strip in it, and it was hard to see them properly. i pulled the green out and put clear instead, along with white led's to light it up with and it is much better however the led's are really bright even with low wattage ones and the glare gives me the shits now. im working on another plan to fix that though.
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xm-221
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xm-221
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