I must say you are progressing well, my first thought back when you started this i was like another dreamer but i am eating my words.

Thanks froudey and everyone elses comments. Iam hoping to post some new pics on sunday night, hopefully the car will be repaired and primed and waiting to be painted. However however i have to wait roughly 2 weeks until it gets painted. Dont think i can last that long.

I had a major brain storm about what to do with the rear lights and garnish. I need to know what you guys think. Iv been looking on you tube and ebay at these DIY smoke tint that you can put on your tail lights and that. Any ways theres a few vids on you tube which show you how to do it... looks kinda simple. Any ways i was on ebay and i found purple shaded tint for sale and it got me thinking, I was either gonna put the clear EB/D tail lights in or tint the stock ones dark, but if i was to put the purple tint on the lights and maybe paint the garnish black would that look any good????
I dont want to make it tacky looking, however for some reason i really wanna do this. Putting the tint on the clear tail lights would probably make it stand out way more then the already darker stock ones. I need some thaughts and ideas people, even if i ordered the tint and a set of clearies and trialed it, if i didnt like it i could always remove the tint straight away i guess. Any thaughts on this? Thanks guys.

Does this mean the car is going to be a shade of purple?

Other wise why the hell purple

If you want a new XR6 badge for the EB/ED garnish i can hook you up

I wouldn't mind getting some of the alltezza white/clear ones and tinting them a bit to suit my white car.

They make those smoked EA ones but there a different shape to the EB/ED.

I'm also in a pickle about what i want to do if you havn't noticed

But i'd most likely go for normal lights a fairmont garnish all tinted darker. Then do a LED conversion so the lights are brighter.

Yeah the car is going to be painted purple, i thaught the purple tint may suit. I didnt know you could do a LED conversion on the brake lights, very interesting... is it hard to do? or as simple as changing bulbs? Iv seen the EA ones but for some reason they just dont do it for me. Well iv got some dark tint here i guess i could do a quick trial on the old lights and garnish to see how it looks when i get the car back. You still got that xr6 garnish? Ill PM u in a bit then. Cheers again Mick.

Colour code the garnish and tint the lights purple..

I converted my EA to ED rear and messed with it..

if i were you, i'd be going a different path again, i would remove the orange lens from the boot garnish and tail lights, but leave the red ones in (unlike the altezzas) cause then you have something which looks stock, but f**k awesome at the same time! i am trying to think of a car on here with them so you can have a look. 'adrian comes to mind, but i cant be 100% certain

in case you were interested, the EB/ED tail lights actually are all clear lenses with a coloured insert inside them, so all the altezza lights are is the standard ones opened and the coloured lens removed.

im luving this congrats already made u have done a great job so far

ive got the orange inserts removed from my tail lights...

here is a pic..


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how hard is that to do troyman, is there any cutting or does it just pull out?

Simply awesome. Nice rust repair, nice door work... Nice to see an EF / EL front going onto an old BOX. Love the boxes rear end, love the EL XR6 front end... Love the BA interior. You've got it sorted all right.

I'm not one given to jealousy but this is worthy of such.

spot on, thats exactly what im talking about. they look perfect imo

Have you thought about shaving the boot? that would look mint with the scorcher bar and the number plate on the bar

its a bit of stuffing around..
you need to cut through the factory plasic glue between the backing and the lense with an extremely hot knife or cut just behind the lense with a dremel..then the colour can be removed from inside..then stick the lense back on with black sikaflex.
it took me about 3 hours on each one being carefull not to crack the lense.
if you dont have patience its not a job to attempt..

sorry to take this kinda off topic, but with the tail lights, couldnt you open the EA - ED ones the same as the EF/EL ones? I know when i did mine i chucked them in the oven for a few minutes until the glue got nice and soft, and then simply pulled them apart by hand. took about 2 minutes to open them each

when i tried to open it with a tub of boiling water and a pocket knife that took significantly longer though!

GOOD NEWS, got the paint sample made up today. It looks great! Iv got a bit of paint in a container and we also sprayed a bit on a sample card and cleared it so you get a better idea. Its a 2 and half coat colour, which means they put 2 full coats on then fan out the spray gun to apply a thin mist. Any ways, it has several pearls in it such as green emerald, red and blue. Heres the sample in the container:


I was lucky enough to catch a bit of the afternoon sun to get this one, mind you the pictures and small paint sample really dont do it justice:


And heres a night time shot of it with my basic camera flash:


And finally heres the paint code and all that, doesnt make much sense to me but if some one is ever wanting to paint there car the same here it is:


Also i have know idea what type of car this paint came out on, but i think its just a PPG special FX paint. Ill find out next week if it ever came out on a vehicle of such.


FRANKIEH : I think your right, i mish colour the garnish and tint the tail lights, ill try tinting the stock and the clearies and see which ones best suit, if neither look appealing ill try what TROYMAN and NICCO are talking about with removing the orange inserts.

FIEND : Thanks for your comment champ, yeah iam just building the car Ford should have built in between ED and EF. Thanks for all the cool comments and ideas guys.

DUVANCHELLEMOTORS : I did a stack of research on shaven boots on the box cars before i even started on mine, i was going to put a EA boot on it but i really prefered the EB garnish and lights. However i did see someone on here who welded up the garnish area to have it dead flat. It looked really neat however it did come across a bit VN ish to me IMO.

TROYMAN AND NICCO : The break light idea is great, i never knew about it, ill try the tint effect how ever if it makes the car look ricey or over done then i would deffinetly try your idea.

NICCO : With the oven idea that may work, but could you use a heat gun or even a hair dryer? Also when you mentioned a heated knife, what if you bought a cheap solderin iron from bunnings and grinded the tip so it was flat like a knife and melted threw it? Just ideas.

Once again thanks for other people comments. Ill be doing a massive weekender on the rest of the body. Will keep you posted like always. Keep your ideas comming to. Still have a long way to go. Cheers guys.