Tail lights and wheels.

I have cleaned and stripped all the paint from the Cosmic wheels and sent them off to Circle Track Wheels in Bathurst for some minor repairs. I have the gloss black urethane 2 pack paint here ready for their return. I intend to paint the back of the wheels as well for ease of cleaning.

Cosmic wheels stripped and sand blasted ready 

for repairs, painting and polishing.

I spent a lot of today working on the tail lights (not much else to do until the panels come back). I have 2 sets of used Australian lights and a new set of European ones. The European tail lights have ridges and hollows instead of the diminishing circles seen on the Aussie ones. I picked the best of the used Aussie lights which had a degree of over spray, dirt and 40 year old scratches on them. I rubbed them down with 2000 wet and dry to remove the paint and minor scratches then polished them on my polishing wheel on the grinder (being careful not to heat and melt the plastic). I removed the new rubber seals from the new European tail lights and put them on the polished Aussie ones,  picked the best screws and cleaned them up as well. The screws are an odd size and I was unable to replace them. The photo does not do the lights justice, they look like new.

 Used Aussie tail lights polished and ready to be fitted.

European style tail light.