Hi Bryce, good to see someone else has got the same illness as me here in NZ!!!
Rust, I know all about that at the moment allthough mines a rear end rebuild, It all started at a BMW track day were the car had excessive tyre squeal through corners, on return to Auckland I put it on the wheel alingment mach and this showed up nearly 1 degree of toe out on the right rear!!, so as the rear alingment is not adjustable I decided to slot the rear arm mounts on the subframe and have fitted adjusters from a Toyota Cressida.
But wait theres more, subframe mounts,diff head mount, handbrake cables, rear disks, rear wheel bearings and a rebuild of the rear disk backing plates(rust), Oh and dont forget the rebuild of the rusty fuel tank as well.
The above stuff as it turned out was just the start, it was during the refitting of the subframe that the rust in the rear bodywork was discovered(hidden well) as is allways the way.
A compleat rust removal is now underway which is pretty much the entire rear panel around the tail lights, a small part of the left rear boot floor, and both sills from the rear of the doors back, all being done by a very clever panel guy who does resto work only, all hand made panels and patchs, all butt weld joints etc and while he's doing this work i'm replacing all window rubbers(anyone know were to get the felt strips that are in the lower rubber for the rear windows?) also re anodising all of the trim etc, etc etc
So, what I thought was going to be a $500 rear suspention fix has grown somewhat and will probably end up costing the thick end of $10-12K
BUGGER!!!!!!!(don't tell the wife)
I will post pics of all the above work soon, it sould give you all someone to laugh at Ha Ha
Coupes I know of in NZ
Mine 3.0 cs (white)
LHD 3.0 csi in Riverhead auck
Silver 3.0 csi (guy in BM club here in Auck)
Also I have seen, 1 blue one that was on Trademe late last year
and about 4 or 5 others that I have seen around but dont know were thay are now (one green one I saw about 8 yrs ago sould have just about finished dissolving by now and is probably just 4 tyres now(real, real bad rust,)
Any how thats enough rust talk, I must go and do something productive
Steve 09 828 9984