completely without permission
It also belongs here with our collection
"Pontiac Jack" wrote
Steve Danns EK.
I've told this tale before,but for the benefit of any recent arrivals,heres a quick recap.
The car was built in the mid 70's by John Comber,Keith McKie and Steve Dann. It's front doors were extended 6" and the back doors were welded up,turning it into a coupe.
It ran a mild 161 and had a heap of custom body mods.
It was a very cool looking unit
Sometime in the late 70's (78 or 79??
) I got a call from my sisters boyfriends brother in law,a bloke named Gary Brown. He knew I had a heap of FX's and FJ's and an FB and said he had something I might be interested in.I went to his factory in Glen Iris,and sitting there was the remains of Steve Danns EK.
It had been stolen and stripped and Gary had brought the rolling shell off Steve.
He said he didn't want to put it back together,so if I wanted it,it was $200.
Due to being 16 or 17 and having cars taking up every square inch of land around the house already (and having a mum who was getting pissed off with it
),I passed it up.I was told later that the car went to Simms and was turned into half a dozen Toyotas
UNTIL!....
Last week I had a call from Matty Brown (Gary's son),he said he'd been digging around looking for pix of Gary's 34 coupe and had found a few things I might want to see.
He found 7 or 8 pics of the coupe from around the time it was sold in 79,but he also found some pix of his old "cubby house" - Steve Danns EK!
So the updated story goes like this:
Matt's not sure when,but sometime after I passed on it,Gary brought it around to his ex wifes place in Black Rock and left it there in the back yard. The kids played in it for a year or so,and then it was sold to a kid who worked in a servo in Aspendale.
It sat around the back of the servo for a couple of years,then the servo closed down and the kid and the car disappeared.
I wish I could say the story had a happy ending,but no one knows where it is now.
And Matt has no idea who the kid from the servo was.
At least we know it survived a few more years.
It might still be out there,somewhere........
Cheers,PJ
"Dutch" wrote
And i can add further to that To Andy. I bought the car after it was burnt out from the guy in Aspendale.
His name was Terry some thing he ended up building an EH wagon with a small block in it and wanted to get rid of the EK.
All i kept from the car was the front off the car the rest was toast with filler missing all over the place,
to much work to bring it back from the dead, and it was me who took it to sim's for scrap.
I put the front on to my sedan which i never go around to finishing. And sad to say it also ended up at sim's as did the front.
Sorry guy's. I do have some pics here some where i will scan and pop up.