Old Ray and his Young EK

[Marty K Bird]

As I might of mentioned in my "Time to dust off my EK" thread there are not too many EK's i see getting about anymore in my neck of the woods.... and the only one i can think of is an old EK ute that gets about in my neighbouring town of Young NSW.

I had to head over to Young yesterday to have a wisdom tooth out (yeah top fun!!) and as i was coming into town I thought to myself how it be great to see the old EK ute again.

Anyway just before i left town i called in to Aldi's to do some shopping... and just as i am looking for a park i spotted the old EK ute!!!
There was a spare park right beside it so i pulled up just as the driver was getting in to the ute.

I got him just before he sat down lol ..... and I introduced myself and told him i was doing up an old EK myself. I showed him a pic of my car on my phone then asked him if i could take a picture of the ute.... and he automatically posed beside it lol (i think he has done this before).

His name was Ray and he said he has had the old rig for around 36 years and he drives it daily.
I asked him if he ever has anyone asking him if he would like to sell it and his wife laughed and said, "we have a glovebox full of numbers people have left under the windscreen wiper".
It's kinda obvious he is in love with it!

Looked like it hadnt been polished for a decade but being an honest country rig there was no signs of rust in any of the usual suspect spots.

His wife told me they had a windowless FE panelvan that they gave to their son who did it all up and has won a few awards with it including a show in (Dubbo or Orange).... so id dare say the EK ute is in good hands for many years to come.

They said they drive it to town to do the shopping every Wednesday and it never skips a beat.

I wished them many happy and safe miles, gave the old girl a pat (the ute not the winnie red smoker). I smiled as i heard the old grey rumble to life, i gave them a thumbs up salute and Ray smiled and nodded as he rumbled on out as cool as cat shit!

Cant wait to have my EK parked beside it instead of the VN lol.

Rock on Ray!!

[WayneXG95]

Nice story. It's been reregisted at some stage there not the original plates.....

[Trev]

Great story, thanks for sharing.
May have just replaced the old faded plates, I've had to do that before.

[muza]

Looks like a bloody rippa!

[Marty K Bird]

Wayne maybe he had the genuine NASCO plates fitted 36 years ago :p

Seriously thou does the hardcore original beast include original plates? I guess for some the plates matter ...... I don't think they do for Ray or myself.... I do wonder how many original registration cars there are about?

Also found out at the registry office yesterday my car had the rego of RVC-606 ....not that it means anything but since it was registered 20 years ago ...and Ray likely had his registered at the same office his q series plate I'd assume would be around about 20 years old also

[shmeagain]

ITS SHMEAGAIN THAT is cool

[parisian62]

You beauty

[fb cruzn]

hi marty. when i was younger dad had a sigma. rego rvc 616. he got the plates from young rta bout 91/92.
i have seen the old ek ute around for years. he use to drink at the local down the road.

[Marty K Bird]

Hi FB Cruzn
Gosh that's a very close plate aint it lol ... and yeah mine was registered in 92 ... Had to hand in the plates to my dads old ute last week since it had been out of rego for longer than 3 months ... his were RVC-579....

I see your not far from me .... might have to meet in Young oneday for yak or something.... not too many FB/EK owners around these parts