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well got a colour i like with a effect the wife like but not sure i like the effect but pretty sure i'm going to swap the white pearl for a coarser effect also think i will modify the wifes choice of pearl and see what i come up with but getting close


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Ill have to look that up again when i get to work bu it is a fiat colour all i could get from the wife was "I saw a vs ute today that was slime green and changes with blue" so I came up with that to see if it was what she meant the green is right apparently but the blue isn't strong enough lol

don't think i could jag the same colour as your car buy skimming through the profiles quickly at work and spraying out the first lime green i came across

Well took a small drive today and got to meet fingers good to meet ya mate and te flash kit is great I'm bloody rapt with it and to those others yes I'm putting a fb flash kit on my ek, why? because I feel the ek has the nicer front but the fb has better styling so mix them and I get what I want



Also the drive got me to get the kids into the shed rip the seats out and clean out the boot to see what was actually under the rotted matts and flakey rust chunks everywhere and I must say I was better than I was expecting a lot of cleaning to be done and new floor sections in and job done! I love how easy that sounds in theory.

Well it's official I am now doing three resto jobs at once at least this time one of them is mine so in between work and two resto's I am starting my ek had the kids in the shed again this time we thought we would start with stripping the rear didn't get far before the wife called us in for tea

Now the work begins mate ........if you need some info or you are heading thru town anytime and feel like a beer or a coffee drop inn , your more than welcome , nice to meet you and your family .............Fingers

Thanks mate will do. Got the Torana front sorted just gotta rip it out if the car though it shouldn't be to hard with the amount of rust in the car it might just fall out for me



So should get that out in a couple of weeks and also get the transition diff and stub axles and tail shaft which I think I'll grab from the Torana

Hey mate if you wreck the torana I might be interested in some parts. Im after a good nose cone, seats (any condition) & a set of them hubcaps. Please let me know if you want to sell them. Cheers. Ed

You could probably use the steering column out of that torana if your going to go bigger then a grey motor
as you need a collapsable column now days with a bigger engine up grade anything bigger then a 161 red I think
and it will link up with that front end with no drama's

fasteddyfc wrote:Hey mate if you wreck the torana I might be interested in some parts. Im after a good nose cone, seats (any condition) & a set of them hubcaps. Please let me know if you want to sell them. Cheers. Ed

Everything is forsale on that car mate its just postage that need sorting as im on the south eastish side of vic

EK JAY wrote:You could probably use the steering column out of that torana if your going to go bigger then a grey motor
as you need a collapsable column now days with a bigger engine up grade anything bigger then a 161 red I think
and it will link up with that front end with no drama's

I have been given approval to stick with the original column but i'll probably keep it just encase ive miss understood so im rapt either way

Well got a chance to get some parts off the Torana as you would expect they don't look the best but they'll cleanup fine

Im still keen on the back seat, hub caps and nose cone if its not too rusty. How much ya after mate?
Cheers

Got the back window out today was always curious on how the window jam and mainly the parcel shelf was going to look as most of you know this is my first ever ek/fb to own and work on and I had read a bit that one bad spot for rust was the parcel shelf so with the window out and parcel shelf trim removed this is what I found

gotta be happy with that