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Hahaha I saw that this weekend.
He's got the panels on the wrong way too Nathan.

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Nathan

i can't believe they went to the trouble of filling the holes where they removed the ugly over riders and rechromed the bars and didn't make them 1 piece bars

Mick wrote:i can't believe they went to the trouble of filling the holes where they removed the ugly over riders and rechromed the bars and didn't make them 1 piece bars

i thought the same thing mate

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Nathan

It's featured in the January issue of Street Machine

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Hats off to everyone involved to build something truly unique. Do I like it? Not really but it is well done.

bootlegger wrote:Hats off to everyone involved to build something truly unique. Do I like it? Not really but it is well done.

Agree - there is a hell of a lot of work in this thing, well executed.

I personally wouldn't drive it as a daily driver, but it does one thing that I really like about customs - it made me sit down and run my eyes over it real careful, trying to pick out what was original, what had been changed, and where non-FB/EK parts had been used. There are not too many places (at least to me) where the parts don't flow together (or look tacked on) - big achievement given the bizarre part locations.

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Harv

The car is ugly, but it's been finished beautifully I'd spend more time checking this out at a car show than I would a restored FB/EK, but I'd prefer the resto in my own shed. Their goal was to build a complete one off that turned heads and they've arguably achieved that

i loved the concept drawing but as with a lot of drawings something has been lost in saying that there aren't many concept drawings of a car that is basically hand fabricated and then take into consideration that it was basically done by a bloke and his missus in their home garage with a lot of input from one of Australia's top show car builders and has FULL LEGIT NSW rego it's a HUGE achievement

Mick wrote:i loved the concept drawing but as with a lot of drawings something has been lost

I got Street Machine today, for this article mostly. They wanted to keep the car a modified FB not an ICV, which required a different approach to the concept sketches. Gotta say, I appreciate the build more now. Still not sure I like it

it's more just things that probably could not have been different or could have but a lot more work, like in my eyes wheels don't work, car sits to high especially in the rear and bits and pieces that as a total just change things
but in saying that i'm not taking anything away from the car i wish i had a fraction of their skill and patience

Pretty hideous for the work and untold $$$
that went into it.

I thought they were gunna nail the look but it ,
doesn't flow at all. Street machiner's for the most part
just don't get customs. I doubt they really stood back
and looked at the proportions or the stance as they
built it.

The windscreen should of come back further as
should the Door pillar. The hood looks so short
it could of come of a mini. Blah!!.

To keep proportions right they needed to keep
the stock width between the wheel arch and
the front door.

Minimising it looks wrong it's not a new car it's
an old one and that's how the cars proportions
were spaced out.

what is with this insane need to extend the front
fenders so far forward in front of the wheelarch.

It looks front heavy. Imagine if they had just
pushed the whole body 6"s rearward over that
wheel base the whole Body might then have
been in more proportion. There's a reason why
old cars where built in a certain way.
It's the format or blueprint to the era they were
styled too.

We do the odd pelt car project . I like putting mid
60s sheetmetal on mini trucks from the belt line
down. Imagine a scaled down 60's Ftruck on a 70's
&*#@ courier. Sounds like hard work but it works.

In retrospect I thought that late model sports car
doors and roof work in well. With any updated
coupe concept but are more ssuited to cars with leant back windscreen pillars.

Like a FE FC EJ - HK.

EK Kustom wrote:
what is with this insane need to extend the front
fenders so far forward in front of the wheelarch.

It looks front heavy.

i actually suggested they shorten the area up in the build as they were open to suggestions and they were very accepting and responsive to suggestions but did have a reason why they could not do it, it wasn't done just because they thought it looked good

Probably due to the body taper at the rear.

I showed a buddy a pic of it yesterday who's
had a hand in a ton of summer nats cars.

He agreed with my own comments , all he builds
Now are factory customs. What if's , if you want
to get technical. He thought that the stance was
casting it in the wrong shadow. If the tail end was
Lower or it sat level on bags to 100mm off the deck
It would be viewed differently.

Due to different reflections on the paint and body etc.
Yeah I agree with that.

Overall we thought it was a bold statement and well
built.

As much as i appreciate the work involved, doesnt look right.
A few different angles of it might show it off a bit better, but i doubt it.
It does need to sit flat though, get rid of that rake.