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Hi its Animal the builder of Chop62 i will just correct a few of your contibuters ( AXE MAN ) DR CHOP (GRANT ECKERT) DID NOT BUILD IT HE'S A MATE AND THE ONLY THING HE HAD TO DO WITH IT WAS TO HELP WELD THE STRIP IN THE MIDDLE OF ROOF , SO GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT .

(SCOTTY) MY CHOPPIN TAPE MEASURE HAS THE FIRST 100MM BLANK AS ITS NOT WORTH PICKING UP THE SAW TO CUT A ROOF OFF FOR ANY THING LESS --- UTE IS CHOPPED 71\8TH INCHES .

(JIMMY) HAD GOOD VISION AS FLOOR AND DASH HAD THE HUMPS FLATTEN OUT .

THERE WAS A FULL FEATURE ON IT IN PERFORMANCE STREET CAR ( OCT-NOV 1989 ) JUST AFTER I FINISHED IT , WHEN IT WAS IN S/M I HAD SOLD IT TO A BLOKE NAMED COLIN FROM RURAL NSW HE STILL OWNS IT.

I ALSO HAD A CHOPPED HD THAT WAS IN S/M IN LATE 83 .

IM NOW INTO HOT RODS STILL WITH RADICAL CHOPS ITS THE ONLY WAY TO GO CHEERS ANIMAL...

hey thanks for your input and facts regarding the ute
i still have a page from the magazine with the ute on the wall at the workshop
paul

Colin pettigrew came to my house in it when I was 16 and influential ,he was from nerranderra back then and was chasing my sister.
He pranged it at the bottom of mcquarrie pass aquaplaining killing a guard.

Harko wrote:Colin pettigrew came to my house in it when I was 16 and influential ,he was from nerranderra back then and was chasing my sister.
He pranged it at the bottom of mcquarrie pass aquaplaining killing a guard.

Think I met Colin at a petrol station 2 or 3 years back at the Narranderra rodrun (although I'm not good at remembering names), he came up to talk about our FJ and told me he had a chopped EK ute. I remember that he liked my Norm Beechey Speed shop decal on my back window so I sent him one.

Mick

COLIN REPAIRED FRONT AND REPAINTED UTE BLACK WITH PINK RIMS , WENT TO SUMMER NATS WAS ASKED TO DO SUPER CRUZ DURING WHITCH SOME DICKHEAD ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD SHOOT COL IN THE EYES THROUGH SIDE WINDOW WITH A WATER PISTOL BLINDING HIM WHITCH ENDED IN HIM RUNNING INTO THE BACK OF A SLR TORY TRASHING FRONT AGAIN NOW REBUILT AGAIN WITH A TUFF 327 / T350 / 9" ANIMAL .

fond this site the other day thought i,d ad to the chat about animal ! I first saw the ute in 88 89 in Narrandera where i still live today. I had an ek ute and had planned to chop it and so on ,and had an fb sedan nearing completion. The ute with the name animal on it and chop 62 plates. SICK the wildest holden ute i,ve ever seen .over that weekend i met gav and his now wife . Two years latter the ute was for sale to make way for gav,s new project 28 roadster pickup. I bought the ute and have owned it ever since and have been asked to sell it many many times. I have owned many cars but thise one is irraplacible . All the crdit for the ute goes to gav the biulder he,s got a great eye for makeing things look sick without spending a million doller,s and drives them.i have seen many chopped ek utes and a lot of them have windows slopping like ferarries complettly out of porportion . I have owned the ute now for 22 years it,s parked in the garage the paint on it is now 21 years old and still lookes as good as new . I have an fc 90 finished .then it,s time for animal again now the kids are older . ....................so harko how is your sister

Seems the ute is cursed

col 62 wrote:fond this site the other day thought i,d ad to the chat about animal ! I first saw the ute in 88 89 in Narrandera where i still live today. I had an ek ute and had planned to chop it and so on ,and had an fb sedan nearing completion. The ute with the name animal on it and chop 62 plates. SICK the wildest holden ute i,ve ever seen .over that weekend i met gav and his now wife . Two years latter the ute was for sale to make way for gav,s new project 28 roadster pickup. I bought the ute and have owned it ever since and have been asked to sell it many many times. I have owned many cars but thise one is irraplacible . All the crdit for the ute goes to gav the biulder he,s got a great eye for makeing things look sick without spending a million doller,s and drives them.i have seen many chopped ek utes and a lot of them have windows slopping like ferarries complettly out of porportion . I have owned the ute now for 22 years it,s parked in the garage the paint on it is now 21 years old and still lookes as good as new . I have an fc 90 finished .then it,s time for animal again now the kids are older . ....................so harko how is your sister

She's good ,she asks about you all the time

How bout some more recent pics col ,there's a lotta blokes on here who love that car

see what i can do harko .