Brian Westlake's FB Hottie

[space ace]

A twin of one I saw a fair while back
Pete

[Brian Westlake]

I have photos of my Twilight Turquoise EK hottie with me with long hair (Read ,SOME HAIR!) but I don't have the smarts to get it onto this forum. It had shaved bonnet and boot, spats and blinds, front overriders gone, wagon rear bar and a hot 179 with an EJ Premier wheel, column and even steering box strangely enough. It had EH front and rear end and power drums (I used the EH front end cause I thought the factory mounts would work in an EK. NEVER do this, as it puts the fan up with the bonnet lock and the rocker cover 6 inches from the firewall! I used the EH crashbox and cut 2 slots down the rear of the EK crossmember an welded a T shaped bit of 1/4 steel plate into it with 2 holes in it to support the gearbox from the rear. I got around the engine too far forward problem by extensively modifying the 2 plates that bolt opposite each other from the block to the engine mounts on a red. All this sounds very rough, but it was cutting edge stuff for a TAFE College student in the late 70s. Apart from that, with it's hotty red and rough and tumble personality, it was one of my all time great cars, and had the guts thrashed out of it more often than not. I was never beaten by an EH (the enemy!) but once was soundly thrashed by a black FB
Standard (TIM?) with a Stove Hot something under the bonnet. I think I may have dropped RustysDungers off at Springwood High School at least once in this car back in the 70s.
Anyway, enough bulldust, Pete, Scotty, Tim, I am lazy in the head! Please help me with these photos.
Tony Tore around

[space ace]

Hardly aged at all Love that EJ
Pete

[parisian62]

Beaut old pics...taken with real film

The pic of the three guys and the elbow out the window is a classic.

Who is rowing the dinghy in the middle of the lawn?

[Brian Westlake]

Thank you so much Tim. As always, you have helped me out. That car always seemed lower to me, but it usually was full of people, and I think I spent some time in the back seat , drunk, with someone else driving. The panel fit and chrome strip alignment seems to be a bit wonkier than I remember, but a hot machine none the less. Stuart, the hairy Red Head to the left of the picture is our own Space Ace, circa 1978 and the kayak champion is none other than Scotty Sputzwagen waiting for the incoming tide! The EK in the foreground is my turquoise car (when I got it from our late friend Glenn Clarke, it was Cataract Grey, and I later painted it Turquoise in my old mans front yard in dulon. Some of you N.S.W. guys may remember Glenn from the N.S.W. club in the 80s) The EJ was mine but I swapped it for a Mk11 Zephyr. I think pete may be under the car , and a previous friend, Gary is under the bonnet. Thanks again Tim.
Tony Timewarp

[WayneXG95]

I love those pics....

[rustysdungers]

hey Tony i remember you droping me at school many times in that hot EK i loved that car ,it stil feels like yesterday

[Marty K Bird]

Love those old pics!! especially the one with the car full of lads ...reminds me of me driving mine around 20 years ago ....no seatbelts and 6 lads piled in was always fun, lapping in the old "hit rig" as we would call it.
Looks like mine too ....Argosy turquoise??

[Brian Westlake]

The first photo shows the same EK (KJH610) followed by Petes FB looking low and hot in primer, and Scottys EJ probably 1979. Note my Kooky windscreen strip and fog light.
The next is Petes Banff Blue FB with Aunger Hotwires and all the good gear.
Scotty bails out after a failed record attempt.
Tony (Brian Westlake) thinks he's cool with his EK at Shelly Beach. The EH wagon belonged to my girlfriends father. I once put it into first, on the run at 20 MPH without a peep, with him in the passenger seat! He told me to get out anyway, and I was never asked to drive again. A good bloke and he had the first "Sta Put" gearlever lock I ever saw.
Bad prang one night on Church St. Parramatta.I hit a new XD Wagon right on the wheel. He was drunk, but I ran the red light. Where did all the multicoloured 6 wheeled one tonner tow trucks come from? I was still able to drive it home beleive it or not. I changed the subframe and repaired it. My girl friend dumped me because I only saw her at night.
The days were spent working on cars!
Off fo first rego. Note the cardboard sign with "Traffic" written on it. What was this?
Front yard scene at my parents house ( they were sick of me!) My EK, Zephyr, Petes FB with Pete and my old mans HQ V8.

[Sputzwagon]

Boy!.. do those photo's take me back!!
I never did get that "land speed record" for terrafirma rowing... ...
That photo of you cruisin' along with Dave Marlin in the passenger seat & ( I think Ian Milton? ) in the back is on of the all time great shots
We sure did get up to mischief in those days aye!

Scotty.

[Sputzwagon]

Boy!.. do those photo's take me back!!
I never did get that "land speed record" for terrafirma rowing... ...
That photo of you cruisin' along with Dave Marlin in the passenger seat & ( I think Ian Milton? ) in the back is on of the all time great shots
Do you have any photos of Greg Addison's old LOOOWWW EJ?? gerat stuff!
We sure did get up to mischief in those days aye!

Scotty.

[parisian62]

the kayak champion is none other than Scotty Sputzwagen

I should have guessed.

[Brian Westlake]

Sorry, Marty K Bird. I forgot about your question. The colour was Twilight Turquise, after I saw a clean Hydramatic stocker with spats and blinds and other stuff driving around the top of Penrith, quite a lot. I think my girlfriend at the time, thought I was soft in the head for changing to that colour, but I thought it looked Shit Hot!
I think that other car was owned by a guy named Talbot Rapley?? and the number plate was CLC something...His old man ran a foreign car yard on the highway in Kingswood N.S.W.
I think. All this fluff is irelevant! I just wanted to say, that your experience with your Argosy Turquoise EK sounds just like mine, and many others, and thats why wer'e here I guess
Cheers Mate
Tony Tells Tales.

[Sputzwagon]

The colour was Twilight Turquise, after I saw a clean Hydramatic stocker with spats and blinds (& BLOWING MINDS!) and other stuff driving around the top of Penrith, quite a lot. I think my girlfriend at the time, thought I was soft in the head for changing to that colour, but I thought it looked Shit Hot!
I think that other car was owned by a guy named Talbot Rapley?? and the number plate was CLC something...His old man ran a foreign car yard on the highway in Kingswood N.S.W.
I think. All this fluff is irelevant!

Tony Tells Tales.

But you would'nt be YOU if you did'nt have the storys Tony!! We love you because of that, mate...keep 'em coming!

Scotty Listens Intently.

[Thommo]

Classic stuff guys