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Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 3:44 pm
by Sputzwagon
Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 6:53 pm
by Thommo
Aussie custom culture at its best
Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 10:32 pm
by Smooth customs
This is how it looked before being sent off to scrap, because no one was interested in it.
So I was told
Was a Custom Rodder cover car as well.
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 5:12 am
by Mick Jagger
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 7:28 am
by V8EK4us
Smooth customs wrote:This is how it looked before being sent off to scrap, because no one was interested in it.
So I was told
Bet there would be alot of interest now (if it still existed
)
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:33 am
by Devilrod
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 5:30 pm
by Smooth customs
Me either
So I just posted the photos.
Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:55 pm
by Thommo
I haven't seen it on this site before.
I bet you all know what i'm going to ask now
Does anyone have this copy of 'Custom Rodder' with that Car on the cover?
Drop me a PM please
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:35 pm
by Thommo
THOMMO wrote:
Does anyone have this copy of 'Custom Rodder' with that Car on the cover?
Drop me a PM please
Anybody???
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:48 pm
by Smooth customs
I do, somewhere.
Will get it out and scan it, when I find it.
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:28 pm
by Thommo
Ta Paul
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:42 pm
by customfc
Paul sent me a note about this post requesting me to dig up this article.
Here it is, enjoy!
Cover shot from Custom Rodder 30
The article.
Regards
Alex
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:47 pm
by Smooth customs
Thanks for finding that one Alex.
Still looking for my copy!
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 10:27 pm
by customfc
Here's the story of the car as told by Pontiac Jack on the ozrodders forum, back in April 08.
I've told this tale before,but for the benefit of any recent arrivals,heres a quick recap.
The car was built in the mid 70's by John Comber,Keith McKie and Steve Dann. It's front doors were extended 6" and the back doors were welded up,turning it into a coupe.
Sometime in the late 70's (78 or 79?? ) I got a call from my sisters boyfriends brother in law,a bloke named Gary Brown. He knew I had a heap of FX's and FJ's and an FB and said he had something I might be interested in.
I went to his factory in Glen Iris,and sitting there was the remains of Steve Danns EK.
It had been stolen and stripped and Gary had brought the rolling shell off Steve.
He said he didn't want to put it back together,so if I wanted it,it was $200.
Due to being 16 or 17 and having cars taking up every square inch of land around the house already (and having a mum who was getting pissed off with it ),I passed it up.
I was told later that the car went to Simms and was turned into half a dozen Toyotas
UNTIL!....
Last week I had a call from Matty Brown (Gary's son),he said he'd been digging around looking for pix of Gary's 34 coupe and had found a few things I might want to see.
He found 7 or 8 pics of the coupe from around the time it was sold in 79,but he also found some pix of his old "cubby house" - Steve Danns EK!
So the updated story goes like this:
Matt's not sure when,but sometime after I passed on it,Gary brought it around to his ex wifes place in Black Rock and left it there in the back yard. The kids played in it for a year or so,and then it was sold to a kid who worked in a servo in Aspendale.
It sat around the back of the servo for a couple of years,then the servo closed down and the kid and the car disappeared.
I wish I could say the story had a happy ending,but no one knows where it is now.
And Matt has no idea who the kid from the servo was.
At least we know it survived a few more years.
It might still be out there,somewhere........
Regards
Alex
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 11:43 pm
by mrs ratbox
50 bucks for anybody that finds it for me
i want it couple of things i don't like but in general i love it
was sad when paul first said it had been crushed but now there is still a glimmer of hope
although very minor
