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i'm very happy aswell spent the night in my very warm house slept in my comfortable warm bed got out of bed at a reasonable hour in the still warm house

the only thing that can bring this down would be to find out there was a cheap very little to no rust FB/EK sedan ute or van at the swap

pappa bear wrote:i'm very happy aswell spent the night in my very warm house slept in my comfortable warm bed got out of bed at a reasonable hour in the still warm house

Did you have porridge for breakfast too

It was a pretty good swap but it definitely seems like early holden stuff is drying up (atleast at swap meets)

na bacon and eggs, nearly went but my daughter came up and i just didn't feel like the drive, i'll wate for the AHD no early holden stuff though i'm keeping it all till i need cash

Happy Dayz .




See the roof upside down to the left of the picture .
Nothing can stop me now

TH 700 anyone .... anyone ?

last night i decoded the two chev engines with no nasty surprises .
The 400 is a 2 bolt main 70 - 72 model with the run of the mill heads .
The 283 is a late 60s corvette motor with corvette 68cc powerpack heads and 2 bolt mains - perfect for a nice little streetable ek.

Sounds good Harko !!

If your going the little chev, you will need to dress it old style .... finned covers and a few down draught carbs might get away with a 4x2 with 2 as dummies, or 4 with really small jets !!

Yes , mmm awesome look

I want to run it on gas but would like the engine bay clean aswell so really Im not sure where Im headed in this area .

Bring on the longer days and warmer nights , and maybe an 8 hour shift.

Tops,

You will not regret the "little" 283.

Actually it may surprise you.

Yeah we need longer and warmer days allright!!!!!

Regards Greg

i'll just settle for warmer days

Harko, hows this going? Trev .

OK good to see some interest Trev

Ive got about 90% of it painted now , the engineers and blue slip have been passed and , and just gaggin



Ive cut both roofs and it looks sweet in position , Ive trialled block hugger headers in the attempt to just make modifications to them but they go nowhere near it .
When I contacted Russel Clarke the engineer he said hmmm I think this will fall under individually constructed vehicle I know that it doesnt and have been building it to comply with modified vehicle specs ,so I tried to find the actual modification that he thinks has pushed it over the line .
Have to keep one original crossmember - check .
2 speed wipers - check.
heater demister - check
4 inches of windscreen - check
vision up to 11 mtrs ahead on the bitumen - check
legal power to weight ratio - check
2 door conversion - he says ahh well its not just one thing , its all of them - maybe you could consider a v6 commodore motor

So I humored him and offered to rego it with a 6 cyl then do the engine upgrade , and his answer was "as far as I can see this will fall into the ICV catagory and if thats the case I am not interested"
I finaly got the answer ..............Hes not interested.


Apart from all that ,Im out of Gas and have to organise an account but Im at work whenever theyre open .

Got gas ,will weld






So at this point the gutter line , roof level , window position , window angle , and roof to window angle are all permanant .
Its good to feel some strength back in the roof again ,and feel confident Ive acheived the look I started out at .

Next milestone will be cutting out the body bracing

Top stuff Harko, that is going to be one tuff Coupe!!

REALLY looking forward to seeing this one finished - get into it Harko !!!

Thanks Gaz and Blacky .

a link to ponder

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