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a few pics of my resto , Ek special sedan in cataract grey ,all the body repair has been done . Tunnel fitted waiting on HR front end rack and pinion and hopefully lexus 1 uzfe , any advice on that would be gratefully accepted.

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Wow thats clean, very nice .

Clean is exactly the word I had in mind too, beautiful

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Get a load of those shades on the floor...has Axeman moved to N.Z??
That's one REAL neat body there, Amigo!!

Scotty.

Nice, body looks to be in really good condition.

yea it is nice and clean now but it wasn't at the start

ek amigo wrote:yea it is nice and clean now but it wasn't at the start

Looks like a bit of surface rust too me, not too bad .

the body identification tag says BODY NZ EK 225 TRIM 7586 I bought it from a guy in Auckland ,he said got it from Napier where it had been sitting in a shed for 30 years, had 60,000 on the clock. It had a few bits of rust in the body and front guards but the 4 doors, bonnet and boot were simply blasted and painted. there is no bodyfilla in the car at all.

yea tim ,I got the colour analysed and it came up with cataract grey , strange name eh ,but nice colour

Thought I should update things. The car is coming along well ,we have managed to squeeze in the toyota v8 and auto , we did this by altering the crossmember and making some room in the engine bay for exhausts, the engine is untouched except for removal of power steer and aircon compressor. It has been pretty painless really we were quite surprised how easily it all came together. the standard toyota auto works well with the hurst shifter with just a minor change to the selector lever. the exhaust is the biggest problem, because the engine is so big we had to make some room on each side of the engine bay and fabricate some headers from scratch ,not real bad just fiddly .

Great work.
The floor tunnel looks great, well done

Paul K

Love your work Amigo , we had one of those donks in a Hilux - they are a good thing.