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Thanks Blacky, I'm away this weekend but will have a good look at them before I go ahead with putting the repair section in and decide if I think I'm up to it

Taking Frank down to a mates place in Bunbury

The metal work is very similar to van and ute. In fact the FE wgn was pretty much based on the van in typical Holden fashion.

The rear seat maybe a different matter, requiring some narrowing I would imagine. Pipe up Harv......

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I had to narrow the rear seat in my '57 when I tubbed it - not a big job.

There is a bit more to the seat back on a wagon than there is on a sedan, that’s all.


FB ute fixer upper, EK van on rotisserie

Took Frank to Carbies and Coffee in the car park behind the Bunbury car museum Sunday morning, great fun.

Clay I had a look back at what you did with the van tubs, I will look on the weekend and see how much extra work and if I want to take it on and there is the thing about the seat in the wagon folding down and latching back I will need to look at that also.

Has anybody else done the tub thing on a wagon?? Harv what did you do???

I reckon the seat would be the least of your worries, if you copied what Clay did on the wheel tubs the seat base would just need a bit of a frame trim around the tub , and the back would need the same on the timber and the frame - all the latches etc would stay where they are on the car and you just trim the seat back to suit.

Piss easy for a man of your talents

Well worth the effort.

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Thanks for the encouragement, I think

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Thanks for the encouragement Blacky I think.

I realised that while we are discussing the wheel tubs to fit up the cradle for the independent rear end I have to cut more out of the floor pan behind where the rear shock mounts go so before I weld in the rear underseat floor repair I may as well cut out the rest of the floor where the suspension cradle has to go, this is going to reveal a whole lot more of the rear wheel arches and I can then get a better look at what I need to do to pump them a bit.

Still not sold on the idea but will be able to see a whole lot more soon.

I'll post some photos as I do the cradle fit up.

I understand where you are coming from mate. It's a bit to get your head around. We're just egging you on to fuel our love for the widest possible rubber under the lowest tractable early Holden.

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I was looking at a ute today that has had the rear tubbed about 35mm, super neat job, will get some pics and post them up

These are pics Shahni took today of Jeremy’s ute, will try and get better pics when it’s on the hoist tomorrow or Friday



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