Finally today I started on my FB ute project. Ive had this FB for a fair while now and only this week when I looked at the ID plate realised that it had stampings on it that I had never seen before.
After checking out the colour code and finding nothing on the forum I thought something is weird about this car. A quick call to Steve and He confirmed that this ute was an ex Sydney County Council car in their fleet colour of Silverpine Green.
The car was all sorts of colours but the majority was this green.
Now this ute is full of rust but I have another really clean body so Im going to transfer all the good stuff Panels etc onto this.
Today I got all the quarters straight and welded a couple of spots of rust.
The shell needs two floor pans, a couple of small spots in the sills, and thanks to Parisian 62 I now have a decent rear petrol tank floor section to weld in.
All the hanging panels are mint as is the subframe.
Hopefully by the end of the week Ill have the shell ready to prime.
Im not sure I like the colour but being so rare and none around I thought it would be cool to build one up. Hopefully Ill find a period pic of one and maybe they have some sort of signwriting on them.
I have a 55 international prime mover from Sydney county Council engineers. The signwriting on that looks cool so I may put those graphics on.
I have a set of mint 14 inch tasmans so they might find there way on it also
Dont worry Stewart Ill be working on your car as well
On Holidays Mum & I used to take the Green 'n' Yellow Double Decker ACE Bus from Maroubra Junction into George Street and have lunch with Dad..I loved riding up on the top deck right at the front and pretend I was driving it! 