Been on the forum for quite sometime, sticking my head in every now and than to perv on some of the sweet cars on here.
Anyway thought I would start a thread on my current driver.
Garrison Grey EK 1962 special sedan.
Not much of a car really, just another molested EK in need of a lot of work.
What it does have going for it, for me is a good solid base for building something that will have a few of my own touches.
Current motivation comes from a HK 186S, Trimatic.
Week one of picking the car up (February 2014)
A few weeks later, I pulled a spare grill down to polish, 50 hours of work later had something to put back into a car.
Original grill from car vs polished grill
Another week or so after the grill fit up. Removed the mud flaps, kicked on a set of EK hub caps which I had repainted the centres, lowered the front down a little with a set of Kings lowered springs and flipped a leaf in the rear.
Some time between the last shot and this one at the 2014 Berrima 'Grey Pride' run. Got a set of 5 BF goodrich Silvertown Wide whites fitted to a matched set of correct EK rims, had them blasted and 2 packed in Garrison Grey (can not stand white wheels with white walls, two different shades of white always makes one or the other look dirty). Also fitted up new grill bar badge, new lenses all around and some more general tidying up.
From there I had a small window to get a few other things done to the car before the 2014 Cowra FB EK nationals. Only have very few photos of the little jobs down to the car.
One of which was this one.
I had plans of just painting up the grill and radiator support bars. Though something which I had always thought looked funny with a bigger radiator is the shape of the radiator support bar vs the shape of the radiator corners. So after sectioning up a support bar into 7 pieces and welding it back together I ended up with this (before paint) Why? Because I can.
Old radiator support bar out of the car next to the one I sectioned up.
Trial fitted up to the car
Also Had the car at the exhaust shop getting a new tail pipe bent up. Hated the old exhaust tip, location on were it exited and old tail pipe wasn't high enough over the diff (use to bottom out)... bloody Exhausting job!
Went to the Cowra Nationals and had a blast!
Did the 2014 NSW All Holden day, travelled down with 'Brenno' and Steve Mowat (green EJ Wagon) Had a good weekend and scored a few good parts for the EK at the swapmeet.
Than I think I don't think I had turned a spanner on the car until today!
Got side tracked with a few of the cars (EJ sedan {next to the EK in the picture above} and a 64 Pontiac), also had other big problems with life (boring stuff).
Continued collecting parts for the car along the way for Garry, knowing one day I will get a chance to do somethings to the car.
Today however was the day to make some sort of a start.
Got one last photo of the car before it came apart. (worried that it may not go back together again for a long time)
I have known since the week that I had got it that it needed rust repairs to the parcel shelf (went to fit seat belts and realized some metal may need to be replaced to mount them to)
Rear seat came out, what was left of the parcel shelf cover and rear window out.
This is what I first find
After some time scrapping with a screw driver and paint scraper I decided to get the wire wheel on the grinder out... After and hour this is where I got to for the night.
Couple of holes!
Picked this up close to 12 months ago also for this job
Hopefully tomorrow I get a few hours on it and I will keep you updated of where I get to.
Cheers Jon
