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Its pretty well just a bare shell - cant remember if its a special or standard and I am pretty sure the tags were missing.

Blacky wrote:Its pretty well just a bare shell - cant remember if its a special or standard and I am pretty sure the tags were missing.

Those bloody tag hunters .....

Steve Jackson wrote:

harry186 wrote:

Steve Jackson wrote:The paint .... well lets see

geeezus yor starting to sound like the facts

Hi Mick, how are you?

I know I need "the Facts" polish for this one ....

Although, the Fernando Yelllow and the Desert Glow FB's had sea mist exposure, and the rust had spread out under the paint.

This black EK is more like the Narrandera Fernando with that dry rust which is exacerbated by the red lead undercoat.

Take care,

Steve

good thanks steve and you, i was more refering to what seem like all the scratches on the left side
i know you love original paint but i think good cars deserve good paint, look at the desert glow / corona grey car instead of looking good it looks spectacular

Hi Steve,
Congratulatons. That is a color I have always wanted! Quite rare. Many were used as Taxi's in Melbourne in the 60's
As 'believe it not'.............. people used to hire them on weekends as wedding cars. (All I know had all red interiors) Yep, I have heaps of negs of my dad & his mate Pete's photos of weddings of the 50's-70's.............Imagine our little princesses these days being told that they are going to have 2 taxi's as wedding cars! (And that their honeymoon will be at an outer-suburban OR up-state somewhere hotel LOL)

I organised a club run run in the early 1990's to the Mollison bros private collection of holdens. It was really great. Their dad started the dealership...Many interesting rare factory odd-bod cars in their collection. often they were kept for their rarity when the owner wanted to trade up.
i remember a HK belmont sedan with a V8 & 4 speed. A special floor matt was made for the shifter to come through the floor!
They also have the best collection of FX FJ bonnet ornaments in Australia! Many of them (made by small country foundries) are irreplaceable!

Best wishes for teh new year all. cheers, Paul K

Starting to polish up.......

i had a black ek special with red trim about ten years ago and couldn't give it away for $400 at the time so i kept the front guards and a few small bits and sent it to sims metal for scrap if only i knew then what i know now as it was fairly rust free

Hi russo, have you still got the guards and if so, are they original paint?

Thanks,

Steve

the left one is on my ek and the other one has been sold a few years ago sorry

russo wrote:i had a black ek special with red trim about ten years ago and couldn't give it away for $400 at the time so i kept the front guards and a few small bits and sent it to sims metal for scrap if only i knew then what i know now as it was fairly rust free

if only we all knew i wouldn't be bothered with FB/EK's etc i'de still have my monaros and toranas wate a minute no i wouldn't i'de have sold them when the price was right up i'de have still bought houses though

harry186 wrote:

russo wrote:i had a black ek special with red trim about ten years ago and couldn't give it away for $400 at the time so i kept the front guards and a few small bits and sent it to sims metal for scrap if only i knew then what i know now as it was fairly rust free

if only we all knew i wouldn't be bothered with FB/EK's etc i'de still have my monaros and toranas wate a minute no i wouldn't i'de have sold them when the price was right up i'de have still bought houses though

Your right there Mick, I came across a pic of my Bathurst HK Monaro Warwick Yellow and Bathurst LJ XU-1 Barroda Silver the other day.

Steve

Steve Jackson wrote:

harry186 wrote:

russo wrote:i had a black ek special with red trim about ten years ago and couldn't give it away for $400 at the time so i kept the front guards and a few small bits and sent it to sims metal for scrap if only i knew then what i know now as it was fairly rust free

if only we all knew i wouldn't be bothered with FB/EK's etc i'de still have my monaros and toranas wate a minute no i wouldn't i'de have sold them when the price was right up i'de have still bought houses though

Your right there Mick, I came across a pic of my Bathurst HK Monaro Warwick Yellow and Bathurst LJ XU-1 Barroda Silver the other day.

Steve

sorry for getting off topic but i remember being able to buy a black genuine GTHO for $20,000 ............. it was 30 odd years ago though

harry186 wrote:sorry for getting off topic but i remember being able to buy a black genuine GTHO for $20,000 ............. it was 30 odd years ago though

I passed up a gold one in 84 for $6,000 in a shed on the south coast, because the cost to tidy it up was more than i wanted to spend to get market value at the time. Have photos somewhere to remind me of what i passed up. But at the time they were not that valuable.

Genuine Picardy Red HK 327 Monaro with parchment interior, cost me $800.00. Sold it for $2500.00 & thought that was an awesome turn around.
Yrs. later the current owner traced it back to me & told me he spent $50k restoring & I thought 'what a fool'.
Within 2 yrs the things were pulling well over $100k???