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parisian, yeah it sure is. he's only 15 months old and already has more mechanical knowledge than his dad . but he's a great kid, and yes i am biased, but we'd rather him grow up outside doing something like playing around restoring cars instead of sitting infront of a computer or tv watching his health fade away. just got to finish my car then once we figure out if he's a holden, chrysler, or god forbid a F@#D boy we're going to buy him a real car to restore for his 18th.

I feel the same way about my son also, Matches.I'd rather him muck around with cars as a father/son thing when he gets a bit older rather than get into the some of the other things some kids get up to.

I've got a few old car projects kept aside for him when he gets old enough to want a car.At the moment he's eyeing off one of my HQ's that I want!!

fb mad, at least he's not eyeing off a falcon or something else in the street. best thing is he can get all dirty and greasy then hand him back to his parents

hiya everyone, i was just playing around with some colour ideas and came up with this. what do you think?

i finished rebuilding the gearbox and have fitted it up to my engine.


now i just need to get the car far enough along to fit it up.

Looks good Matches, have you got an EH sump n pickup so it will go in the EK? Trev .

trev, yeah it's on the 186 thats still in the car at the moment. i'm just using the old engine to move the car around the yard while i'm working on it so i'm not ruining my hot engine.
i can't wait to get it in though. i want to hear how lumpy it is.
how do you figure out the 30/70 or 40/80 ect spec for a cam?
L&K

hi guys and girls, finally been able to get a bit more done on zippo.
i've now stripped the roof back to bare metal, stipped out most of the interior (just need to go buy one of those door handle remover tool thingy's), removed front and back windscreens and hood lining.
the roof looks like someone danced a jig on it so alot of smoothing and straightening to be done there, but at least its not rust i'll post some pics as soon as they get uploaded onto photobucket.
L&K

okay got pics



and one for ratbox that i promised i'd eventually post,
the diffent backs on ac and vdo speedo's

Danced a jig Michael Flatly would be happy with that effort

Nice work Matches

Luke, keep going and it will look like mine. A shell with hundreds of bits in lots of different places.
You're even using the same type of garage I have.

I like the steering wheel too..
Keep going it will get there.

thanks for the support, Finny, yeah it's starting to get like that........ dad's hating me for it as its at his place and filling up his yard
i like the wheel, it's also got a chrome domed horn cap for that real old skool look, i didn't want some new design looking wheel, its not jap crap after all, it's an ek!!
i got a fair bit more sanded back today and found that in its earlier days it's had a rather hard shunt in the rear and the repair wasn't too bad for how old it looks but it needs a bit of aligning, i'm glad i've got a good spare boot lid because whoever "fixed" it before got the gap aroung the boot by using an angle grinder dors on the other hand are great, no rust and no repairs both sills clean and rust free, just had to clean out a bucket full of red bulldust out of each one.
Luke.

Going well Luke

EK speedo in an FB dash
FB speedo in an EK dash

Crazy

nice work so far, its ashame about the roof , i was lucky enough that when i got mine down to bare metal that there wasnt one ding so im pretty happy

craig, how do you determine which ones which?
are the ek ones vdo and fb ones ac?