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Holden doodlings
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 5:45 am
by Alastair Saxton
Hi .
Fooled around a bit at work today taking a FJ grill and fitting it into an FB. Dont know it it would fit, it might even have been done by some one else already.
Then I took the rear roof section from a Henry J and fitted it to an FJ sedan. Lengthened doors and had to extend wheelbase a few inches too, before things started to look reasonable. Rear guards are also extended a bit to get proportions right.
Just a bit of fun on the Apple Mac.
Alastair
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:21 am
by Grimbo
Very cool, I like them both. Good work by the way.
Cheers
Sam
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 12:50 pm
by Devilrod
The grille has been done by a guy in Perth I think, Blacky may know or have a pick.
Love the fast back FJ way cool.
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:57 pm
by tm 50
Grill looks awesome, Some times i wish mine wasnt stock
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 7:25 pm
by Dakam
tm 50 wrote:Grill looks awesome, Some times i wish mine wasnt stock
Well.......just get antother one!
Dave.
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 7:38 pm
by Trev
TAYZ has an FJ grill in his FC (95% sure) looks great
, Trev
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Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:26 pm
by tm 50
Seriously thinking about it Dave,right one comes along,
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:36 pm
by Sputzwagon
That FJ grill idea is exactly what I was going to do with my old wagon, Alastair.
It does look good don't it
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Scotty.
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:53 am
by J
Devilrod wrote:The grille has been done by a guy in Perth I think, Blacky may know or have a pick.
Love the fast back FJ way cool.
Lee from Albany had one on his EK panno... infact i think her offered it to me?
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:07 am
by FB MAD
The FJ looks great!!
Imagine if one of the many talented bodybuilders out there could pull that one off in reality
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:20 pm
by thropzed
Terry, Try finding a rust free Henry J................
Spose a forties sloper would work as well, But why cut up a sloper to make an FJ fastback???
Cheers Theo Z....................
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:47 pm
by FB MAD
thropzed wrote:Terry, Try finding a rust free Henry J................
Spose a forties sloper would work as well, But why cut up a sloper to make an FJ fastback???
Cheers Theo Z....................
Yeah I know, you just can't go down to the local K Mart and buy slopers off the shelf anymore
Re: Holden doodlings
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 4:21 am
by Alastair Saxton
hI Again.
We went out to a friends farm last weekend on a club run. He has a few model T's , A's ans others. Down in the bush below he has a few wrecks. I took a walk down and as I walked to the back of this Vauxhall, the angle of the curved glass caught my attention. So I took pics and when I had a chance I put this pace together as a comparisson. Although the glass doesn't appear to have quiet as much of a curve on it as I remember on an FB wagon, the side view is pretty darn good.
It could be a neat idea to use a set of this glass on a FB Nomad custom conversion.
Ali
Re: Holden doodlings
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 6:50 am
by streetneat
Man I like your thinking Alistair! Now that Vauxhall isnt really going to be a car available anywhere in Oz - however there is a very real chance one may be found in NZ - more specifically Horopito Wreckers- or Smash Palace as its widely known. It's the largest surviving wrecking yard in the southern Hemisphere. In short if these weird Vauxhalls were sold in NZ- there maybe a chance this yard would have one... they have the largest collection of oddball stuff I have ever seen!
Hmm may have to look further into that one!
Its a vast improvement to an otherwise stodgy design - apologies of course to FB/EK Wagon owners...
Cheers streetneat-Andrew.
Re: Holden doodlings
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 10:19 pm
by hewey
This looks great! I was at a mates place on Sunday and he had an FJ grill on the wall, and I was wondering how it'd go in an EK.