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I was picking up my new shortened 9'' from Southern Chassis Works in Warragul the other day and this EK UTE caught my eye and the owner ( Mick ) happened to be checking out his new build....... well its not really that new... hes been working on it for a long time and has owned it a lot longer but he said he will come online and tell us about this build ...at the moment as you can guess Heath from SCW is fitting a full and tubbed chassis with some giant width wheels ,a hot late model LS2 I think he said ..........anyway I will leave it up to Mick to tell us more .....

Thats ZL296 checking it out .......

drooooollll.....argh one day...

Man that is sweet, one of the lads at work is doing similar to an XW, look forward to Micks post

The 4 link will go in there nice.

Very tempting down the track for the 308 ute

Cheers

Gazza

Hey guys, My name is Mick and I would like to thank Fingers for inviting me onto this forum. Fingers posted some photos of my old girl in the Spotto section a couple of weeks back.I bought her way back in 86 and am hoping to get her back on the road by Christmas.
Cheers
Mick 62Mloo

Welcome Mick

Welcome aboard Mick ......Your project is awesome ....I,ve been keeping an eye on ya car mate ...I check it out each time I drop in to pick goodies up for my car....Heath and Luke are doing a sensational job on the chassis mate ..Radical mate ....I,m going to take a few more photos on Saturday morning if you dont mind and put them on the forum over the weekend maybe you could check it out and tell the guys on the forum whats being done .... any problems give me a call on 0409253202 .....

Thanks fellas, I tell you its great to finally have my ute in some really capable hands.Its been a looooong looong time coming. Heath says the motor should be going in later this week and it will be back on wheels not long after. I am getting really excited with the progress.

bill,can not wait to see more photo,s of mick,s seen this ute is going to hammer....
great work down here in warragul...
any one need sand blasting or power coating.......???

welcome aboard mate...

Hi guys, I was a bit confused there for a minute when I couldn't find my post but eventually found it here. I guess I put it in the wrong section in the first place. Anyway Tim here is the story so far:
I have always been a fan of the fins, the wraparound windscreen and square quarter windows, and as a result, my first driver when I got my licence on my 18th birthday, was a EK wagon. It had a high compression 161 with twin strombergs and extractors,Hadfield front end and chassis, grey Hustler mags with Torque Twister boots on the rear and a marble steering wheel. Me and my mate attacked it with a 1/2 inch drive texta and drew flames all over the sides, we wrote "bush pig" on the bonnet and "just cruisin'" on the tailgate. This jigga wasn't really flash but it was super cool and man we had some good times in that thing. Anyway I came across a ute with a 308, turbo 400 and 9 inch for sale for 3 grand so I bought it. It wasnt long after I bought it that I got pulled up by the cops and they reckon it wasnt cool that I was driving a V8 car with 6 cyl Rego. So off to the engineers I went and after some rocker cover mods and mudguard washers under the seat bolts I had me a V8 registered EK. The donk was fairly smokey so I decided to rip it out and rebuild it. That was until my mate said to me "lets go on a trip around oz", which we did. I did, however manage to dust my life savings and that was the end of the engine rebuild....................until now.

Hi mick, sorry I didn't let you know I merged your post and the pics Fingers took so they are all in one post .

Yeah good work Trev.

Thats gonna be one tuff looking car!

Welcome to the forum Mick
Great story and will be watching this with interest.......looks

All the best...Bob.

Some more goodies coming together ........

The Southern Chassis Works chasssis in progress..........

The chassis assembled ............

Fitted with Rare Spares rubber kit Part No fek4a.....this is the part no of the kit to be used on the fb ek

The chassis work in progress by Heath at S.C.W.........