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Off on a jaunt to pick up another donor car

There couldn't be any left over there, could there???????

There must be - they keep finding me ........

I dunno what is going on with Tapatalk - my phone did an "upgrade" last night and now I cant post pictures

Now that Jason has sorted the forum glitches- here’s some pics
Rocked up and loaded it the easy way for a change




Some previous bog work was pretty impressive



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We used a Tele handler. Now that is easy.

Nice score mate.

Least it didn't fall in half this time Blacky

FireKraka wrote:Least it didn't fall in half this time Blacky

It fell into lots of bits today Neil -


Brodie offered to weld the dodgy dolly under the front half as it’s going off to visit a fabricator for a bit - his welding is terrible, he insists it’s terrible because I was winding the wire speed up and down while he was doing it but I think that’s a classic case of a poor tradesman blaming his tools
This bit is off to the scrappies on Tuesday


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While the front bit got dropped off at a mates who is using it as a test bed for making a turbo manifold for a grey motor



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Rust from the bottom up ?

What are you doing with the rear number plate overiders ?

Greg

EK283 wrote: Sun Jan 25, 2026 9:13 am
What are you doing with the rear number plate overiders ?

Greg

They are not rusty believe it or not - they are going to be used as a template to hopefully make reproduction ones

Another day another wagon to kill -


This thing is RUSTY. - check the door gap


Here we go again - on the 10 minute drive to work the floor let go entirely




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Damn this thing was hard work - every bolt and screw siezed, some of the doors wouldn’t open etc
Motor and box came out easy, had the car chained to the trailer and just skull dragged the bastard out


Getting the front end out took some doing, the bolt heads were totally rusted, managed to get 3 of the nuts off but had to cut part of the subframe off to get the last one out after it siezed and started spinning with about 3 threads left to come off
Ready for scrap on Tuesday- there is still a couple of good bits on it but I am sick of the sight of it


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If you can salvage the upper tailgate hinges, I would appreciate it.
There may be a another ute that needs internal hinges as I have done on Ammo's ute.
Cheers,
Roger

I wonder if they are same as panel van….


FB ute fixer upper, EK van on rotisserie

Errol62 wrote: Tue Feb 03, 2026 6:09 pm I wonder if they are same as panel van….

FE and FC wagons and vans share the same upper hinge assemblies (7411311). FB and EK wagon and vans are bespoke (7412335 and 7413595 respectively).

Cheers,
Harv