Annies hydramatic special

retro · Post by **retro** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:17 pm

Well, as hidden as it has been the last few days of ownership has left my fb out in the patio, my utes rego plans on hold and my garage the place of once fb worship, converted to now an ek workshop.

This is what we recieved last week, a really clean ek, with some patina as mick would like to call it.

Stocked that i got it untouched, and almost ready for love, it was a genuine score that the last guy (wayne also), had already rebuilt the front end, replaced on gaurd, and already gotten the rubber kit.

I will update along the journey, as the wife wants shiney paint, and a few of the small dents repaired, so i decided to pull it apart, cheack it all for rust. So far, i have only one hole in the sill (as small as half a five cent piece) and same in the bottom drivers door. So i will be cutting this out, before it gets serious and welding two small plates.

Currently i have only prepaired the front panels for paint, with one weekend already spent on the two front gaurds, and toying around with the gearbox.

EK JAY · Post by **EK JAY** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:36 pm

looks good Wayne

FB MAD · Post by **FB MAD** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:42 pm

Good to see Annie's into FB/EK-ing Retro

.

Looks to be an honest old girl ( car

) and pretty straight.

You'll have to get Annie to join up and contribute to Lulu's girls post and swap some recipe's,nail filing techniques and how to choose what to wear in under an hour advice

( ducks for cover as another frypan heads my way

).

Welcome to the brotherhood ( in your case Annie, Sisterhood ) of FB/EK ownership.

lulu · Post by **lulu** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 3:09 pm

Congrats on the new addition there...nice one!!!

Yep I second what Terry said about Annie popping in to say Hi in the girly post.

Terry...at the rate you're going, I won't have any frypans left

Cheers
Lulu

mrs ratbox · Post by **mrs ratbox** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 3:57 pm

that's the colour of the first EK i owned AALLL those years ago but mine was manual

it end up on it's lid

but we pushed it back on it's wheels and drove it around for about a week before the cops told me "take it home don't let me see you driving it again"

pretty fair considdering i didn't have a licence

Thommo · Post by **Thommo** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 4:39 pm

Looks like a great start to a project Wayne

Did it come with all the missing parts?

Trev · Post by **Trev** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 4:41 pm

Cathay Grey, is it getting the original color?

retro · Post by **retro** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:24 pm

Thanks guys and girls.

Ok to say the least, it came with all the parts and also enough touch up paint to repair the sections required. It also came with spares

.

Terry, i told you its about as nice as your fb,if it were me id leave it, having that used car feel and look.

Im avioding anne using this forum, as its my place to complain, avoid nagging, and best of all avoid work. If she gets a look, id be taking terry's place with avoiding them pans.

It should be up and running in the next few weeks, if lack of work and weather permits.

Will keep them photos comming.

FB MAD · Post by **FB MAD** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:34 pm

I love those "as found" cars that are simply re-registered after fixing up for rego with all their years of use still there for all to see

.

All I did with my car was washed it ( only because it was covered with dust and birdshit and I couldn't see out the windscreen ) and other than lowering it's pretty much as found.

Although I would paint that right front guard Retro.

retro · Post by **retro** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:43 pm

Yeah terry, your right about past glorys.

That right front gaurd was taken down to bare metal to see what was behind the undercoat..... to my surprise, i found no rust, just a bit of nikki over the wheel lip, where it seems to have had a slight scrape. All fixed and ready for paint now.

retro · Post by **retro** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:55 pm

yeah it is tim. What an ugly colour....oh well its not for me

Finny · Post by **Finny** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 9:13 pm

Looks like a nice project Retro.

I thought the greys were nice

I'm sure my original was a lighter shade of grey, but the interior was exactly the same. It was a manual not an auto.

Make it a nice one. Shiny paint ........

Mephious · Post by **Mephious** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:23 am

Nice score Wayne, looks very straight !!!

What driveline is going in ? Im sure your missus would appreciate a nice V6 set-up T700 with air-con

What colour mate ?

retro · Post by **retro** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:34 am

yeah it will be a six, a sweet cam in a grey motor, hyda crappy box and even a stock single spinner diff, i think that should keep her slower than my car, i dont her flying away from me on the freeways.

Oh and the colour, well original grey, well that will look better than the proof coat of coral its in now.

DNA · Post by **DNA** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:48 pm

retro, you going to do paint yourself??