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Ben's EK wagon - Fremantle
Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:45 pm
by benadamson
Hi guys
Im Ben, and i recently bought an EK! Im so stoked! Im a long time FB/EK fan and i realised with the onset of my 25th birthday I had better start living the dream of owning an old holden pretty soon...
I believe she is a 61 special, orginally green in colour, she has been re-sprayed white, and retains the two tone green/cream interior.
My plan is to keep her as original as possible, maybe with the exception of fitting some seatbelts and whitewalls? The fuel tank is the only nasty thing on the car, with some minor bodywork/re-chroming needed here and there
An absolute pleasure to drive
Im keen to cruise with a few other local cars if they are out there?
Cheers
Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:50 pm
by MINT62
Gday Ben,
looks pretty clean mate, welcome
cheers Ray
Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:51 pm
by Cal
Welcome, mate. Very nice car
There's a few WA boys on here.
Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 10:03 pm
by Grimbo
Sweet wagon mate, as others have said there are quite a few WA boys on here.
Welcome aboard.
Sam
Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 10:10 pm
by (AUST)Mod
We sure are out there and love to cruise in Fremantle! Fremantle has been the hub of all of our meetups to date. Feel free to post in the WA section if your keen to organise a cruise. I live in Winthrop, so 10 mins from Freo
Great looking wagon.
Andrew
Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 10:20 pm
by V8EK4us
Welcome Ben. Nice ride mate, looks to be in pretty good condition
Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 10:49 pm
by J
another west auzzie to lure into our cruising club
the wags looks good!
like andrew said look our in the w.a section for cruises etc. Il be at every one of them
btw, what is it with fbek owners and also having corvettes?
Olskule's old man has a white one as well :S
Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:06 pm
by (AUST)Mod
Tell ya what, I'll cruise in the Corvette and it's owner can drive my 'FB
Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:20 pm
by SC00BB
The wagon looks very cool mate, way cooler than the corvette
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 4:29 am
by Trev
You better get some quality cruizin time in before it's too late old timer (25
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Great looking Wagon mate
, Trev
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Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 10:15 am
by EK JAY
well done Ben it looks great
Jay
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 11:41 am
by ekdave1962
welcome aboard young fella .. hehe ..
geez i was late fortys before i found time to get back into cars ..
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 11:45 am
by mrs ratbox
(AUST)Mod wrote:Tell ya what, I'll cruise in the Corvette and it's owner can drive my 'FB
aust mod corvettes are WAAAAAYY overrated good for picking up chicks and that's about it and the later ones are just for retirees with there fresh perms blonde tips and gold chains that don't know any better
i was starting to calm down on the wagon i had found but am having ALL sorts of troubles trying to get
but now i'm excited again looking at this one
and i don't know why it couldn't be stocker
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 12:00 pm
by NoMAD
Welcome Ben, nice looking wagon there mate...however you should drop it to it's guts!...
as the AustMod and J mentioned already...there already organising another WA cruise, you can rely on them to produce the WA cruising schedule...there good for it....
and as an extra warning take note of ratbox's avatar picture...it's not a joke
cheers
NoMAD
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 12:16 pm
by J
NoMAD wrote:Welcome Ben, nice looking wagon there mate...however you should drop it to it's guts!...
AGREED! chop springs and put in some blocks
You will also find the ride is a bit better, it wont be all over the road.
Another way to make it drive better is to put some wider wheels on it, you dont have to go all insane like v8ek4us, but I run 13x6's on mine and it drives a lot straighter then running stockies.