dont forget to post photos as you go

Log on here http://forum.ejehclubqld.com/ehclub/forum/

There are people on there doing these conversions including a bloke where you are. The more the merrier.

Oh and we dont sit around on there comparing tag & engine numbers and questioning the locations of decals. We just build grouse cars.

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Originally posted by Custom
Log on here http://forum.ejehclubqld.com/ehclub/forum/

There are people on there doing these conversions including a bloke where you are. The more the merrier.

Oh and we dont sit around on there comparing tag & engine numbers and questioning the locations of decals. We just build grouse cars.

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extremely well said mr custom, fun with cars is the motto, it used to be like this, but now all these cantankerous wanna be enthusiasts doing an*l restorations, the fun and affordabilty of our hobby is diminishing quicker than an australian worker in a textile factory.
the days when we as enthusiasts, used to do stuff to our cars to individualise them, have taken a back seat to those that as you said want to know the position of a decal, that when the car was new, the poor old buyer paid a pre delivery fee to get all that stuff taken off, and now, these guys pay money to put them back on!! all this makes it a boring, old run of the mill, copy cat, cheque book resto that anyone can do, coz they dont have the balls to cut the car with the excuse that its always worth more original, well as we all saw last weekend, the original untouched things are just as hard to sell..

dude_oz, go for you life, put a small block in it, tub it, paint it wild, and DRIVE it!! dont be like all the purists that leave cars in cotton wool, that is for babies..not cars

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Originally posted by peter_smol
I like to think the older and rarer a car is, the more fun it is chopping it up. Oh and the best ones to chop up are the one owner original no rust ones that dont leave you with a modified pile of rust, but a custom neat car.

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perfect!!!! mr smol, you are a legend, i have spent hours and hours studying the trading post, looking for one owner, well looked after classics, and then when they are at home, the plasma cutter comes out, the tape gets a workout, and in a few months of THOUGHT, IMAGINATION and passion to modify your vehicle, you have a neat car that is reliable, clean, street-worthy, and most importantly, DIFFERENT AND INDIVIDUAL....can you imagine?? nice 1 owner eh prem, injected 5.0or 550hp SBC with 250 shot of gas, T700r, 9", tubs, subtle body mods, wheels....the list is endless...

dude oz,

my advice to you is use torana front end, have a look at this thread, its an FC, but same sort of deal;

http://fefcholden.org.au...ejggrpb36&topic=13343.0

its a trick build, there is no subsitute for this kind of "imagine eering" and wonderfull enthusiasm, ppfftt@restored common place trash, i say!!