'54 Ford V8
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Easy enough to bring a car over. Getting it on the road can be another story. For registration purpose, you need original registration documents.
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Just arrived for compliance inspection today. In from aussie. 1975 XB Falcon Hardtop.
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Another one fresh in from aussie for compliance inspection. 1971 XY Falcon, GT Replica. Stroked 351 clevo out to 408 cu in. Funnelweb intake, 2v alloy heads, flows and stainless exhaust, 3000stalled C4, 9inch. Sounds amazing. Cool car.
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Back yard starting to look the part. By the way, we bought this house 3 weeks ago. Very proud to finally be a home owner.
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Also in, Escort Cosworth. Ready for its compliance inspection. Seriously cool car.
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Had the pleasure of doing a front caliper rebuild and disc skim on this 2 door mk2 cortina. Another classic ready for the road.
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Another beauty I got to do some repair work on. Ex racecar, 1965 Austin Cooper S. Re registration. Bit of brake and wheel bearing adjustment. Also did some minor repairs for the customer to obtain LVV Certification. Car is now done and on the road and still gets to obtain original black plates. Awesome car and went/ drove very well.
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Quick picture of the garden art.
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Shifters sold straight away. Stockcar mates grabbed them. Bodies arent too bad, do have rust in floors and sills. Still full restos to put back on the road, but perfect for what I want them for.
Cheers.
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Been a good weekend of stripping and cleaning. Selling parts off that I dont need so we get our purchase price back....and more
Back into it afterwork this week.
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Waterblasting.
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Spent some time this weekend stripping and waterblasting the black prefect.
Think it will be this one that we do our stuff to.
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While I am waiting for rust repair sections to arrive from the USA for my '54 customline.
I thought of having another couple of in-expensive car related projects on the go.
A mate bought a couple of 100e ford prefects off trademe a couple of weeks ago, robbed what they needed for their prefect and offered me the rest for a small fee.
I have always wanted to do a half-car trailer and the missus is keen on a front cut garden bed for her to plant some flowers and hang her fancy LED lights off.
So I accepted the offer and ended up with 2, 100e prefects up my drive.
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A couple of plastic kitsets that I built last year.
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In at my work ( compliance and repairs ), re reg and only failed on rear brake imbalance that I had the pleasure to repair and got it back on the road. 1988 xf fairmont, fitted with eb 5.0L V8, was certified in 1995 so that still valid on a re reg.
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Name: Brendon
Location: Christchurch
Cars you own: 1954 Ford Customline
Mods to them : This car was customized in the early 80s. Made into a 2 door. Runs a 351 Cleveland, FMX auto and XY Falcon diff. XB Falcon steering column, HQ holden tandem master cylinder with remote VH44 booster, HQ top suspension arms, stub axles, discs ( redrilled to ford pattern ) and calipers, HQ holden outer tie rod ends. 14" Tridents. Modified trans tunnel. Modified top suspension arm brackets.
Pictures: See below, first pic is from 1980, next 2 pics are from around 1985, last pic is of how it was in my shed now. Have started the teardown now for rebuild.
How you found out about oldschool: Google
Anything else you want to add: I plan to rebuild the car to its current state of how it was built nearly 40 years ago, just removing all the rust and rebuild everything. Leaving old mods as they are as its part of NZs hotrod history. Car was last on the road in 2008, rego on hold and still on original black plates.
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Thats from aussie. There are other alternatives if the original registration isnt obtainable, just more paperwork and takes longer. I dont deal with the paperwork side of things, just assist inspection and carry out repairs if the customer chooses so.