78rona Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 talk here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopdog Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Soooooo frign bad arse good score Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepers Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 fuck. what an awesome score man. is the gearbox a side rail (original 2M 4 speed) or a W40?? also, engine pics and more pics of the dash please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowzer Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Damn that's nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBlades Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 That's a wicked crown mate, love the color and interior is sick, looking forward to seeing what you do with it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldNathan Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Wow so clean. Would love to find something like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
78rona Posted January 2, 2013 Author Share Posted January 2, 2013 Cheers guys yea was a good score! Pretty stoaked. Just took it for another good drive . Doesn't like changing down from 3rd to 2nd. Its crunching pretty nicely. Synchro's I guess . Its the original 2m box. Guess it'll be easy to swap to a w series ? Looking forward to doing this thing justice. Keeping my eyes out of wheels now. Anyone know of any ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyteler Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Sweet trade up. Very, very nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snoozin Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Awweeessssooome. Love the hell out of that colour especially, well done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepers Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 if the gearbox is the original 2M one then its a bit of a fuck around to change up to the W50. you'll need a new bell housing and the gearbox obviously (try to get one with the middle shifter position) but the driveshaft has to be lengthened and you'll need to mod the gearbox mount. the side rail shifter gearbox is really long for some reason. so the drive shaft will be to short and the gearbox mount is to far back. you have to move the hole in the floor too, i haven't fitted up the console yet to see how the shifter works with it being a bit further back but it should be ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyteler Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Are you sure it's factory manual? That brake pedal looks awfully large. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vintage Grumble Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Daaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn thats nice, jolly good score! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
78rona Posted January 2, 2013 Author Share Posted January 2, 2013 cheers for the info sheepers , all sounds pretty sweet apart the drive shaft side of it really , may just try to fix this box up in the mean time, Looking for some seat belts for the back seats , Appco has the static ones for a pretty sweet price , just wondering if anyone has any lying around they'd want to sell? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
78rona Posted January 2, 2013 Author Share Posted January 2, 2013 Wonder if this really is just an M series with glasspacks ? if so im shooting for a set up like this , sounds pretty sweet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
78rona Posted January 2, 2013 Author Share Posted January 2, 2013 Are you sure it's factory manual? That brake pedal looks awfully large. Haha yea dude its just the rubber on one side is worn through so it slides right over, I see what saying though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seedy Al Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Fuck yeah DUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! makes me miss my old one HEAPS! Fucken good score, like honestly, such a sweet find. I like that color with the roof painted white, but thats just me, or even better make it a Vynal top! Anyway, lowering is pretty much just the same as anything else. I just run cut springs in mine with shorter shocks Works fine, however, the rear shocks are a pain in the ass as they have a cross pin setup at the top, and the shortest ones i found happened to be the ms55 ones. MS65 are longer again, so that sucks What i did for the back, was make an adapter to go from the cross pin setup to an eyelet, which was a plate bolted to the chassis where the original shock pin bolts went, and had two tabs welded on and just run a bolt through it instead. Which meant i could run EYE/EYE shocks Also, those gearboxes. DO NOT FUCK THE ONE THAT IS IN THERE DOING SILLY STUFF LIKE SKIDS Mine was off the road for like 2 years trying to find a gearbox, they are impossible to find. and yeah, w-50 gear box change as sheepers said is a mission. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirk28 Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 great find dude..it didn't come from NP did it? remember one exactly like this floating around in NP 10 or so years ago... how'd you find it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
78rona Posted January 4, 2013 Author Share Posted January 4, 2013 Fuck yeah DUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! makes me miss my old one HEAPS! Fucken good score, like honestly, such a sweet find. I like that color with the roof painted white, but thats just me, or even better make it a Vynal top! Anyway, lowering is pretty much just the same as anything else. I just run cut springs in mine with shorter shocks Works fine, however, the rear shocks are a pain in the ass as they have a cross pin setup at the top, and the shortest ones i found happened to be the ms55 ones. MS65 are longer again, so that sucks What i did for the back, was make an adapter to go from the cross pin setup to an eyelet, which was a plate bolted to the chassis where the original shock pin bolts went, and had two tabs welded on and just run a bolt through it instead. Which meant i could run EYE/EYE shocks Also, those gearboxes. DO NOT FUCK THE ONE THAT IS IN THERE DOING SILLY STUFF LIKE SKIDS Mine was off the road for like 2 years trying to find a gearbox, they are impossible to find. and yeah, w-50 gear box change as sheepers said is a mission. Thats dam nice seedy!! cheers for the heads up on the lowering! may be a little while before I throw money at this , got a wedding to pay for this year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
78rona Posted January 4, 2013 Author Share Posted January 4, 2013 great find dude..it didn't come from NP did it? remember one exactly like this floating around in NP 10 or so years ago... how'd you find it? Don't think so mate , the last owner before me had it since 78, just happened to get told about it going for sale from a mate and jumped on it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73crownwagon Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 I'm sorry bro but I hate you so much! (Because you found this and not me) lookin forward to seeing what you do add to it. Chur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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