Fourfingapete's 1963 PB Vauxhall - Discussion

[fourfingapete]

Any help or advice greatly appreciated........ especially on Vauxhall PCD's

5 on 5" seems to be what I can find but is that the same as Jag/chev?? (as other forums suggest?

 

 

[spangleR]

Flappers... Needs Flappers. But seriously that looks awesome how it is, just needs some bigger shoes.

[fourfingapete]

Flappers... Needs Flappers. But seriously that looks awesome how it is, just needs some bigger shoes.

Is that you Toddy?

[BDA780]

Love it!

Looks great. So awesome that you know heaps on the history of it.

Hmmmnz is you man if you need help Velox advice (//oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/user/10058-hmmmnz/)

Keep up the good work

 

PS I added the discussion link on your thread to make it easier to find.

[spangleR]

Is that you Toddy?

Haha yeah, the interwebz is a small place.

[crazytim]

Think I saw this on the tard... have been pining for a 57 Velox. .. not enough moneys. Yours looks very nice. Good to see another Vauxhall on oldschool, especially something different to Chevettes and Vivas

[AllTorque]

Great looking car. I like your idea of smoothie wheels.

Seedy Al has a couple of mesh visors for sale. Maybe one would fit?

See here  //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/38420-fs-external-sun-visors-2-x-mesh-1-x-solid-wgtn/

Come along to a monthly meet some time and put some names to faces. 

Details here  //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/38404-welly-monthly-meet-wednesday-19th-june/

[KKtrips]

Nice car and you sound to have had an appropriate collection of New Zealand classics. Well done. Come to our monthly meets. We love our meeting in real life as much as talking shit over the internet.

[fourfingapete]

Thanks guys..The mesh visors seem a little small for the Velox as mine is 1400mm at the top from gutter to gutter and not keen on the solid one...

Unfortunately my line of work (Bus Driver on the lovely kapiti coast) means I do a lot of shift work so the weekday meets are a bit hard to make but look forward to cruising on the weekends if anything is happening.

[hmmmnz]

looking nice, good to see another one saved,

[vivaspeed]

Great looking car.  Welcome to the Vauxhall owners club of OS

[yoeddynz]

Lovely car! Welcome along to Oldschool.

Yeah I agree it's great that you have some good history with it. It looks clean and original. Always a nice thing.

But over time you can morph it..

[gazguy]

did you manage to find any wheels for the vauxhall. i have a viscount and im having the same problem. i know jeep cherokee have the same pcd but unsure of the offset. i know a couple of guys in the uk have put 15inch jensen interceptor rims on theirs with good results

[fourfingapete]

did you manage to find any wheels for the vauxhall. i have a viscount and im having the same problem. i know jeep cherokee have the same pcd but unsure of the offset. i know a couple of guys in the uk have put 15inch jensen interceptor rims on theirs with good results

No the pcd (5x5) is used fark all and yeah Jeeps and some yank stuff have them but bugger all else, altho cragers do a 5 x 127 but not cheap. 

Hoping to get another set of rims at some stage and just widen them I think

[AllTorque]

10 minutes ago, Fitlab said:

If you are still out there

@fourfingapete doesn’t come round here much anymore.

[Fitlab]

Hey all,

 

I am the new owner of this lovely car. Still in fairly sound condition but I'm in the process of getting the warrant.

 

Anyone know where I can get both a left and right steering ball joint?

[Fitlab]

3 minutes ago, AllTorque said:

@fourfingapete doesn’t come round here much anymore.

Ok, thanks for the quick reply!

 

[AllTorque]

All good. Feel free to update the build thread.

[gazguy]

7 hours ago, Fitlab said:

Hey all,

 

I am the new owner of this lovely car. Still in fairly sound condition but I'm in the process of getting the warrant.

 

Anyone know where I can get both a left and right steering ball joint?

Have you tried Butlers in chch?