Bluey717 Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 I love my mongrel shaggin' wagon. When I bought her she was an $1800 trademe shitta, I hit the buy now without looking at it or talking to the seller, just a couple of low res. photos. I could see the GTS front and it had power steer and a few other good bits so I figured if she was a basket case I could wreck it and get my money back 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bluey717 Posted January 15, 2015 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 15, 2015 The van was in Greenhithe and the seller offered to drive it to Onehunga for me to pick up which was a bonus as I lived only a few kms from Onehunga at the time. Drove it home (ran like shit....) put it on the hoist to give it a once over and nearly shit myself to find the gearbox crossmember had no bolts in it at all, none into the chassis or into the trans, it was sitting at an angle of about 20 degrees across the chassis and was so close to falling out, Imagine the mess that would have made...... That was a good indication of the state of work done on it, everything was rough as guts. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluey717 Posted January 15, 2015 Author Share Posted January 15, 2015 Anyway, after a few years and much blood, sweat, tears and beers the old girl is starting to look how I want her to. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluey717 Posted January 15, 2015 Author Share Posted January 15, 2015 Heres the mechanical porn: Aussie assembled WB, (much better quality of assembly than the rubbish we got here) 3.3 litre blue motor, 2 barrel weber, extractors, column change trimatic, nothing flash but she goes well considering she has 380 000kms on the clock. Just doesn't make the right sound, hence, this was bought a while back to use as a donor vehicle Just gotta find time to make it happen.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluey717 Posted January 18, 2015 Author Share Posted January 18, 2015 Here's the last few photos as she is now. I have a few photos of some of the work I have done so far. I will post them at a later stage as well as the upcoming heart transplant and few other things...... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bluey717 Posted January 18, 2015 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 18, 2015 Fuck, sorry guys, what van thread would be complete without a pic of the stabbin cabin??? Plenty of room for speakers in there!! Also threw in a pic of a plaque I made up for when I go to shows. It makes me laugh just how seriously some people take themselves when they go to a show and put in huge time and money to display their car and chase trophies, don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking them, its just that I would much rather be relaxed and have fun so I knocked this up just to take the piss out of them all. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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