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Hellnback's 1967 VC Valiant Regal


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Hi All,

Long time watcher, first time poster!

 

Had this VK Wagon for a few years but sold it after a marriage split... :-( 

 

Went about 6 months without a wagon and it finally got the better of me so bought this sweet granddad spec VC.

 

Bought it unseen about 10mins after it 1st hit trademe - shipped it down to Chch, then flew up and cruised back to my home town of Gore. Was pleasantly surprised with how great the condition of it was!!

 

Running 225 leaning tower of power, single barrel squirter through TF904 trans.

 

Discuss...

 

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So first things first, fuck this thing is high...

 

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Caps off...
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Back on the ground, front wound down as well...
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Wow - still farking high as a kite!! Old guy that owned it used to tow his caravan round with it so it's got a thick overload spring in there too, will remove it and see how it looks.
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Right, so I bought these headlight grills to add more nana accessories...

 

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Went to fit them and thought fuck it I've pretty much got the whole front off anyway, I'll black out behind the grill. Annoyed the hell out of me having it body colour behind there so got straight to it!

 

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1st coat down, next one tomorrow when I've got a bit more light.

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Finally got around to getting this shitter back together...

 

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Polishing... before...

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After...

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Decided to paint the visor as well. Did fuck all prep work cause I couldn't be arsed and was already half a 24 down...

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Then proceeded with a cut and polish. Crap lighting in the garage so will be interesting to see what it looks like in the daylight!

 

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Car Show tomorrow... prob should've posted this in the events bit ages ago, but oh well.

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I thought it was about time I got the ball rolling on getting my wide rims made up. Knowing that there is bugger all room in the back of VC's I thought I'd better have a measure up to make sure I get the right offsets etc.

 

Here's how it sits at the rear currently...

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Using the bumper jack so I can get my trolley jack under the bloody thing...

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Sitting on axle stands under the axle...

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In this pic you can see the inner guard lip, on the other side of this is the stainless trim, so I'm assuming it's buldgy like this to allow for the trim clips.

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My crude measurements...

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So on the pass side I get a total width of 265mm between the closest point of the inner guard and the leaf spring, and 264mm on the drivers side.

 

I've purchased these 7" AG rims (I got them through TWL Invercargill, but it turns out they get them through Elite Wheels in Christchurch - so would have been cheaper to go through them directly).

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I've also got a set of 7" & 8" wide rims with the later stud pattern, so I used these to measure the total width with a tyre on them...

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Effectively with a 245/50 14 eager on my 7" rims I will have about 7mm clearance each side of the tyre... tight!

 

I think I'll remove the 'trim' lip budge bit to get another 4mm-ish.

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Either way there's plenty of VC's around here running this combination so I'll make them squeeze under there! 

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