Popular Post patty06 Posted April 9, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted April 9, 2021 (edited) Here are some photos of the old girl when I first picked her up with the truck. Came with plenty of spare parts which I probably won't use as i'll likely be be throwing some later model japanese gear in there. Edited April 1, 2022 by patty06 To enter the link for discussion thread. 28 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patty06 Posted April 28, 2021 Author Share Posted April 28, 2021 Wanted to get it moved so had to figure out how to get it going, pretty simple really, just a pain on the dark. Managed to get her fired up after doing a quick terrible makeshift conversion to 12 volt. Runs on all four but has one hell of a blown head gasket and all gaskets every where else have decided to leave the chat, too. Blue flames for miles when I tried to get it moving with a rusted stuck handbrake. Bit of fun for the night. Still can’t decide what to replace this 5hp shaped ingot of shittiness with. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patty06 Posted June 4, 2021 Author Share Posted June 4, 2021 Have found a couple of donor cars for parts. The plan so far is to pull the subframes out of the legacy and grab the Barra and trans and associated looms out of the Falcon. Other than I’ve just been far too busy restoring an old Fuso tow truck at work. This thing will see some love, always make time for the good things. 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post patty06 Posted March 22, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 22, 2022 Not much has happened lately on the whip. I have 3d scanned the car to get it onto some sort of program and have a play around with body lines and seeing what i can do to make the rear guards a wee bit more pumped. Spend a lot of time trying to track down bits and pieces for it and deciding if a barra is probably a bit big and going with a 20v 4age instead. Also in the process of widening some steelies. Have been rather busy doing a ground up resto on this 8 wheeler fuso: 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patty06 Posted March 30, 2022 Author Share Posted March 30, 2022 Got the old girl up in the air and had a sniff around. Looks like shes 98 percent there. A couple of minor patches where its heaved between two panels but otherwise absolutely mint! Not bad for a 70 year old car. Theres really not much structure there at all and it would require a ton of work to put anything late model in there so i think i might just have to make her low and slow with factory gear. Will get into the prep in a couple of weeks IMG_5667.JPEG 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patty06 Posted April 18, 2022 Author Share Posted April 18, 2022 Finally got a chance to spend a couple hours starting the strip down and having a closer look at things. The old girl is in bloody good shape. Had a bit of a measure up and sit and ponder after I had got to this point. Was bloody awesome to get cracking into it. Ill definitely need to rebuild chassis rails and box them out. The firewall will be getting moved back slightly too. Got called out again so had to put the strip down on hold for today. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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