the_boozer
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If you don't care about bullshit personal stories check out the pictures and help me make up a realistic budget and mission list with estimated costs to finish, engineer, register an ek holden with a blue 6. All my mates only like to change oil tyres or relays they tell me to buy another house and scrap it.
I don't think the point of this car was to ever finish it as far as my Dad was concerned it sat aside while we fixed up vb-k commodores or H series utes mostly.
I gave up on the world for a few years after the oldman died. Now the ek is still in a thousand pieces with half the parts missing.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1em3lQ_PIDlNtN8rpaeapVhYbZNOG6EsM?usp=sharing
I haven't driven this car this century the oldman had a thing about ek's and wanted to make something of it he said, then we put a hd front end in it and kept the steering box then he made me pour acrylic paint on it, that turned to **** real quick. Alone with the fact the steering box doesn't work with the hq wheels building the never was is hard it needs a step back get a racknpinion cross member and sand all the paint off it and repaint, was about the big cry I had with my oldman on my birthday a couple of days before he died . My oldman was a tightarse he wouldn't let me spend the money on it when he was alive my uncle was telling us the whole time the front end wouldn't work the oldman liked panel beating for an hour a day on it then drinking piss and bbq'ing the rest of the day many times he gave me the arse or I went on strike over lets get help or spending money on it. He pissed off everyone I did try to get to help me. Half the time we did make time to work on it we'd end up fixing someone else's car or his car he didn't like spending money on that either jolley roger was the oldmans favourite parts supplier.
the oldman went off his head at me for wasting money when I came home with a heap of rechromed stuff and the rubbers for it. He thought we'd find usable original stuff at a swap meet we used to goto every swap meet with in 100k's and had found very little ek stuff that was any good in reality. Another time we went to castlemain to check out rod hadfield after rod charged us $5 to go in his museum and wouldn't turn the lights on buying a front end off him wasn't allowed that day..
Even if it drove it wouldn't make it up the driveway of the property i want to move to along with me being an ordinary driver all my cars are scratched dented covered in dirt what am I going to do with a car too good to drive. As I plan on moving house this year its time something happened. If I haven't worked on it myself in 10 years its unlikely I'm going to in the next 10 is it.
thanks for your input.
I don't think the point of this car was to ever finish it as far as my Dad was concerned it sat aside while we fixed up vb-k commodores or H series utes mostly.
I gave up on the world for a few years after the oldman died. Now the ek is still in a thousand pieces with half the parts missing.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1em3lQ_PIDlNtN8rpaeapVhYbZNOG6EsM?usp=sharing
I haven't driven this car this century the oldman had a thing about ek's and wanted to make something of it he said, then we put a hd front end in it and kept the steering box then he made me pour acrylic paint on it, that turned to **** real quick. Alone with the fact the steering box doesn't work with the hq wheels building the never was is hard it needs a step back get a racknpinion cross member and sand all the paint off it and repaint, was about the big cry I had with my oldman on my birthday a couple of days before he died . My oldman was a tightarse he wouldn't let me spend the money on it when he was alive my uncle was telling us the whole time the front end wouldn't work the oldman liked panel beating for an hour a day on it then drinking piss and bbq'ing the rest of the day many times he gave me the arse or I went on strike over lets get help or spending money on it. He pissed off everyone I did try to get to help me. Half the time we did make time to work on it we'd end up fixing someone else's car or his car he didn't like spending money on that either jolley roger was the oldmans favourite parts supplier.
the oldman went off his head at me for wasting money when I came home with a heap of rechromed stuff and the rubbers for it. He thought we'd find usable original stuff at a swap meet we used to goto every swap meet with in 100k's and had found very little ek stuff that was any good in reality. Another time we went to castlemain to check out rod hadfield after rod charged us $5 to go in his museum and wouldn't turn the lights on buying a front end off him wasn't allowed that day..
Even if it drove it wouldn't make it up the driveway of the property i want to move to along with me being an ordinary driver all my cars are scratched dented covered in dirt what am I going to do with a car too good to drive. As I plan on moving house this year its time something happened. If I haven't worked on it myself in 10 years its unlikely I'm going to in the next 10 is it.
thanks for your input.