EmDee
Club Retro Rides Member
Committer of Autrocities.
Posts: 5,924
Club RR Member Number: 108
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54 Holden FJ [pics]EmDee
@emdee
Club Retro Rides Member 108
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Last Edit: Dec 3, 2012 16:59:51 GMT by EmDee
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I rather quickly scrolled through there and hit the 'reply' button as fast & hard as I could... And I'm not going to look at this thread again. Otherwise I could get realy jelous  ;D |
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54 Holden FJ [pics]Robinxr4i
@robinxr4i
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Wow that's proper smart! Subtle modern colour, teamed with rod rod style red steels, beauty rings and white walls. Proper bo I tell thee!
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Sierra - here we go again! He has an illness, it's not his fault.
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Not much more to say than:-  |
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Last Edit: Dec 3, 2012 19:04:53 GMT by joem83
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Ding!! Shows that simple clean minimal mods not only works for Golfs, but also for classics.
Simple & timeless.
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andyborris
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Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.
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Less is always more and that's very more'ish!
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morrisoxide
Part of things
It's just a question of style
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That looks fantastic, it has the right amount of new and old. I bet its a nice long distance cruiser  |
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Yeeeeeeeah  That's just lovely, an exercise in restraint. I love the modern take on what you'd imagine to be a quintessentially '50s colour. There are so many other ways the owner could have taken the car, I can imagine it would look pretty good tubbed out with huge rear tyres and an equally huge motor, but probably not as good as this. In some ways it's almost a shame it's "only" powered by a Chevy 350 and not something a bit different and more interesting, but... Well, not really. I imagine it's a real pleasure to cruise in. |
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1989 Peugeot 205. You know, the one that was parked in a ditch on the campsite at RRG'17... the glass is always full. but the ratio of air to water may vary. |
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A 350 Chev is a very big motor for a humpy Holden! These are quite narrow cars, so I'm surprised that they've managed to keep the trans tunnel so unobtrusive.
Absolutely beautiful car, and magnificently finished. I love it. Don't understand the number of wheel studs, but I don't care! ;D
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Seth
South East
MorrisOxford TriumphMirald HillmanMinx BorgwardIsabellaCombi
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Really beautifully finished. I love the original gauge panel and that's a perfect shade of red for the wheels.  Waveman, the steelies might be drilled with two stud patterns so he's used extra bolts to fill the extra holes and add to the spider cap looks. Can't really see. He might have just drilled and mounted the extras just for the look. |
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Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable. |
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79cord
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Another WOW.
Love the subtlety of that. The longer you look the more changes you realize have been made
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MrSpeedy
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www.vintagediesels.co.uk
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That's a bit tasty  |
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I just noticed that EmDee said it was in Street Machine Feb 2012. This struck me as odd, because I don't recognise the car. I've been subscribing to SM for years and normally I remember most of the cars. So, I looked through the piles of papers on my desk and dug it out from the bottom of the pile. Need to tidy up!
It was indeed a feature car, it got four pages. Without wanting to infringe SM's copyright, I don't think it would hurt to paraphrase a little. The owner normally likes FCs, but his wife told him that their next car had to be an FJ. A woman with taste! The Chev conversion was already done, but it had a modern interior with bucket seats and it was jacked up at the back, as mentioned by the OP. The engine is basically stock apart from the carbs, and it's got a Turbo 350 auto and a 10 bolt rear axle.
The owner added rare period Nasco accessories to the car, including the horn ring, bonnet mascot, headlight trim spears, rear stoneguards, and the chrome 'fin' accessory tail-lights at the back. Stock FJs only had the single centre tail-light, and black rubber stoneguards.
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;D
