History
Purchased her in 1988 (I was in the Navy) from Melbourne, and started repairing the rust, drove her to Sydney where she got a new 186/192. Drove back to Victoria where I was posted for 9 months and repairs continued. Put her on blocks while I went to the gulf war, whilst there I projected an image of her onto paper and drew her without the roof and longer doors. I looked at it everyday for 6 months, on return to Australia, I flew to Victoria, got her off the blocks and drove her back to Melbourne from Geelong to get converted, this process took over 18 months, by then I was posted to WA. As I moved frequently the car was made to be legal in every state. I flew to Melbourne, put a new battery in her and drove to Adelaide and trained it back to Perth, then moved back to Qld and shipped her here, since then she’s lived in 8 different houses. Just recently she got twin strombergs and a new accelerator pedal and cable as the linkages broke, now she’s purring again, two years ago I gave a panel beater $3k deposit to start some body repairs, what i got was a car back with yellow overspray, a hole in my new front seat and I had to basically ‘steel’ my car back from the yard, as the panel beater took off with my $.., so trying to save up to get work done to her, so winning some prizes would help get me closer I hope. Hope there are not to many other stories like this re panel beaters!
Modifications
LH disc front
Full chassis, steel plating joining front end to body, doors lengthened 6 inches, XP Futura split bench in front to allow rear access, seat belts, stereo in the glove box, the bow roof was modeled off the original shape so it looks as authentic as possible.
