Picture the white Magnum ute with a 5 post bullbar and B&S stickers all over it! Who knows what happened to the bumper off it. Thats how it looked the last time I saw it.
Picture the white Magnum ute with a 5 post bullbar and B&S stickers all over it! Who knows what happened to the bumper off it. Thats how it looked the last time I saw it.
That's why you wait and find the right car to restore - one that is complete. Saves you a lot of time and money and makes the rebuild a lot easier.Originally Posted by ozbox
sort of right rolla...what you do is buy cars that have had a mass amount spent on them to a show standard but far outwieghs the value of the vehicle and then you buy them cheaper if you can..buying a restorer thats complete will save you money but you still need to restore it to a show standard or extremely tidy standard....its a catch 22...ask anyone that has done a resto and if you get an honest answer you will find there is a lot of dollars spent..That's why you wait and find the right car to restore - one that is complete. Saves you a lot of time and money and makes the rebuild a lot easier.
my wb injected van has had 40k spent before i bought it..over 10k was the running gear...i paid more than the running gear value and ive still spent some more again and i had it valued and accepted the value of 25k for insurance so really its worth somewhere up to that 25k insured value..it is for sale at just under that figure negotiable..
There was a set of the magnum rims off a statesman advertised recently on the net (aussie v8?)about $800 I think. I was tempted for my WB but the SLE type alloys on it now are more authentic,the magnum rims would make a few do a double take if you drove by though.
the magnums had momo polaris rims..i am off to aussie v8 to have a look, i have a WB deville that i am trying to make into a magnum clone..
"All correspondence must bear these numbers"
Magnums also had the 15 x 7" Aero wheels available after they were released on the VK.
The WB versions are different to the Commodore ones - they've got the right WB 4.75" PCD, and the offset is different too (more meat on the back of them, around the hub area).
Yep they were definately 15'' aero's correct offset as the guy was saying they were bought, but wrong for his commodore and thought of machining them down (possible??).
Funny about the difference in wheels, the sle ones on my wb are correct offset 14'' but On separate occasions to 2 different tyre services I have had the blokes launch into a speel on commodore rims being wrong / dangerous for my car (until I have set them straight).
Commodore rims ARE dangerous on HQ-WB stud pattern. Its not the offset, its the size the wheels are drilled at. HQ-WB are imperial and commodore are metric. Its a small difference, but you will notice the commodore wheels dont quite slip over the wheel studs corectly. When you tighten the nuts and force the wheel over the studs it weakens them. This leads to greta chance the wheel will come off the car. Dangerous for all and sundry.
They were not sle commodore wheels on late sandmans and sle statesman, they were imperial PCD and suited HQ-WB. They were also 14' wheels, not 15" like commodore.
just re-read your post, tell them they are not commodore wheels as they are 14". Amazing how knowledge is lost so quickly at some buisness's.
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also wants wb bar mint , tho does not need to be statesman as already have rubber n overiders ...... p.s been running persuit rims on my van for cpl yrs all kool , 10mm spacers solve the problem of larger hub centre , n u can get studs imperial with mtric outer from all nutz so they fit tightly,
From memory the PCD on HQ -WB are 120.00mm and Commodore are 120.65mm
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mmmmmmmmmmmmm Nice.I like the Magnum's.
Are you doing it the Silver or Blue?
BO6 = Rarer then a Sandman
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