Not sure what you would be buying for $500 plus. Doesn't seem much left. Should be able to take the compliance plates off without tools by the look of it and maybe the rest will buff out.
Not sure what you would be buying for $500 plus. Doesn't seem much left. Should be able to take the compliance plates off without tools by the look of it and maybe the rest will buff out.
You'd get a chassis and hopefully matching Acacia Ridge XX7 tags. Would look good on a modified ute at a car show with the bonnet up. That's about all it is good for. Looks like it may have the original headlight surrounds too.
I hate to think how much it'd cost to get that from Darwin.
Rust we can deal with,
Panel damage we can deal with,
We can cope with non-original colour.
Just why does it have to be white, you just can't fix that.
Easy, don't paint it white! Finding 14V trim would be almost as hard as finding 65A trim too. But as before no-one would/should try and do an original resto on this with a new body. It'd have be a modified, in whatever colour you chose with at least a 253 and 4spd.
"Reserve Not Met" so it isn't going to sell for $500
Hmm...
I live in darwin so im actually interested in this. As HK said donor body it will still be a sandman. Ive contacted the guy to have a look when i get back, hopefully chassis matches plates.
Why would the body have to be the same year and plant? are there any identifiers on the actual body? i thought utes from hj to wb were the same body?
Bodies differ between assembly plants. They not only vary betwwen series, but differ within series, '74 HJ is different to '75, but on this one it wouldn't matter as it would probably not be anywhere near an original resto.
no, i know a bloke with a full ls1 conversion looking for a good home. Also know another guy with a HJ? ute body behind the shed.
For that sort of car it'd make no difference. But note that HX body is fairly different (mainly firewall wise) to HJ, early HZ are much like HX, later HZ are different to early HZ and WB are even more different to the point that for example HQ-HZ buckets won't fit a WB.
As a real world example, when GMH Pagewood body plant built the last 600 coupe bodies late in 1975 (as bodies in white), they used a few up in late HJ. But the last 580 bodies were still around into HX, so to build them as HX's they had to remove the HJ firewall and replace them with HX examples. Point is if you wanted to use say a donor HX body to build a HJ, some of the original bits won't fit eg clutch mechanism. But for an LS1 conversion who gives a toss!
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