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Went around to dads to chip away at some more, got all the welds on the body base angle irons cleaned up, (they seem to be pretty good at following the chassis) and had put them aside. I hammered the base of the cowl straight and clamped an angle iron onto it when got called home due to family...

I got hold of a camera last night and took a couple of pics. The angle irons Im forming at the moment form the base of the body. These get joined onto the cowl, which then gets braced internally so that the steering column and pedals can be mounted (all L200) Anyway...

guess what Ive found a camera with a flash!!! decent pics on the way./....

First up. Bad. Badder than Bad.. Only real way to confirm your gearing is to remove the diff head and divide the number of teeth on the ringgear by the number of teeth on the pinion.... when figuring my rough final drive I google tyre size calculator, there are heaps. They are normally on...

Found a chunk of box section floating around (its the blue piece at the rear in the photo)and decided to install it as the rear spreader bar, did the job nice. Finally started fabrication of the body, shown here( in the standard of photographs I seem to take) is the beginnings of the "sills...

I drink an awesome NZ beep called Lion Red. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

well dads off on holiday for a week so there goes some progress. Poor old bugger needs a rest though. Anyway the bushes cost a grand total of $106.90, not far behind the front. So far Cowl,$150 Motor and box $240 Chassis $90 Springs $300 Front bushes $140 Rear bushes $106.90 misc $50 Total to...

Had this come into work today, was growing as we watched, stand back was immediate.... Was quite slutted it didnt go kaboom

As requested!!!! Got hanger position sorted! Still a bit more chassis to get whacked off. Commencement of building the body imminent!!!!! Finally... Couple of pics of end result. God need to get some decent lights sorted!!!!!!!

God those pictures are terrible!! Meh. Anyway small crap update. Put the rusty sideplates on, they look hot!! Ground the hell out of the back of the chassis where Dad took to it with the gas axe. Springs ended up being 230mm shorter, pleased as punch. Have decided on using two springs and...

Got the springs back until we get load on them we dont know whether we need the 2nd spring. The new ones are the shorter of the two. Removed the old shackle mounts and cleaned em up nice Old boys into the crossmember with the gas axe!!! General mockup of the new hanger position, more...

Woo hoo!!! Just picked up the springs! $300 well spent (most so far :eek:) Compared to the originals I think we got the length spot on. Ill take a couple of pics tonight with them sitting in place. Things back on track now! Thanks to the old boy for putting up the money.

Just had a call from the springmaker, stoking his furnace tomorrow, should be all go for Friday, apparently single leaf is gonna do it, 510mm to centre of locator on front and 480mm on the rear, reverse eyes both end, cant wait to see the height reduction....

That is sooo awesome. I love it....

Love those spanners, we have about 40 5/8 spanners to go into ours, (NZ has a saying "5/8ths of f@ck all", which means not doing anything, hense the 5/8 spanners)

Todays effort was to remove springs to find bushes absolutely shot. Taking springpack to local springmaker to see what he can do, ideally 200mm shorter would be awesome but 100-120mm will suffice. Also hoping we can do it with a single parabolic spring,depends on what the man says. Anyway a...

Mean score!!! Ford six was my preference but the scungy Holden come up....

Hmm one step forward about 60 backward... Started to fabricate body and have discovered the spring shackles are outside of the bodyline, dammit. So instead of going down the whole 4 link conversion, we are going to get a custom main leaf made 150mm shorter, reset 3 inches lower, and reverse eyed...

Australian Holden 202 cubic inch

Just won these sideplates for the engine, $20 Been looking for some with the right patina for ages