FE-FC Holden Discussion Forum

my new FC finally arrived today,pretty bad rust in sills dreading getting underneath after looking under rear seat,but heh you have to start somewhere and it does have neatly fitted HP block red engine and traumatic, with tbar, no keys and locking petrol cap,no battery ,so i got the spare out and tried to fire it up noticed smoke coming from wiring under dash so pulled battery lead,found little alloy tube fuse that was red hot so will have a look tomorrow.

Hi Nicko,

Good to see you got the old girl home, you look to be off to a great start. :D
Best of luck with the rebuild, hope you post some progress pic's as you go along.

And talking of rust in the sills my car is a daily driver and has that much rust in the sills I am afraid to slam the doors incase the sills drop off in a pile of dust, so I guess what I am saying is "I know where you are cuming from". :P

Cheers Steve.

Hey Nicko
   The front headlight , mate , did you remove it , or was it missing ? when I saw the car it had both lights ?
   Keys were with the car when i took the pics ,  dunno what happened to them ? ?     

I hope the car is in Ok nick other than the sills , I will keep in contact

   Norm ,  :) ( Yep  , up late again )

hi nick     the new project certainly looks worthwhile....
if it turns out that its much worse than expected..youve got the makings of a car-b-que & a couch :o ??? ;D
                    trev

heh yeah i forgot those couches look great,so theres always somewhere to go if it all gets too much, but i think it will hit the road sooner rather than later, yeah the headlight is in the boot but no keys so will force off the petrol cap soon, already found a key that fits ignition,heh Norm i think i will use different wheels as i will need a flare like your race car to cover these.

Hey Nicko
  Those wheels look Coooool...  ya better bolt 'em on tight , or I might have to "go North"  and get me a set  ;D
   Check with the rego office mate , see if you can flare the guards a bit cos those wheels look  GREAT

   Norm  :)

Great to hear Nicko - when I spotted your post saying you had got the car I reluctantly read it and was very surprised to see there was no horror story stemming from the transporters .
Good stuff mate.
Put a $tag on those wheels and I think youve got a sale hehe then you could arrange yet another freighter to carry em back where they came from hehe

im leaving the car carrier story for another time ,the wheels have been slotted at each hole so would be a bit hard to sell,besides i dont have matching front ones, tried to bypass the fuse and wiring started to smoke so dont know what was done to it by car carriers,as it was driven onto truck but when i got it home ,"hey presto"
the gremlins had pinched battery ,keys,and shoved a set of forks under body when they could not start it. thanks for the magic show TNT only wish your magicians knew how to make the stuff reappear

hi nicko,sorry to here the bad bit's,but  good to here and to see ya got it home (is it factory black)nice score if it is i think i like black myself.i got my fc on friday red/white special if ya need some bit's call me very cheap too as i only want v8 running gear and interior. number is on for sale page.i had a big kev moment when it fired up,guess ya fairly happy too.cheer'sCOL58FE 8)  ;)nice pic's too.

ive attached a pic of my last FC and yes its factory black but im thinking of painting it the same as my last one as i love the colour scheme,yeah we hot wired it and it started up fine so that put a bit of a smile on my dial ;D

Nicko
   Great to see you have a new toy, good luck with it and hope you keep us posted.

Regards
Sarge

cleaned under back seat and after scooping and blowing out all the big flakes im left with this

hi nicko,factory black nice,as for ya old fc the one i bought is idenical except wheels.all the best for the resto what ever colour ya choose as long as you like it  that's all that matter's.cheer's COL58FE. ;) 8)

these back mag wheels  are for sale check out ad in parts for sale section if interested.