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This vehicle is still for sale.

Price reduced - $4000 ONO.

Looking to have the vehicle sold before Christmas.

The shell has been restored by Victor Reilly of Bucket Panels (hence the Moorabbin location).

Some on this forum may recall Victor's FC.....

1957 FE Special - Partially Restored

$5000 negotiable
Contact: Dale - 0418 225 621

Location:
Body shell, doors, bonnet and boot - Moorabbin, Victoria (shell is on rotisserie - rotisserie not included)
Parts and bits - Geelong, Victoria.
Buyer to collect from both locations please.
Buyer will need to work out how to move body off rotisserie on to own transport.


Original Car here:
http://fefcholden.org.au/forum/index.php/topic,4870.0.html

Related forum posts:
http://fefcholden.org.au/forum/index.php/topic,7362.0.html
http://forum.fefcholden.club/index.php?topic=17746.msg107207#msg107207

Car was found as a complete car and has since been stripped, bead blasted, under-coated with much work done on it.

This is the complete list of progress photos - 15MB ZIP file.
http://spamaddress.com/FE_Restoration.zip



Works completed thus far:

• New floor panels
  'A' Pillar repairs and rebuild
  Sills repaired as needed
  Spare wheel well replaced
  Radiator support bar rust repaired
  Rear window rust repair (underway) - have cut and shut parts. Cut done, shut needed.
  Other rust repairs (as shown in photos)

Spares:

• Body Chrome
  Smiths Heater (core only)
  Water pump (new)
  Harrisons lower seat surrounds (fibreglass)
  Spare Roof lining (original material)
  Spare Front seat
  Gearbox parts (box of miscellaneous parts)
  Spare radiator
  2 additional genuine horn buttons (varying condition)
  2 additional complete front ends (complete with brake drums)
  Front Grill
  New brake wheel cylinders (all 4)
  As new brake and clutch masters (was new but put on car)
  As new clutch slave (was new but put on car)
  ...other smalls I can't recall

all of it to go please.

I broke my DNS mugrating to Google Apps... (sorry).

Will fix that soon so we can see the pictures

More updates (from February).

Been a little slow on the posting....

To do - sills, back window, front subframe, headlight peaks and around the bottoms of front and rear guards...


Finished Boot Side



Finished Wheel Well



Finished Wheel Well



Floor Closeup



Floor Closeup 2



Floor Closeup 3

Glad the wheel well worked out ok. Good job on the rear floor pan, looks good. Keep us informed on the progress. Cheers, Jack

Jack - yes it worked our really (wheely) well (sorry - couldn't resist the pun).   ::)

Thank-you too for your assistance.

Some updates..... Photos are from a few months ago.

Another year has passed, another set of club badges and stickers....  ;D

Have recently secured the rear window area thanks to 'wrangler'.

New Spare Wheel Well


Floor Cut Out Ready To Go


And


New Floor In

Hi All,

I'm after the 'entire' top part of a sedan rear window - pillar to pillar and the brace section just inside the window mount area.

I got a nice surprise when I removed the rear window and found that area was rusted out due to a leaky seal. Whilst it *could* be rebuilt with a lot of effort, a cut and shut seems somewhat opportunistic here.

Does anyone have this area from a donor shell that might be usable?

Looking to get it to Moorabbin (Melbourne) or I can pick up if needed.

Regards,

Dale

Aaaahh the memories....Mine had very similar "Speed Holes" in it after blasting.

Yes, it's a little like... 'but wait, there's more'.

:o   ???   :'(

Hi All,

I'm looking for a good spare wheel well to keep my project going (see here: http://fefcholden.org.au/forum/index.php/topic,17746.msg107207.html#msg107207).

It's been a while in the making and preparation and I have most sections I need but have not been able to source a good replacement.

I'm in Geelong and the car is in Melbourne.

Happy to pay for freight if there is a section available from interstate.

If anyone can help, please let me know.

Hi all,

It's been a while in the making and preparation...

As an aside, I will also post in 'Parts Wanted' as I am after a spare wheel well.

Some progress shots (note the dates!)

The find (by someone else) and transfer to me:
http://fefcholden.org.au/forum/index.php/topic,4870.msg27667.html#msg27667

Some elation:
http://fefcholden.org.au/forum/index.php/topic,7362.msg43139.html#msg43139



A big gap..... then....

The wheel well (after a bead blast)



A full piccy showing just before initial primer


Primer

I recall seeing this car in flat black and was the reason I asked if Vic's car was ever flat black. I am not sure this is Vic's car, but would be interested to know 1 way or the other. I will try to find the pic I took of the car in black.
Regards
Alex

Here's the story....

Victor sold the car back in 1983 (approx) when it was 'Candy Apple Red' to Mark Dickinson minus the motor and transmission. He then painted it flat black as is indicated here. Marh then apparently put a 350 Chev in it and according to Victor, it ran a 12.5 quarter.

It's been seen since and is painted back in the 'purple' colour that was on it when Victor originally purchased it for $5.

I recall seeing this car in flat black and was the reason I asked if Vic's car was ever flat black. I am not sure this is Vic's car, but would be interested to know 1 way or the other. I will try to find the pic I took of the car in black.
Regards
Alex

I'll ask him as I've got to talk to the 'buckets' today....

THIS CAR HAS A NEW HOME IN GEELONG.

....and it will remain nice and dry down here too...

(I am not the purchaser - just passing comment on how dry it is ATM.)

Spec...

Mark,

I'm interested in the bumper bar ends, the over-riders if any are straight (hard to tell - one looks to be dented) and the the batttery tray if it's OK.

I'm also looking for clean external door handles - mine are extremely pitted.

Spencer Street Melbourne pickup OK?

Cheers,

Dale

hi SpeciFEcation,

you could make a 2 part mould however this would leave a casting line down the piece... not very nice when you are trying to repro the original finish.

Agreed. And this is where they fall down in quality - the join in the two part mould is clearly visible.

A single piece plastic one is what is needed....

At $220/set (all round), that's fine by me.

We are trying to gauge the interest out there for plastic FC seat surrounds  upper and lower made as per original at around $220.00 per set
Les

Les, Harrisons regularly sells the lower surrounds for around $119 on E-Bay in fibreglass.

Not sure if that helps...

From first-hand experience, they are a very poor reproduction.

How much interest would there be in these bonnet inserts at around $120.00 ea

Les, assuming a fair reproduction, I'd take one.

was there no FE wagons on show ??? looks good all the same, great pics... ;D ;D

There were.... don't know why I didn't snap a few in detail....

FE-VAN was there.
You can see one of them sitting next to the convertible.
The other that I recall was a workhorse for some business from NSW??

Managed to spend the day down at the island yesterday and have this for your viewing pleasure....

http://feholden.spamaddress.com/FE_FC_Nationals/index.html

Not wanting to steal the show from any such 'official' photos, this is just a quick copy of the images from my camera.

Be warned... they are all FE related (I don't own an FC!!)

Congratulations to all involved - it was great.

I am sure that there will be many more photo's posted when everyone gets home....