forgot to say the rares ones are around $40.00 each, so maybe ebay aint too bad

rare spares has them too.

Nige

Howdy,

I posted the number info of this car to the general board but now here are the pictures.  Barry has owned this ute since new and let it rust in a paddock at one stage before restoring it.  Lovely car, and he has customised it the way he likes it.  The pictures (due to my poor photography) don't show clearly that he has added a blue roof over the original grey separated by a red pinstripe with white highlights.



Damn! Sorry about the quality, I am spewing about all the shadow now, looked really clear when the photos were taken.

G'day,

Was at a family gathering when a friend of the inlaws rolled up in a nice FC ute.  Fitted with lots of accessories (way over the top for my taste, but each to their own) and a custom paint job this bloke had owned it since new, let it rust in a paddock and then restored it.  I will post photos once I get back home, I forgot my camera cord 

Numbers are:

FC 2106 4465 S

Trim - 355 648
Paint - 253 7773

Body - FC 31567 S

Couldn't quite see the engine number.

Cheers

Nige

yep I agree, it's only now when I am starting to put things together that I am glad I labelled EVERYTHING when I pulled it apart because without my dodgy little diagrams and labels it's just a bunch of nuts and bolts.

I even kept the stuff I stripped or broke pulling the car apart because then I knew what I needed to repalce and had a sample to show someone.

Nige

Hey bloke can you please post the rest of the body plate numbers.  I notice you,ve got an FB engine in there too!

Cheers

Nige

Maaaate, Awesome!!

Love the colour!!, good luck with the rebuild and keep us updated with your progress.

Cheers

Nige

Thanks Lads,

Had the online conversion bit but the three different options was just too much........

Yeah the reason I ask is that I am converting my FE/FC manual to PDF and am putting the metric equivalents next to the old measurements but if I use for example the fuel tank capacity:

   9 1/2 UK gallons = 43.187 Litres
   9 1/2 US (Dry) gallons = 41.846 Litres
   9 1/2 US (liquid) gallons = 35.961 Litres

Quite a difference, now common sense says I eliminate the US Dry gallons but when has any manufacturer used common sense.

Nige

G'day all,

In the FE / FC workshop manual it talks about gallons, quarts and pints for capacities.  Can anyone tell me if it means UK, US liquid or US dry measurements?

ta

Nige

I agree about the evil bay factor.  I wanted some wiring loom tape and was just about to grab the stuff off evil bay for over $20 a roll when I though I might just drop in to my local auto electrical place and sure enough he had rolls for $6.50.

Then again though sellers on evil bay run a risk that if they start an item low it will sell low, have picked up lots of bargains this way.

Kathi, I am always very interested in anyone telling me where I can get those impossible to get parts from the US, new so thanks for the links.  I think blokes have had some success with trims etc which has now got me searching for that stuff O/S.

Cheers  Nige

Car is sold, thanks

howdy,

I still have the wagon, lots of good bits on it.

Nige

Yeah Tony,

Don't really remember the F88D stuff there were so many early models there, I do recall there was heaps of really early Valiant stuff (S, R, AP5 etc) as well if you are in to that sort of stuff.  I was for ever getting into trouble with the wife and kids for stopping there and wandering around on our trips from Bathurst (outlaws) to Albury.  All I do now is wistfully look in over the fence as I drive by.  It's a pity because genuine restorers could use the gear there and I betcha the owner will never do anything with it.  Then again it's his stuff so I guess he can do what he likes.

Nige

Hey fellas,

I dropped in to that yard in Cowra a couple of years ago and it was when it was still a real wrecking yard, if you wanted a part you had to go out the back and pull it out yourself.  I remember looking at the FE, the FB ute and the EH (this was before my interest in FCs really took off).  I went back there a couple of months ago and asked the guys at the counter whether I could go and see if there was any usable parts on the FE and he said "Nah mate we had a clean out and got rid of all that old junk, there's nothing pre 1980 anymore".  At the time I thought that it was a pity as they had some really good wrecks there and I enjoyed roaming around having a look at them.

Quite obviously he was Bulls**ting because it looks the same as it did years ago.  I don't understand what the problem is?? or why he doesn't want to sell.

Nige

That is absolutely unbelievable 

Without the benefit of a reference to scale them off I would challenge anyone to pick them from a real car.  Loved the Redex FJ and the wrecks.

WOW

nige

Great Stories Robin,

Keep em coming!

Nige

Great job Mal, thanks for the pics, they'll make a great reference point.


Nige

LOL,

Spent ones or an ammo dump?

Nige

G'day all,

I was stripping down an FE Standard sedan for parts last week and had everything out but the floor mat which was in very poor condition, brittle and covered in cr*p.  The young bloke was helping me and he pulled up the front half of the mat to find a 1957 penny jammed into the sticky stuff on the floor.

I wonder if a holden employee put it there or somehow it fell under the seat early in the cars life?

Funny what little surprises await in these old cars.

Nige