Hi Ken, budget is very tight hopefully around the $5k mark - will probably end up being double the time and money though if it is anything like house renovations.
These floods through a big spanner in the works though - my brother is currently up at Ipswich, he has vacated his workshop and the water is lapping at the door. The semi's that has all his stock in it has been stopped enroute and already has water in the trailers. I am very worried for him

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workshop has meter of mud in it lol, and stinks!!!!

Yes it has been very sad to see & hear about the devastation in QLD. I hope that you brother is OK.

In my opinion 5k will be way short of what is needed.

Getting paint and body work for nothing will help, but when you think that just getting a front and rear bumper rechromed nowadays costs $1000, money goes very fast.

Ken

hi ken and everyone else

5k is around the mark,
we build race cars for a living, export parts from the states, japan for the racing industry, along with crate, mopar,etc engine, and we where just about to start exporting american musscle cars, but floods stopped that now.
as for 6 month its going to be a little bit longer now, damn water

got some question's

this fc has a 2.2 motor, (flintstone's could run faster then that) thinking of a baby 253v8 to put in it??

understand there is a few things to do to put it in, but

will the firewall need to be reshape? or put couple inch's back? or will the 253 fit in way it is?

Hi there,
I just joined this forum after purchasing a FC wagon off evilbay yesterday. Probably paid too much...
Looking forward to collecting the car in a weeks time. My brother is going to restore it for me - hoping to learn lots from this site to educate myself.
Brother thinks he will have it on the road for me in about 6 months time - I will be using it on weekends as our second car, I was after something vintage and hopefully hold its value.
If someone can tell me how to load pics I will attempt to post some of the old girl that needs a lot of love & hopefully not too much $$$

so no trip to thailand then??

hey sis