FC Holden Sedan "Black and White Taxi Service Co-Operative" restoration

[fe350chev]

Ok guys. I have sustained some electrical heart damage (or some fancy word) but im on a good treatment regime and although im never going to quite be the same, I am going to be back online annoying everyone again!

[Old_Mt_Isa_Boy]

Glad your back. Sounds positive about the body.


Regards Wayne b

[fcwrangler]

Good to hear you are on the mend, as I said before take it easy. Better to finish later than not at all.
Jim

[Not Happy Jan]

c'mon Deano.
Back at it brother...
 So how did the refurb the vagus??? Did you get a warranty??

[fe350chev]

Lol. I don't want to bore everyone but finally found out I have a collagen stuff up in my body due to a faulty gene that's causing all these physical woes. So my veins are weaker and stretchy and my back is fusing together, ligaments in spine and other places are turning to bone etc. It's called "Ehlers danlos syndrome".

[fe350chev]

Getting back into the car now cos the meds are working pretty good. Just found out recently that the kids have this thing but its not the vagus nerve after all its a systemic connective tissue problem. It is causing my mind to race a bit (the meds are pretty potent).

[DJ]

That's a tough year.
All the best for some clear sailing from here on.

[fe350chev]

Bloody oath. At least we are working this shit out.

[fe350chev]

Did some blasting and priming of steering box, shocks (will refurbish) and the diff is blasted. I'll change to more of a highway ratio but it needs to have been an option. can anyone tell me what options were available and which ratios were options on an fc.

[mcl1959]

There is no option for FC. Street ratio was the same as highway ratio which was the same as race ratio.
No other ratios existed until EH.
Ken

[fe350chev]

Thanks Ken. So to have the taxi original it looks like it will only get a kit. Is it better for durability to use any other makes for internals. Is there any info I should know or is the manual pretty right.

[mcl1959]

Unless you are going to get the diff rebuilt professionally, then just get a good diff with no noise and use it. There are no real problems with grey diffs so finding a good one is not hard.
There are special tools required to set up a rebuilt diff correctly.

Ken

[fe350chev]

I will have both cos the fe is getting a later diff so I reckon the fe one would be better given the other was a taxi. But sometimes these things surprise us.

[hsv-001]

So if your set on using the original diff then your going to have to look to aspect ratio on tyre choice .I think that there is more choice now than there was 30 years ago, but some of my mates turned to light truck to get more height. Seen a set of 185/80 -13 on an EH at a swap a few months back but they were white walls .Not something you would find on a taxi . Haydn

[fe350chev]

I'm not sure if I'm following. I'll just be running standard fc wheels. I will just buy normal tyres probably from somewhere like olddchool tyres but cos I'm doing 2 cars and a truck at the same time I got plenty time to think about it 😉

[fe350chev]

Did some more painting. The diff, column, shocks, steering box and backing plates came up great.

[fe350chev]

Found this Beaurepairs at 145-149 Gouger Street. I think it's the one. 5 bays and the end is same bricks.



It has a very wide driveway like the original. I'm thinking of ringing the businesses and see if any of the owners are in the same family for number 149. As you can see, the house was converted on the side street. So got me thinking how I could further confirm things so I found a death notice from late 40's indicating the house owner died.

If you look at the roof line it correlates with the more solid looking structure on the right too. Would have been a good setup for drivers etc.

I don't think the Google street view is in proportion and hence the joints.

[fe350chev]

Other interesting things I found along the way below. So it looks like there were 20 extra licences given as part of a RS scheme and he was 1 of them. It looks like he had 3 or four and that's why he rented a space around Magill way. He had numerous properties he owned too. As the co-operative business grew, they got their own base. The pile in the background is the houses that were demolished and later after a big road widening program, more lanes were added and old people died and houses in this rapidly growing industrial area were sold or rented for businesses.  There was evidence of these areas being run down in the wording of the addresses. The numbers were all changed too.  

[fe350chev]

The info that i have left here that I won't post mentions that he worked just the Adelaide city. It appears that this was a strict enforcement rule taken seriously by the governing body.

[fe350chev]

Ok fellas. Looked him up this morning. You can produce these cool certificates online of people in major wars. This is him cos that's his wife's name. This shows he was in the war twice. He was a goer this bloke. These records are just to people on the right track but two dates of birth exist. So he was eligible for the scheme for sure. So when your doing research, it's joining dots that leads you to the next thing. With this I can now find his wife's maiden. There's only a few years window anyway due to age. Knowing her maiden name will be handy.  [IMG]

Also I found Laurels degree completion record, November 1941, from which states that she graduated from the University of Adelaide with a History degree and this gave her full name as "Laurel Iris Miller".

The actual taxi cooperative formed in 1950, so that's verified by articles.