1956 Special

1966, age 18 I bought my first humpy, 1956 ascot grey over white FJ special sedan. Stock, red interior....$1250 Bill Patterson motors in Ringwood.
Up until 2007 I had 5 fj,s 1 fx at home in Diamond creek.
Always wanted to do models of them...this started out as no 35 of 200 trax 1:25 scale FJ black beauty when they released them years ago. A couple of weeks back I stripped the Trax, and popped a couple of bodies off it.
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Promptly cut it all apart....so I could put it back together...?
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Had a look around, found that a 57 chev pan, was the least work to use, so cut and shunt the chassis to suit; wasn't worried about taking exhaust etc off.
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Knocked up the interior, 53 chev front and rear seats suited the purpose
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Made up the firewall, inner guards, and front sheet metal.
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Mine had (at this stage) 186, triple 1/1/4 su's...no motor so had to make one.
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And the carbys
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Jump forward.
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Jump again
Mtr painted, plumbed carbys painted, plumbed.
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Interior done, my old smiths tacho on dash.
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Starting to come together.
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Jump again. Basically all together
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Have to do the rego, clean it up....then it can move to completed.
So far.....a couple of weeks of enjoyment.
What else do you do in old age ?

Cheers
Clea.
Just a caveat to this:
Sitting in the shed at Portland, you concentrate on what you have, and what you can do. The Trax Black Beauty model was probably worth...$200 ? in box with certs etc. Now...I've got to try and put it back together.
Talking with Antwon (AJ) about FC's...he put me onto the Parts Box, so I got a couple of their bodies to try.
They have FJ bodies..$30+....don't know what they are like, but I reckon if I had got one, would've saved about $300, with body and resin etc ????
And they have the motors.
The things you learn.

That come out well mate, looks great
I love the raw scratch building you do, that red motor looks spot on

Great stuff Clea, a good fortnights work, wish I could get that kind of time to work on mine.
And this is unique too, you don't see FJ's in resin or styrene, Love it

Brilliant work Clea, as TJ said you don't see too many of these around.

Nice work Clea! My first wheels were on FB that I never got road worthy followed by an EK that I did get to the streets.

Looks good l will check it live tomorrow Cheers

Nice.

mgy125 wrote:Nice.

G'day mate!... waiting on your "mug shot"

"Clea"... Fantastic work on the "Old Hens" mate