My new beast...well sort of!

[private9]

Hi All,

Picked up my donor car today!

It's an AU Fairlane Ghia, immac condition, V8, on gas, leather, 17" optional rims etc etc. Does have 1 custom body mod, see if you can pick it!

Plans for this are to firstly get a panel beater mate to give me a price on repair. I know it's not going to be worth repairing, but I'll get him to check just in case. I'm thinking at least 4-5k of damage at a glance. Even if it is cheap to repair, I'm not that keen on it as they never really go back nicely I've found.

The plan is to use this as a donor car for my AU3 Futura wagon.

First up, the rims will be going on next week. I wasn't planning or wanting a wheel upgrade as I want to maintain a standard appearance, but need to get 17's to clear my brakes. I do like the look of these wheels though, and I think they'll look good on the wags. Bit of a bonus that these also have brand new Goodyear F1 tyres all round as well.

From there I'm thinking interior conversion.

Door trims, front seats, console and rear seat base plus all the chrome doo dads are easy enough. Backrest for the rear seat I'm still nutting out. Depending on how brave I feel, I'll then contemplate a dash/climate/traction conversion. Obviously I'll need to change some of the V8 Fairlane parts (ie ecu, bem, abs unit etc) to 6 cylinder versions, but I'll worry about all this when the weather's better!

After that, I'll stockpile numerous spares for my car, and then sell off what's left.

As an added bonus, the car came with an AU3 XR8 Tickford snorkel and a K&N, as well as 2 spare 17" wheels!

I was contemplating keeping the front, and whacking that on the wagon later, but I think it will look way too much like a hearse!

None of this will be happening quickly though, want to wait till the weather's nicer (no garage!) and I've got a bit more room around the place.

Anyhow, any other suggestions of what I should pinch, then let me know!!

Thanks,

Justin.