Working out design and finish for malachite hz van

[HQVAN]

Rod, seems like you sat looking at that fat rubber on the back of Sams Panno at the van in. Sounds like you are up for a build for the trip north next year...... Better get a move on!!! One year to go.
Malachite with vibrant gold pearl stripes or even pin striping.... Good combo. What about interior? Go light tan with that colour.
Gilmer gear? Might have to cut a small hole in the bonnet too to show a peak of chrome.
Looks like the Majestics love of mods rubbed off on the weekend.
P.S.... I have been thinking wide rubber too.

Yes the rear rubber was inspired by SAMs van ,there is no way it will be ready in a year we are still in thought mode

Great stuff Rod, I like your thinking on this one! And after two immaculatly restored Sandman's why wouldn't you want to do something a little different?

Maybe you could hit up Rusty for some fibreglass add ons, he is making up a mean L88 bonnet scoop that would look great on it!

Wide rubber on the back, lowered, will look tough as.

[wbute]

My thoughts would be along the lines of improving on original. Find a late model fuel injected 5.7 holden v8 and a tremec or whatever is good manual box.

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What about envy for a name? Might already be used I suppose?

[HK1837]

Rod, I reckon restore the body to as per original, in original colour - don't stuff with it. Leave it DL7 to make it look cleaner.

THEN fit either a GenIV 6.0L and 4L65E box (don't bother with 6spd manual, too much butchering of the body). The standard TH400 shifter will operate the box and no tunnel mods are required. Even go to the trouuble of fitting a Black's Racks steering rack conversion so you can run all the GenIV accessories including A/C compressor in the original spot.

Go silly on the inside, do whatever you choose. Even just make it Caprice if that is what you want.

[Sandaro]

Fat rubber looks cool, but I would get rims that allow the tyres to sit inside the gaurds. You'd have rubbing problems with the way they sit on the yellow one with suspension travel.

[playwme]

She needs a name and a theme

It's long name but how about "Third times a charm" being green you could give it an Irish/Shamrock/Leprechaun theme.

[RodneyHZ253]

Awesome to see those wheels fit in so easy, did you take it for a drive?

How much space is there on the inside

Might want to look at getting anLS1 with 6speed (Complete car) would drive great

About 15mm clearance from spring and inner guard

Didn't take it for drive but would of been ok because that van has had the lip on the guard folded up against the inner guard and the travel distance to the stop would been about the same as the travel distance to the tyre maybe the stop would have to lowered 10 to 20 mm for safety[COLOR="Silver"]

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Rod, I reckon restore the body to as per original, in original colour - don't stuff with it. Leave it DL7 to make it look cleaner.

It was purchased original as dl7 so was already on that

[Sandman_77]

Fat Arse

Fat Rubber

Green Lantern

Green Hornet

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or reading this from wilky on Sandman comics, there are some cool ones in there

This is a list of characters appearing in The Sandman comic book, published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint. This page discusses not only events which occur in The Sandman (1989–1994), but also some occurring in spinoffs of The Sandman (such as The Dreaming (1996–2001) and Lucifer (1999–2007)) and in earlier stories that The Sandman was based on. These stories occur in the DC Universe, but are generally tangential to the mainstream DC stories.
Contents
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1 The Endless

2 Dreams and nightmares COOL.................................
2.1 Cain and Abel
2.2 Corinthian
2.3 Eve
2.4 Fiddler's Green
2.5 Gate Keepers COOL..........................
2.6 Gregory
2.7 Goldie
2.8 Lucien
2.9 Matthew
2.10 Mervyn Pumpkinhead
2.11 Minor dreams

3 Gods, demigods, and major personifications
3.1 Basanos
3.2 Bast
3.3 The Presence/The Creator COOL............................
3.4 Loki
3.5 Odin
3.6 Three
3.7 Other gods

4 Angels, fallen angels, and devils
4.1 Azazel
4.2 Beelzebub
4.3 Choronzon
4.4 Duma
4.5 Lucifer
4.6 Mazikeen
4.7 Remiel
4.8 Minor angels and demons

5 Fair folk
5.1 Cluracan
5.2 Nuala
5.3 Auberon
5.4 Titania
5.5 Puck

6 Immortals, witches, and long-lived humans
6.1 Hob Gadling
6.2 Orpheus
6.3 Thessaly
6.4 Mad Hettie
6.5 The Silk Man SEXY THEME TO RUN WITH
6.6 Vassily

7 Mortals
7.1 Alex Burgess
7.2 Roderick Burgess
7.3 Johanna Constantine
7.4 John Constantine
7.5 Ethel Cripps
7.6 Doctor Dee I'm Liking this too
7.7 Wesley Dodds
7.8 Foxglove
7.9 Daniel Hall
7.10 Lyta Hall
7.11 John Hathaway
7.12 Hazel McNamara
7.13 Unity Kinkaid
7.14 Prez Rickard
7.15 Ruthven Sykes
7.16 Jed Walker
7.17 Rose Walker
7.18 Clarice and Barnaby
7.19 Historical figures
7.20 Minor mortals
7.21 Superheroes

8 Other
8.1 Barnabas

[thatotherguy]

i like dreams and nightmares

[adam perth]

i would go for the Pro touring mods with original paint and original trim. you can get 442 HP 383 strokers from the states, NEW for $7500 delivered to sydney.

yes 15 x 10's are too hard even at 5 inch backspace.

15 x 9's will work....


has it got 11C trim code?

[jennie285]

i would go for the Pro touring mods with original paint and original trim. you can get 442 HP 383 strokers from the states, NEW for $7500 delivered to sydney.

yes 15 x 10's are too hard even at 5 inch backspace.

15 x 9's will work....


has it got 11C trim code?

Bucksin, will check if it is 63c