i thought it may be an idea to do an ongoing post on the rebuild of our promo business van...
we started with 2 wb vehicles..one van which had been run over by a truck....:eek:.we paid $875 for it..
and one ute which was a rusty piece of crap but had good running gear as in 350 chev turbo 400 and running on gas with 7 months rego..we paid $1150 for it....
we removed the body from the ute but left all the running gear swinging including things like the booster etc...
we stripped the van and only left the front doors on and the windscreen in..everthing else including wiring was removed..
next we cleaned and painted the chassis and the underside of the van to make em pertie...this isnt going to be a show van but will be a daily driver promo van for classic oz wreck our business..
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the van had dealer fitted a/c so we stripped everything inside and replaced it all with good clean parts from an hx i was wrecking..weused an unbutchered hx harness and had a customer patch in the gas and tailights...thanks agro..
we fitted all new body to chassis bushes from rare spares which as per usual with there stuff we had to modify them to fit..
we fitted new engine mounts and gearbox mount while the body was off..
we pinched the best of what i had in panels and mixed up a bunch of hj hx hz parts for the front end..
we purchased a spoiler from rares which was a right pain in the arse to fit and i still havent finished fitting it properly yet so i will take some pics down the line of how badly they fit and what i have to do to get it to fit..
we have used a hj statesman grille which was cracked and broken and i massaged and glued it back together and then recessed the chev badge into it..
some little bits that i ahve collected over the years are being dug out of the box for use..we fitted a pair of remote cable controlled mirrors like used in hq to hz not wb..
i had a pair of bubble tailight covers which we have used and also a bubble rear window..
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