Very tidy WB ute on ebay

**wbute** · 30-01-2015, 07:14 AM

This is in great condition. Factory buckets with seat seperator. Power steer and dealer fitted AC. It's a neat looking AC setup in the useless dash pocket. Haven't seen one like that before.
$9500 is a fair amount of coin for a 6. You would look for a long time to find better though!

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item...d=111585850354

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**HK1837** · 30-01-2015, 08:23 AM

It is worth that much, if I wanted one i'd buy it and change to a V8. If it was a HQ it'd probably pull $15k.
Just before I bought my Premier I offered $10k for a one owner 6cyl 4spd red WB Kingswood ute, with. integrated air, U17 dash, buckets and heavy duty radiator. It had about 80,000kM on it. This was maybe 4-5 years ago, he got $12k for it. Plan was to put a whole blue 4.2L in it with all as per original bits, change the input shaft to a V8 one on the M20 and stick a Salisbury diff and V8 tailshaft in. Body and paint and interior were mint, just needed the RH quarter bump strip changed as he'd used a gutter bolt to fix it back on when the front clip broke.

**wbute** · 30-01-2015, 08:52 AM

I would love to put it next to my factory V8 one. The 6 would really take some of the fun out of it though. Yes you could swap it for a factory V8 set up though. I don't mind the AC controller set up. Much neater than most of the dealer fitted systems.

**HK1837** · 30-01-2015, 09:28 AM

It may not be dealer fit, but dealer arranged. Back in that era GMH had a dealer fit setup so A/C could be added to plant stock vehicles to get a sale rather than order a new build. However like today it is cheaper to get a dealer to fit aftermarket rather than "genuine" eg canopy, hard lid etc. May explain why it is neater than most?

I learned to drive in a WB 3.3 M20 van and it went OK but with a 3.55 diff a bit low geared. I built a WB tonner in the late 80's as an everday driver too. I used a 202 as I had a good one out of my LX Torana, it was worked a little with YT head, nice cam, HEI dizzy and extractors with 2.25" system but stock Stromberg so probably had similar or a little more go than a stock blue 3.3. When I first built it I used an M20 and the 3.55 diff in it with 205/65/14 tyres. It was awful on the highway, so I stuck in a HZ 3.08:1 Salisbury. It was then horrible reversing, do I fitted a VK EFI trimatic. It was a great car on the highway after that and was also far easier reversing and carrying a load.
So that 6cyl one wouldn't be all that bad, probably has a 3.36:1 diff in it. Would be slightly heavier than my old tonner with alloy tray so may be slightly more sluggish. One of these would return similar economy to a 2tonne V6 SR5 Hilux, circa 20-25MPG. Better conversion would probably be an injected 5L and 4L60E.