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NuggetBoy
26-09-2007, 09:12 AM
G'day, just a post to introduce myself as a new member...
My mane is Daniel, and I am 28 years of age and I work for Toyota Material Handling Australia's corporate head office in Moorebank NSW.
I am currently in the process of restoring an old VL commodore, I will post up pics soon...
She is an old executive which was neglected too much and has now been updated with full calais interior and electrics. What I mean by this is I completely stripped out the interior and installed a full dash and body harness from a series 2 calais including the fuse box. The complete dash has been restored and painted to its original cerulean blue color. I have re-bushed the complete car and changed over the diff for disc brakes. My latest venture is to design custom intake piping system (cold induction) using 3" stainless steel. She is N/A just for those of you who want to know... I have also recently fitted her up with extractors and a hi-flow cat and 2.5" mandrel bent exhaust system, mind you I have to put a rear muffler as she is a little too loud!!
A little bodywork is required so she will be out of commission for a while yet...!! But to give you an idea of the type if vehicle she will be, the idea I have is to have her repainted in the original greyish blue with silver moulds and bumpers, as she is lowered already I will put some nice rubber on some chaser wheels I have with the chrome trimming around them and in the centre. Basically, I am of the old school. I grew up with friends and family who had ex-chaser turbos and V8's and man I tell you, they were the days and I miss those times quite a bit!! Long live the VL's...!!!
Still to this day arguably the best car Holden has ever released and I think its reputation is yet to be challenged...
Well, it is a pleasure to be part of a new club and I look forward to catching up with all of you at some point...

BlackOne
26-09-2007, 10:21 AM
G'day Daniel and welcome to the club and forums mate. Looking forward to catching up with you hopefully next weekend for the big race.

Red_Ice
26-09-2007, 04:18 PM
hey nuggetboy

welcome to the club mate

done a fair bit of work to that vl can;t wait to see it

cheers

redice

holdengrp3
28-09-2007, 02:27 AM
sounds good this project, although the reputation you speak of is debateable lol. i'm a sucker for old school metal commodores.

BlackOne
28-09-2007, 09:59 AM
sounds good this project, although the reputation you speak of is debateable lol. i'm a sucker for old school metal commodores.

Yep me too. I'm a big fan of the VK and VL.

Tigerv8
02-10-2007, 01:57 PM
BlackOne, you should buy a VK/VL to do up as well. Lord knows they're as cheap as chips to pick up at the moment, and the way the young P platers seem to buy and thrash them, they may become a collector's item before long, much like the venerable EH. I wouldn't mind having a toy car myself. My eldest son has a restoration of a rotary thingy in progress but I haven't got too involved with that. My younger boy is into minibikes and has been busy playing with bikes and we have lowered his ute a little. So my time is taken up a lot with various family members doing stuff and I don't think I could have time to do a whole car. Maybe I'll just buy a Cobra replica and ....................dream.

BlackOne
02-10-2007, 02:03 PM
Tiger I'd love to buy a VK or VL as a project car but at the moment I have no room to keep one. I need to put an extension on the house first before I buy a project car, at least that's what the wife says. :D

Tigerv8
02-10-2007, 02:08 PM
I know the feeling of space loss. We have a double garage and have 4 cars and 2 motorbikes to look after. The Commodore gets the garage.