64 kiwi boni

oh i am soo impressed last indian!!! i am with Justa Tell me about how you shaped the wood on your steering wheel. how did you make it round in both dimensions ?

Justa6... i may or may not of just wet my pants watching the video of the black convertible 64 bonny !!! i want one !!!

last Indian, i am so impressed with what you built... major to you

thnaks Last Indian, i do exactly what you have suggested, and tonge in cheek it dont stuff it !!!😦 some cool videos too Justa 👍 i am going to pull the wheel and break it down, and i like the idea of the stone top epoxy, i have a mate who owns a bench top factory, he will have this stuff, and like frosty said, for get the cleary and just go solid colour

Thanks Frosty... i will make one of these!!!

I need some input from you guys about what to do with my steering wheel..... i could just buy an after market wheel and stick it on... that would be the easy way out.😋 But i want to try and save this steering wheel, any one had and experience with rebuilding a wheel like this with clear sections ???? any advise would be great . and i am not scared of trying to weld it up and making a mold etc... never done it but keen to learn or... does some one have one for sale ???? The other issue i had today is i have a spot of rust under the rear window trim and i want to remove this trim.... i would really!!! like some input as to how to remove this trim with out stuffing it up!! hope one of you has been there done that, and can give me some advise....😦😦

spent a little time today just fixing small chips and dents around the body and tomorrow i have the front panels to sand and prime.... managed to score myself 4 more rattle cans of primer thanks to who you know NOT what you know😜

wow!! you certainly had a major job with both camaros!!! i am impressed with your full Chassis on both cars, bet that made a difference to handling too ! i had a 75 lt and it had the same big bumpers as your wife 74, with that great big leaf spring behind the ally. i read some where how in 72 over 110k camaros where crushed after thay didnt meet the new frontal impact rules, guess that is why the big bumpers. not sure who true that was ...🙄

mate, i am so impressed with the craftsmanship have every done a thread on how you go about making your wheel and trim?? i would certainly be interested on the process

Haha, phone cameras tells soooo many lies mate !! a nice coat of high build primer and a wet sand will get rid of them... even the wife says it looks fantastic!!.... when are you fixing the front she goes.... i reply.... when i get my CHASSIS !! its just a bloody neat car Last Indian, it is my very first pontiac but its so gm, which makes it so basic to understand how every thing is put together. What gets me with this car is the hi po engines from factory !! and those big ali finned drum brakes... just sooo cool 😋 oh and the steel .... so easy to work with!!!

Haha, i clicked !!! very cool Justa, Last Indian, i always wanted a gen 1 camaro.!! have had 2 gen 2s and they are pretty cool too, my orange girl is a 72 model and here is the ram, i bought off a importer mate of mine who scored it out of Ca, he paid next to nothing for it, its a 96 four wheel drive model with the 360, and i love it, its big its tuff and man... i have towed some stuff with it and sooo easy!😋 shes done 380k miles before i got her, has had a new motor, gear box and god knows what else before i got her. original paint, which i will not touch.. it so cool to have the patina. the boss keeps going on at me to repaint it but i dont want to, once you paint it its not original. it has no rust except what you can see on the rear. Up till 2 years ago we used her to tow our retro caravan, and spent many weekends at the beach with our mate on the turps! and my vinson 500 fits nicely on the back with the tail gate closed, fishing gear loaded up, konkiki etc you will note Harry is in and ready to head to the beach !!!

i would add my 2 cents worth. if you have a original battery lead too you starter, replace it and replace your earth cable from battery to body and body to engine. but i am with the guys, ten bucks says it heat sink. gm starters get old, tired and if the heat shield is missing, you will get this exact delema oh and i too swear buy mini starters.. of good quality companies tho !! and you will never have the heat sink issue again! years ago late at night me and my girl friend at the time got stuck on pork chop hill, thanks to a over heated starter in my first 56 chev !... i was not complaining one bit !!😜😋

Spent the day sanding and priming and i still think its rough, it will need spray putty to get all the sand marks out, rattle cans just dont cut it for coverage. i need a couple of litres of Real primer!! but i am using what is on hand 😜 i did fishoilene the inner fender just to make sure it doesn't rust 👍 And got the drivers door smoothed out too, same thing, i need filler primer to get all the scratches out.

Yeah justa6 i am a devoted petrolhead and have been since i was a kid, early days it was all 56 chevs and dirt track racing old cars ( mostly old holdens) and then i just sort of started to stop selling and just buying and keeping them. I have one more that i will post, and it is my favorite baby.. i went to New York too a car show especially to see it released and it took 2 years to get my hands on one, and i aint never selling it. The rest are not worthy of this web site ( no one wants to see a old dodge ram or escorts, cortinas minis and mazdas) got any pictures of your Ute ??? Holden just got canned by gm so its kind of like Pontiac now... collector items👍

Your dead right Two lane ! i made the patch panel as close as possible to butt fit and i dame near didnt need filler rod... and Yes, when i can i am going to buy myself a foot pedal👍

we are paying $2.19 per litre. = $8.29 gal can anyone send me a drum or 2 @ your prices !!! oh, and add 100% just for a nice kick back i dont mind, it will still be wayyyyy cheaper 🤑

Right from the start of this build i have been customizing the ute and here in NZ if you modify a car it will need to go through a certification system to legally register it to go back on the road And we are very lucky to have the hobby car Technical manual... its the street rodder/ custom car builder bible. it tells you what you can and cant weld, how to do everything correct including materials to use. And a shit load more. makes life way easier, so you dont have to do things twice !! once you have it all done, a certifier will do an inspection and you get a certification plate attached to the vehicle. job done !👍

I really enjoyed tig welding in this patch, i had bugger all heat distortion and i could move the panel unlike when i used to mig my patches, which meant i can get it so flat that i am using less than a mil of filler.... and this patch is going to be under a big Chrome trim panel.... thing is... i know its there!!, so i am a little fussy just for my own thing.😋 i enjoy building them just as much as driving them Tomorrow i am going to level out the imperfections with filler and i found 3 rattle cans of primer, so i will sand the whole fender and prime it.

From there, it was a custom built turbo 350 trans, custom driveshaft and i had my good mate build a 9 inch with disc for the rear, chassis got full rebuild with all new parts front and rear, set of boyd coddington junk yard dogs 17inch ( got to remember this work was done over ten years ago) and at the time some rear dumb race seat!! ( watch this space)😜 i rewired the whole thing, which was easy, b and m shifter and some stock pacemaker header ( watch this space)😜 next week i am going pull it out of storage and show you what it looks like and i plan to get some work done, or what i can do with what i have on hand. i might even try to fit some glass myself 😦

at this time i was an executive for the new zealand hot rod association and would do all the nation wide events, judging etc and i met a guy who would become a life long mate. he had a model A coupe he built for his partner and built a race engine for it and it was simply too hot for street use. one night we where bench racing at a bar in Aucland and he said he was pulling the motor to fit a better street version, and i asked what he would do with the big dollar motor. He offered it to me at a really silly number and i said "mate you must be joking" And left it at that.... a year later i get a call, : mate you want that motor???, i said yeah but not in the gold plated version!! He then offered to de tune it.... street manifold, cam and heads... and a much better number, so i said yes. What i got was a small block 400, with less than 200 miles on it, steel crank, forged pistons with all internals fully balance (Trust me it makes a huge difference to the way it revs) fully blue printed and he fitted double hump fuelies with a dual plain manifold.( port matched) i went up to his place to get it and once i fitted it into the ute, he came down and tuned it.. i am not sure if i can put up a video here but to hear this thing, is bloody awsume !!! i live in the country and when i start it i get calls from my neighbors about how hot the ute sounds from a distance ( got petrolhead neighbors)👍😋

it is a 1972 Holden belmont with factory 173 cube inch straight 6, very simliar to the 60"s chevy motor, but Holdens version, with a 3 on the tree box and bango ltd slif diff. Rust wise, it wasnt too bad (for a Holden) !!! These things where work horses and very basic. 14 inch wheels, A arm front end pretty much like a gen 2 Camaro, manual steering. Oh but full chassis and the tray is fully galvanized so together we striped all the paint off and cut out all the rust and got it to primer stage. Sent it off to my mates paint shop where it sat for nearly 2 years, but it was worth it. when we got it back it was show level workmanship, the colour is custom with a fine flake in the green

Since we are in lock down, i am working on what cars i can with what i have and this is the one car i have been avoiding for some time now. but what happened was the 64 Pontiac got offered to me and i just could not let it get scraped !! so the ute got put back on the back burner again.😞

Ah yes Justa6... a nice cold corona extra ice cold with a slice of lime would go down real nice right now but the boss has me building selves... so i might just wait till in am finished or i will stuff them up !! hahaha