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Old 08-14-2010, 09:14 PM
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This was home from Wednesday night till Saturday.


And here is a Wiki info.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaltjiti,_South_Australia

This is where I stayed Sunday through Tuesday night.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernabella,_South_Australia

I planned a long drive home on Saturday, with directions on how to locate the second Charger and directions to a little used road that was cut in for the mail run.

So with mud map directions (all verbal - turn left at bonnet, turn right at big tree etc) I headed off looking for another Charger.
After what was starting to feel like too long a drive, I came upon the sign I was waiting for.
Here is what I found.






Here is some bush mechanics.
That is a 1980's engine in a mid to late 60's Falcon, So us Dark siders are a long way short of being the first to fit a late model engine.


And here is an old XB Ute.


An XP sedan.


An old FC ute, I will get some of teh bright work off this one for mine.


Here are some old trucks out at Fregon tip.
The one on the bottom is an AT4 like I have at home, but not much left.




An old EJ sedan.


A HK/T or G rear tub from a ute, in pretty good shape too, roof is damaged though.


And a Valiant VG sedan.




And for Hersh. Here are some I have dragged home to play with.
Here is an FC Ute.
Plan is to customise with a roof chop and fins from an EK wagon.




And here is a Charger I have retrieved from out bush, I have made a start on this one.
I bought another Charger that was being converted into a speedway racer as the floor in the one I found was rusted out from sitting on the desert sand.


This is when I got it home.


And this is it now.
Rust cut from inner rear quarter.


Outer quarter replaced.


I used the speedway car as the base, but the firewall and roof where shagged, these sections where good on the red one.
So they became donors.








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