Jamie's Ke36

[Super Jamie]

thought i'd make a topic for this thing here

 

after crashing oke250, i have no corolla. i bought a hilux to minitruck, but i don't want it so it's for sale. i picked up this 1975 ke36 panelvan off ken & nikki for 700 bucks. ken's been poking around getting it half roadworthy for me for the last couple of weeks, and rob was coming my way with his car trailer last night, so he bought it down for me. again, many many thanks to mr dixon

 

so today, i used the last bits of daylight to clean it up a bit, just vacuumed all the rocks and dirt and hay and horse feed and broken glass (?). it's not too bad under all that, at least it's not too painful to look at now. i can't wait to clean the interior and get some decent seats in it

 

the drivers door doesn't lock, the passenger door doesn't unlock, the windows are a bit odd to get up and down too, the doors basically need a rebuild. the hatch doesn't stay up, and there's holes in the floor under where the accelerator pedal bolts in hahaha. a ding in the roof, a couple of little spots of rust but nothing that's not easy to fix up. the diff leaks, the brake booster cap is perished, and there's a mechanical oil pressure gauge. oh, and the exhaust has been cut off after the bend over the diff. it needs a battery before i can start it. it could do with 2 new guards and a new apron and new bumpers

 

on the upside, it should be easy to put a stereo into, there's not much rust elsewhere in the body, it's actually quite a neat car under all the dirt and little bits of rust, it has a 4k not a 3k (early unribbed block tho), and it's got a dgv and electric fuel pump i can sell for dollars. i actually really like it, the shape makes it look short, which is cool. the dash is also late model and uncracked, and has a tacho where the clock goes

 

i'm having thoughts of a window-out respray and spending some time (and as few dollars as possible) making the interior nice. just like some mdf interior cards, covered with black pvc vinyl. 6.5" splits in front, 6x9" in back, an amp and mp3 head unit. black carpet in the back. i wonder if anywhere sells the rubber floor matting (has this instead of carpet). new window seals, oh dear now we start with the cash :D

 

pics in a minute

[Super Jamie]

snapped these while i was home for lunch. wait till it's cleaned a little :D

 

[wyldephyre]

You could almost mistake it for wagon o death. down to the brown panel on the passenger side.

[Nitephyre]

it's asking for mango's heart/lung transplant, really it is.. i can hear it from here :D

 

nice one mate, i've no doubt you'll have it looking schmick soon.

 

 

carn the rollavans :D

[-Miller-]

should look good when done good luck mate!! :D

[Felix]

i wouldn't waste to much cash on it seeing as your heart is set on a ke25. just drive it, while you look for something better.

Edited September 15, 2005 by Felix

[Xany]

hehehe, thats so cool... :D

 

the holes in the floor are for the ball/studs that hold the acclerator pedal there....just incase you didnt know.

[Super Jamie]

yeah, i think doug has it spot on. where do i get that yellow primer stuff? so i can fix the little rust spots and not have it look like ipswich camo :D

 

oh and the holes are big ones from rust. like if you lift the drivers side carpet you could drop a coke can thru the floor. might hafta gee my mate matt up for a bit of weekend welding :D

[Super Jamie]

1k etch primer, thanks :D

 

i still might blow 3 or 4 hundred on paint and just give it a quick 2-weekend-respray once summer comes around and i can leave it outside without fear of rain spoiling my primer

 

and i gotta get the tints done :D

[boofis]

Now you can come down for a 'cruise' lol! Seriously though, I vote putting your 4k out of the 25 in for the mean time and have some fun. :D :D

Thanks

Troy

[demuire]

That's so cool, that looks like Haikals wagon, even down to the jellybeans. Does it have bonnet pins? It looks like it. Actually, isn't that the car Nikki was driving around for awhile? Maybe you can look into putting struts in the hatch too. I got some SV21 struts awhile back to look into putting into Haikals car, never actually got to it though. They have bolt on bits on the ends, and are fairly short.

[Tiger]

Yikes! This thing I can foresee SOOOO much potential! :pirate:

Well done on the 36, dude :)

[Super Jamie]

yeah, it's nikki's old panelvan. i've wanted it ever since she picked it up, who'd have thought i would actually own it one day. i've been dealing with ken the whole time, she called me on friday and she's like "do you have my van now? i woke up and it wasn't there" hahaha

 

got bonnet pins too, and they're the dodgiest install i've ever seen :pirate:

 

now that i can look at it, i think if you were going to strut the hatch, you'd connect the strut to the hinge (mine has these bits that kinda rotate, they look like a factory spring mechanism?), and anchor the strut to one of the bars that go across the roof, or maybe make a new crossbrace for it. the headliner in mine is half gone, so you can see all that up there, if you were doing it neatly with an existing headliner, you'd just slit it where the strut went in. i don't know about how strong different boot struts are, but a vs commodore bootlid is f@$king heavy (so much so, they often tear the strut out the flimsy little parcel shelf), so a couple of them should do

 

i can also see potential. it's bad, i'm trying NOT to spend money :)

 

took the flat battery out and put it on charge today, hopefully it's bubbling by the morning, i don't want to buy another one :( rebuilt the inside of the doors as well, both now lock (inside only) and unlock (inside and outside), both handles open, and both windows go up and down fairly smoothly. now i can put things in the car and people can't steal them :)

 

the interior door handles are hilarious, one's this budget-looking wooden thing someone's made, the other is a holy shit bar bent together and screwed into the original holes. the doorcards are on their last legs, the passenger seat has more slashes than freddy kruger. i'm glad it has seat covers :rant:

 

looking in and around it, there's a surprising lack of rust in the body. there's the hole beneath the driver's foot, a couple of paint chips that have gone unattended, and a little bit of cracked bog in the rear quarter. the guards are so so but they're easily replaced. the rails are fine, the rest of the floor is fine, even the doors are still all good metal (which surprised me greatly). under all the dust and shitty interior, this is a pretty tidy little car

 

it so needs a wash. inside and out, it's actually quite disgusting, that will be next i think. not much else i can do myself anyway :doh:

Edited September 17, 2005 by Super Jamie

[Tiger]

I like the way you say.. TRYING not to spend money! I'll give you that much.. you are trying... NOT!

 

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! :)

[demuire]

Bits that rotate? Interesting. Haikals wagon had torsion bars. One had popped out, I took the other one out so that I could pop the first one back in, and then couldn't put either of them back in. So Haikal now uses a broom stick to hold the hatch open :)

 

Haikal's wagon has original interior door handles. Very cool :pirate: Well, it's got some anyway. A bit of a mismatch of things, really.