Hi all,

It's been a while since I've been in the forum....busy, family...meh who cares....I HAVE A NEW CAR!!!!!

I really have taken to Rat Rods in recent times, and hankered after one....well I have always wanted to build one....so my chance has arrived! I found it in a wreckers, and landed it for four tenths of FuC% all!
[bBEHOLD....THE GREEN HORNET![/b]

As purchased;



The rear!



The engine bay....don't expect much. Stock 1600, column auto and this is the way it's going to stay!



Peg on the nose as you look inside! What you can't see is the front seats are very rare fully reclining low back buckets....which fold down to create a freakin bed!



I'm going to go the full rat treatment, period accessories, wheel spats, whitewalls, leave the peeling paint, the standard driveline, but lower, and add some pretty cool one off touches.

Peeling paint?...check this out.



It's great to be back!

RJ

P.S. - In case your wondering...I always name my cars, Green Hornet sounded pretty good for a Rat Rod.

nice to see another one saved, keep us updated with the progress

nice one jase, cant wait to see the progress

Cheers

Jake

Work has commenced despite the freezing cold temps....my idle hands need to work.

I fitted some very cool retro seat covers, fitted the 8-ball to teh column shift and started to re-wire the dash (a practice I always carry out on new Cortina aquisitions).

Will have some pics up soon.

RJ

Gotta love long weekends! Did heaps of work today, and the green booger is starting to take shape. Here's the hard graft so far;

New grille, custom grille badges, painted wheels, refitted all side and boot badges where possible, repositioned rear vision mirror added Escort bumper overriders (have some for the rear too;





I've also done a fair bit inside, and there are a number of cool little touches in there - will have some more pics up soon. On a side note, I've built a number of cars in the past, but can honestly say I can not remember having so much fun doing a car!

The thing isn't perfect by a long shot, so the near enough is good enough mentality works....and if you have no cash or no time....it's perfect. I really am having fun with this one.

RJ

Hello Jason,

Great new project!

What happened to the black RS on the spit??

RS on the spit? Sorry, I think you might have the wrong Jason.

The only thing I had on a spit was a pig we caught in NT.....mmmmmm cooked wild boar!

RJ

hey jason, cool little project. not sure about leaving the peeling paint though? haha anyway wat happened to that mk1 you were doing up??
Shea

i like the way this project is going sometimes spending the least amount of money turns out the be the most fun, btw good luck with the new job

Could be the next CF feature from OZ[;^)] Nice work mate