By chance i managed to score another set of low backs. They were advertised as 'vintage car seats'. I knew immediately what they were. In awesome condition, had been stored for 20+ yrs.

Was definitely worth the almost 2hr drive, will save me shelling out for reproduction covers and repairing the dodgy ones I already had.

You know how to hunt the bargains, they will polish up as new, great score !

Amazing.
Looks like a photoshopped 'before and after'.
Definately dont add up.

hey Shaun,
sorry, I meant they looked that good, that it was like the dodgey before and after photos that seem too good to be true.Not implying anything otherwise!
 
Im sure the drivers seat will be as good.

Had a bit of a break from the wagon whilst waiting on some parts for the engine build.

In the mean time I've been cracking on with the blasphemous engine swap in the motorkhana car which turned out to be way more work than I anticipated.

Anyway, a set of rings and 3 stone hone have turned up (fingers crossed) so I'll have a craxk at screwing it together in the next week or so.

Hopefully, hopefully 🙏 it'll be a runner.

Shaun.

Thanks Marty.

Have rebuilt plenty of pintos over the years, however for some reason, my first little kent has me a bit spooked.

In other good news.

I managed to track down the son of the previous owner...!!!

He remembers the wagon and is going look through some old family photo albums in the hope of locating some old photos of the car.

Not holding my breath however I'd love to see some if they exist.

Shaun.

Lost power yesterday in the storm here in Victoria, so spent the day in the shed with a few lights powered by the generator cleaning up then began work on wagon block again.

Cleaned the rust off the bores using a 3 stone hone then went over with a ball hone.

Little but of work still to get the cross hatching correct however it's a 1000x better than it was.

Should at least get it in a running state.

Nice to be back at it.

Shaun

That hone looks as good you'll get anywhere, it'll be a few thou bigger now not that it'll be a problem..

I heard Vic was heading for a storm, being in Adel we don't care about any other state ! We had a summer storm a few years ago, hail the size of plumbs and it just missed our house but demolished my rental property 5kms up the road causing nearly $12k damage , all covered by Shannons , lucky they cover acts of god and flooding . I said if they crank the payments up, I'll be moving on, which they didn't.