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Hey Zac if you want a Hemi for this let me know and I'll send you one mate. I wouldn't chop it either dude.

Thanks heaps for the reply and tips, I'm sure they're going to come in handy when mine arrives and I tackle it. Cheers Rob

Cheers mate. That engine looks brilliant too by the way.

Looking good Shawn been following on the AAMB forum to mate.

Looking real good so far, should be sensational when finished.

I know it's an old thread but I just ordered this body and decal set for a similar project. What Revell kit did you use? What mods did you make? How well did it fit the chassis? And did you make the windscreen from scratch or modify one?

Very cool idea, gives me an idea on how to display all those vans I've been collecting..........

If I want something I'll bid on it, postage doesn't worry me if I want it bad enough I'll pay it but what is annoying is paying $30 postage and when the parcel arrives the postage on it's $18...........

Looks great, always love seeing the van build ups.

Loving it, way outside the square. Are the rims and tyres out of the 1/8 32 Ford kit? Cant wait to see some more updates.

Cool concept, wagons rule.

Yeah Cliffo because Chryslers are such big sellers down here, been a bit quiet mate not useing your Artful Dodger profile on here anymore?

Love the colours and paint.

Great build of an Aussie KW. Lewington Transport use to be about 200km's from my place and their trucks would pass through here until they went bankrupt years ago, the Plum Crazy, Plum Loco type names where off Coles transport from Queanbeyan I think?

Here's an older model ute from here, it's a VU Holden ute with twin turbo's. Bit more grunt than a HSV too.

Are Fred, your sense of humour keeps me in stitches.

Do you think these would be popular? It's a Commodore ute with a Camaro front, the guy that did it does them as a conversion kit now.

Doesn't need one, it eats Hemi's.

I've yet to see them build anything better though, bodgy repairs, bog over rust holes, pop rivet repair panels in, stick a big stereo and playstation in it (with a dozen monitors) and whack some crappy bling wheels and give it a paint job the looks like Stevie Wonder did it and call it finished. Pimp my ride could take a lesson from this thing, it looks like something they've built.

Very cool and well executed.

Wish there was more around like you Tom, and you make some good points. Our dollar a few months ago was worth around $1.09US and even now is still around 1 for 1 with you guys. A lot of my friends have been snapping up kits but a lot of them have taken the opportunity to finally get that car they've been chasing, importers must be making a killing with the number of US cars coming into the country over the last few years. My mate bought a real nice Z28 Camaro in 3 years ago, cost him around 16k for the car and 5k to import it, by the time it was on the road it owed him around 23k, now that's a 50-65k car her in Australia so he's saved 40k and the seller got his money straight up no hassles. I've driven the price up heaps of times after being given the ok that they'll ship to me, I mightn't win them all but I'll give it a good shot and get you more money in the end.

The fact that sellers wont sell overseas really gets on my nerves, you have to write an address on the front of it anyway so who cares if it says California or Australia??? I'm the one paying the freight not the seller. The one losing out is the one that wont ship to Australia, news flash, your losing dollars by selling stuff locally for peanuts when you could sell to other countries for a lot better price. I've watched van kits sell for $20 that I'd happily pay $50 for just because they wont ship to Australia. I've never had a parcel go missing in all my dealings on ebay both as a seller and as a buyer, Aussie Post is really good in that way they're very reliable. I usually message the seller if it starts "Posts to US only" and ask if they will post to here and 90% say it's not a drama but there's still that 10% that think it's just to hard to spell Australia on a parcel. I purchased two number plates this week from the states but had to change my ebay address to a Saginaw one before I could even bid and than after winning them, I asked if they'd post to my Aussie address only to be told "dont ship internationally" so now they're getting sent to Saginaw to get re-addressed by someone that can spell Australia and owns a globe so they can see there is a whole other world outside the states. End rant.

We had a 2002 VY SS Commodore and it use to get 10Litres per 100kilometres which I think is pretty good for a 5.7 Litre V8 auto. The LS series motors really get up with a little "tweaking"

I'd rather a V8 Holden with a diff in the back than any Jap import or FWD tuner or even worse a hybrid.

Here's a link to the latest Holden HSV Commodore GTS, for those unaware of Holden or HSV, Holden is the Australian GM brand and HSV is Holden Special Vehicles. Holden manufactured the 2004 Pontiac GTO's that were exported to the states, apparently according to some sources Australia is the only country in the world that still wants V8 RWD cars. Holden are also the makers of the new Chevrolet SS sedans, they're a rebadged SS Holden Commodore. http://www.news.com.au/national-news/hsv-commodore-super-sedan-is-holdens-fastest-ever/story-fncynjr2-1226629539865