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Title: NZ Vanners post your pic's here
Post by: petrolhead on July 28, 2012, 11:01:37 PM

And any other info

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Post by: grunta13 on July 29, 2012, 08:01:54 PM

Work in progress hope to be in paint in the next 4-6 weeks

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Post by: petrolhead on July 29, 2012, 09:36:34 PM

Looking the goods, what are the lights off Dodge?

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Post by: grunta13 on July 30, 2012, 06:26:42 AM

Was going to use dodge lights but found that the nissan el grand had these lights and were half the price so nissan won

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Post by: Bedfordcrazy on July 30, 2012, 08:00:13 AM

This is one very nice van, cant wait to see the end result. The front end has hit the nail on the head, what are you doing for paint.

george

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Post by: grunta13 on July 30, 2012, 08:36:40 AM

Looking at doing it in the new ford sliver as ive got a 2012 sliver ford ranger and i love the way the sliver highlights the lines on it , was going to do it gloss black but didn't want to be cleaning it ever time i take it out

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Post by: Sundownernz on July 30, 2012, 04:15:55 PM

Way to go Grunta, verrrrry nice van. I'd be keen to meet up with you when I get back from the USA in a couple of week time. Are you keen on joining a local club and coming along to a few runs etc?

Who do you have in mind to paint your van? I'm stripping mine down when I get back in prep for paint and am looking for a good painter to lay the base down before I airbrush it.

Cheers,
Garry.

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Post by: grunta13 on July 30, 2012, 05:14:31 PM

Am very keen to join a club just waiting till its all done to join one cant wait to do some runs and meet up with some other van nutters

Am getting some mates of mine to paint it they are the ones who have done all the tricked out metal work on it

They have won awards for they paint jobs on hot rods so i know its going to be amazing

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Post by: grunta13 on July 30, 2012, 05:17:04 PM

Forgot to say would be great to meet you when you get back

Thanks

Grant

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Post by: wraithknight on July 30, 2012, 06:15:04 PM

awesum looking van mate aye

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Post by: grunta13 on July 30, 2012, 06:55:45 PM

Thanks mate only taken almost two years to get it how i want it been fun working out how to remount coil overs on to a ford 9inc and how to get the 335/35/20 to fit on the back and not lose the room on the inside

If you go to my gallery you can see the backend and my 355 chev all rebuilt waitting to go in

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Post by: tiwaz_nz on July 31, 2012, 08:09:48 PM

ive looked at the nissan,s headlights and thought they would look good on a bedford
and you proofed me right  ;D
and the nissan el grand is on nz's top 5 stolen cars list , you sure the headlights an't stolen lol  ;D ;D

nice van mate  :D

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Post by: BusyKiwi on August 01, 2012, 07:42:53 AM

Nice work

Just a thought, have you measured the width between your rear flares (outside to outside), if is over 2m wide you'll have to put marker lights on the flares for cert and wof, not to mention wont be able to fit on many car trailers. I had to taper my rear flares to fit on trailer when I took it down to the nationals, then found out about the marker lights so will leave them slightly tapered.

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Post by: grunta13 on August 01, 2012, 12:23:42 PM

Thanks for the heads up on the flares  was thinking about the same thing and it turns out one of my mates who has a tow truck says it will go on his ok but not car tailers
.

The inside of my flares have been remade so that its all one bit so you cant see any add ons and the cert man has been over it and sign off so  sould be all good

Title: Re: NZ Vanners post your pic's here
Post by: petrolhead on February 25, 2013, 08:59:43 PM

Do the coil overs work ok? no pic's in your gallery of them