OK, because I don't have enough COVID projects, I decided to do up another car as a paddock basher/farm hack/pusher/puller/wood carting car. The basis is the burgundy 93 240 wagon that provided the donor B230FX for my yellow 245 project car. I already gave away the auto transmission, so I had to pull the auto from one of my other parts cars (1990 240GL)...and the engine is coming from my previous paddock basher - 93 240 that should have been a B230FX but was in fact a B230E block and head swapped into the 93 as the owner cooked the FX (don't ask me how). Anyway, that engine has been sitting in the shed taking up space, so motivation to get it into the burgundy wagon. I've stripped the interior and sold a lot of trim bits off the wagon already, so it's beyond getting back to a roadworthy car, plus the paint is off, it has a bit of rust around the windscreen, and several dents and creases here and there. It looks MUCH better in these photos than it actually is. A mate gave me some old but never used rally tyres that I'll swap onto some 15 inch alloys (as they're currently mounted on 140 wheels that I don't think will clear the 240 front brakes, and offset is wrong). I have the engine and trans ready to go back in, and tonight I power-washed the slime off the car and cleaned up the engine bay. I'm going to swap in the manual steering rack from the 1980 245 parts car for simplicity. Will not have AC but I do plan to have a heater. Thinking about how I can get a bit of extra ride height cheap (spacers between spring a body??) and who knows, maybe some day I'll make it into a ute? I'll be throwing on some new parts from my stash, including thermostat, hoses, brake hoses, crank angle sensor, etc. Unfortunately I already sold the front end panel assembly, and then with no bonnet latch when it was sitting outside a wind gust caught the bonnet and flipped it up and bent it and buggered the hinges. I've grabbed the nose cone, bonnet and hinges off the green 90 sedan. Maybe I'll paint it with a roller - art car style? Hmm, need inspiration! Maybe pink like the outback pub car? No! Let the fun begin!
