The Aussie 4 speed died soon after I bought the FJ and I picked up a supra 5 speed, I fitted a CRS 3/4 chassis Kit and Dellow be

FJ3800 vicplates that I ran the jay on as an early plan was a V6 conversion. These plates are for sale and in very good nick if

Jimbo finishing the patch panels where the AP5 lights used to be, at the same time we'd relocated the fuel filler to just below

My FJ at Chiltern Car show 2001. It looked good in the picture here and overall seemed pretty good, but the 10 year old paint an

The day I bought the FJ parked beside out VN SV3800 Crappydoor, mind you we did 389,000 hard kays in this crappy before she got

This is as far as I was going to strip her, but the more I dig to fix one spot more uglies appeared. Where the AP5 Chrysler tail

At this stage I noticed the floor had been replaced earlier and not very well I might add, I reccon the way it was fitted contri

A closer look at the sills you'll see they are pretty stuffed and have been poorly patched before. This is where I decided to cu

New galvanised fully boxed custom inner sills, custom full length outer sills, sectioned rear doors, relocated pillars, grafted

This picture show's that somebody before me go an electric drill for Christmas, I swear there was almost a hole drilled for ever

Hey about 180 holes all gone in one fowl swoop of a sabre saw, well mabee a six swoops.
This was cut out to fit a 308 and recee

This was as far as I was going to go, my sister was getting married and asked for me to drive her in the 'Jay' plus grab a few m

The outer sill panels were pretty average and I found no-more-gaps expanding foam squirted right through the sills, nice little

Early picture of the door sectioning and pillar relocating, plenty of patching and metal finishing needed here.

Boot's almost stripped bare for welding up badge and brakelight holes for smoothed looks.

This is probably my first solo attempt at mig welding panels, the antequated piece of crap mig I was using cost me $50 and it wa

One of the many concepts during the rebuild, I drew a coupe idea free hand, scanned it to the computer and removed the roof etc

One of my fj coupe drawings, I like this one lot and is what we were building, then the convertable would have beeen a later on

At one stage I was using a Chevy LUV 2x4 chassis. The LUV was picked up for $120 (running) and stripped in 14 hours then all the

Shortly after arriving in Townsville I got stuck into the fj build. I stripped this area back with a black nylon disc, these are

another early pic of the coupe project.

A early trial if trial fit of the Chevy KB-20 LUV chassis, all the floor had to come out of the jay to make it fit.