furyroadcars wrote:Although I admire your vision on linking the the Buick to the Lonewolf car, unfortunately all coincidental as far as I'm aware.
The Buick straight 8 body is on an F100 4WD chassis with a 351 Cleveland V8. Original F100 diffs, cut and lengthened. As far I know the Buick body was bought from a paddock because the shape was cool, so any styling cues shared with the thunderdome car is just by luck.
otherunicorn wrote:furyroadcars, do you have any idea of where that FJ holden 4 door with 6 painted on the side came from? It looks like a car that was sitting on a property in Macclesfield Vic a few years ago.
I don't recall exactly where it was from but quite possible, we got cars from all over the country (all over the world actually lol) It had Plum Dinger painted on it, looks like it was a speedway car. Also it's a 48-215 (FX).
otherunicorn wrote:furyroadcars, do you have any idea of where that FJ holden 4 door with 6 painted on the side came from? It looks like a car that was sitting on a property in Macclesfield Vic a few years ago.
I don't recall exactly where it was from but quite possible, we got cars from all over the country (all over the world actually lol) It had Plum Dinger painted on it, looks like it was a speedway car. Also it's a 48-215 (FX).
The car I am thinking of was definitely a speedway car, but unfortunately I never took any pictures, or got close enough to give it a really good looking over, so I can't confirm or deny the Plumb Dinger detail!
furyroadcars wrote:Although I admire your vision on linking the the Buick to the Lonewolf car, unfortunately all coincidental as far as I'm aware.
The Buick straight 8 body is on an F100 4WD chassis with a 351 Cleveland V8. Original F100 diffs, cut and lengthened. As far I know the Buick body was bought from a paddock because the shape was cool, so any styling cues shared with the thunderdome car is just by luck.
Actually I better correct myself, I was off on the details of the Buick, so many cars, lol. The Buick from memory was sitting on a Landcruiser chassis, so as furystunts mentioned it was turbo'd, though as in 4.2L? Toyoto turbo diesel, gets along ok. When we were at Broken Hill the "filming" area that has been seen in pics early on in this thread was about 15-20kms from the workshop/storage shed we were using on the property. We all got to drive virtually every vehicle to and from the workshop every day so there was plenty of road testing of the vehicles. Some were much more spirited to drive than others.
otherunicorn wrote:
The car I am thinking of was definitely a speedway car, but unfortunately I never took any pictures, or got close enough to give it a really good looking over, so I can't confirm or deny the Plumb Dinger detail!
