This is a buildup started around 1993 then around 2003 took off the road and de licence for my own safety.


the good 1/2



the bad 1/2 took out part of the freeway rail
broken front window was from rear passager apparenly ouch.

more photos to come when work out how to open old floppy disk.

floppy disk?!

Holy hell, I haven't even heard that mentioned for years... next thing you'll say is it's a 5" not 3 1/4" hahahaha

even worse its a casio "cam" image that needs special softwear to convert to jpeg, think was like shit 0.5 meg camera anyway.

scanned some anyway

xp 2 found for the front



what we decided to do after some advice from a panelbeater freind is chop along the original floor joins at the back and outside one sill and inside of the other (making it sill with 2 insides) then drill and spotweld around 200 spot welds with the mig, and and join were the front door piller meets the roof.




once both 2 cars was 1 then primer/putty/primer then went and dry
started resembling a car


top coat 13" drum brakes "stockys" and 2.4lt 170ci oil burner


found a xt local that purchace and towed the shell 1km no doors bonnet guards motor down back streets just for the front brakes and the vh40 brake booster and the diff that was 4 inch to wide had to use toyota crown rear wheels for the offset,
finaly could stop

love the XPs mate... theyve got such a killer look.... My
missus' drives one daily.... unfortunately we've got get
stuck into the body, she's got rust in both sills and random
spots of surface rust.... prob gonna cop the full respray....

Your's looks like its had a lotta work done..... good stuff...

Wow thats a lot of work!! Looks good tho!!!

finaly the 170ci self destructed allong the freeway runnining out of oil
(did get sick of being told at trafic lights "your cars on fire" ) because the oil breather that use to blow smoke under the sump.

newly re ringed 250 ci alloy head



alstar mags found and some reason lifted rear up 3 inch.


then lowed 3 inch and front superlows up front fitter a valiant cenury diff, limo tint alstars 7" rear 6" front.


board with the 250 stocky came out sent to kec

board .30 flat top pistons,
head ported 3 angle valve grind heavy valves,
#3 cam shaft



with the 12 slotters

Then go sick of economy found a efi xe motor converted to efi never ran well with the injection found out later all 3 distributers were playing up then converted back to carby 350 holley and redline manifold.


drove onto trailer took up to sisters house been sitting there since rusting away.


now know why went though 3 diff centers and 2 autos

thread revival

just recent photo of the xp up the block, trees almost grown all way around.

still going to re restore it one day.

next time windsor 5lt

DO IT