That does sound a lot like mine. I dont think the wheels or hubs have been redrilled though, It has Cragar SS wheels which are unilug as standard. I will double check though.Bratfink wrote:Simon,
Check your wheels for balance first.
I spoke to a guy from Yorkshire 2 years ago who was ebaying a perfectly serviceable original VE Valiant that he had bought slapped some stupid green paint and black stripes on and had the hubs redrilled so he could fit a set of corroded and horrible unilug wheels he found at a swap meet!
Looks suspiciously like yours!
My money is on a bad job of redrilling the lugs.
That car has an awful lot of potential and is a good solid base. If you paid anything like what the original seller was asking me then you definately paid too much IMO?
But then at the time I posted a big rant on here about ebay 'restoration' cars! And it was mostly as a result of that conversation with that seller.
My guess is since you joined our noble cause that you are not the next in a line of ebay speculators to have bought another Aussie car to be resold as a 'completely restored' (meaning knackered) 'awsome muscle car' (meaning 2bbl 318).
If there is any help I any offer you, just ask.
Cant remember the exact place I bought it but it was somewhere near Oxford. I paid $2000. It did say "awesome musclecar" etc on Ebay but I'm not that stupid. I don't think the seller even knew that it was Australian.
Anyway the paint job is Bananarama! but from what I can tell it all looks solid underneath. Was alpine white originally and still is in the trunk.
As far as I know its all numbers matching mechanically.
My aim is not to completely restore it, but make it completely restorable. ie, bolt on mods only. Including bolting on a 408 stroker
