It was there he found a rolling VJ ute shell, fortuitously priced at $2000. “I didn’t really want a ute at the time,” Tim recalls, “but I thought it was a good buy.”
While Chrysler’s body looked straight and dry from life in outback NSW, Tim didn’t realize just how good it was until later on.
“Initially we were just going to put a little 318 in and paint it a basic color,” he says. “Then I had it sandblasted – that’s what reveals the truth behind cars. It came through 100 per cent rust-free; it was unbelievable. So we pretty much re-evaluated what we wanted to do from there because you don’t find them in this condition very often.”
Shortly after, Tim snapped up another half-finished Valiant ute – this one with a 383-cube Chrysler V8 between the rails. With that purchase, the VJ’s fate was sealed, and Tim got to work on a classy, factory-style ute with an engineered big-block grunt.
With his sights on an angry, supercharged 383, the engine was pulled down and crack-tested. But by the time Tim drew up a list of US-sourced parts, the first wave of COVID had tanked the Aussie dollar and thrown shipping arrangements into disarray.
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