Mopar Muscle Association UK

Unfortunately the camera does not do justice to the colour the car is now - it does not capture the sparkle or the pop of this colour.


Bought this HZ ute in Scotland in 2014.





Finally imported it into Ireland in 2015 and brought it up to my paint guy to get a respray which we figured would take about 4 - 5 weeks.


Off with the vinyl and should I start to worry?




Hmmmmmm more of what lurks below the vinyl!





Digging deeper and its not looking good!





Will there be any vehicle left at this rate???????????





Mike from Rare Spares Perth to the rescue with new metal!





Starting to look a bit more factory - no holes or rust bubbles left.





Next in line for the paint booth - end of March 2017




Waiting for trim - April 2017






Looking sharp. The tyres are the wrong size as these rims where bought for my Valiant S Series and the profile is smaller than the tyres that came off the ute. I was checking the look - and I like it!

Wow !
I love that.
And quality work too. Well done

Really Nice Work!!!!

I like utes, but later ones, for all the rust issues on the early ones, that find a home over here.
I put 10 litres of wax oyl under the one I imported last year.
I don't think they have any rust protection to speak of.

great jobs

what engine is it running ? i hope you gave her a few more horses

the slot for the automatic gear lever on the center console looks a bit weird to me .. could you source a panel with the slot .. or maybe you could put your tissues there !

Very impressive work

Simply superb , Aussie muscle rules. Lovely work and a great base car.

have you guys seen the SA el camino / holden ute for sale ?

After humping a bunch of house stuff from Dublin to Kilkenny the ute started to puff and run a bit rough. I had a "new" carb and manifold on the shelf which I purchased last year for it so I fitted that. I fitted new gaskets and vacuum hoses where needed.

I also fitted a new HEI distributor and coil. It purrs away now and drives really nice.

Excuse the canary yellow - previous owner painted EVERYTHING in this colour, slowly getting it gone.



Does anyone know of a really good set of engine tins? The seller/provider must be willing to post to Ireland - my expensive of course.

It took me nearly 5 hours sandblasting the airfilter box so I could test out the candy red powder coat. I am thinking to leave the block black and do the rest colour matched "ish" to the body.



Base of silver metallic powder and one coat of candy red powder - I think the colour might look good





But I don't want to spend an eternity sandblasting the canary yellow from the old ones; the coating he used does not come off easily and as you can see sticks like sh** to a blanket in tight areas.

Once the Valiant is gone to panel and paint next next week, that will give me space in the garage to do more on the ute. I will do the brakes and re - ring and bearing the engine, and add a slightly mild cam and new lifters.

Hopefully by the time the engine goes back in the dreaded canary yellow will be all gone

Great work,fantastic car/truck/ute,still so cool

Very cool. Great work.

Did you finally get your engine rebuild done ?

Great work, like that colour

Nice job, a very neat ute

Proper job
absolutely mint

Dave