Introduce yourself Here!

G'day guys/gals, my name's Tom and i've got a 1982 WB van running a 253/4spd. I've been right into Holdens/panelvans since my early teens and I've owned 5 holdens so far. My first car was a 1979 HZ panelvan, bog stock 202/column auto with faded white paint. After about a year my Torana obsession took over and I sold it to buy a 1976 LX hatchback with a red hot 202/4spd. After that I had a v6 VS Statesman for 6 months until the old Holden bug got the better of me and I bought a 1974 HQ sedan (again a 202/4spd) which I owned for around 4 years until last year when I sold it to my brother (another old Holden nut) and bought my current van which i've got no intention of selling!

My van is my daily drive, although living inner city means I really only drive her on weekends when I head down the coast for a surf. She's one of those ongoing projects, i'm still not 100% sure which direction I want to go with a rebuild, let alone what colour etc.. It's nice to find a forum that's geared towards vans (as well as mysandman.com), i'm sure i'll get some ideas for my van from this place. Cheers!

welcome mate, a wealth of information on here

Welcome aboard Tom! Great to have another WB owner on here, those F$rd guys were taking over a bit.
Look forward to getting to know you a bit better mate and seeing some photos of your van.

Haha cheers guys, it's great to see there's some real nice WBs around as well. It's funny coz growing up I never rated the WB front and never would've dreamed of owning one but they've grown on me quite a bit, especially since I bought my one. Being a younger guy (24) i've got plenty to learn so i'm looking forward to asking a few questions and reading through the rest of the forum. Anyhow i've got a couple of crap iPhone photos of my van, i'll get around to taking some decent pics at some stage:



She's currently running a 253 with a mild cam, extractors and a beefy exhaust that makes it sound a hell of a lot faster than it actually is , the rest is pretty standard (m20 4spd, 3.36 salisbury, bucket seats).

Looks like a very tidy daily driver mate, feel free to start a thread in the MY VAN section and add up your WB's details and some other pics when you get the chance.
A www.majesticvanners.com sticker would really enhance your van too!
Cheers Rob

G'day Tom good to see another Holden van on board,especially a WB.






Chev/Holden:you know it feels right.

Hi Folks, Gordo here. I have two vans...A Persian Sand HX and a XX7 Persian Sand HJ. The HX is red at the moment and about to have a shell transplant(bought it site unseen at auction,rust bucket) and the HJ is Valencia Orange. This van is nearly finished and is up as my avatar,just have a few minor wiring jobs to do and its done Both are Sandman vans and if anyone knows of a good HJ,HX,HZ shell gettin about I would appriciate the feed back. Great to be on board and keep up the good work everyone the site and club is awsome.

Welcome aboard Gordo......

You'll have plenty too see & find out about on here.
Sit back & enjoy.

Cheers Al.

Welcome mate. Van looks great from what I can see. Whack a post in the your van section so we can see some bigger pics!!

Welcome to MV Gordo, great to have you aboard mate and looking forward to seeing some more pics of your vans. Start a thread in the My Van or My Project section depending on if she's finished or getting built.
Hope you enjoy your time with us on here.
Cheers Rob

Hey

My name is Matt, im from Richmond nsw and i have just bought myself a 1974 xb panelvan as a project will be starting a build thread soon

cheers Matt

Welcome aboard Matt, good to see someone snapped up the XB, I know Dave wants one like it!
Hope to see some photos of your XB soon and look forward to chatting some more on here, we've got a heap of Ford guys on here now.
Cheers Rob

hey we are new to this site will post a photo soon we have a 3 door hk panel van was used as an ambulance in SA we think does anyone have a similar van or any info on this type of vehicle

Gday and welcome to Majestic Vanners, one of our MV members only just recently sold a 3 door van on ebay. Check this out!

https://majesticvanners.forumotion.com/t830-my-hgpv-hk-ambo-to-follow

Glad to have you onboard and looking forward to seeing some pics and chatting some more!
Cheers Rob

Ours has a door behind the drivers door that the 2nd ambo used to sit in to tend the patient

Hi me names Fil i own a 72 xa panel van and 3 other Fords just wanna chat about panel vans n get some ideas . Plans for the xa are to stuff a clevo into it and turn it into a GT/Sundowner. Its gona be a long term project but i hope there's a few pepole here that can help me out !

Welcome aboard Fil! Great to have you here mate, we've had a Ford van explosion on here of late, us Holden guys better start buying some more vans, you Ford guys will out number us soon!
Plenty of knowledge on this forum Fil, feel free to start a thread in the my project section for your XA dude.
Cheers Rob

I think we need to do a count of the different models with this sudden influx of new vans.Looking forward to seeing some new threads.
Holdens
Fords
Valiants
Beddys
Other

Hey Tom, welcome to the forum. Great to see a young bloke getting into wb vans. If your are heading down to the surf coast for wave, send me a pm and drop in and say gday and we can compare wbs.

I'm based in Leopold, between geelong and ocean grove.

Cheers
Perry

Filfee wrote:Hi me names Fil i own a 72 xa panel van and 3 other Fords just wanna chat about panel vans n get some ideas . Plans for the xa are to stuff a clevo into it and turn it into a GT/Sundowner. Its gona be a long term project but i hope there's a few pepole here that can help me out !

welcome mate. get a few more pics of the van up, keen as to see it

Hi there everyone.
I'm an old Van fan from way back in the 70's. I used to travel to Van shows with my dad back in the early-late 70's.
I was eventually a Vanner with a HQ then an Escort in the early 80's. I was a member of the Escort Van club in Sydney.
Closest I've come to owning a van since was a wagon (for 13 years) so I'd love to find another Van (Ford or Holden, not fussed).
I'd love to see some pics of my old favs from the 70's?
Miss Misty Blues, Innervisions, Checkmate, Detroit Connection? I have so many favs.
Anyway, time to have a look around here.
I'm in Hervey Bay and know of a few around here and out west.
Cheers
Glenn

welcome to the forum glenn , a wealth of information here, go to the van register topic,pics of all those vans are there cheers andrew

Welcome aboard Glenn nice to have you here, as Serendipity(Andrew) said there is plenty of vans in the van register and my Van sections, heaps of other cool stuff too!
Cheers Rob

Hi Coasty,good to see another old vanner here I remember you guy's from back then as I was a member of the sundowners in the 80s on that welcome aboard

Regards Tony.

G'Day all,
My names Paul. I'm 34 and live in Mildura Victoria.
Since the age of 16 I've owned 32 cars and out of those cars I've owned several panelvans. 308 HJ panelvan, 351 XD panelvan, XE panelvan, Mk II Escort panelvan and lastly a 253 HX panelvan. Many good times have been had with the panelvans and the girls I've dated
These days I own a ED Falcon sedan that I use as a parts collector for my project. I'm currently restoring a 253 HQ Tonner. This is not your average tonner and you'll see why once I start a topic about the resto in the utes and tonners section.

Anyway, It's great to be here and I look forward to making new friends and contributing to the site.

Cheers,
Paul