August 2008: Well I decided on a colour and it's all freshly painted now, what a change! The colour is Yellow Blaze code M (yes it's a Ford XB GT colour!) But it gives it a great classic muscle car look whilst being a unique colour on a Valiant. You have no idea how hard it was to find a good yellow from a micro sized paint chip!

The car spent about a month at the panel shop and has been resprayed in DeBeer 2pak. the blackouts on the bonnet were painted also (not vinyl) with R/T decals applied and Charger stripes down the guards.

I've given the old 2 spoke weel a flick, in it's place is a R/T Dodge Challenger replica wheel, I also have an original Charger wheel but I might just keep that in storage, it's probably worth half as much as the car going by ebay prices!! Ha ha!

The grille was custom painted, my interpretation of how a VK Pacer grille would have looked like........if they made one

The windshield rubbers were still in great nick but I got new chrome lock strips as the old ones had gone brown.

A lot of trim holes had to be welded over (I think it was over 70!) but it's all done now. New orange Mopar performance ECU. Used to have thermo fans dodgely hooked straight up to the ignition, no relay, no thermo switch. No wonder it cooked the ignition switch! It's got a 6 blade fan now.

The engine bay and door jams were also painted as well as the underside of the boot lid, only the boot itself is untouched but interiors brown so it looks fine, I'm going to get a reproduction sticker of the Jack instructions and some engine bay decals to finish her off.

The rear beaver panel was removed and the trim holes welded up and painted satin black.

April 2008: Just purchased my 1976 Valiant Regal which is a genuine VK 770 which came from the factory with the bigger 360ci/5.9Litre V8. These cars in a V8 are so hard to find, with the majority that come up for sale 6 cylinder examples, I have only seen 2 other VH-VK V8 regals come up for sale this year both only the 318 Fireball models and both beige so this is a unique find indeed. Color is Factory Chestnut metallic with white vinyl roof, I am still deciding what colour to repaint it, am thinking plum crazy (purple), orange, black or even a light green metallic. Possibly I may add some sort of R/T stripes based on what the Chargers came out with.

As you can spot the car is fitted with Weld racing wheels, massive 275/60/R15s at the back and super thin drag racing style fronts. The car has been lowered with 2 inch lowering blocks at the back and the front also dropped giving the car a mean rake.

As I've only just got the car I havn't done a lot but I quickly put on a couple of chrome rocker covers and chrome air cleaner assembly, the motor has an Edelbrock manifold and 4-barrel 750 Holley, air con and power steering have been removed. The car has a dual exhaust system with only 1 muffler on each side. It certainly turns the heads when you give it a rev!!

The interior has the 'coffin console' and I will be adding an R/T charger steering wheel pretty soon. The seats are cloth but I may add some vinyl ones when some good ones come up on ebay or something. The boot in this thing is massive!

Still deciding what I will do to the car, maybe some nice 20inch intro billet wheels at the back and 18s at the front but I'm digging the old skool Welds at the moment, I think I'll get the odd spots of rust under the vinyl roof cut out, and a respray first then some extractors. Any suggestions welcome!