A CHANCE encounter with a clapped-out ute for sale on the roadside prompted a 10-year odyssey for Ray Gullotto, who’s transformed it into one of the sweetest FB Holdens we’ve seen. It might look at first glance like just another Holden ute with a V8 stuffed in it, but there are a few clever tricks involved that blend modern updates with an old-school look.
Ray had that fateful meeting with the FB back in 2012. “It was parked on the side of the road for sale, so I just pulled in, had a chat to the guy and basically walked away with it,” he says. “It was originally owned by a guy in Nedlands who was a house painter;