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WILLEM VAN DER MERWE
HQ ONE TONNER
“WHEN I got my 1973 Tonner, there wasn’t much left of it – the owner before me had an untimely engine bay fire, and then the car was completely stripped, sandblasted and primed. I bought the project as a roller. Working at Novel Smash Repairs in Bunbury, I had the chance to do the rust repairs and panelwork myself after hours. While I was at it, I fabricated the custom tray and tubs, smoothed out the engine bay a bit and then painted it that wicked Mazda Soul Red colour. When I first completed the car, I had a fuel-injected 5.0-litre in it with a T5 ’box, but that only lasted six months or so before I changed things up with a fresh LS donk and a 4L60E transmission with a 3900rpm stall converter. Once I found out that the Castlemaine Rod Shop had a complete kit for the conversion,
