Im fortunate enough that the Corolla for the most part is done, its more or less a tyres and fuel drift car, and for the most part its been that way its whole life, in saying that the car is pretty much done. All I want to do for it now is continue to clean it up and make it drive a bit nicer on the street, that’s the part of the car i’ve neglected as it never bothered me. Most friday nights, especially during summer I love to go for a drive to get either ice cream or just cruise to oldies and enjoy the sunshine and doing that in the hilux is great, its comfy, drives nice and for some reason turns some heads, it’s pretty cool getting 1 or 2 thumbs up from people but its still a pretty new car.

So for the last year i’ve been tossing up whether or not I buy something to build, I a few cars would pop up online but I couldnt commit or they wouldn’t pull me in. A few months back a crown ute, in Adelaide came up for sale, from memory it was a 64, it was a clean body car, and was all there for a great price, Unfortunately the owner sold it on me, even with a holding deposit but that’s ok as I wasnt a fan of that front end and it paved the way for this.

A 1968 RS56 Toyota Crown. This will be my new long term project that will be funded mainly from my Sign painting and pinstriping. I would never have thought that I would own a Crown, I was definitely influenced by Jake and his Crown sedan. So it was only fitting to combine the love for old toyotas and utes into one, and this is what I have now. So i’m hoping to turn this into a reliable turn key head tuner haha…

Im a big fan of when people think outside the box, ive come to terms that I might not ever own an American car to a lowrider/kustom but I think this is my chance to think outside the box and produce my ideas, well that’s the pipe dream anyway haha. Since it arrived about two weeks ago, ive started to clean it, so I have a clean base to start working on it, as well as getting my Mums garage sorted as its full of our family things and my spares.

I havent spent long working on it, im planning to spend a few hours each week, hopefully sneak in an hour during work on my lunch break, but its coming up a treat with just de greaser. It’ll be pretty boring for a while but im keen to document this as much as I can, aswell as take better photos haha. A huge thank you to Jake and Daniel for going to pick up the car for me, means a lot !