This discussion reminded me of a fun project I did with an EJ wagon back in 1984. Given I was moving to the UK the following year for a two-year working holiday, I just needed some cheap wheels for a few months in Sydney and bought this old girl with six months rego for beer money. She had some serious structural rust (and I mean serious!) and probably destined for the wreckers, but in the short time I owned it I thought it might be fun to create what could have been Holden’s contemporaneous response to Ford’s XL Falcon Squire. So, that’s ‘real woodgrain’ on the sides and across the tailgate (masterfully-applied sticky contact paper actually) and the whitewall tyres were courtesy of Berger Jet Dry, which despite being house paint survived for months without cracking or falling off (the old rigid-walled cross-plies helped no doubt). I must have done a passable job because I lost count of the number of people who asked me if it was a factory offering at the time, never seen one like it etc. That was a fun six months I must say!