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Kev, remember when we cleared up Lenny Mabeys mothers back yard and we threw all the sidevalve stuff in the tip (next to brownies pottery factory)...
Well Sir, you could possibly get someone else to drive it? No fun in that maybe ,but a lot of fun getting the engine to really sing while someone...
Hey KEV!!! A belated Merry Christmas and a great NewYear to you and your Family old mate!!;) Hows the wrists? better now? Arthur rightus is...
Morgan Sports cars had Gemmers too.. http://www.gomog.com/allmorgan/gemmer.html http://www.gomog.com/allmorgan/steering.htm
We have a 1915 Briggs -Detroiter sitting in the shop ,where it has sat for the last 20 years as we try to find a steering assembly for it.None of...
Well,I know of two Vulcans ,English ones sold new in Brisbane Australia in 1913 . I am getting one ready for a concours this weekend. It was a...
I like this, back in the 50's my mothers brothers had a CJ3 roadster .Lowered with a ported relieved block and 100thou off the head. If you dig...
And the roadster in the article, as found, is still about although it's a lot shinier today After being used as a suspension engineering mule for...
Yep nothing more confusing than a pilot with it's 1950's build era and 1930's technology mixed with English brakes and styling .. Austins A30 had...
I got my copy of it in 1965 from Technical books in Newmarket,Auckland. At that time in NZ anything that ran was worth money and model A's...
No they are completely different and the 32 Chaqssis has a lot variations compared with a 31 . You would be better off finding someone who can...
my dad bought a 32 Chev for my Mum a very long tie ago .She never drove itand it was parked until 1972.Some dealer type bought it for $2500. The...
It's called a flypress, because when a skilled operator works one,that ball really flys. heres one being used to forge something. With a bit more...
Lots of things got dumped years ago because of fashion. As member of a Rod Club in NZ in the early 70's we were invited to a mates house to help...
Shit man ,dont you know you were being tested? You were probably supposed to feed it to the sister and because you didn't the girl friend figured...
Is that all? :)Wasn't me driving but helped with the build. 6.9 liter 450SLC on the 'Ring.:cool::cool:
... and in OZ the soarers which all originated in Japan were limited to 180kph , you have to be a comp geek to get them to go like the US versions...
I would rev the guts out of mine ,I was only 17 too :D racing all over the place., There wasn't too much around in those days that could keep up...
Been OK,working like a .... for a while now keeping ahead of the bills . Too many projects,too little time :p:p This is ol'mateys website,the...
My First Chev V8 was a '56 belair with a 265. One of the really early ones with fragile pistons. When I bought it ,it was almost new...compared...
Same here, a lot of Hazara refugees have cornered the market in scrap metal and will pay 20c/kg for steel scrap which means a safe is probably...
Always interested in V12 powered rods. When I was lot younger in NZ my cousin (who is approaching 60) went out with a guy who had a V12 model A...
The red sports car is a Nash Healey isn't it? thats a Nash six engine. Nash went into biz with Healey long before Austin and Healey . [IMG]
I just sold a pile of early mercedes stuff to a guy who is going to build a Mercedes ponton 220SE Coupe to race next year . These are normally...
ha ha ...good one!! Funny thing is though,a lot of those safes are crap and the bottoms could be bashed open with a hammer easier than...
I remember this in some old mags from back then,(got them here somewhere) but what is really interesting is the chopped Mk2 zed car ute in the...
A retired bank johnny huh? sounds about the right tone for someone used to making people lick the carpet for a house loan ...oh wait,you guys...
The UK Vintage truck scene is very active and there are a few magazines where some of the more interesting Commers and their little sisters,the...
ha ha ,yes NZ definitly!, i am sure there is at least one hot rodded Commer there. Plenty of Commer Cob vans were built into gassers too. In my...
The Alloy heads are higher compression and were installed on trucks and Police cars ( In New Zealand) and I've come across them on staionary...
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