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There was a guy named Bob Anderson who drove a red Offy A RPU, which I believe also traveled a bit. Came to New Zealand 20 or 30 years ago....
When you slow right down driving thru small towns so you can admire your car reflecting in the shop windows (seemed legit to me).....and when your...
I used to call my buying of car parts "Collecting DNA" Won a battery voucher at a rod run once, so figured I should build another hot rod so the...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Top pikky was the day I hit the concrete wall at the dragstrip. The month before I had done my first (and only) 9...
Now thats way cool!
#5 A car that was complete, that with enthusiasm, I will pull apart then realise that, as Im without any talent, I will never get it back...
This one pushes my buttons - big time (Neil Baker New Zealand). I cant figure anything that needs to change. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Im not. Its truly stunning, (I saw it at the show in January and can see why it won) and yep it is AMBR 2025, but the black 36 roadster on page...
That, to me, would look like $600 very well spent, but then I completely lack skills and I farm everything out.
I thought that one had a 5.4 Ford quad cam engine in it. Maybe Im wrong!
If it was my decision, I would go for a Jaguar front end and steering. (I already apologize to the traditionalist, but the Jag front ends tend to...
And if you want to take the "not at all traditional, but Im sick of my bum sticking to the vinyl seats" option, I see there are electric air con...
Dayum guy, we should all save this thread, and then if we have a crappy day, we can have a reread of it and life will be great again. I doff my...
It was 1977, and I had just got my first job. I had no money, no tools and no car building skills at all. I did have a space in my dads 3 car shed...
Oh Hell Yes - that the standard answer if anyone asks if you need a Hemi in your car. Thats just how the world rotates. and its not like you can...
I had a 48 Chev pickup and wanted a decent towbar set up (but wasnt so keen to pay retail for a new one) I ended up at the wreckers and bought...
One that got away. I decided to do some "adulting" so sold it to cover off some business risk I thought we had (cash was king) Turned out the...
Probably Australian Its right hook (RHD) its running a Ford engine and its got guards. And those trees look like gumtrees which infest Oz.
And another bucket from New Zealand. Won best hot rod at the NZHRA National Show in about 2000.[ATTACH]
We were doing a bunch of shop tours back in late January, as part of a group from New Zealand who had traveled to the GNRS. During our time at...
Those Kangaroos were too hard for the Australians to catch so they put a bounty on them, and, faster than a diarrhea attack, 500,000 Kiwis had...
But apart from that, are they pretty okay?
Blown altereds have a long and much loved history of dodgy handling. Well the vast majority of them in any case. When I look at the front end...
Having taken a perfectly good BBC street bucket and changed it into a 9 second street legal race car (and then snotting it into the concrete wall...
Very nice. And heres a NZ based A tudor, which met up with a man with great skills, and came out as a South Pacific A400 [ATTACH]
Awesome! So are you a real short fella, or do you have mad skills and the most clever floor, pedals and seating arrangement known to mankind -...
Once the Model A guys all removed their A surrounds, and replaced them with 32 surrounds, nobody realised that the Model T types would hoard the A...
I bought this intake set up about a year ago (despite not owning a SBC), because I love it. I guess I will have to do another car so it gets used....
Well, yeah, I do sit and admire my projects. (I call it pre-living the experience) And When they become finished cars, I drive through town and...
Is it just me, or do others also think they are too heavy in "the nose"? Just an observation
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