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So its been awhile but I went up to dads yesterday and took her for a drive. Hadn't been started since last time I was there (ages ago) but she ran well once we found a battery that had enough juice. Dad tried to take her for a VIN but the fuel pump shat itself on the way in, now she has a new fuel pump and handbrake cable. Dad said he will take her into town for a VIN and drive her to work to get some k's under her belt. Hopefully she doesnt break down on the way like last time and passes and is all legal for Hawke's Boes.

We have big screen at Leadfoot for drive in movie but things are a little hectic at the moment, could arrange at some point and park up as gas station

So cold that even if you have them removed, they will remotely fall off whatever flat surface you leave them on.

GREAT SUCCESS!!!

compared to those, I would rather see the starlet on modgies.

Was a pretty sweet day, cheers guys. I own the Sapporo btw.

Man it feels weird not having to get a car ready for this. I am doing zero prep, just pack my back thursday night, get some port and some aged cheddar and im on my way

Oooh smashing. This actually works out. Will also be hairdrying it there, complete with ecoboost.

Rain???? This thing will melt the rears in 4th at 120kph+ ( private road) at anything more than 2/3 throttle in the dry. Full throttle ( if you dare) will see the tcl flashing at 160 in 4th. Wife only drove it once and had the tail out at an intersection. This is all with the traction control on. Do um yeah i have unstuck myself a couple of times coming out of 70 zones into 100kph area in the wet where unintended tyre destruction took place. I don't think there's many fg utes in the country running 19-20 psi but for good reasons. Keep it under 2500 rpm and 1/3 Throttle and its safe as houses. I think I have it figured out now. You can get turbo g6e's cheap now just need to budget for an lsd as they have open rear diff from factory.

Yeah it was fucken cold. Looking back, Shaz probably saved my life by making me sleep inside on the first night

Weather is looking like its going to be ideal. No rain just cold as fuck at night.

According to Leadfoot website they are having movie night at festival, so it's only fair we test out the equpment beforehand I guess

Excite! Just need to pump up the spare and unnecessarily fiddle with the carbs then all go

You bought an austin. Your opinion is now void.

I'll be sure to wake you up in time for church on Sunday morning.

Kim Dotcom?

drive in would be ace you can hire giant screens etc, but they cost $4500 which is a bit much for the 50 people that will turn up Theres a whole "Guerrilla Drive-in" thing called MobMov, where dudes just put a DVD player and a projector in their car with some FM transmitters and meet up at random places and play movies on the side of a building etc, which is pretty bad ass http://mobmov.org/manifesto/ might even be something that OS wants to invest in and send it around the country throughout the year to different cities and events for regular drive-ins? or maybe pass the hat around auckland members to raise a little money to buy one for 'regular' drive in events? I've looked into it before, and happy to nut out some pricing and what gear to use etc if people were keen?

Who's Ryan fels? Anyone remember him?

well thats the boxes done, new/really old steel mudguard added as well, for extra awesome, pics. from the back, the panniers/ammo boxes are just a touch wider than the heads, so thats good, i could probably get them the same width with a bit of a design change, but that'll do me ammo box/crash protection

About all I took.

Thunderbirds are fucken GO!!!!

Tara no where did it say that the theatre was sorted, or any details actually

Hey, My names Laura This Is my 1957 Ford Prefect. have had it for about two years now. Its was pulled off an old lady's lawn up in Auckland, not running but in fair condition, with a few leaks. With help form Dad and my brother (Jasonk) we got it running, after a few little fires.................little The motor is a Flat Head 4 cylinder (with twin horns!), Factory 6 volt, but has been converted to 12 volt. It wasnt running when it first came home, but some hours were spent on the engine and she now purrs like a 50s sewing machine! just to name a few things - A new head gasket has been hand cut, dad broke the original headers just by looking at them, so prompted him to fabricate some extractors, new points, condenser, leads, plugs, custom diamond plate radiator hose mount, radiator hoses, carb strip down.

Yep AA+ is the shizzle. $120 a year is fuck all to pay for piece of mind.

Just gonna renew it now rather than tempt fate HANMER OH MY GOD ITS SO CLOSE

Carbs fiddled with, got rid of a lean hole off idle and have a nicer idle rpm too. Just noticed AA plus expires on the 31st dun dun duuuunnnnn

with a choice of 'teens or modgies, go with stock steels

Its a sign, get something better than modgies/anything is better.

Mmmmm port !

what about a knight rider marathon, every season in order, start to finish, see you in 3 days

The Longest Yard with Burt Reynolds.

Yeah I'll chuck up a thread soon, can probably organise a display. $95 for three day pass

Probably not the right place to post this, but just noticed that tickets for next years Leadfoot (6-8 Feb) are going on sale on Monday. Are OS doing anyting for it? http://www.leadfootfestival.com/leadfoot-festival/tickets/

*Edit.. not sure why the small pics Couple of pics from my frantic morning.. took they day off work specifically to work on this, started at about 745 and drove out to blackwells to get the confirmation letter then to ltsa then back to autolign and home by 930, finished at about 130 then drove to three different places trying to get headlight adjustment done, literally a two minute job but everyone was "too busy" went to my normal warrant shop and old mate was like sweet as.. they do a lot of classic v8s etc and are generally pretty accommodating.. good cunts apparent cracked bush.. looks ok to me not sure why mazda does two different types of bushes, must be a crossover of parts.. old new etc spending gets a little out of hand when its credit, crept up from $90 to $250 for the rear trailing arms but then the guy at autolign gave them to me for cost since they struggled with the front bushes, so only about $130.. really can't say enough about the service there this is the result of machining nylon, was all over the grinder and my hands, eat your heart out spider man all in, had to cut the pin out of the old bushes to fit the nolathanes, all up took me about 2.5hrs including problem solving and driving to get tools etc, but they came up pretty good. If I hadn't decided to do the fronts as well it would have been done a lot earlier. and finally a shot of me being bored shitless waitng for nearly 2 hours in the line at vtnz, then me mate mike saw me and ushered me to the front. Another good cunt. jipco rd testing station are pretty good I think, never really had any probs there.

People are going to be drinking at the venue? Really?!! What about the hymn singing? We need to be of clear minds after all!

So after discovering that the food at the Honest lawyer was not all that and expensive I thought we could try meeting at Sprig and fern Tahuna then possibly doing a cruise somewhere for food? Has anyone tried the food at the Bedford Bar? (yes rest of NZ if you're reading this.. we have a pub named after an old truck brand and it also has old K types outside ) I not been there yet and it appeals if for no other reason than its got old trucks out front ..and is Vauxhall/GM... Also- Hannah and I spotted a sweet mk1 Cortina wagon in white and sams old trump cruising out to Kaiteriteri. Anyone know them? (we had also spotted sams trump with bike on back earlier in the day. Plus Shane and I are wondering what the user name is of the fella who came to the nats with the Holden HR and ford mk2 escort? Need to get them along- top petrol head couple.

You'll be sorely missed Jesse. I'll have to get maggot'd as with Mike instead. See if he will finish a drink you if you open one and pass it to him. Auto pilot drinking ftw!

Deep throat

Two cups and a string? You can get si or mike to bring our end down.

Please climb this hill again

Yes Alex won... I have pmd about registration. I will be taking the land barge so i can enjoy my favorite thing... contributing to Global warming!

what about fast and furious and then after we can all go put RIP paul walker stickaz on our carz

Turbo (the one with the snail) was also epically funny.

I genuinely enjoy Talledega Nights, it slike the second greatest Nascar rivalry movie of all time OF ALL TIME

You will be happy to know I have adjusted the display to remove the decimal, so no risk of selecting gear 4.3 any more.. also optimised the display to make more easily visible

excite. jees this is going to be a tiny house.

URL=http://s236.photobucket.com/user/fastfrogs/media/INSIDEVIEWFRONTSEATSDI.jpg.html][/url] Its actually a damm fine car in good nick, there are a few issues as always with a car 30 years old ,but looks like ive got agood one, I would like the front brakes to have more bite, or stopping power ,but im not too sure how to go about it , have checked the disc pads there is plenty of meat on them and the cast iron rotors are i n good condition , perhaps thats the way they where in 1983 ? things to done so far , spark plugs ,high tension leads, rear brakes replaced,and double coil drum tension spring, engine oil and filter, Rego and WOF, extra keys, things to do, get the two screws that hold the brake drums on, they are munted, had to use ezzeouts to get them off,Butchers get some SD1 Rover Mags Alloys ,some decent rubber,205/70/14, steering wheel off a sports model SD1 vitesse,