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IMG_0782 by Richard Opie, on Flickr Took it out of the shed to Toyota fest, wound front down a bit, yep. Scrubs up ok still. Some parts at the vapour blasters being tidied up at present, as well as changes impending for the lower 4 link brackets on the diff! Bought some 175/50's off Beave so I can have sick guard gap.

Long time no update. Been using this as a semi daily car and its been racking up the miles. Has only been off the road once in the last two years as I broke the throttle cable. Big thanks to Bantam and punkoutnz for supplying cables and Jeffery at Precision Engineering and my old man for making a cable end thingy-ma-bob. I have been pretty useless at fixing its various issues, alas today I have finally lowered the rear of the car. This modification both reduces the eye strain due to unaesthetic ride height and aids fuel consumption as 40l of water is not needed to make it low. I should really get this sister of mine to take pictures in the future.

This is my '51 Chevrolet Pickup. I finally got some motivation to work on it after owning it for about 5 years. I bought it back in 2010 with help from my parents, when I was 14 turning 15. It was 100% stock, farm spec when we got it. Was originally from Bakersfield, CA. Had the straight-6 blue-flame engine which has been sold. Currently sitting on a jaguar front end and Holden LSD rear end. It's the longwheel base model, which I wasn't too much of a fan of, but it is growing on me. The extra long tray has been good for storing parts and boxes. Has hardly any major rust, just a hole is the passenger's foot well were the heater was leaking. The plan is to keep the body as is, slam it more with airbags, and chuck in a v8 (probably a 1UZ) Already have new rubbers, chrome badges, handles etc and airbag kit. Next major task will probably be to c-notch both the front and rear to get it sitting where I want / as low as the ground will let me. //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/47317-matts-1951-chevy-pickup-discussion/

brought this last week, got it home on friday . last on the road in 2006.... 1600 gt motor out, will get a full rebuild later. gt box that will get a full rebuild, next to a sierra 5speed i got from pickapart. 2 litre cortina pinto motor i got from trademe a while ago. uses same engine mounts, just had to flip the radiator mounts. got it running on the sunday, good mate shannon helped me heaps. cheers mate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=picasacid it goes as of today!!!! replaced or modified or fixed so far... convert 1600 kent to 2000 pinto convert 4 speed to 5speed. flip radiator mounts and fit cortina outlets. repair saggy drivers seat. remove and regrease front wheel bearings. replace swaybar bushes. fix rust in the roof. remove fuel tank and flush crap out. make new gaskets for fuel tank. replace rear wheel bearings. replace rear slave cylinders. wire up starter and alternator. bleed brakes. replace diff oil and check the rest. straighten rear bumper. modify driveshaft. sierra front with capri rear still got a few bits to do, hoping to take this to nats. have had it 8 days so far. this will be a 10 day build. then drive christchurch to coromandel. no pressure... https://oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/47314-governorsams-1971-1600-gt-capri-of-patina/#comment-1477554

Speaking of fuel tanks, a mate's friend had used a handfull of Gravel to cleanup the inside of his tank. then the clever clod decided to suck out the gravel with the wife's vacuum cleaner. Boom! Sparks in the motor ignited the fumes and spread the cleaner across the entire yard. spam post....

just fitted this. because racecar. first decent run tomorrow, off to picton, then nats. see you suckers there!

fill it with fire

Sup, so it's about time I put up a build thread for this thing and got some stuff done. Discussion here: //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/47324-robbos-1972-toyota-corona-coupe/ 1972 Toyota Corona 1700 Deluxe Coupe Was searching for an old school Toyota for a while but wanted something a little different to the usual k series so after this thing popped up for sale I nabbed it. Not too many around, I know of about 5 floating around in NZ. Sounds like it's belonged to a couple of old schoolers in the past so some might recognise it. Has a few cool bits, factory tinted windows, pillarless, fuel tanker filler under the number plate, hard wired inspection light in the engine bay, disc brakes up front etc. Failed a wof early last year for some rust and had been sitting in the guy's shed ever since. Pic above from just after I bought it (knocking sound coming from FL wheel on the way home, went to take the wheel off to check it out and the nuts weren't even finger tight!) Anyway the good and the bad: Good -Mostly complete (just missing a few interior bits) -Fairly straight body -Runs well when it starts -Has been resprayed not long ago (not a great job though) Bad -Some rust -Auto -Has some electrical gremlins -Weather strips/seals are mostly perished Failed its wof on rust in both sills and the bottom of a door, previous owner said he'd had his mate fix up the door but he'd forgotten to the do the sills (hmm?). Anywho there was also some paint bubbling in both of the roof gutters and around the radio aerial, decided to get it fixed all at once so took it to a cashie panel beater (cheers Mr Mk1 for the contact). Pics of the rust when it was taken back to bare metal, some fairly thick bog in places and the previous owners mates repair on the door was pretty shoddy (combination of new steel, nutech and bog). Panel beater cut it all out replaced with new steel and primered it up. Got it back home and tidied it up a bit and here's how she sits at the moment. So the plan is to sort out the electrical gremlins (either the battery is buggered or its not being charged, has an almost brand new alternator so ruling that out for now) and take it for a wof. Future plans are: Wheels - 14x7ish Mk2s/Longchamps/whatever comes up Fender mirrors - Current side mirrors are crappy Thai replicas Manual conversion - Need to source W40/pedal box Low - May just chop the fronts and throw some blocks in the rear Paint - Might have a go at painting the primered bits myself That's all for now folks, chur.

After years of steeling this from my father, a deal has been struck, and now the family vk is mine. It is a 1985 Holden HDT VK SS, has been in my family since 1992 and was the family car for many years before it got pushed to the back of the shed in about 1996 and left to sit, until about 2008 when I pulled it back out from the darkness. The rego had expired as dad didn't know he had to redo it every year, so after a revin, and replacing a few fuel related parts (don't leave your car full of gas for 12 years) and other bits and pieces that didn't like sitting for so long, it was all go again.

Holy crap I just went back and realised it has been 5 fucking years since I cut the skin off this door! Bloody hell I am world class at faffing round!

So this may look like a picture of a mini on blocks but dont be fooled! This picture represents a major milestone! The passenger door has FINALLY had all the rust cut out. New steel welded back in surface rust sanded back. Dynamat. Cavity waxed and finally a brand new door skin lovingly folded around it. It even works! The innards are in it and its window goes up AND down and the door lock even works!. Yes it still needs 4 spot welds and the window seals etc put in but the seals will wait until the paint is done and I will do the spot welds a bit later...probably after I've done the other door...as Id rather do them at the same time. So anyway...thanks for enduring my post. Ta.

I datalogged a trip home from Hampton today - datalogging 10 ballzillion variables at 40hz makes for a big file! About 250mb for an hour's drive. However I've been looking into coming up with a fairly robust way to analyze log files for things which need complex calculations like fuel consumption. I think all of my maths works but I'll have to datalog a few more runs and see if it stands up to scrutiny. The Litres per 100km values are about on par with what I was seeing with the factory ECU on long trips, so that's a good start I guess. The following was running closed loop with 14.7 goal AFR, so it will be interesting to lean out the goal AFR and see if it actually improves the litres per 100km figure.

Fixed rust. Fixed seat belts. And lots of other stuff. Trying to wof and wheel alignment tomorrow. Not booked in anywhere. Drives nice.looks tatty. Has patina. Running out of time... 9 days of ownership so far.

Hi Wellingtonians I have been summoned to Wellington for the weekend of 28/29th March for a stag do. Apropos of booking myself a dingy hotel room for the duration of my stay, would any members have a spare bed or couch for me to rest my weary head on the Friday (27th) and Saturday (28th) nights? May even have a rental car which means self sufficiency and zero inconvenience of having to be picked up and dropped off at the place where the big cigars with wings arrive and depart from, but will confirm this closer to the time. Appropriate remuneration will of course be provided. Also thinking a lunch meet on the Sunday may be in order. Thanks in advance and please PM if you can help! Ed

I'm pretty sure that Maggie has already dibs shotgun? trolololol

Cheers Man, starting to think brave is another word for bonkers The paint issue came up today in fact, I had already purchased some spray enamel and 1k high build primer on the advice from the guys at the paint shop as I was going to attack it myself, it seemed sound enough but everyone else I spoke to thought I should go 2k. A bit if a re-think and decided to use a professional as I'm no painter. The advice to use 2k was firmly put across by the guy who's going to spray it for me, he paints Aluminium boats for a living so I reckon he should know his stuff.(thanks to nvmyvl for the contact, and Rustisize for offering to help) He's going to supply the primer and the paint shop swapped the enamel/primer and solvents back which was really good of them so I'm hoping for a finish I know I never would have had the patience nor skill to obtain. Had a chuckle to myself when I saw your caravan frame only remaining..

Me and shonesy are heading up about 12-12:30 Thursday from ding, via rotorua to pick triumph up then cruising in that up to Coro, will take direct route from the to maximise shoving booze in me gob time

Hahahaha man I LOVE the replica perforated material. Were those dots placed there by hand? Hahaha imagine how tedious that would be!

Yip - new photos are displaying! Roof rack looks sweet, need to get one of them for mine!!

I'm already here

Also mabye compresed air to pop it out? if the tank is out, put the filler over an exhaust of a running car for about 10 minutes. will degass it so no boom. If empty. ling post...

So this happened! Finally got my rims and rubber sorted! Little bit of wheel arch gap so could go lower but i think it looks grouse Hate or love here

In place for a trial fitting, It's not completed yet as I'm going to spot weld it and remove the rivets/ corrosion treat etc..

gutted I'm not taking a car with a bonnet so I can roll out a massive oversized map of NW roads with a compass on it trying to figure out routes to take. ah the old days

Mate! Go to a place like JA RUSSELS and get decent crimp connectors (nice ones have the heat shrink and glue in them) plus a decent set of ratchet crimp pliers. The crimp tool you have in photos is as good as useless. I actually saw decent looking ratchet crimp tools at sca For 25 bucks over the weekend.

Quick update, been wiring lights up tonight. Needs to be done at some point- thought it might be a nice relaxing job to do this evening... HA. Got it done in the end though with much swearing and confusion. Amazing how in dim light green can look like black and your earth disappears- all results in the park lights flashing instead of the indicators... not ideal. Half the problems occurred due to me being an idiot and buying shit connectors- majority of them pulled straight off in my attempts to diagnose the earth issues- you get what you pay for I guess. Bloody fibreglass cars... My little box of hateful shite Rears working I do have it on stands by the way, not just sitting on the jack... Connectors do the job though. Tried to keep the wiring as tidy as possible- not a fan of having wires hanging all over the show but I will have to address this later once I fit the stop light switch in the brake pedal. Thursday this week I'm taking the car to my mechanic to give it a check over, sort my clutch issues out, throttle cable and speedo cable in and bleed everything up. He can also tell me what is missing for WOF so I can address those issues and hopefully soon be driving it. Still on the hunt for someone to make a windscreen- McGregor Motorsport seem to be a no go... Discussion is welcomed: //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/46798-hkm400s-1969-lotus-7-series-3/ Cheers

Missed the burnout competition but made it to toyota fest on saturday, all wiring completed by myself. Has exceeded my expectations on power an pretty happy with it. Next focus is to work on suspension and look at upgrading the diff as i broke an axle on saturday

Meeeean this is rad. You actually did the thing we all say we would do when we spot a somewhat saveable wreck. If you are still looking for a shotgun I'm still looking for a ride up to nats from Welly.

other option is I could write up some pace notes Like I do some times

Top job man! well done.

FYI this is quite a good route to take from the south up to thames, basically getting off the main highways at matamata and going along nice straight flat country roads with no traffic https://www.google.co.nz/maps/dir/Taupo/Coroglen+Tavern,+State+Highway+25,+Whitianga/@-37.4286412,175.7000955,10z/data=!4m24!4m23!1m15!1m1!1s0x6d6bef77144b165b:0x500ef6143a309e0!2m2!1d176.0702098!2d-38.6856924!3m4!1m2!1d175.8150583!2d-37.7789676!3s0x6d6db103bdfb87c5:0x1300ef610696bef0!3m4!1m2!1d175.7963333!2d-37.6839058!3s0x6d6dbb03a9c1a3a9:0x1300ef6106e75050!1m5!1m1!1s0x6d7266d6db2992b5:0x24598990a81d2e13!2m2!1d175.691632!2d-36.92381!3e0?hl=en if you want more uppy/downy/side to side go accross to the kaimai side of the river/paeroa way

Drug her and manipulate her until she understands. You did not hear that from me. I did not say that.

Hopefully leave Napier 10am on Thursdee, but have to go via Tauranga en route so not much chop really. Might stop if I see a stranded car/do the same in return please thanks.

There's a 10c "Fuck you" tax on Petrol for Aucklanders, remember.

we are getting into the north Tuesday afternoon and are planning on driving north and staying at vinegar hill Tuesday night. then carrying on to the coromandel on wednesday to meet up with the tour of love for the last night of there trip

I'm leaving welly on Wednesday morning. Plans to camp out an hour from Hampton downs, potentially paeroa.

Anyone go inside and see the dude playing the organ? was pretty rad. He invited people up so I played some guns and roses to a rapturous crowd of 20 or so.

your garden needs more tire swans to be honest

I fixed my speedo! This was the problem (or at least the last remaining problem of multiple problems): A connector on the back of the instrument cluster, only partially unplugged for the photo. Just cos something's plugged in on this car doesn't mean it works. Finally, more than eight years after the speedo first started playing up, I'll once again know my fuel economy and how fast I was going, officer. I had this figured out maybe a month ago, but I just got around to soldering wires directly to that little board to bypass the dodgy plug. Eventually it would be good to do a proper job and build my own PCB, eliminating all of the layers of that stupid flexible plastic with the copper tracks on. In celebration of sorting this out, I'm thinking I'll do all of Nats in the Alfa rather than trying to trailer my SD1.

Ed. You are part of the social circle but its a pain in the ass to have you around most times because you bitch about people not liking you or inviting you and it puts a downer on everyone's day. I go through a lot of trouble to invite you to everything I attend with other OS boes. I have offered you free rides to ham meets on plenty of occasions (when I actually used to go) I completely understand what it feels like to have such social anxiety as I have it too, but when you don't extend the courtesy of inviting me to shit you hear about that I don't then I just can no longer be fucked tbh. Guessing some shit happened at x time in your life that fucked you up and that sucks. For me it was when I moved to the other side of the world, away from my friends and a grand total of 2 people showed up to my leaving party out of the 50+ people I invited and all said they would come. It sucks but you gotta deal with it differently. Every single post you make about not being part of the is family, or not getting invited, or whatever just works against you. People don't want a negative Nelly around and that's what you portray yourself to be on the interwebs, and doesn't help getting asked to go places etc. I am always ready to help with shit. Me and can were at your house not all that long ago helping you with something and there's not a single person on this forum that can say I have ever turned down a request to help with something, but all those people have asked for help first. Its just frustrating that you can't see that you are in the middle of it all, and that nobody hates you, but you are drifting away and only because you bitch about not being invited to something that 99% of the time either wasn't a thing, or wasn't an OS thing in the first place. And no, I don't comment or like shit in your build threads but that's because I hardly read any build threads on OS and would rather stop in at your house when I'm in the neighbourhood and see it IRL. Sorry for the harsh words, but you need to know what's what. So next time you feel like the world hates you, call me up and you can come to my house and swing a spanner on my car (god knows I don't wanna do it myself some come round whenever) or come play some N64 or something as I like you and consider you a good friend etc. xoxo

just hook the second wire to a ring terminal on a frame bolt?

Wow- its been a while since I wrote some stuff about dirt, gorse and sheds. So here I am. It has been a busy last few months sorting out many things. I have not been working much in this time, well not paid work that is. I have certainly been on my feet rushing about here and there trying to get stuff done in some sort of order so we can start getting a little business going. What we want to do more than anything is just build or fix things for people from the comfort and convenience of our own workshop charging a fair enough rate that will allow us to continue on with a pretty cruisy relaxed lifestyle out here. I am sure that is what most here on oldschool want though- most I have met so far have not been chasing silly big monies but instead want enough to play with old cars and shit. So that's us. With this in mind I had to continue on getting the shed up and once it was up I have been full on trying to set it up neatly in fashion I've always wanted before taking on any proper 'paid' work. Sam will attest to this...his Celica has been sitting here for ages while I get stuff unpacked and sorted away. I promise you Sam that I will soon remove all them big chunks of air from your/Janes car and replace them with steel. Phew- that was a big chunk of words. Here's a photo.. Yep- that's our workshop all pretty much finished. The very eagle eyed will spot a few flashings missing. I have to finish them plus fit a really awesome cat themed wind vane my parents gave us. But yeah, the shed is up and what a relief that is! Its been a few months of ups and downs mainly to do with the shed supplier being totally useless. But that's all over now and in the past. So moving on its all inside fitting out work now. First thing was to get a heap of plywood delivered and line it out. This instantly transformed the feel! its also going to help heaps as extra bracing although the shed feels solid as without it. After the ply was up I built was a place to sit with our coffee and ponder ideas in the sunshine. Using a variety of Rimu bits kicking about I made this bench.. More recently I have parked a little breville espresso machine on top- one that my parents threw out because it leaks badly. I'll put up with that for nice coffee in the workshop Now I am part German. Only an eighth but I think enough to make me get off just a little on organisation, ergonomics and efficiency. At times, often, this conflicts with my mums she'll be right kiwi hippy cruisy slant. Hannah is also a tidy freak so the workshop has to be as well organised as possible. Especially if we want people to come along to see us and be potential customers. I hate messy workshops! I hate spending ages looking for tools or stock when it should be in its place and easy to find. Especially if a good customer is paying for this time. Not on in my book. So for the last few weeks in between entertaining guests and trying to enjoy some of this summer after missing out on December and much of Jan to building the workshop etc I have been organising all of our stuff. We had to make several trips over to Blenheim to help my parents move house. While there each time we would bring back a load of stuff that was stored there. We also took down the little plywood shed we had built before we started building the housetruck. All this stuff ended up in a big pile on the workshop floor. This pile had me in hives with the general messyness. Plus we had to make the place a little bit tidy for the visit from the smoking tire crew. So I made some big shelves. Many of the boxes my parents had used to move house were a perfect size for these shelves but they were covered in print as they got them from macdonalds. I turned them all inside out and re-glued them. Now I had a load of neat matched brown boxes. Awesome! So I organised shit and stacked shelves.. I also built a big sturdy bench. Then I covered the top with a sheet of 4mm thick steel. Its great. Really happy with it. You can see to the right in the above image a big steel table. That was the frame we found in the scrub next to the drive. Its burly and has industrial grade castor wheels with grease nipples. It was an awesome find. So I cleaned it up and welded the other half of the sheet of steel to it. So a 2.4 m long heavy roll around workbench. You could put a car on it. So cool. I love it. My last thing to build was something ive had in mind for ages- well before building the shed. I always find storing paint cans, spray cans, screws, bolts etc, seldom used special tools- all the little things that clog up shelves and work tops getting in the way. So I wanted to get this stored out of sight and safe from errant grinding or welding sparks. I built this unit. Made use of spare Rimu offcuts for the door.. which opens to this.. Yeah Im pretty happy with that it must be said. Amazing how much stuff it holds and how clear it makes every where else. We have built another bench- a bit smaller and with a Rimu top. Its in what will be the bicycle area. That area will be sectioned off and solely for our many pushbikes and keeping them on the road (or on the dirt..) Last night Hannah started varnishing the bench tops and the doors. They already look so much better after ust one thinned down prime coat.. Once the building has been signed off we'll start doing the electrics. We'll do as much as we can but will have to get an electrician to connect our switch board to the main meter box and then test/sign the lot off. Already have local guy who is helpful as. Later in the year we can start building the mezzanine floor. This I am really looking forward to! Plus looking forward to painting the plywood and finishing off all the doorways/windows etc with some feature wood. Other things have been happening away from the shed. WE moved the long drop away from where it was - which was a bit too close to the truck to be healthy. Up the hill a bit and in the bush surrounded by big ferns. This involved digging a deep hole- as deep as I could reach. My brother came over and helped us carry the booth up the hill. Its now in a much nicer place to take a dump! I added a vent and sealed up all the gaps and now it draws nicely up out of the vent and smells nice. well in a composty long drop sort of way. We have also been having a go at creating a succulent garden/area. Big thanks to Andre for the Yukkas and many succulents. Its looking pretty good so far and hopefully they will thrive in the hot little valley here. We have called this garden 'the garden of tat' because a friend gave us a pretty awful wood look carving of a lady sitting next to a wolf. Once it was placed down we have started discovering other gems and friends/family have given us other terrible tasteless ornaments. Dad gave us the concrete cast boy climbing up a log which I accidently broke in half. But then glued together with no more nails.. So to finish off this rather long post here are of our 'garden of tat'

theres a single legger in my undies i can tell you that. Glenn did the tune with Brendon helping. i stood around and said stupid things - as is my habit. man does this thing lay 11's now. even when you trying not to. Brendon said i should stop in an see you on my way back but i completely forgot. i had other things on my mind as you could imagine.

Might even get you a lifesize cardboard cutout if you get this dubyabee on the road

"Don't worry honey, fifty miles isn't that far to walk..." "If only I'd bought that reliable Corolla instead of this stupid heap.." Forgot to add some more stuff I've done with the car since my 2013 update. Went hooning in the hills with an Alfa Sprint: Official flower transporter for my sister's wedding (that was fragrant): Actual groom transporter for another friend's wedding.. Apparently black car + no air conditioning + tuxedo + summer + stress = bad idea.. Signs that your car is oldschool after all: The WOF inspector starts the engine in order to turn the steering wheel (there's no power steering) You could stand there indefinitely watching the panelbeater trying to start it from cold, or you could tell him he needs to pump the accelerator and use the manual choke Anyway, the panelbeaters fixed the rust. Also, new steering wheel today: http://www.axys.co.nz/ben/alfa33/suedewheel3.jpg I fitted my previous one in 2005 and it was always a bit small (320mm), but in recent years its urethane / vinyl surface had begun to wear at 9 and 3 o'clock. Perfect excuse to upgrade to 350mm - now I can see all of the instruments again and park easily in the supermarket with fat semi-slicks fitted. Only the brakes to be done before I can get my WOF for Nats.

Good work no going back now haha

9 inch it is Greg.

Got a Honda Alloy radiator for it as it was pretty much perfect for what i needed and also what i ran in the ep82. Had to get pretty creative with the piping as the radiator outlets are by the firewall at the back. Turbo manifold was next, and I got talked into making one myself by more than one person. So for the next million hours of my life I created my first attempt at a turbo manifold. Should work ok providing it doesnt fall apart.

Fitting with British Leyland goodness I thought up chuck up a photo of my fiance's mini. She always wanted one as a kid after seeing two cooper S's racing with her old man at the port at nelson. Always wanted a red one in cooper S colours. Her old man brought her this for her what i think was her 15 birthday, it was her first car. Was in pus orange originally. Cute father daughter project over the proceeding years doing it up. Got minilites for her 16th birthday, 1275gt donk when she passed 7th form NCEA etc. Pretty neat little car and she drives it like a mad women. Drove it between havelock and blenhiem everyday for school. Now currently undercover in her old mans treasure chest with lots of other goodies, photo is from when he suprised her last christmas and put a new 1275 in it as the other one did a head gasket. First time she had driven it in years. It will come up to pamly with us when we get out own place / my shed