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oh man that would be awesome. only my car ain't up and going yet - can't leave the mrs carless.

so what sort of colour are you going for Mikey? I wasn't expecting something as fine as this to be sacrificed to beer and salt...

so whats next, the salt and beer treatment?

mate, that is quote-worthy. YES> yes yes. urban digital camo is it.

I've been late to parties all my life, sorry I couldn't change that habit for my first outing to OS welly! Great to meet those of you I did. uncharacteristically I didn't snap anything. Seeing Manu's falcooon in the metal was hugely impressive. last to leave, I think the security guys were trying to reconcile me with the respectible newschool krautwagen heh heh. Hope to have the OS-BTSS 850 going for next meet, I'll be less fashionably late. next mini-project: transforming the corned-beef spec commode badges to magnetic stick-on for photo series next time.

although I guess I won't be there until about 8.15....

I shall be festooned with camera, as you'd expect for a snapper.

I think your new wheels look ace on the wag. well done.

+1 Panda!!! see about 0:05.15 ...because initial D tributes are just, well, ace. if they're done with irony.

I am suitably impressed with the proximity of your refrigeration unit to the back door. you shall be able to reach in from the outside during those long european summer evenings spent on camping chairs outside your vehicle, in order to obtain a chilled and refreshing beverage, without the need to enter your villa on wheels. great planning.

seriously awesome - total shed-spec foundry. was the mould outside to make alu ingots?

I may even make this one. Pete, you gonna be in wellington? I just paid the ransom to customs to release my parts, they'll be here next week. So you may have bolts of caliper persuasion. Are you sure you're not just breathing hard? It'll be good to meet ya'll.

great to see movement on this one. pics or it didn't happen!

so do the barmaids get their puppies out?

rat rods are undoubtedly cool, but hey, when you notice the bandwagon it's too late really to jump on. build something original, let the mind soar!

god knows where broke-ass students can afford to drink in wellington! UJ's suggested venue concentrates on quality; never mind quantity!

d'oh! yes have been reading/re-acquainting myself with this oz-iron. sorry for bone-head suggestion.

I guess this is no help?

can't you just go corned-beef and add a VN diff? I seem to recall mention that the VN diff in VH/VK gives you just a little more track, but fits? you'd need to verify, but...

I spent the arvo on more painting prep work, and then spent the end of the arvo sharing a rigger of Bookbinder with my neighbour, along with lengthy discussions of guitar music. I had been intending to drop by to see you and shoot some carefully composed documentary photographs while you worked, preserving this for posterity. Great to see the progress!

excellent to be able to get the frost plug you need on a weekend. For all you can say to knock REPCO etc, I always remember to thank the staff for working on their weekends! If they didn't us weekend mecchers would be shit outa luck. were you tempted to replace the rest of the frost plugs while they motor was out and you had easy access? keep up the great work, looking forward to hearing this with bike carbs on it!

the commonwealth games symbol is not best served by substituting black for the original blue, nor repurposing for airlines. I reckon you could do something interesting with the old P&T logo (like on that Thames Trader) though - take the basic shape, stylise it, make your own substitution, and then add an appropriate period font to match the logo, for the business of your invention. Gallows and son, commedians comb and razor, gentlemens barbers Nobend and P'Farty, art dealers (a filthy rich and catflap reference) etc...

re insurance companies, if there's no police visit at the scene, no witnesses, and no clarity of 'at fault' - they do 'knock for knock' and pay their own claims.... which in your case would be nil. Hopefully you had a police visit to the accident, and when drawing the diagrams and statement of what happened, there's no room for interpretation of who's at fault. In that case your insurer should be chasing her insurer for the pay-out.

yes, ditto bummer to see - glad, though, to hear no damage to either of you.

yes, I found that cats would be gathered around my sigma wherever I parked it, while the fishoilene was drying out kept the rodents away