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So yeah brought a kombi. Well Beth did.

Well it all started with getting along with the guys at the vdub shop. They had the low light there for a we while had been stripped and sand blasted. The owner was been hard to contact and wasn't doing much. I made a silly offer and got no where. In the end they wanted it gone. Several emails from me to the owner ended up no where. Aiden and I had been talking at the vdub shop trying to help him get it out of his way so he emailed saying sorry we have had enough and have pushed it out side. Saying good luck with the sale it's just going to rust. I then got a email back from the kombi owner saying sweet we have a deal you can pick it up when ever. Meanwhile aiden hadn't put it out side was still in side. Anyway picked it up today. This is pretty much beths kombi as I'm not aloud another car. Got to many bills to pay. She had been sitting a while in the same spot collecting some dust. Token petrol station picture of the new car. And now I collect rusty volkswagens in my spare time I had priced up all the patch panels before going in with the deal so this shull be fun. I also have to finish my valiant before I can start on this. We will see how that goes. Chat about it over here

Found the reason why my Accelerator cable stopped working. It probably got something to do with the sparkie wiring block that's holding it together....... Hold up. Closer inspection says it wasn't my kiwi ingenuity collapsing. Turns out split pin up the front of the car gave up and decided to run away. Chur. vw 0 Greg 1

Kegan came over last Friday night and we got busy. He put a new brake master cylinder in. Bled the brakes up and we have great stopping power now. We also chucked the bonnet latch on chucked the bonnet on. Works out and clips on and off super easy. I need to tighten a few more bolts that I kinda just put in for the car shows. And put the engine lid on also. Really thought this was going to help with stopping the crap getting into the engine bay. Turns out nah. Shit still gets in there from underneath. Engine bay was a shambles when I got to the car show on Saturday. Travelling engine forward in the rain sucks. Also asked a few people if they had made engine lid removal things and a mate came back with this set up. Shit it's great. Works great to keep the water out say at a car show and saves me having to cover up the trumpets every time I think it's going to rain. Although I gave up and just put my water bottle covers on them. Just a tad easier. Day went well. Went to load it on the trailer and everyone lost there shit. People came from all over and phones where everywhere. As I loaded it into the trailer the hand brake button popped out and fucken was a cunt to get sorted while half loaded trailer..... Then I managed to do it at home twice unloading the trailer and then fouled the plugs gave up and then the cable for the Accelerator broke. God dam it. So a few more things to do on it again. Might take it to caffeine and classics this weekend so got a bunch of crap to get done this week make it work again and it's already up on axle stands. Haha.

could possibly do this if weather looks alright and drag the dub up

no tank in the rear or anything. just straight pipes to the front. got a radiator cap at the front and have a bleed nipple at the top hose just out of the water pump. trying to find a s4 water filller neck which had a radiator cap on top. but seems s5 rx7 have 2 bolt pattern mine has a 3 bolt pattern. so back to bleep niple for now il find a pic and post it. il have it at chrome if you wanted to gork at it there

It's out of a 1980s Mercedes. Just what was on the shelf at the radiator shop that kinda fitted and was around the right price. Guy knew it was for a rotary and said this is a half pie decent one. Should definitely keep it cool. Some one had ordered it and never picked it up. A Toyota hilux was the right kinda shape and what not but the price was not fitting with in my cheep nasty budget

So I thought since I have a car show this weekend coming and chrome the weekend after I better pull the car apart and fix the main things that need to be done. 1st things 1st cut the spare wheel well out. I did plan on building a thing like this to stop hot air travling into the cabin. But my radiator is a tad tall so will just make a devider against the bonnet and use a door seal to keep the heat out. Hopefully with the amount I cut out should allow air flow to max. Also gotta chuck safety belts in it. Slot my rear arms so don't have heaps of toe in. Also notch them so I don't smash the spring plates all the time. Few other things. Brought a fuel pressure reg but don't have a drill at home to screw it on. Should help out with over fueling the bitch.

shit this is going to be so comfy to drive. im going to need to borrow you "special tool" to remove one of my torsion bars in the wagon. she sure is bent. might have to catch up and talk valiants again. who have you been purchasing your parts through. nz or aus?

Shit yeah 12 slots for the win. She's looking good man. Colour match looks sharp.

that video has gone viral. yota nation shared it. so much wickedness hold up it was video i keep seeing on my time line

shit yeah. your dad rocks! and dads friends are always the best for projects. you got a sweet project man. looking forward to seeing it complete and even more so your progress. prelude seats are pretty comfy seat and sort after in the hot rod world cause of how narrow they are. super keen to follow this one. this make me laugh, "Epoxying steel patches over rust is basically the same as welding in a repair panel isn't it?" cheap cars like today's toyotas, just fixed to keep on the road long enough.

So the bug made it into the pc mag. Cheers to @Snoozin for the great pics. Here are better pics with out the mag Again rolling shots are the tits You can really see how poo brown my interior is here. Go buy yourself a copy today.

sweet even better. see if we can do a deal buy one get one free? lest of freight

http://ranchotransaxles.com/rancho-subaru-5-speed-conversion-for-type-1-2-and-vanagon/ I'm going to leave this here for later.

Oh hey jase. You going to bring it to hamilton meet. Glad your back into old cars. She sure is a nice car.

carpet underlay is the best per dollar. i use it everywhere. and you can just use the off cuts where ever they fit. dyna matt is soooooo spendy but does do its trick mongoos is also a cheap branded stuff. for your roof id just use underlay. oh i can even sell you some if you want and hand deliver it cause i wona come say hello and check out your dub

Well well well. This car just keeps on going. I got it a wof for national's. Proceded to stop 100 times on our trip down. Thanks to Brent for keeping count. Done a crap load of miles. Did some big mph 6 up and just didnt stop. People voted this bad boy best sedan. Sure is a great sedan. Everyone should have one. Oh yeah I got clusters last stand from getting stung in the ball sack. (Well close enough) loosing a rubber bug for my roof rack and braking a strap. And I'm sure there was something else added to that list. But nats pretty much rulled. Looked something like this. @Archetype driving in these two photos. Hold up he is driving in three Me been the best drift taxi that was available Peach teats calves love them. And today the missus car decided to brake after been fixed. So I went to brents borrowed the trailer off brent and grabbed the old girl to do the job while i was at his. been in storage since os nats and still covered in crap from then. Fucken sketchy going down my drive way. Had Cody in my old lady's honda behind me in case it got away on me. I ended up turning the car off and using the gears off as engine braking, as it doesnt really work when you can do 50kph in 1st gear. the front wheels where skidding everywhere. Will not trade again. Got the job done. Also booked in to get roof fixed and below the back window painted in September. Gotta clean it up a little for the wedding and sick of not having a headlining in it. Might even put some carpet in it i think.

She sure looks rad. But she's nothing but a pile of rust. A big pile of rust. It's so far gone it's unbelievable but a couple of good parts left on it which is why they still have it. Like the back is held together with a ratchet tie down. Haha.

So yeah cars been sitting tucked away in the shed for a while now. We get a good view from the toilet in the garage. But now I have my mates skyline out of the shed it was time to rearrange the shed a bit more and get it ready for the photo shoot tomorrow. Can't even get it out of the bloody shed. Beached as bro. Ahh well give it a big wash. Make sure it goes and top it up full of fluids get it ready. Do a skid and brake it. Keep posted for more cool photos to come.

Well it fits nicely in my shed at home that's for sure. It's up on dollies so il be able to move it around a lot more and just be able to push one car out and work on this one a bit more. Will pick up my grill and headlights from mum's place and put them on also. Make it look like more of a complete car. Also mate had problems with the rear brakes not retracting and he came across some stuff on Google regarding the back hose locking up so il but some new rear hoses and put them on. Also find all the wheel trims also. Cutting discs aquiered. Need to get gas bottle asap

So @Archetype lent me his trailer this arvo and I managed to drive the valiant under its own power onto its trailer. Was good. But the new house location is up on a hill....... got the trailer and two wagons stuck half way up kinda got to close to one side and bottomed out, couldn't move. Unloaded wagon there got trailer up the hill. Backed back down and towed the valiant up with out a trailer. Mate got brakes working and it running quite sweet just not great which is sweet as. And now it's sitting in my shed waiting for me to buy some steel and a couple of cutting disk and hire a gas bottle Watch this space. Got to have it going for the wedding in feb next year and now I have my own shed I can escape from Beth heaps now.

shit yeah. glad to see you on os kenny. cool to see you got a cheap karmann ghia.