locost_bryan

 That's a pretty sweet ride.

If I was to keep I would keep as is lower it and get the steel wheels widened

Formula Fords used the Herald uprights and kept Triumph's oddball 3&3/4" (95.75mm) PCD, so they are a potential source of widened wheels.  Kilroy, the Marina dude from Chch (think he's a member here?), found a set of 7" banded Spitfire steelies ex a FF.

iirc the main problem fitting a 2.5 is squeezing in the "big" Triumph gearbox.  The Vitesse and GT6 used an uprated Herald box (iirc the first of the single-rail type), but it's pretty marginal with the 2 litre (it's also the weak link in the Marina TC).  You'd definitely want to uprate the rear suspension to the late Vitesse/GT6 type.

Uprating the engine to Spitfire 1500/Toledo 1500 TC spec would be a cool option, especially since it keeps it all original looking and no cert required.

Real nice van.

Someone at Masport must have had fun at the rego office, getting all the J* 780 plates.  Jim Donald's BDA Escort had JD 780, and Blair Robson's had JB 780.

The Holden V6 traces it's roots back to the '60s Buick V6 (via Jeep), which was 3/4's of the 300 V8 that was derived from the Buick 215 (later Rover 3500).  Apparently there are a few Holden seals that fit the Leyland P76.

Buick, Oldsmobile, and Holden all did supercharged or turbocharged versions over it's three decades.

You can never have too many...

Fitted with aftermarket extractors?

Always liked the GT6, especially the later ones with the better (less bad?) rear suspension.  Suites the "slot" mags, too.

The 2.5 should make it go like stink, and the saloon box fixes the GT6's big archilles heel - the "small" Triumph gearbox.  Don't know why Triumph thought the Herald box would handle the torque from the 112bhp six, when it was marginal in the 95bhp Marina TC.

Plenty of tuning parts around from the TRs, and even with bigger twin carbs and warm cam, the WoF man probably wouldn't know it hasn't got a stock 2-litre.

Been fun watching all the classic cars and vans on "Westside".  A definite nostalgia piece for me, growing up in the same area (Te Atatu South) during the early/mid '70s.

Love the mags it came with, give a great period look, although the black steelies do suit the Mad Max look better.

Como E'stas Bitches

Just quote Mr I. Pop

 

Soy un gringo Americano Del pais brutal y frio Nada de esa mierda Es mi culpa

I am an American gringo of the country brutal and cold, none of this shit is my fault

Shame we couldn't do a deal on these (still keen on the wagon), but I'll leave it up to you to make a good job of these...

 

I think a Rover V8 conversion into the Wagon would be the way to go - the quintessential British conversion.

Although a SBC would keep it in the GM family, and replicate the factory's efforts with earlier Victors (iirc).

Did they make an SD1 coupe? That looks awesome!

They sort of did.  The SD1 hatch is rumoured to be based on the Australian Force 7 coupe's hatch.

Volvo inline 5 or 6? Plenty of puffer options from the mad Swedes. Lol.

Patrick Harlow of Upper Hutt (author of NZ Cars - a Cottage Industry) was asking for info on the car on The Roaring Season forum last year, but got no answers.

http://www.theroaringseason.com/showthread.php?622-NZ-Cars-A-Cottage-Industry/page11

Don't get me started on Austin Montego's, because the shocking answer is......... I love them!!!!!!!!!

I drove heaps of them in the Uk because they were worth exactly nothing, and were supercheap to run, especially the diesels.

If ever I was offered another Diesel Countryman Wagon, I would buy it in a heartbeat

Like most BL stuff, once the first few thousand buyers had done the final development work, the rest were pretty well sorted.  And the diesels still have a very good reputation in the UK.  Didn't they sell the engine design to Perkins (aka Prima)?

B series engine with a single HS1 carb

i can feel the economy from here

Ah, but any B-series or derivative should bolt in easily.  Keep it period with a twin carb setup from the MG Magnette version for a scorching 72bhp from 1622cc, or drop in a MGB lump for a breathtaking 95bhp from 1800cc, or go the whole hog and screw in a 16-valve 2-litre turbo M-series from a Rover Tomcat .

JA & GD Trudgeon Painting Contractors - looks to be a Canterbury car, the firm sponsored a race at the Methven trots in 2013

http://jca.org.nz/race-days/methven-tc-harness-racing-6-10-2013/methven-tc-6-october-2013-r-6

Woah woah woah!

The combo was parked upstairs by the previous owner and if for whatever reason the lada can't make it on any given month and I bring the combo it will be parked downstairs.

Thought that was Zebra Dude's Combo

But they don't have parking room for everyone as it is.

Banish the Combo to the back street! Can park it next to my Jazz on the walk of shame... lol

When I turned 40, SWMBO bought me a session in the race school HQ at Pukekohe.    Man, that thing could motor, especially when Dave Slater was pedalling.

thanks boe, offer noted! may need your help drinking some mooses at the warming.

 

 

just reading back over what you wrote elliot, one thing i've found through this project is noone knows fuck all about containers, except the dude in HiVis who cuts them up all day.

 

seriously, i couldnt find any useful information through anyone that has any decent qualification.

all the critical information and seriously important points came from the guys in the yard.

 

the engineers drew it as a tin box, didnt even know there were channel rails, offsets, major structural parts in places.

i wish i'd designed certain parts, the foundation attachment in particular, with the yard boys and got them checked by engineers rather than getting to engineers to go from scratch.

Container houses are wickedly cool, the ideal "green" building imho. 

Cubular in Tauranga reckon $2200-2900/m2 ready to go...

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/business/the-rebuild/10157148/Life-in-a-container-house

iirc Graeme Addis does container buildings http://www.addis.co.nz/container-innovation

and built this ...

I will just put this here

 

 

Yes, that is a Falcon wagon boating around the track.

And shit yes

I used to do club days and bent sprints with my XB 250 ute, 3-on-the-tree and LSD.  Best drift machine ever  

But even this was entertaining...

 

Do you want me to continue the story, or get into the nitty gritty of decrepit Torino ownership?

Lots of both...    

He is putting a transam replica body on that

One of the ones made by Tom Morland in Chch, who also did a Pantera replica?

Featured in NZ Hot Rod magazine in 1984 (can be ordered here http://www.nz-hotrod.com/FEATURE-CARS.html)

ok so not in the mustang then. but if its a windsor its not a 2v then?

 

I wasnt wrong that 302 clevelands are a thing that exists though

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_335_engine

Shame on Ford, confusing us by producing two V8s in the same capacities, and then Australianising one of them to boot.   Can never remember which is which...

302 2v is probably cleveland?

 

my limited knowledge of fords is that the 2v and 4v were the different heads for the cleveland motor small port and big port.

there is definitely such thing as a cleveland 302 anyway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Mustang_(first_generation)#1971.E2.80.931973

 

1973

250 cu in (4.1 L) Thriftpower I6, 1-barrel Carter RBS, L-code, 98 bhp (73 kW; 99 PS) @ 3,400, 197 lb·ft (267 N·m) @ 1,600

302 cu in (4.9 L) Windsor V8, 2-barrel Autolite 2100, F-code, 140 bhp (104 kW; 142 PS) @ 4,000, 239 lb·ft (324 N·m) @ 2,000

351 cu in (5.8 L) Cleveland V8, 2-barrel Autolite 2100, H-code, 177 bhp (132 kW; 179 PS) @ 4,000, 284 lb·ft (385 N·m) @ 2,000

351 cu in (5.8 L) Cleveland V8, 4-barrel Autolite 4300D, Q-code, 266 bhp (198 kW; 270 PS) @ 5,400, 301 lb·ft (408 N·m) @ 3,600

 

Can't say I like anything about the new Transit vans Supposed to drive really well etc. but just look like a big Focus to me.......

Only got a rear 3/4 view of the new Transit Custom - from that angle, with the bigger rubber, had a similar stance and proportions to the early Transit.  Not so from the front, as you say, too much of the Ford "family" look and not enough of the Transit's traditional character.

Leads to me recalling the (bad) old days of rebuilding a Chevette 1256 in the bedroom of the flat I was living in. Apart from never staying in tune (electronic ignition should help that) it went OK.

Took SWMBO's Chevette on our honeymoon back in '89 - drove from Christchurch to the Bay of Islands, great wee beast, would sit flat at 115kmh on all but the windiest roads.

Nice short-throw gearlever, neutral handling, just needed another 60bhp...