The Dude

Lol is Zebra Dude = https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=693110990769660&set=a.347222292025200.79000.340545949359501&type=1

 

/part of this setup (Not Ben)

 

 

just added 1 + 1 and got 2

 

soz /spam

The one and only, Battered mid 70's pinata, coming to Manakau soon, maybe

Oh yes they handled awesomely

So I thought back then anyway, The Moostang is getting Shackled up as we speak, so I can fit some unfeasibly wide Appliance wheels, and some Massive Patriot sidepipes, is NZ compliance going to have a heart attack at this?

This is what Zebra means (hook truck with or without dolly) I assume that would be classed as a trailer or something

 

This is technically attached to the back of the truck so it would be classed as rear overhang

 

Spot on Mof

Yeah Fizzies are super rare, because we all had them at 16 and got rid of them at 17, so in 10 years a bike had 10 owners! 10 sixteen year old owners, who had never ridden anything before, and If I was anything to go by, thought they were Evil Kinevel.

Trust me when I say this, even a cape won't save you from gravity

Most were fully destroyed by ten years old, and the few survivors are worth good gold, because all of us around back then have fond 16 year old memories of them.

I'd love to have one and a B100p, or a BLOOP to most sitting in the Garage (I've got two Suzuki GP100's already), and lets not get started on RD400 Coffin tanks and KH 250,350,500 and death on a stick 750 two stroke triples, the only difference between  a good one and a bad one, was one ran, the other didn't, if it rattled it was either in perfect condition, or F$@ked if it was quiet it was either in Perfect condition or F@#ked, the only way to tell was to buy it, and if it made it home it was probably a good one

Actually yours is the much rarer Sixteen Special released in 73, they then changed the name to the Fs1e or Fizzie as everyone remembers them, as Honda had the rights to SS50 if I remember right, most of the early Fizzies had pedals to make them moped compliant, but they would do a ball buzzing 60mph or 100kph on the speedo, doing that was certainly the way into an early grave tho, as the lights were 6v candle powered things.

I had soooooooo much fun on these things, it was all you could ride at 16 (you could drive at 17) 25 quid and someone in the pub would hand you the screwdriver to your own set of extremely cheap wheels, usually some extremely run down early Fizzie that you had to rebuild twice a month

p.s get a heavy and powerful engine, you'll need it to keep the front wheels on the ground

Errr Hook Trucks are the Black arts, certifiy the hook and deck and have at it, don't tow over capacity (yeah right!) and all is golden.

There is no maximum length, just maximum overhang, which isn't applicable as the thing your towing has a wheel at its end.

I have towed all kinds of frightening things on hook trucks, none of which I will mention here, due to my acute embarrassment at being such a loose unit, and the fact that now I'm a semi sensible businessman

I went to my local VTNZ, with a dereg moped they walked out looked at the plate on the back of it, said thanks I handed in the plate, paid the years rego, and blammo, new plate and ready to go.

Been there, done that

Hook Trucks are the way forward, petrol, no ruc, class1 licence, make em out of anything, Falcon will be perfect

Go restore it, they were awesome when they were new, I'm pretty sure there are hardly any left, I blew most of them up as a kid

If you ever sell it let me know

Delica? That's mitsi.

Ot but a tradie at work had a 4wd Toyota (I think) van at work today. I should have paid more attention as it was badass as hell.

Seriously though.. What about an old transit? They come up cheap and are more heavy duty than any islander mover.

I used quite a few Transits, If I could figure out how to get the pics working I'd show you!

I'll keep an eye out for it at the yard, P10?

No scrub the might, I DO have a use for that!

Went for a bit of a drive around yesterday and come across a couple of cars

 

 

 

 

XB Falcon? I might have a use for that!

Something like this? I think you would have to wear some uber cool 80's half tint sunglasses too, as you blast into the sunset

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIpfWORQWhU

See now that's what I'm talking about, The Bedford is pretty much ideal, repower, rebrake, and your onto a good thing.

There's one in my shed with a 350 in it, goes like hell, doesn't stop or corner!

Aha! does this thing have the EST ignition? And the Varijet carb? because both of those things suck in a large way? I'm not sure if the NZ ones had all the emissions gear?

Basicly taking it back to the blue 202 spec should sort it out, you replace the EST setup with a blue motor distributor.

The blue motor distributor is a straight swap, with 2 wires to connect to the coil from the dizzy,You just need to remove the wire from the coil to the EST computer...
By disconecting the wire that goes from the negative side of the coil to the EST computer it takes the EST out of service, and it cant give you any problems

We also used the carb and I think the manifold off a blue motor too.

I'm not a Holden Guru by any means but this is how my mate got my old VK to run ok in OZ

That is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen, I have now found myself looking at Holden Tonners on Trade me, I don't need one but who cares!

Get some more photo's write a bit more and send it into NZ Performance car and get $150

I liked the story dude.

Ok I'm with ya on this, that is a freeking amazing 3rd wheeler.

Trust me when I say well thought out hook truck is a winner, driven heaps of them and made them from Transits, Land rovers, Range Rovers (awesome but thirsty!) a Mazda b2000 (small and awesome around town) A Holden HZ (my Favourite ever) couple of old Chevs and Fords and a D series 4x4 which is basicly unstoppable but oinly does 80kmh in a wall of noise!

Or go the Eldorado, I want the Eldorado!

I hate to be the Naysayer here, but, not in anyway are they going to allow this thing on the road, it will need a full chassis, and how much load do you think the hardiest car based pickup can haul??? So it will need brakes and suspension and chassis upgrades to start with, running a chassis to the crossmember wont be enough, you'll need to make a whole chassis for it, which is possible, but super tricky. I've had a go at quite a few pickup truck based tow wagons and the only ones that work are short hook truck type arraingements. Everything else kinda sucked, and would have been massively illegal here in the UK breakdown trucks used to be wof and cert exempt, so you can imagine the types of horrors we tried.

mighty car mods could still use the doors

Yeah you can initially, but not for long

Cortina's sag, but Avengers whoa boy, no door opening at all there!

You lose all the structual integrity and the more you use it the more it sags, or if you fill it full of people!

I used to be the worlds cheapest wrecker, believe me when I say a truck is best.

You have to use something with a robust chassis, Transits just cope, I had a winch on the front of a transit and a beavertail on the back worked for ages and then Blammo car got stuck on the end of the deck and bent the damn thing like a banana.

Now imagine this you chop an A32 in half, weld on a trailer halfway through, put the winch directly where the car meets  the trailer and pull a car flat on the ground, all its force pointing down and driving its various sticky outy bits into the earth and pull, your not overcoming rolling resistance, because there are no wheels, your pulling the full weight of the car and than some as bits get stuck.

That scares me, although not in anyway as much a putting a hiab on the same point!

Now a little ute with a crane, as a hook truck, or a 4x4, now ya talking.

Chopped the tops off quite a few motors over the years, they all bend, the bigger the car the quicker they bend, apart from full chassis cars like Toyota Crowns, they just keep on trucking.

Word of warning, if you chop off the top, NEVER open the doors

Dude

         I'm sorry to tell you, there is no way you will get any of these things certed over here unless you are a master fabricator/welder and to get the things to weigh under 2000kg Uh Uh. We have both been in the same industry for years, I've been towing cars for 20+ years on all kinds of stuff, but you need a truck, there's just no way around it!

Anything you make light will just not stand up to the massive stresses we put on them towing no wheelers, and akward angle stuff. However that being said a transit mk1,2 or 3 pick up is about the lightest thing you can make a transporter out of, but the chassis is just up to it, and you'd need to make a hell light skid deck to get it underweight, and then you have to certify it.

There's only one way around it, and that's a hook truck and spacy's  or a car trailer. You can drag it out with the crane, and then onto the trailer, hard work tho my man, and you'll only be able to tow one at a time.

The secret to making the truck pay for its self is two cars at a time, come and see me for a beer when you are popping through and I'll give you the full story, its a long and funny one and you'll enjoy it, I can give you a little list of the vehicles I've tried and wrecked, including the mk2 transit I folded in half !

Nice little bike, lots of fun, light resto and Black paint and it'll look cool