The Dude

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I really do have a shed full of Marina bits, PM me if you need something, I've even got a complete rolling Mk2.

The Ital is soooooo much more than your standard Marina, better gearing, redesigned suspension, Proper shock absorbers for the front, anti roll bars, Feels as different to as mk 1 Marina, as the model T Ford does to an X wing fighter.

Hmm now I've had about 20 Marina's even the superballistic 1.8 TC and I can't really say they were known for their handling ability

Understeer V Oversteer

Thinking about it tho you did have to be a hell of a driver to keep them on the road

My 1.3 Van was an awesome thing of beauty and that handled great! (no weight over the front end)

Does anyone want any Marina bits? I've got a shed full.

I love it!!!

I want and covet old 911's, and soon they will be way beyond the prices they now command, maybe the finest drivers car ever produced?

It was for the lovely Translator I put on my clean T shirt and had a shave

The Moosetang still lives in Bakersfield at the moment as I had to collect some bits, and do a little work before shipping her back. Wait till you see my sidepipes

Sadly all sold when I made the big move!

I loved the Barkas it was sooo practical, economical and reliable, plus the hilarious exhaust note and "wake up" smoke always made my day! I bought and sold a few of them and drove them all back from unlikely parts of East Germany, in the most Illegal way possible, West German Police just left us alone, couldn't deal with the paperwork

There's a few Wartburgs around, mine went from the East to the West to the Uk,

Dammit I was coming, but my housemate managed to throw away the keys to my Daimler, 4 hours of searching later they turn up in the paper for the fire box!

GRRRRRRRRR

See ya at the next one.

Oh before I forget, check out my old Transit fire engine, its an article on a German Website (internationally famous me

But you'll get the idea

http://www.ff-muenchberg.de/allgemeines/berichte-wehr/charliesafari.html

I had 2 Barkas, a Wartburg Knight (both 1000cc two stroke 3 cyl motors) a Uaz 452 van a few Lada and a Zaporozhets (never, ever started) in the Uk. Lots of fun and even more fun picking these things up

http://www.ff-muenchberg.de/allgemeines/berichte-wehr/charliesafari/charliesafari-teil-2.html

its an old feature of my Barkas and Transit fire engine

Sadly I'm without an Eastern Block car at the moment, but I'd love to pop along to the meet anyway

 give me a yell when it turns up, keen to see it!

Mate you should drop by and have drive of it, and the Gran Torino, might get you into a little American Muscle

yep, but at least the Escort is IN NZ, WOF'd and rego'd 

The Mustang will be here soon, and I shall be enjoying its Sweet V8 burble, legal, or not legal

Hmm 8k for a ratty old Escort "RV" what ever that means or 3K for a 73 Mustang Fastback with 54,000 miles, now let me think about that

Mmm I'm in the process of buying half an Escort van can I join

Nice van, and some nice looking work your doing.

Panel in the windows, they look so much better

I paid Jenners 3700 all up, including all fees, extra MAF cleaning AND the GST on my car. It was so easy i thought something must be wrong, but it really was as easy as dropping car there, and calling a transporter to collect it when it got here.

 

I think I had to get some customs importer form, but think that was the only bit of paperwork I had to do.

Yeah mine was the same. I drove it in to FPS depot in LA  and I drove it (highly illegally) back from the depot in Auckland. Its not rocket science, but you do have to do a little paperwork at this end, getting it on the road legally, now thats a different story!

Not whinging at all, you have a few issues to sort, thats all:) 

 

Okay looks like you might still have a 1300 rad fitted. Put a pic showing the front of the engine, looking towards the ground, to show gap between rad and fan. I don't think  you are too far off there. I had an original RS2000 some years ago, and that shroud was mostly still there, just had the top of it cut out a bit more as rad was larger than what you have there. Fan always ran very close to the rad on that car, maybe 15mm?

 

Alternator is not original Pinto, which wil explain alignment problem. They usually had Lucas ACR type, or a Bosch one fitted.Similar to:

 

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-parts-accessories/ford/electrics/auction-741934450.htm

 

 

The adjuster bracket bolts to a threaded lug on the water pump.  Throw that alternator in the bin and get a Lucas type one, they are pretty reliable anyway. 

Yeah

        What he says! Can't believe he didn't box the crossmember! The rad can definitely sit a little closer to the front too and its a 1300 one. Hows the quality of the sump conversion, cut and shut? Or alloy one?

No Worries brother, Will do!

Hmm have you thought it might be an 1100??? rare but there were some around?

Nah they look way better without side windows! Your rad sounds like its mounted on the original plate, it needs to be cut back flush and the rad mounted on the front panel. See how Conrads sits tight to the front panel, that's how yours should fit.

Phwoooooorrrrrr!!!! I love and covet it!!!!! Cibie's RS wheels and bubble arches, nice set of recaro's and a panelled in rear and we are talking serious car porn!!!

Oh yeah I totally agree there, nice set of RS wheels or slotmags, quarter bumpers and four big cibies on the front, old school rally look!!!

Cheers mate, its a slow build due to family reasons and stuff, but hopefully by the end of the year it should be finish!

 

You got any ideas mate?

Oh Plenty of ideas, but I used to work on these things back in the day, and I'm super 70's influenced, so unless you want it to look like this:-

http://www.paykanhunter.com/2009/06/custom-hunter.html

Pay me no attention check out the site tho its quite useful, its dedicated to the Hunter and the car that it became, the Paykan in Iran.

They made the Hillman Hunter there until 2005, yep that's not a misprint 2005!!!!! you can still buy heaps of new parts from there if you need them!!!

In all seriousness I quite like the lowered wide steels and thin whitewall tyre look, nice paint and your there!

Cool car dude, and it looks like its coming along nicely

Not out of the US but I bought my car in from the UK for 2k with CFR line. I thought it was cheap. They told me they do a lot ex the US also (a lot of US iron in the warehouse).

2K Kiwi??? man that's cheap.

at a guess those are discs from a Mk1, which had 12 inch wheels. Find a pair of Mk2 discs, which you should get for next to nothing (or buy a new pair, which will work better) and that will sort the disc issue. (all Mk2 discs are the same) Can you ditch the spacers, or is wheel clearance a problem?  Nice that yours is a proper panel van, with no side windows.

 

I just bought one yesterday (with side windows) also with 2.0 and 5 speed:) Will go pick it up when it stop raining!!

 

Conrad

I recognize that dog!!!

                                 Hi Conrad nice to see you on here!!!! Mk2 Panel van, nice buy I love them!

Nice story and an awesome car dude