TimShadboltfan27

pining for your wag Todd ! man this weekend is gonna be lush. looks like i'll be on two wheels for the show, ring dings for all.

mate shudda pushed it to the track! park it in the pits we woulda had it running in no time!

Sweet! Ride it to teretonga tomorrow

sweet, will save the good good goodness of ranfurly for next meat

will try knock off early but probs be there around 6 if i cant. hope i don't miss out on too much

Bump, cos i kinda like the idea of visiting ranfurly. Could also visit St. Bathans and the historic Vulcan Hotel just down the road? We should totes get the ball rolling!!

Thats the one! You know him? He was a neat guy. Definitely knew his way round a big 440ml can of ranfurly draight or 7. What about the sunday after show johnny? I have his number, could tee something up.

wee update, which reads more like a testimonial this thing hauled me around the south island with ease, over 1200kms of alpine passes and coastal goodness. and it only burnt 2 litres of oil! a win in my book. maybe something thicker next oil change... i finally tracked down some door trims from Lane in Wellington, massive thanks to Kicker for grabbing and keeping them for me. exterior now looks a lot better. amazing what a piece of plastic can do also picked up a mint driving light grille from him as well. some stubborn headlight bolts on the old grille stopped me from putting it on. will get into that once i can source a correct VW badge for it engine fan is temperamental at the best of times - previous owner had wired in a manual switch as it wasn't turning on with thermostatically. i can have the fan switched on at start up and most of the time it will not operate, but i can hear it humming once i hit around 100km/h on the open road, the temp guage drops a little also. often i would find coming into a town and stopping at a set of lights it would rise back up again, and when i take off/back on the open road it will drop again. id imagine the engine runs hotter idling and at low speeds, but i would like to keep the temp down as much as poss and have fan on all the time. anyone have any ideas on this issue? discuss below //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/54600-nicks-mk2-golf-discussion/

i just did the same trip you are thinking of last week, or kinda, new plymouth to piopio via state highway 3, then followed SH 4, detour to visit ohura (a must for anyone interested in derelict old shit), then back on to the forgotten world highway to taumarunui then on to taupo. do that in reverse! all were very fun driving roads, bit of a waste in a soccer mom SUV thing. in a car that handles well and can do go fast things itd be a great days worth of driving

Nice looks like we will have a good crew there!

Sweet! If all else fails ae82 would be lol at car show. Now where's ye olde man ky...

i will take up your offer of lodging on the fridee evening mr. 808. Maybe even the satdee. Beverages shall be consumed at a steady rate. But yeah keen to know whos all coming to this, roll call plz

Jonny is hosting an exhange of shandys and sharns on the Friday night. Saturday evening yet to be planned! Was almost thinking we could arrange a cruise on the sunday if people were keen?

damn look at all these happenings and going onses!! reschedule for the 6th so i can be there, if not, make sure the degree to which the triumph stag handled like it was on rails is discussed thoroughly. regards

bump. cos the stoke is getting real-er by the day.

i am happy to offer you lodging in Queenstown on my fine pleather lounge suite Jonny808 is only a stone's throw from Cromwell, that might be easier for you ? i also possibly intend to utilise Jonny's lodging facilities in exchange for firm handshakes and 2 stroke chat.

You have to commit to premix life. That empty mid section looks so good. Or make a super sweet oil tank. Edit: how does it run with a moto chamber on it? Not too lean? Bet it sounds awesome. Regards, Max Piner

theres plenty of space at johnnys mate. trip up fridee after work, crash the night then we can roll up nice and early. job tidy

better get round to it eh. puhuhuhu

depends on how many people are keen on entering a vehicle. let me know if you're keen to enter your car/bike into the show and ill give the organisers a call and see what they can do.

tray skids. all day

I concur with the above suggestion. Keen to get the bike out there tbh and ring ding at some barrys. Hey mr 808, pick me and my GP up and we can create the worlds first ever 8 wheeled cafe racer.

yeah cool i had a feeling you did it that way, seen a few vids of guys just chopping a bit of tube and trimming the springs to the same length. were the forks super soft before lowering like all small 80s suzukis? lowering them stiffen them up?

how did you lower the forks? pretty keen to give that a go on my GP. i like what youve done so far!

oldschool members have been known to make an effort in the past. looking forward to it. edit: those who wish to make an overnight excursion for an early start on the satdee are more than welcoming to take advantage of my lodging services edit edit: 1st post edited for edited information to inform those that the information regarding this event has been edited by an editor