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Who was it brought a rental Tiida to Hanmeet last year? @bigfoot? They may have an opinion worth listening to as to whether they're any good.

A colleague has a Yaris RS. She loves it, reckons it goes hard for what it is. I had a base model Yaris as a rental for a week a few years ago. It sucked, felt dreadfully underpowered.

Late father-in-law had a Jazz. I liked the way it went. Handled very well and at an indicated 160 it felt like it had more to give. Was a shame when the old sheila put it through a fence and parked in a tree.

...and trailers.

My ex had one for a while.

Belongs to our youngest's soccer coach. Lowered a little. Has a Hoonigan sticker on the dash. Pic taken with two smallish children onboard. It sits down a lot more with three adults in the back. Needs guards rolled and much harder springs. A work in progress. His son has an old Volvo too.

Escort?

Nothing, but Will sure did.

Refer to earlier discussion about schooling nowadays @smokin'joe.

It's not impossible. Not sure whether Mary is coming yet though. If she does it may restrict my activities a little.

Don't let lack of a vehicle stop you. There is always a way.

10 hours ago, kws said:

2/8 valves at LESS THAN 0.006" (my smallest feeler), 1 at 0.007, and the rest at about 0.009. They should be 0.012" 

Hazy memory tells me 0.010" inlet, 0.012" exhaust but do please correct me if I'm wrong.

I'm amazed at how not rust fucked this thing looks.

@2052NV, welcome to the forum. I dig the Trabant. You have to bring this home to NZ and turn up to meets in it.

Having done a small part of that journey in a car I'd have to say you'd be fucking game to try it on scooters. That said it could also be quite fun in a big group. You'd need to pick your weather though.

Good to see progress. Makes you feel better to get a project back together / going again after a long interval eh? Does for me anyway.

3 minutes ago, chris r said:

giz and I'll butcher fxr motor into it. 12k rpm 6speed trike sounds amazingly like death on wheels

What about the weight though? Two Commodores plus the trailer must weigh about three times what the Terrano tow car does.

1 minute ago, kws said:

Jebus thats a long trailer with those commodes on it. Hows a trailer that long even legal without being behind a proper truck?

I wondered that. Must get fairly interesting at times, even with trailer brakes.

Few bags of wheat in the tray she'll be all good mate / probably still cut loose like a bastard. Looks like fun but.

And in 'clutha today.

Would these speaker pods be warrantable here or would they be considered a dangerous internal projection? They look to me like they might obstruct your feet more than just a bit.

@azzurro, definitely save that van. It's like you've found rocking horse shit rare. I've seen one other irl and that was derelict in the '70s.

My Civic got knocked back for a wof a couple of times for oil leaks. When I went to fix it I found that some of the sump bolts were barely finger tight. Might be worth just checking all the sump bolts and giving it a clean. Always assuming that the gasket is not completely rooted of course.

Are you going to strip and clear coat all the tin work? Might look quite good. The FunHo Chromie look.