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This thing is Kiwi ingenuity at its finest. Just being a marine motor in a land vehicle would make it special even if it didn't look amazing as well.

Kind of. Here's the link from spam. https://www.aixam.com/en/ 

8 hours ago, peteretep said:

what we really need is voiture sans permis

You are seriously considering adding a turbo to this already monstrously over powered machine? Why ever not?

Would look sweet running rebel with the wheels sticking out past the guards. Shame it's not the '80s any more. Those white steel rims look sweet too. Got a full set? 

Welcome Brian. Be interesting to see how you go with the 1uzfe in the Subaru.

+1 for 265, with triple carbs like an E49.

For what it's worth 12" Starlet wheels fit BMC ADO16s. Width and pcd both match.

The Vanguard was also known as the 20S. Both the Standard 10 and the Standard Vanguard 20S were very good cars. My dad had a 10 as his first car and his dad had a Phase2 Vanguard. I dailied a Phase1 Vanguard for a time in the '80s and found it very good although it hogged the juice a bit.

Or even on a Falcon coupe.

20 hours ago, 00quattro00 said:

Supercats are scary in the wet

But no more so than hard old cross-plies.

We've used Supercats on Mary's Laser without any untoward occurrences but she never drives fast. The only time she's got into a slide and whacked the bank was on a gravel road and I'm pretty sure tyre choice didn't come into the equation.

You're a fucking wizard mate. That roof looks amazing.

I have plenty of those big brown hairy spiders with darker patches on their backs. Can bring some to Nats for you if you're interested.

Not as good as HiFlys though.

7 minutes ago, Westernstar said:

Hmm I did have a perv at some airline tickets a coupla days ago. And there’s a perfectly good passport hiding under $20 or so of NZ coins in my lockbox. May have to raise a beer in yuallls honor from here tho, cheers

Not too late to book for Nats. Fly into Chch, someone will give you a ride.

Thanks guys. Thought it was probably just a bit dodgy. It's my coon. An Aussie assembled S model. Think it does have a slippery judging by way it behaves on loose surfaces and the twin trenches it digs when my daughter dumps the clutch. Good news is that the weird steering vibration it had is gone now even with one new tyre and one barely warrantable one on the front.

Just how dodgy is it to run different sized tyres on the same axle? Only a small difference, 205 and 215 with the same profile. I've had to get one new tyre to replace one that had canvas showing. The remaining three are warrantable as is the spare so I want to save the new one and run the four that have about the same amount of tread but the spare is a 215 and the others are all 205s. I figure to take the two matching tyres from the back, which are the best ones, and run them on the front with the two sort of matching ones on the rear. 

Looks small enough to be exempt under the first schedule.

Love that stained glass window.

3 hours ago, GuyWithAviators said:

Spotted one of @Carsnz123‘s fleet on Saturday. 

Good cruiser for Nats.

I'm easy.

Bought a spray can of Rustoleum International Harvester Red last week. Was $18 from ITM. It's near on a perfect match for touch ups on my red coon. My boy struggled to pick out the bits I'd just painted.

How's progress on the 120Y wags Alex?

Of course everything British from that era has Lucas lights. The vent thing is what I couldn't quite figure out.