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International or Dodge AT4 would be my pick if I had the money...J1 if I didn't.

I think I can see the roof lining sagging....

It's twin stick too...and a red button on the main, so maybe an Eaton diff ?

22 hours ago, Thphantum said:

Couple of custom D series ford's.

Chopped both sides !  They always cut away the left side, I've never seen one like that.

There is also a technique to getting the correct torque. If you test your torque wrench on a calibration machine, there is a correct way to come up to that torque setting. To see these guys running around a car with their clicker...lunging into it as fast as they can - they are nowhere near the setting on the torque wrench.  

I don't believe too much in torquing wheel nuts - evenness is more important than the actual setting. 

That'd be a Singer Vague, the up class wood trim Hunter. I had one in a similar colour called Puker. What a piece of shit that was, but it did a job in a difficult time.

Mine too - it's got a boot, so not an 8.

Warren & Brown for the best, anything else is ok unless it's too cheap. I don't know about now, but Norbar used to make all the mid range brands.

Back in the '80's a mate of mine was working on a development site, and he used to drive a 6x6 GMC - it was built in 1974.  There was still so much stuff the Yanks left here that they were able to build a new one from parts.

Looks to be slightly downhill - he may have been able to get the 803 into top gear...for a short time anyway.

Looks to be slightly downhill - he may have been able to get the 803 into top gear...for a short time anyway.

Looks to be slightly downhill - he may have been able to get the 803 into top gear...for a short time anyway.

Looks to be slightly downhill - he may have been able to get the 803 into top gear...for a short time anyway.

5 hours ago, Thphantum said:

After my time at RFL...well, General Foods, we did all RFL maintenance. They normally used short interchangeable trailers, as A Trains, and then they got 2 of those long self steering triaxle trailers. They were The Chicken Express, and The Vegetable Express, sign written with big pictures, by brush. Signwritting was the first trade to completely disappear with computers. All their trucks were 4x2, and a couple of Kenworths had a lazy axle fitted and were a dedicated tractor unit.

Can't see the sills in that photo - I bet it hasn't got any.

They were a nice car - but you need to drop a Mazda rotary into it.

3 hours ago, Thphantum said:

Leyland Steer ?  Modern Freighters - competition for RFL.

I've got a TF100 in the shed somewhere. They said someone spent $800 on the motor, and it didn't run. I put the carb slide in correctly and it ran great. Also have an engine sitting in the scrap bin at work. Yeah, don't disconnect the oil pump on a Suzuki 2 stroke, the pump feeds the left main, and there is a slinger to catch the oil and direct it to the bigend. On my TS/TM400 I disconnected the cable but kept the pump, so it ran on low volume with rpm only and pre mix...never had a problem.

I wonder about these young things masquerading as mechanics these days - I bought an Airwave a few months ago, it was missing, and had one new coil, so figured maybe another one had gone. But I checked the plugs first, as always - and they were fucked. So, the scanner said missfire on cyl No1...they replaced the coil and it didn't fix it...time to sell the car.

My daughter got a Fit last month, so I got it down to change all oils, filters etc. It had 8 new coils, but thought I better check a plug...as always. And the plugs were all fucked !  They replaced all 8 coils on an L13, and never even bothered to have a look at the sparkplugs !

Those early Honda CVT's are a bit strange...not so much a shudder, but the start clutch sometimes has a delay in engagement, my Airwave is far worse than the Fit, especially when cold. Also the Fit goes better than the Airwave, the CVT just surfs on the flat torque curve with max torque at 2800 rpm, the 1500 Airwave has a form of VTEC, makes more hp, but the torque curve is steeper with max at about 4000rpm. The Fit is like any 1300, manual, auto or CVT, when pushed to overtake it wheezes to give all it's got. The L15 VTEC gets up and moves.

Over the last lockdown this turned up in my parking area. Probably cleaning up their front yard while stuck at home, and can't get rid of the donor car...so that was a good place to put it, and no one is going to see them.

A couple of days later...

6 hours ago, ul9601 said:

A lot of trouble to quietly steal a Mondeo by the sounds of it. they are not worth much (well, mk3s and earlier ones) unless ST. Very odd...

Just talking to him now, looking at photos of Commodores, my descriptions of those I saw...he thinks he knows who it is, and going around there right now....

I watched one get stolen last night. The neighbour dragged his onto the road a couple of days ago, ready to be taken away I thought. So at midnight I see some people out there hook it up to a Commodore and take it away....they were very quiet about it, considerate of the neighbours like. There was a guy standing there who looked like my neighbour...but his security light hadn't come on...

This morning he asked if I saw who stole his Mondeo...ahh, I thought it was you. He had sold it, and some chick was supposed to take it away, but it wasn't her. He's looking for a black Commodore with some big guy driving, tall skinny passenger.