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Leyland Boxer...which was a badged BMC. Maybe the only positive rebadge of the British Leyland era, everything else was a cock up.

Spyve's are building a Healey 3000 at the moment...

1 hour ago, yoeddynz said:

Fuck id like to do up an old truck. Not that big though. Maybe a tractor unit that I can go shopping in. (an expensive but cool, fun shopping trip) 

I'd love to have an old Hippo to go down to Supercheap for a rattle can of paint.

I think it was Adams Landscaping in Panmure, they had a couple of LAD cab Leylands, and an Avelling Barford front end loader. The old boy was always driving around in the loader, and when he retired, they took the loader off it, and he drove it everywhere. You'd go down the main street of Panmure, and it'd be angle parked with the  cars.

Sometimes I wonder where this fantastic Toyota reputation comes from. I was looking at a KE70 wagon for my Mum, it was only 2 or 3 years old. Kermit green, and I put my hand up under the rear bumper, my hand went straight through and green paint with bits of rust fell on the ground. She ended up with a KP60 Starlet that was almost rust free all it's life.

Yeah, I'd driven 400's before, so it was always a shock when it hit a wall at 1,500.

How high have you got the jet wound up ? It shouldn't be much above the bridge if at all. Have these been rebuilt ?  Jets centered ?  Will need a strip to do that. A book of needles would be good....but of course the ones you need won't be available. But with the book you can get something close.

On 23/07/2020 at 08:06, yoeddynz said:

 

 

Leyland Super Comet ?  The one we had at RFL hit the limiter at 1500rpm, and  there was a warning not to tow a loaded trailer. So I did, and it wouldn't climb a slight incline in the yard, so had to drop it, race off to find the Hippo so I could get the trailer off the road so the other trucks could get out on deliveries.

I rode trials for many years, always held on farms, some of which were interesting. One we called The Mini Farm....I counted 12 Minis scattered around. A farmbike that had been in one place for decades. I found the remains of a burned down shed...and some Triumph 650 barrels and a few other things off the same bike, a bit sad. Some remains had me puzzled - there was a slant 6....and a Marina dash, no cab, just a chassis....and diff. Ah ! The diff axles were box section - someone had repowered a Transit with a Valiant !

Another place was The Chicken Farm, and I found this there. There is one, or two distinguishing features that will nail it straight away for some.

Winstone's had some as quarry trucks when i was there, some came into the workshop, but I can't remember if anything was done to them.

Well I've put 3 times the purchase price into it now....but what car doesn't need a battery, tyres, a couple of ball joints etc in 5 years. If I bought a $500 Toyota instead I would've had to put a shit more into it than that....and wouldn't have given squat Silva owners a fright on backroads.

I served my time with a guy who had worked for Foden NZ for 10 years before  he worked for my boss....I got to hear about Fodens all day. Never got to work on or drive any though.  They have a fibreglass cab, so that's why it could sit for 29 years and not rot away. Loved to hear those Chipliners screaming way. There was one Foden driving around called Howling Gail...or Gale.

My $500 Volvo 850 T5 is a pretty impressive car for the money. It could take these young Boi Racers up to 150 mph if we had the road to do it. A real sleeper, specially because I'm an old guy and wear a hat. Comfy as, but rides like shit with the sports pack suspension and 50 section tyres.

I prefer to have the controls by the drivers door - window down and you can reach in to turn stuff on and off etc. I walk around the car to set the arms, ending up at the drivers door and ready to press the button.

We have a Supreme at work, they are symmetrical, you can put a car on either way.

There was an old guy who used to bring a Bradford into where I worked at the time. He always apologized when he brought it in  - ''Sorry guys, I bought this new when I retired in 1953, I didn't think I'd  still be driving it 30 years later !'' 

I remember one just like that....out in West Auckland, in lots of trees....near the water. We lived just up the road at the time.

4 hours ago, Muncie said:

If you string line it and get them perfectly spaced its bloody satisfying and looks 1/3rd as shit as a sagging hoodlining.

I was told by an upholsterer never to measure buttons, it will look wrong.  Mine will keep you interested for hours, picking out which ones don't line up.

I saw that Atkinson too, heading towards Morrinsville.  Driving them,3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th were right where your left knee was, so compulsory clutchless shifting.

A packet of drawing pins - I look up and my roof is full of stars....beautiful.