Nominal

Keen, may be +1 with the lad.

Also won't be there till sometime later in the afternoon.

Cute pikup

1 hour ago, chasinthemirage said:

The fuel filter and spark plugs seemed to have fixed the issue. I've driven it a couple of times since they were replaced and the clutch seems fine. The car will be up for sale shortly anyway as he's looking for a Hilux.

I wonder why they need it all removed - I could understand if it was just around the window cuts.

Normal oil shocks (not gas filled or anything) will move by hand. Even gas charged one will move but will push back out.

Good work on getting starting. A dud rotor is pretty subtle.

Carbs for the go.

Two Wolseley 4-44's

The blue Morrie was owned by a guy from the Wellington club for a long time. He died a number of years ago, not sure where it's been hiding since. Has a few bodges.

Morris Traveller, than from Morris Traveller.

Ruh Roh!

She's got a blown piston mayte!

MG Spec

Bummer about the gas tank. 

You might be able to get a radiator place to solder it up. I've fixed a couple this way (no naked flame with an electric iron).

Looks like the C80R is the one to run with external ballast (resistor wire)

https://www.recarb.com.au/Fuelmiser-Ignition-Coil-C80R-Universal-unresistored-distributor-spark

9 hours ago, M Night Shamalayan said:

So many possibilities for this!!

- Turn it into a chillybin
- put a bbq in it
- put a squab on the top and turn it into a nifty bench seat
- toy box for kids

The best idea is to put a motor in it and slam it though  
 

Though you would have picked the dog box option?

Also, 

Have been fixing/f*king some of the upholstery.

These are the rear interior panels, the skinny piece goes at the rear of the headlining.

This one is a bit rooted from historical leakyness

I picked up this rear door panel from Horopito as I had one entirely missing. The design matches the front seat (2-tone) but not the rest of the interior. I guess the front seat as been swapped at some point. Anyway the card is in bad shape from dampness at Horopito.

Rear panels cover this area (which I sprayed with cavity wax in the weekend, messy business)

Ex-mining places are interesting.

Denniston Incline

Waiuta.

Haven't been to either for some years, I think some of the incline structure has been restored/rebuilt.

Punakaiki (pancake rocks) is weirdly interesting too.

2 hours ago, Beaver said:

Saw a wagon version last week.

/crappy pic

Some dimensions here

http://www.carnut.com/specs/engdim.html

Looks like an SB chev or ford would work. 

An AMC 401 would be a good oddball choice.

BTDT. We got a contractor in as our place is sandy, but needed deep drains.

You would think they would be able to do a better job than that.

I wonder how they determined the centres - for the holes you can get/make machinists buttons

Wagon = Wagnats attendance?

Good choice.

Holden > Nissan + Ford

(Not the HZ from Northland?)

1 hour ago, Roman said:

That looks pretty good, do you know what sized disc it takes? 

Are they hard to get? 

I think it's a Mazda 626/Telstar front disc. About 270mm dia and 10mm thick.

I've had the calipers for ages so I'm not sure what the supply is like.

54 minutes ago, Roman said:

The heaviest car that I've found that still uses a disc operated handbrake (so handbrake built into caliper rather than seperate drum) is an SW20 MR2 or I think an FD RX7 maybe had similar. 

I'm in a similar boat as my rear brakes are too powerful/big and I have to turn them almost completely off using a proportioning valve. 

I think I'm going to check out AW11 MR2 rear calipers or maybe AE82 etc.

I saw a fairly modern volvo something something that had a really nice light looking alloy caliper on the rear with handbrake attached.

I've used 200SX ones on my project.

300mm or gfto in my experience.

You are getting pretty efficient at the rust repair - better buy some more Fiats...

WOF acquired on Friday. Still a few things to do as usual, I'm going to replace some of the card backing of the upholstered panels towards the rear.

It's a mobile motel!

I'm impressed by how un-leaky yours is. My Mercury leaks worse than a british car.