Avenga

6 minutes ago, DoBro Jesus said:

My thoughts exactly. 

It's opposite Couplands on yaldhurst Road if anyone wanted to go doorknocking. 

Found it on google street view. in the 2012 street view it was parked at a slightly different but the 2017 and 2018 photos are at the exact angle of the above photo, so it probably hasn't even been moved at all in the last 8 years or so. 13 years since last WOF. A real waste if it's just going to rot away.

Here is is back in 2012. Looks in much better nick then

https://goo.gl/maps/WH57S5knnoDsGsz5A

Had a look on Carjam

https://www.carjam.co.nz/car/?plate=Pq2298

The photo on Carjam is exactly the same as the above photo.

on NZTA it says

Warrant of fitness expiry date:

07/04/2007

Licence details

Licence exemption expiry date:

11/01/2019

So it doesn't look like it has moved anywhere in the last 13 years or so.

The exemption expired just over a year ago, with a car over 40 years old you have 2 years before it becomes deregistered so he still has time before it becomes dereged.

It is an aussie 72 VH Charger, looks like it was imported in 1991.

Unfortunately it looks like it is just left to rust now.

46 minutes ago, DoBro Jesus said:

Spotted this out for a stroll this morning @RUNAMUCK wrap ya japs eye around this.

 

Always wanted a louvre like that for my Charger

On 22/03/2020 at 09:00, Brimmy said:

Firstly spotto a weird sight:

 

Then a sick photoshoot:

And on leaving photoshoot I think I ended up in the middle of a wags cruise, and happened to have the camera in the front seat:

Apologies if I threw sparks and asphalt at the avenga 

That was the highlight of my day!

I was on the way back from my South Island tour of the South Island. Did a track day at all 4 tracks, Teretonga, Highlands, Levels and Ruapuna in the wagon.

I got off the ferry and was cruising out of wellington and first I saw @Steelies in his ford wagon, and I thought sweet! one of the wagnats boys! Then I saw @Aladdin in his Volvo wagon, and then I saw @Brimmy In his truck! It was like a little wagnats reunion, and I felt pretty luck to have just been cruising past when all you guys were out for a cruise Thanks for giving me a wagnats escort out of wellington.

Loved the spark show @Brimmy we got a good giggle out of that. My girlfriend is obsessed with cars on airbags

We had a little Avenger 50th birthday meet over the weekend. We had 9 Avengers there. 7 sedans and 2 wagons

On 18/01/2020 at 13:28, Taistorm said:

Hey guys, 

Might need to move this to a different category if it's wrong but anyway I'm chasing some wedding cars for 2 separate wedding later this year.

Wedding 1:

The first wedding is for my good mate. The date is for the Saturday the 25th of September. Looking for at least 2 cars, possibly 4 but it comes down to availability and costs to work with their budget. He is ideally after Australian Muscle, early Holdens in particular (e.g. kingswoods, premiers etc) but beggars can't be choosers so also the likes of old falcons, valiants or even American muscle. The venue is located in Clevedon, south east Auckland. would be approx 3 hours work, picking the groomsmen and bridesmaids up from different locations (close to venue) and driving to the venue. Possibly even waiting around for the ceremony to take pictures afterwards. 

Wedding 2:

This is for my own wedding. The date is the 12th of December. Located in Mangawhai, about 3 hours as well. I'm only after 1 car, a tidy rotary, needs to be 4 doors  to fit 4 girls and tidy but also ruckus, This will be paired with my 1300 so have to make sure it's completed this year haha. You will be picking up the bridesmaids from close by and taking them to the venue and maybe hang around for some photos after the ceremony if you like. 

Obviously you will be paid for your time and services. We will cover fuel and reasonable cash, beers, spirits as required.

I know this is well in advance but a lot of planning is being done for both weddings haha. Please let me know if you or someone you know might be keen.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Tai

For wedding 1 my Charger might fit the bill

For wedding 2, would any of my Avengers suit? Their not rotary but the wagon has a V8

On 07/01/2020 at 22:20, datlow said:

a lot cheaper from these guys (probably the manufacturer of them) measurements look the same?

https://www.comac.co.nz/modules/SP_webshop/products.php?cat=1551

I got some from Comac last year for Wagnats.

These were the old ones. Replaced them with the Type D in black from memory

I'll be going to Kumeu

On 31/10/2019 at 08:41, sleeektoy said:

http://www.bespokeautoglass.co.nz/

+1 for bespoke auto glass. They have done all the windows on both my Avengers and my Charger

I have found that they usually show up in the mitsi colour range still. My wagon is PM=Phantom Mist, and it we found that in the mitsi colour range.

Todds used to make misti's also so I think they shared paint codes

On 26/08/2019 at 15:22, JoKer said:

@Avenga might be able to help, and have input on wether its a cert item or not to run Pins only and remove latch

I use those Aerocatch bonnet pins on both of my Avengers. I painted them body Colour so you can’t hardly see them. 

The bonnet pins are listed on the cert plate on both of my cars, but I’m not sure if the cert is needed or not. 

By'gone Autos did my 1UZ swap in my Avenger wagon. Wasn't exactly cheap but they did an awesome job. I did all of the wiring, electronics, ECU and dash myself which kept the price down a bit.

On 24/07/2019 at 08:10, Sambo said:

Can't believe I didn't think of them, they're about 500m from home.

Same here! You must just live around the corner from me!! I'll give you a PM

I use By'gone Autos, but they are closing down soon, so you better get in quick

28 minutes ago, 64valiant said:

the peoples necks snapping when your doing your 1st burnouts were well worth the watch.

seemed like a pretty cool weekend.

Haha, Yeah, especially because they don't expecting it when you line up, they think it's just some old slow Avenger wagon with a 1600

I recorded some more video of the track stuff. That was really fun, we did the normal track one layout, and then we did the track 3 reverse, which was really fun because I have never done that configuration.

16 minutes ago, JoKer said:

ate that Type R!

hah & guy in V8 musta been screaming inside his car 

 

Yeah, That poor Type R, didn't really stand a chance, the poor guy!!

I'm pretty sure I could hear the screams from the V8 driver trailing off in to the distance  It was really fun races, against all of the big V8's it was pretty close. I really didn't think I would beat them because they all had big blocks, which are about 2.5 litres bigger than my little 4L V8 and they had at least 100kw more than me, but then my car is about half the weight, so I do actually have better power to weight ratio.

The bolt shop in Auckland

http://boltshop.co.nz/

There is something funny going on with the cert info though, Both of my Avengers have had engine swaps 1300 to 1500 and 1600 to 3968, and they both show up in the database with the new engine size. But then I know of 2 Rover V8 rally cars, and I'm pretty sure at least 1 of them is certed, and they don't show up, they still show as 1600's. So I'm not sure if the cert info only shows up if it was certed after a certain date or something.

Thanks. I agree. I think it's the perfect balance of tough and sleeper, any bigger and it wouldn't look sleeper, but any smaller then it wouldn't look tough.

I got the data from the "New Zealand vehicle fleet open data sets" https://www.nzta.govt.nz/resources/new-zealand-motor-vehicle-register-statistics/new-zealand-vehicle-fleet-open-data-sets/

It's a spreadsheet that they update each month of currently registered cars (including rego on hold), and you can download the spreadsheets and search. They have one big file for pre-1990 and then a separate file for each year after that. Basically unless it's deregistered then it will be in the database.

It is quite a pain to find every car, because some were registered wrong, like some Hillman Avenger Apline's we registered as just a Hillman Alpine, and same with the Avenger Supers. So I did a series of searches looking for the chassis number pattern, model, name and then finally just skimmed through all of the hillman's and Chrysler's just to make sure I didn't miss any.

The number I came back with was

Total: 276 Avengers!!!

Of those 

Saloon: 245
Wagon: 28
Van: 3

I could then break it down by year, colour and engine type. So I did up a little census of all the Avengers left.

http://www.avenger.co.nz/forum/index.php?topic=1114.0

The database is just a snapshot of cars that are still registered, including ones on hold. It took me a couple of nights of filtering the data and coming up with the lists but it will be a pretty accurate snapshot, I might have missed one or two but I went over the data pretty thoroughly.  

The Mechpro ones are on sale at the moment. $229 for a pair, 40% off on their 1 day Easter sale (Saturday)

I just use some Repco Mechpro ones

I use the go jacks on the front, and then some normal dollies for the back because it's pretty quick to just jack off the diff and then slide the dollies under

Great for wedging the cars in to tight spaces. Just remember to drop the go jacks down when your not moving the car so it can rest on the tyres.

They work well. I only have a 2 car garage but I can fit a third car in with the go jacks. At the moment it's my charger so I just have the rego on hold, doesn't take long to get it out if I need to though.