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if you dont mind selling how much did you score those seats for? They must be rare as in nz!

sweet looking engine- looks sort of like a lotus twink. Cheers for fitting the tyres onto my wheels today btw! Is that a yank chevette badge? I like them seats too- sweet that they match the rears.

well ive learned a lesson or two. we were originally planned and budgeted to use ply before we got truck but discovered this siding so went that way instead. Money is an issue as far as we cant afford fancy woods. I thought that stain wood work well and it di on the faces but that didnt stop water entering the ends- next time we will make proper capping so the ends are not exposed. we are looking at doing the treated ply in a board and batten style. Or possibly use some western red cedar if we can score a deal on it....

yeah- that would be pretty heavy. Plus the pine will still soak up water/rot. Sad as it is we are gonna have to let the pine go and try and make the ply look nice. Maybe board and batten style. I'M GUTTED to say the least.

I like the old leylands. Lockeddiff. yep indeed high risk areas and already with the rain so far the windows are getting a good dosing! several things i have planned. I want to make rain deflectors every where possible. I dont know if thats the right word - hannah takes the piss every time i say it but what else should they be called. anyway- I want to make them to cover all windows and the pop outs plus some big ones to give etxtra cover around the veranda. EDIT. The pine is taking in water along other edges that have yet been protected. some bits are sodden right through. I'm in a state of depression this morning! We have decided the pine is getting removed and treated ply is going up. Money isnt the issue here but all the time wasted putting the pine up is!!!!!!!!!! pissed off and sad at the same time. We want a truck that will last and this pine wont. Its a real shame as we both love the look of it! Any alternative ideas welcome. alex

I put piazza under-garments in my chevette back in '93. The 'front' crossmember that mikuni mentions - just run a big drill up through body work and plate it at top i remember correctly. The piazza axle is 40mm wider then chevette one. Yeah- and the master cylinder needs a bigger bore or else it will have a soft (but effective) pedal feel.

you must have connections out there that you can score a nice truck cheap. I think a good idea that we could have done if we had more time to search would be to re-power a nice old school truck thats on classic rego. Saving more monies and having something old and sweet!

what he said.

Yeah- I'd love to check it out. where about's are you?

asyncronus? Does that mean offset? They are offset because one will be a dining room table and seating for 4. That will be opposite the wood stove and next to kitchen. The other one will have a sofa and is directly opposite the workbench. Then after a hard stint of filing or hacksawing i can stumble backwards and fall into my sofa with my cup of tea perched next to it on a little shelf with car and cycling magazines opposite. Heaven. You know your pussy's! They are indeed birmans. They are a breed in which we humans have bred out all the wild hunting instincts, skills etc so making them more soft, innocent, fluffy and cute. Very cool cats though. .

main thing was having the viva and not needing a chevette. Just wanting one. I love road trips too. I'd like to buy a ferrari dino 246 in italy and drive it a long way back to britain. But need to sort out some things, like money, before i do that....

some photos today- I always forget and then its dark. Nice waterproof roof of slid in popout and wavey rafters in background.... popout, workshop bench window and skylight... window above sofa area....

I was watching that chevette too. but all the way up there and I have my Viva that needs love. I love the vid- Brazil? I know they have a massive following over there for chevettes.

It did indeed rain today. But stopped by about 9 am. Coolio! How nice. So we bought some flashing to cover the join along top of the roof. Now roof is finished. While we were at the plumbers where we had also got a bargain deal on the Butynol roof membrane we had spotted a Rennai gas califont- exactly the same model I have fitted our 3 previous vehicles/homes. And it was for sale. We ended up getting a near new califont made in Japan not China for a bargain $200. Sweet- thats a saving of $380. WE HAPPY!

A bit of an update. Its set to rain for the next week or so off and on so hence we have been trying to get the outside cladding up. But first we had to finish the pop outs- these have been tricky. I would build these a different way next time. I designed them with only 5mm clearance between the sides of pop outs and the frame opening. Not enough to allow for odd bits of wood or any warping. All sorted now after more planing. Given how much they could be out with only a few mm wrong here or there they ended up fitting like a glove which makes me very happy! We have also fitted some of the windows in the popouts and they look great. When they are both pushed inside there is just enough room to squeeze through between them. Lucky I'm skinny. Not that it matters as once parked up they will be pushed out anyway. I have decided to make an opening window over the workbench- there is already a skylight above it but really good natural light over it is important so an extra window will work wonders. Opening because I'm bound to make a few smelly fumes - glue, welding, paint etc. Every so often we have to stop and give these little buggers a cuddle and that eats into our valuable building time...but its worth it! We have just enough of the wavey cladding to reach the base of where the batoned ply will start over the bedroom and 'entertainment room'. This too makes me very happy. I thought we might run out. We are looking forwards to getting to the ply stage as it will mean very quick coverage!!! Today we started putting up the first bits of wood on the front of the truck which is cool- covering up the green painted steel. We cant wait till its all covered and cosy inside. First thing we will install will be a woodburner! ;D Tonight Hannah finished the last bit of staining as its set to rain soon. Jobs we can do while it is raining will be building some more window frames and building the locking systems for the popouts. Plus there is my Viva to continue rotorising...

do you know if the lc shares the same share instrument pod as the hb torana? I have seen a few 6 dial dash's from lc's on aus ebay and they look the same as the 6 dial hb viva gt ones.

ohhhh they aint that posh! Maybe in the future when get my own lathe (one day, one day...) I could turn them out and push some bearings in but I dont think they will need it- I have drilled a small grease port in each one though. They roll sweet as under load.

A late update. It been quite hectic and not much appears to have been done but it has. We had to go to Christchurch to pick up more stuff. in fact half the project time is going about picking up bargains, hunting for lowest prices, research etc. Thats building on a budget for you. Its a shame- I'd love to buy everything in one go and have it all here ready. But it is fun getting bargains. We put the cladding up as far as the base windows but had to stop to finish building the frames. And back to Plankville in Richmond, Nelson where we cleaned out Brent of the rest of his slices of this wood. I think we will have just enough to do the popouts and up to the bedroom where it will be plywood from there. The ply will be be broken up with batons 'a la oldschool medieval style houses (but they didn't have ply.... ) The cladding thus far... Then of course we had some busy body neighbour decide they dont like the noise- which we have kept down and been within normal acceptable times. So twice we have had embarrassed looking noise control blokes come out- but its not excessive so they leave. Anyway- to keep everyone happy we popped out to a friends farm and used a shed to plane loads of wood down in one go- whilst it was drizzling outside The slide outs are being built up one at a time- I have made some rollers up and they roll out lovely. Luckily the Engineers I went to get the alloy from let me use the lathe when he found out he used to work at the same place I did my time at- so that saved some hassle and money! I need to get some nyloc nuts, put bike inner tube over the last two and paint them then they are all done- they are over built but wont give us any grief! We are trying to keep things as square as possible so everything fits neatly. When they are out they should seal perfectly. Lots of time has been spent building window frames- takes ages but they will look great- deeply varnished Rimu wood. Some of the stained glass solder joints were broken but I have fixed them up and now I want to build some myself- later on when we are living in it! I will have to get a photo of all the windows made so far lined up. We are going to stain the cladding and then seal it with some wormal wood seal from the states- its wicked when on- water just beads instantly and runs off The stain we have decided on as after so much effort going into putting up nice bits of cladding we don't want it to go all silver and lose the colours of the different woods. And lastly I found our old pad in England on google earth - when zoomed in we can see our bedford TK, our totally hippy mates Bedford bus with his completely unhippy mint white FD RX7 next to it , our old bmw 525TDS estate, our old blue chevette 4 door and possibly my Rx3 next to shed. I love Google earth. And we do miss our old pad out in the country side 1 minutes walk form a quiet pub with free wireless!

I'm following this thread.... http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/viewt ... 22&t=11482 Its an HC but I reckon they are similar under the dash. I"m only considering this if I end up fitting the quick rack i have- even then the steering wont be that heavy.

sweet. Do they have a stand alone computer for the speed sensitive bit?

i shall go hunting at local wreckers then.... anyone on here fitted one ?

make sure you do a good build thread on this cortina! I'm gonna at some point fit my 12a elford turbo into my viva so always keen to watch other people doing similar my engine is a simple old suck through carb job though, good luck with the build!

Like this one here.... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VAUXHALL-CORSA-C- ... _720wt_736 do any cars in NZ come out with these- i dont know whether corsas are sold here actually...maybe rebadged like the old barinas? Anyway- i want one for my Viva at some point (along with a bloody good alternator to run it...) they have been fitted into all sorts over in Blighty. I should have brought one over with me!!!

breakfest in america....

ooohhhh.. I just did a sex wee....