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Yep- deck on top for sure! Pot bellys etc are all fine and dandy- so long as you aint driving along with it going. In england hannah and I drove my old Iveco camper up the M40 with snow about and had the potbelly stove going- traffic was bad and driving was slow. We felt sooooo cosy! Heres a pic... So stoves are OK. I guess ya cant go lighting it in controlled smoke zones- chch etc? I cant see anyone saying something. In 2006 while I was working at a pushbike shop in chch we used to park everynight at top of Bonevale ave and have the fire going. No one said a thing. Yeah- we are gypsies to a point- mainly just the living as cheap as possible so we can spend money elsewhere (cars...) I hate renting- filling someone else's pockets with money. we'll still have to rent a place to park but its usually cheap. We were paying $12 each a week in Oxford inc water! cheap as living - plus I was allowed to build that garage and have as many cars as we wanted! happiness.

sounds good! the more other trucks we see the more ideas we might be able to pinch Just won a ryobi thicknesser on trademe! sweet- neighbours are very soon going to learn to fucking hate us!

and a big gun over the mantlepiece.

gonna hang some pots off the back wall...

very waterproof! We used this bloody good, bloody expensive rubber paint from aussie land. Its worth it. This time round though we might use shingles. Or possibly thatch the roof... joke the thatching that is. shingles would be very hillbilly. cool.

here's some photos of the one we built in 2006. Cost $7000 to buy truck and build then used it while we were here then sold it for $12,000. It was a good learning experience. Really cosy wee truck that was actually quite cheap to kick about in. Was very light and airy to be in.

If you cut the cab back out you'll need to get it certified We'll be just driving it from here to there to work for however long- not really ticky touing about so we wont be in the cab very long. just about to put some photos of the last one we built....

good thing is that the deck itself easily unbolts off the chassis. Tare weight is about 4 tonne. max weight is 11.5. But we plan to keep it under 10 as it makes a big difference on RUC. I think we'll be hard pressed to add more than 4-5 tonne... we'll see. Bedford TK we had was lovely to drive and cheap to run but we looked and looked and couldn't find anything close to this for the same money. Plus most bedfords are petrol- fuck that when ya still have to pay RUC on top of the petrol with its combined tax.

love that kenworth- got a few pics of it. Its roof is on hydraulics and lowers back down. I agree on styling - is a bit ginger bread. It rolled into a service station in Motueka once when i was filling up- fuck i couldnt get my camera out quick enough!!! answers... I will put costs down as much as possible- nothing to hide and if it helps others out to build something I'm all for that. I just love sauna houses on wheels and we need more of them So far costs... Truck was $6500. We hunted for ages and wanted something that would be long in the deck and wheelbase. This is about as long as you get on twin wheels, and can hence drive on class 2. I thought trucks would be cheaper here in NZ- they are cheaper in UK. more trucks to pick from over there I guess. I would have loved an even older truck but they are either fucked or expensive and usually very short. Bonus is that this one has a sleeper cab. I'm getting a CB and gonna rename myself smoky.... Steel is next big cost- I've priced up 40 x 40 x 1.6 and looking at about $1100 for the lot. Legally you can build it in what ever you want if its permanently mounted- shit you could build it out of straw! But then it would blow away when driving.. I built the last one out of steel as its easy,light and strong. then build wood framing onto it. For the outside we were going to clad in ply- at a cost of $900- 1000...but then we found Brent at Plankville in Richmond- he is our current hero of the mo. $100 we have paid for all that wood! we will be getting all our wood there including flitchs for the benches etc. Once we have built the outside 'box' then we will be back to work as our housetruck funds will be dry. We are keeping the deck as its really well built and bloody strong. I have been tinkering with the idea of making the house removable but that means some serious steel and bracing due to its length plus weakening effect of having pop outs. So I'm going off the idea- the likely hood of us removing it is slim anyway. It will mean a nice solid structure! Over the cab we will have a hinged lift up bedroom base so the cab can swing through. This is a big mistake others have made where come cylinder head off time etc they are looking at engine out the bottom. It easy to do and we did this set up on the last truck built. Insulation will be polystyrene - fairly cheap and easy to fit. Better than Batts which we used last time which tend to slump and settle with all the movement as you 'Possum Borne' it through the hundalees... Rx3 is gone to another Kiwi in london village. He might be bringing it to NZ one day though... I will post up some pictures of plans etc soon. I'm still planning and constantly looking at other truck on sites such as... http://www.mrsharkey.com/ and... http://www.htnz.co.nz/gallery/housetrucks/ alex

discuss here if you care...

EDIT: for some reason, only known to the Photobucket photo storage and organisation squirrels, a lot of the following photos are completely in the wrong place! Then Imageshack started charging for their service and have removed all the links to the thousands of photos I and many others had loaded up if we decided not to pay and go find another photo host I will have to go through the lot and sort it out. It will take some time though... Those PB squirrels will miss out on nuts and berries for their mistakes. For now you will have to do a little working out what goes where. Sorry. Anyway. Please read on and enjoy.... Discussion thread on housetruck build can be found here.... <!-- l --><a class="postlink-local" href="http://www.oldschool...t=21685</a><!-- l --> The beginning.... Well as this Hino is 1985 and I think pretty classic looking now-a-days. I'd have posted it on a housetruck forum but there doesnt seem to be one. Anyway its a vehicle build on an an old truck that I just thought might be of interest to you guys. I'm gonna start a discussion thread as I am really hoping you guys might spot faults, alternative methods and give me some ideas. So I sat my truck license last week and now this is the view from bedroom window.... I was living in various vans and our truck the whole ten years i was in england so now its just the way for hannah and I - until we buy some land. This housetruck build will be our biggest yet and we intend to use a lot of ideas we have thought up over last few years plus ones nicked from others (finest form of flattery eh) Its gonna have 2 push outs and 2 separate main rooms on bottom level of which one will be a workshop. This I have always wanted! We will have a big bedroom over the cab. Over the back will be a entertainment dvd watching, book reading room. The deck is 6 meters long. wheelbase is 5 meters so we can go back 3.5 meters from back axle. We are going to stop at one meter back from deck otherwise the rear swing will be excessive. I found it on buy sell swap nelson. Its really solid and has had the engine reconditioned at cost of $10,000 in 2000. Its rare to get a long wheelbase and rarer to get such a rust free Hino. After we mucked about dealing with the old sod selling it who insisted we went with him to AA in Richmond to change ownership we went to a timber yard called Plankville and bought a load of amazing varieties of wood slithers to clad it in. We are going for a proper old rustic Oregan housetruck look on this one. No plastic, no ply, no metal. Drives well (not that i can compare it to much...) and was quick on trip back to blenheim- faster than the hiace up the hills. That'll change... I could only just turn it about in our front yard. Mums on holiday and hasn't seen it yet- shes gonna hit the roof! //oldschool.co.nz/public/style_emoticons/#EMO_DIR#/biggrin.png Yesterday we stripped the cab out and took off outside panels to expose what little rust there is. Its all superficial stuff and we'll clean it up. Our container of goodies arrives in Lyttelton next week so we'll have my whole workshop full of tools from England here with welder etc. The spray gun will be out and the cab will get a coat of something pastel and old looking. Anything but white! Heres the length shot..... glorious 6.2 litre engine..hmmmmm back to work....

I'm definitely a 4mm of under garment bloke. Trousers around the knees I DO NOT UNDERSTAND... maybe we all chip in together on this here forum and buy a plate press? Or there must be someone on here has access to a CNC mill (and some spare time...) to whip up some stamps and dies. Then I could use the 40 tonne press where i did my trade yonks ago.

A nice 'Puce' I think puce is like beige?

cool- thats what i'll do then! snad the buggers down. Or get some old plates from someone and buy personalised ones with the same number...but then that costs heaps that way.... There must be someone out there with the old plates stamping machine ?

Is there any where in NZ that still makes the original black and silver plates?

I got time now to browse the cars and just checked out your thread - WICKED CAR. I cant agree more with the others- its really nice to see original period colours being kept and that your not wreaking it to make yet another rx3! What wheels are those last ones in the thread ? I love them. An old series 3 rx7 I had in england came with a Hurley engineering twin SU setup- look it up on hurleys website. It went really well- very very smooth with none of the 'secondrys popping open' lurch that nikkis have- plus it was far more economical. Some people laugh when I mention chasing economy on rotarys but it makes sense that with a nice setup you can have good smooth power but still get easy 30mpg. Especially with todays fuel prices. that said if your going bridgeport......

Last weekend some of us from exile rotorsport had a little road trip to Spa Francorchaps race circuit in Belgium- to watch the mazda rx8 race. We got back to Oxford about 4pm- phew...what a wicked weekend!!! My stats...rx3 did 1050 miles! not one single fault at all. Gave it some seriously hard caning on some good twisty roads and other times we cruised at between 60-70mph all the way. I managed 30MPG! those who say RX's aint usable...thats wicked figures for a '72 car that can do 130 and be caned all day long Loving this little car!!! We never got lost- cheers to Hannah who did some good map reading! But damned if could we find the campsite near Brugge! crap signs! But nice campsite. Cheers to those who came along- very nice chilled out little bunch and good fun to be with cheap beer is nice. belgiums roads leave a lot to be desired as far as surfaces go though.... heres some pics... Meet on thursday morning at M2 services in time for breakfest... lauchie on the BBQ... haydens beer glove.. fixing a carb KIWI style... race time.. nice..thats got our attention.. Dinner time.. I'm BRUGGE... bonnets make good towel dryers.. at campsite near Brugge.. Hannah and I had a great weekend and we want to go back to Brugge later this summer- whos up for it? oh and this happened in Lux... why so fast... ...was what luxyburger cop lady said to me through the window after I came around a corner way too fast and skidded onto other side of road next to cop car parked at an intersection! There were 10 or so cops lined up marshelling a classic motorbike run. Hannah heard one say to the other "arrest?" I replied to her that corner was too tight with no warning.... s--t was my heart beating fast!. I then said I just need to get back to other side of road. When others arrived seconds later from down the hill we just took off before the completely shocked cops could decide or not to arrest me for blatant dangerous driving! Boy was I lucky!!!!! Oh- and the rx8?...it started way back on the grid- 12 hour race. Maybe 35th place on grid... within 8 laps it was in 6th place!!! by the time we left(3 hours later) it was up to 4th and it had the fastest lap time. but at the 7th hour it caught on fire! fuel pipe or something. It was 15 secs behind lead car at this point. shame! It sounded soooo cool- it was definately the bad boy of the race- spitting the biggest flames and sounded more like an F1 car. so cool. alex

ouch. I'm gonna look for an old car if i dont bring back the 3!

cool. So what do you pay a year if it aint old enough?

is there free registration in nz if a car is older than a certain date? I can't remember.. Shit- i cant remember loads. Hang on.. Where i'm i?

I got a nice new front disc from alan bryer- he only had one left but I had another original un-machined low mileage one so put it in friends lathe and cleaned it up...my best concentration look... then fit them all shiney and new.... and fit new shoes in back- drums were fine! Drove car last night- no more juddering brake pedal and nice smooth stops. Sweet!

when i re- reg'd my old chevette i had to take to local wof station- a standard test. Then deemed safe i was allowed to drive it from blenheim to nelson with no plates. Got a cert (peter?) for mod's on the way and then at nelson vtnz place they gave it a more thorough test. They were happy to be looking at a nice old car for change. It passed easy and then i got new vin and nice new plates. Is there a age limit for personal imports into nz? I heard its hard to import anything newer than 92? I'm guessing my 3 would be ok as its an oldy and a classic? Can you import lhd cars?

yeah- there is a stupid method over here that calculates a cc rating for tax purposes! Its crap- they wont take mazdas official swept volume figure. So it also affects any one here trying to race a rotary as they get lumped into bigger cc class. On exile-rotorsport.com the fella's are constantly sending letters to dvla to get cars changed back to 1.2 or 1.3. Several have succeeded. Odd thing is that some rx8s got first registered as 1.3! Weird. Any way- i don't care as because i proved mine was built before 1/1/73 it is now tax free.

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FINGS I DONE TODAY ALWIGHT!... I jumped onto some springs and calculated precisely what poundage they are with the help of my trusty sidekick Hannah and her amazing tape measure plus some scales. I then fit the springs I selected along with my 'Brand spanking new Konis' that I purchased from classicgarage.com- who happen to have loads of old stock konis etc I wound the damping adjustment in 1/3 from start - it affects the rebound only and that happens to be what was severly lacking with my car. I then took it for a drive and hey presto! It actually drives great- much much less pitching about and bouncing over every little bump. and the roll is reduced too- I actually found my self hammering into corners with joyeus (sp?) abandon So phone calls to Gaz today and chase up where my rear dampers are!!! Yesterday I had this fella in front of me... He works for a magazine...more on that later