Matty Dog

I got a digital one from Carbatec a few months ago. I see the price has gone up since I got mine though.

I tried importing a couple of cars from Japan to make money. In both cases, there were costs I hadn't counted on and I lost money.

If it's been stored for such a long time, you would probably spend months chasing little problems like perished rubber parts and corroded or seized something else.

Being LHD, would probably reduce the value. Sure LHD american cars are cool, but that's because they were born that way. The Japanese market is RHD, so the car will be more desirable as RHD.

I know it's a fun idea to entertain, but my reflection on car importation to make money is that I would have been better off getting a part-time job pumping petrol!

One of the guys in my car club was harping on about how amazing J-B Weld is for that sort of thing. Haardens "like steel" and can be tapped and drilled etc if you need to. There is some guy who sells tubes of it on TradeMe.

They went to all that effort getting Stalin's car mint, then they put that tacky fake patina on it....WTF? I'm not into over-restoration, but over-restoring a car, then painting fake dirt on it is just retarded.

The Model A is a crack up though. I love the details like the fake wood wheels and the intake.

Check out this guy's website.

http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/phil.bradshaw/4AGE%20into%20RWD.htm

Phil Bradshaw lives in Dunedin and is a guru when it comes to Toyota stuff.

Wheel Name: Campagnolo Spider

Size: 13"

Width: 5"jj

PCD: 4x100 or 4x98

Offset: unknown

Weight: unknown

I bought 3 of these at a swapmeet a couple of years ago. Anyone know where I can get another one?

I dunno.

I've never met the guy selling it, he just advertised it on the staff intranet.

Just noticed that a guy at work is selling a V8 Mk3 2-door:

Ford Cortina GT MK3 Coupe. Full custom adjutstible suspension lowered on 18" chromes. Injected 5L V 8 T5 manual. Full black leather interior. Fully certed. Very rare.

If someone is genuinely interested, PM me and I'll put you in touch.

Matthew

Name: Matthew

Location: Wellington

Cars you own: 1979 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme V8 Diesel, Fiat Tipo Sedicivalvole

Mods to them (can be brief or detailed): Not much. removed the cat from the Tipo, but that car doesn't count as old school

How you found out about oldschool: Was searching for pics of Horopito

Anything else you want to add: I'm trying to build a sort of over-sized Lotus 7, but right now it just looks like a bunch of parts and a Mk2 supra donor car

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