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Puhuhu. Shit is ready to happen. I just need someone to kick my ass and drag me to the lockup to pull the dashboard out. I keep talking myself out of it.

What's the convoy deets for Wellington crowd? Meet at Caltex Rimutaka at 1pm?

We can discuss in detail over a cold rum or 7 in approx 1 weeks time. (presume you are heading over Wednesday or Thursday?)

If you're not careful you'll wake up one morning and they'll be on your van...

Yes indeedily.

Yes, badly - in the back half. Bring your tools and you can replace it at Beach Hop. I can offer cash, handjobs and rum.

Just saw this, I like this. I'll get @Hayholes mum or @oldnrusty to rub their sticky fingers all over my junk.

Discussion thread Also, just in case you didn't think I was depraved enough. My BA has been painted now too. Plus I've bought a set of lowering thingamees and also scored some 'teens yo. 19x 9.5's to be 'pacific. Painted etc Tried the wheels on, but still need to do a lowering jobee.

The mirrors arrived before Wagnats started, but I got the notification while I was driving to Wagnats... So today I spent about 2 hours installing it in the hot hot sun. Ford sure made that shit overly and unnecessarily complicated to install. The elusive fucking mirror that has taken me close on 9 months and a bunch of fucking money to get into my hands, is finally attached Now for a couple of pictures I've had in stock for a few weeks Arriving at Wagnats, here you can see I now have the Triden 8's up front and 9's in the rear. Also wagnats is serious enough to need to take a shit tonne of wagcessories... A wee photo from a camp at Otaki Forks before Wagnats - you can compare the before and after of the tinted windows for yourself. Finally a pic I took going out to get fish and chips one night for dinner which I thought was cool.

Yup, I'm in. Providing the weather isn't shithouse.

It looks pretty good IMHO

They're not mirror tints Allan. Fortunately, I build my car for my taste, not for the approval of people on the internet and if by receiving the strokers award means I can only to modify it in a way that the strokers approve of then I don't want it and you can have it back. edit - on re-reading that may sound harsh but dude you are giving me shit for styling my car - my way.

I'm more OCD than Barry so uniform tints all round wins the mental battle and the windows are already tinted anyway. LOL

35% is the darkest legal allowed except for 4wd and vans which is as low as 0% behind the front doors. Weird rule but it is what it is. http://www.bignoise.co.nz/car-tint-laws

Should be good to go for Wagnats then?

OK

Cheers. I have a few bits I need to find still. Will make a list with photos

See here for what I mean

Did you put the bearing plates back in the same orientation they came out? The centre is offset to the mounting bolts and if you have it out by a third of a turn then you will have altered your caster and camber.

I have 16x7.5" BMW steels on my VH and no rubby rubby for me.

Wouldn't ya know it, I went on Facebook and the original mirror seller who sent me the wrong side has just messaged me 20 minutes ago (while I was writing my update) saying he can sell me the right side now and will send it tomorrow if I want to buy it. Well isn't that dandy - it's like he read my update. LOL. Needless to say I have agreed. Hopefully it will get here by Tuesday.

So it's been a while since an update. Quick rundown of whats happened since July. Spent the entire time trying to find a drivers mirror, have found a total of 3, two in Australia and one in New Zealand. Plus one more potential. The first one I found took forever to get the guy to send and when he finally sent it, he had sent me a LH side - even though I very clearly asked for a drivers side and he even sent me a picture of the RH to check I was happy with the condition. The second one in Australia I found, I agreed to buy it and was waiting for bank details then some fucking cock-hole came in and paid the guy more for it, so I lost out again. The third one is in Christchurch and even though the guy is super helpful, he seems to be too busy to take it off the car. Then today while I was working on the wag a random truck driver popped his head in to yarn after seeing it when he drove past. He told me of an XE in Upper Hutt on a guys lawn and even showed me on the map where it is. So I'll drive past his place tomorrow after work and flash some cash if he has a mirror. Fingers crossed I have better luck - if anyone else finds one in the meantime hit me up please. Other than mirror woes, what has been happening? Well not a great deal, exterior wise, it's almost identical after the panel repair, except I've taken the spotlights off and it's cleaned the front end up heaps. Nothing under the hood except for a new gas strut so I no longer need a broom to hold it up. It's all been interior stuff. Over the last few months I've bought a few bits of broken trim (still plenty left to still find and replace) Last weekend I started replacing what I could and at the same time I sorted out an absolute abortion of wiring behind the stereo. It was as if it has had 4 or 5 different aftermarket stereos fitted over the last 34 years and each one had taken it's own set of wiring pickups. There was so much unused and random wires behind the stereo. Spent a good half day just doing this and cleaning it up, plus I got the cigarette lighter working, and I have working speakers that don't sound like they've been filled with sand. Pretty happy there. I also found a replacement front bench after finding out my old one was just absolutely fucked, it was stuffed with old towel and bits of newspaper and even a couple of beer bottles were in there too. I found it in Hamilton and my good son @64vauxhall picked it up for me, gave it a wee birthday and then sent it down to me. I owe him a furious wristy for that. I got that in a few weeks ago but it didn't sit right and was squeaky as fuck, so pulled that out again last weekend when doing the wiring and have given it a bit of a touch with some silicone spray in the springs to hopefully shut it up. While I was there I decided I wanted to paint the door cards black. So I whipped those off and gave them a couple of coats of VHT vinyl spray - satin black FYI. It came up pretty good. Anyhow that's about it all. I took a bunch of pictures for before and after over the last few days but my phone must have had a bad trip and fucked out tonight. I literally have ONE photo that was left. So I'll post that here. This is 90% of all the changes to the car anyway. LOL This was the colour it was on the inside before I started swapping stuff around (photo stolen from internet) Have a few more things to do and will then begin packing for Wagnats next week. Whooop edit - oh yeah after driving to @Bistro and @LoveChild's place for New Years I got quite sunburnt and the inside of the car was a freakin glasshouse, so I got back and straight away got all the windows tinted to maximum legal darkness and the temp change inside the car is VERY noticeable. Very happy with that change.

If The recipients of the respective Strokers choice trophies can do close up photos of them (like Manu's above) , I;ll add them to this thread and change them to a bit more like a build thread and start a wagnats history discussion thread.

Nah he's not, he's in Canada at the moment. Will probably order a spare.