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  1. On 4/15/2018 at 16:52, scooters said:

    I worked for Holden in ozz we had the Saab franchise as well. I did a clutch on on. Would be a ok job with all the service tools but had nothing. But the whole North South backwards engine thing is a real ball ache. Actually I think I just slipped a new friction plate in and called it quits. Because the gearbox would not move enough and the customer didn't want to pay to have the engine out. Still not real sure how it all works. 

     

    As always there's a trick to it same with the later 900, if you have the correct tool to hold the clutch together when compressed it slides out after unbolting from flywheel. You need an assistant to push down clutch. Book time was 45 minutes for the whole job

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    Judge Dwyer ruled that inoperative vehicles without current registration cannot be stored on the property. He said the Ashtons were able to keep their sheds, but couldn't use them for vehicle storage unless a resource consent was obtained.

     

    Now that is a scary ruling, it will start to happen more regularly- so we should take this kind of fucktardery seriously

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  3. 1 hour ago, locost_bryan said:

    Most English stuff had just the chassis number stamped on the ID plate (often labelled as the Car or Commission No.), and the engine number stamped on the engine (perhaps they expected the engine to break and be replaced?

     

    The engine numbers were logged on the build sheet and in the warranty book, the motors and bodies were often made in different plants and to speed up production the engine numbers were recorded at despatch, loads of the stuff we got here was CKD so there'd be a container of motors and then car panels and they would be fitted in the order they were unpacked from the crate. Replacement motors or factory recond were never stamped, just like Mexican or Brazilian VW engines. Loads fitted as cheap replacements into Kombi.

    I think the same would have gone for most of the early Japanese CKD cars. Especially as most of the same workers just moved off Triumph and on to Honda etc

  4. Growing up the son of a Ford dealer, all Ford are terrible save a few fifties models and of course pre war.

    I mean every car made after 94 is a committee built accountant wrangled jelly bean blob of plastic and misery surrounded by control modules with an engineered in use by date.

    Mundaneos especially are a miserable bread and butter wagon, life is too short to drive crap cars-

    best to put the money into fixing up a Lancia Beta Volumex or Alfa-Romeo 105 series.

    Everything else is just destroying the worlds precious resources and making the landscape uglier in the process.

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  5. I've been here before, the HIF44 SU ain't a barry spec carb, but a top notch swap on basically anything that's plagued by complex emission crap. A single one of those would be more than adequate. But bike carbs will sound and look cooler. Go for Mikuni's, basically miniature Japanese made SU's anyway

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  6. Image result for falcon bogan skid

     

    I can't believe what I'm reading, even from me. A Honda? That's like deciding which cancer you want to get.

    The obvious answer for kiwi roads and bogan points, towing and general skids and not dying when hitting a sparrow at 120kph.

    Falcon six with LPG

    Legendary economy, torque, high geared for highway idling and not even your drunk uncle Rob could kill one of these inside of a decade.

     

    You'll thank me later

     

    (ps the Getz was/is a terrible car, old man ran Hyundai in Aucks for a while and the fleet hire guys had several with death rattle at any one time. The bootlids used to get dents from people slamming them... )

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  7. Going to clean up and sell RO80, tbh I think it will go overseas. They're not really appreciated here and it's a low mileage early car with the electric gearshift and metallic paint. I will get 1200CS going and may restore for myself, it has got a bit of interest amongst euro foamers here being basically a luxury uglier version of the TT model.

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  8. I wondered who these hipsters blocking up my hood with cameras were. Can lend the 91 Volvo 240 for the cause.

     

    Edit- working on photos, computer is doing a dumb - Blue Renault here currently, Morris is street furniture even now in NZ, Volvo very 90's

    (having grown up in that area in 92, all the cars in the background should be from the seventies. The newest car in the neighbourhood was an 89 Falcon. Just my 2c)

    volvo.jpg

    morris.jpg

    renault.jpg

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  9. On 4/17/2017 at 15:45, kyteler said:

    Looks like a Gloria/Cedric Y30 Hardtop as well.  Fairly rare bird also.

    Cedric diesel, I've tried buying twice. Apparently nothing is for sale- ever. According to grumpy owners wife.

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