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    Please wipe it up before driving it to BF tonight, its a family show!
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    nom for burgers and parts xchange so excited for new project bikes and freshly blasted reyums
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    Nice. I have a spare solex carb you can have if you want it plus loads of random bits and pieces that are probably crapper than the bits you already have on that minter. But if you need any non consumable bits let me know.
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    tis all a permitted activity now as far as planning goes*. Im sure there is some building code shizz re fire rating between adjacent tenancies but that aint no thing. *(ahh, yeah your welcome i guess, unless you are sheepers neighbour then soz) (not soz) seriously tho, is that a cross lease? You probably know already but you will need a resurvey if so, and all this work - its to your neighbours place that you lease off them (and they off you hence the cross) , so yeah, just fee simple that pig (if your neighbours ok it...)
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    lol, yes, near new tyres half worn already. I didnt quite get onto it before we left for nats they were 6deg toe out? each side (were even tho so it drove straight, just was funky in the corners) and the wheel alignment pulled them back to 2deg toe in? (cant recall but the opposite way to what it was) each side so 8deg out each wheel or 16deg total. Im blaming this for lack of placing in Grasskhana. (i coulda been a contender!) Caster (2deg) and Camber (0 to slightly negative) were pretty good. With the rain on the way back it was pretty sketchy driving, so made the call to stop and get er done.
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    Day 4 & 5 The long Drive Home Passing though the Mrs hometown. Stopped off at the FILs place in the 'Ding for the night on the way back. The Mrs put her name on the next project, its been in the FILs shed for 20 years, runs the engine with 4 on the floor and buckets from the Torana her brother rolled when he was 16 . Jim Currie Reserve just out of Tokoroa (reccomended!) Waikato River south of Huntly
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    Day 3 - Scavenger Hunt etc Austin Farina Traveller, a brother from another mother. To the beach! Beach! Prize Giving + Fancy Dress Party was later that night, the first Photo i took after prize giving :drunk: , Best Wagon and People Choice
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    Day 2 - Grasskhana Low Life Only mechanical failure of the trip. Thanks to Goat and Mr Goat for the use of his Jag House welder and bolts bin to sort it out. Super Leggera + sounded way faster! My most Favourite Photo Thanks Tumeke
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    Super mission to OldSchool Nats over the last weekend plus a couple of days either side. Over 1500km (Auckland to Featherston a lot of driving around then return) including grass skids and only lost the rear muffler (easy fix), used ~15l/100km until getting a wheel alignment on the way back in Taupo which dropped it to ~12l/100km. Used about 500ml of oil and no water. Came back with a couple of very unexpected trophies, and only a small list of minor tweaks, so very very happy with how it went. Anyway, pics or it didnt happen! CONVOY! Cruising though the Central Plateau Sillouette Split off from the convoy at Vinegar Hill, had some errands in Palmhole and took the Pahiatua Track Finally arrived at the camp around 7.30, so, to the pub!
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    Catch Up post: Shake Down Run to Oldschool.co.nz burgers meet in town last night, where it was pretty well received Car went great, feeling pretty confident about the tip to Featherston next week (JINX!) Photo Credit to: Dorian (DCG Photography) https://www.facebook.com/pg/DCGPhotographyNZ/photos/?tab=album&album_id=505248416265912 Guy With Aviators https://www.flickr.com/photos/45457939@N08/sets/72157678363759483/with/33428289802
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    Locked and loaded. Ready to blow!
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    Good Meet indeed, and thanks all for the positive feedback! Great photos too everyone. Ok to steal (with credit) photos for threads? Cops were pretty GCs, i think they just wanted to see what was up with reports of a 'car enthusiasts' meeting. They may have just been hanging out when people started showing up and decided to hang around, dunno? A good attitude* goes a long way Anyway, they left laughing, and pretty sure without issuing any tickets, tho im sure they could have if they wanted to (self included) They were poking at the camber/tridents combo on Richies trump for a while but i think ol Snoozin barry-sharned them senseless (i overheard talk of certain camber degrees stock and trailing arms when i glazed over...) . Anyway, A+ sharns! (*as in, getting a bunch of 'howzit, sweet bike mang', instead of 'fuck off pigs' probably made a difference)
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    Sexellent. Synchronizing watches...
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    Lucky gas Is cheap over there! With the low roof/big stove I reckon kitchen at the back then so you can stand at the stove, instead of kneel. You could still have bed at the back (I like being able to jump into the side door and get changed and hang out and stuff in the lounge in car parks, its abit less obvious and requires less room) just make the kitchen 'slide' out from under the bed, and/or make a section at the end fold up as a splash back/stop crap going in the bedding - you wont be frying and driving or cooking and sleeping atht same time! You may be able to rig something to hand the bikes above the bed? Just don't sit up in the middle of the night! You might need to get the sketchup going. Also do this:
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    Can you get swiveling captains chairs for these? If so bed at the back for sure!
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    Sweet van, sweet base vehicle. RE the bed location, i reckon it depends on how you intend to use the space, and how much room gets taken by the mattress. In my preferred van layout (LWB Nissan Caravan) the (queen) bed takes the rear length (*snarf) to the sliding door, with the space in front of the bed/behind the seats for getting changed etc, with a side awning/tarp as the main outside. Your van looks a bit shorter and the barn doors suggest to me that the 'lounge/kitchen' space at the rear would be better. Setting up a tarp that accordions out when you opened the doors might make it more usable (stand outside when cooking)? Are you planning on making the bed convertible to seats? (this wastes a lot of space imo, and compromises the comfort of the bed, and i prefer sitting/cooking outside. With your temps this might not be ideal! RE storage, i reckon you want to make as much use of the roof as you can, big racks (doubles as a roof deck?) and all the wet/muddy toy storage up there (bike box?)? If you are super worried about it make the bed a bit higher so it can slip underneath (make the bed height to suit your chosen storage box), but the roof looks pretty low so IDK? 8 months in a van means i would want to prioritise making the interior space as comfortable as possible.
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    Cheers duders, I have a model of it already, blue with white roof, red interior, and black wheels Pretty keen on the 124, but ill see what the boss says about it first! If i do get it I wont be getting onto it for a while - the 125 needs some loving first. I generally like to apply 'if fitted then must work rule' to parts on my cars, and i thought they needed to work along with wipers - might be a vehicle age thing? They didnt check them in the end, but i like to have them and they are now electric.
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    Booked this in for a WoF today. Didnt quite make it all the way. (run out of gas) Lucky i had someone who thought it was flippin hilarious driving the support vehicle Looks pretty cool even busted on the side of the road, but "get the fuel sender working" is now at the top of the list! Ive put about 30l of gas in it since i put the tank back in, and ive driven it maybe 3km, so not sure where it all went! Cruising in traffic. Goes pretty good, but i think i will get the radiator swapped out for a newer one that doesnt leak and maybe a couple of pusher fans. Dash guage reads near the top of normal when its sitting, but the mechanical one reads normal (~90degC), but thats in the lower hose. Up on the hoist. Nice to see the underside from more than a foot away! Guys were pretty happy with it. !!!WOF AQUIRED!!! After that popped around to Mr and Mrs Grants to show off, and went to Burger Fuel for lunch in it, gets lots of looks and thumbs up, and 'what is its?' Swung by the beach for a surf check on the way home No surf, so then made a start on the post-WoF list of things to sort! - Fuel sender - wheel alignment - radiator + fans - door & boot locks (no key for any of them) - more driving!
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    Keen on early start to convoy and many stops along the way. What is the preferred route? (Id like to swing via palmy and pop over pahiatua track but thats for my own selfish reasons and that way other than the track is a bit boring) Safety in numbers. Between all of us there will be sufficient tools, knowledge and parts to strip and rebuild a diff to correct lash, or diagnose and refresh all electrical parts on at least 3 points ignition systems, but no 5mm allen keys. Cant wait.
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    Will hopefully be there in something exciting and new* If not, I will be there anyway in something not very exciting and newer (as in not attended before, its achully quite old)
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    me three! will sort washers this week, for WoF on weekend, and shakedown run to BFmeat, then AKL convoy to Nats (safety a, parts and tools in numbers) thats the plan anyway. Already have AA plus - such a bargain! (i may have already used up the free tows TBH!)
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    Fingers crossed for Nat-sing! Pretty sure all it needs for WoF is to get the windowwashers going, but the foot operated water pump thing is bung (still makes the wipers wipe 3x tho ). I have a Uno colostomy bag with an electric pump built in and a momentarty switch ill put on/in the same place Other things are - I don't have any door lock keys - radiator is a bit leaky - I have driven in total about 3km, this is also the total distance it has been driven in the last 25 years - its a 50 yo Italian car, with (for the time) fancy electrical doo dads, that im not 100% sure on ! - I have personally undid and done up almost every bolt (this is the worst worry TBH) what could go wrong
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    I picked up this a bout a month ago from Penrose (not Wanganui!) Ended up getting it sent from Ralph Moore Autoglass in Sydney who had one in stock, and they shipped it with an MG one for some other bloke to halve our shipping. This week i finally got it installed. Cracking the parts cats screen has not only been a very expensive fuckup but also meant ive pretty much missed cruising this summer. I reused the old rubbers, i cleaned them pretty good but they are a bit cracked and stretched in the corners so i hope they dont leak Sorting out the best surrounds, and had just enough unbroken clips, less 2 And on Pretty happy about the close fit to the opening given all the work i did around the screen top and bottom (not so much about the runs, but thats what accessories to hide them are for!) And paint run hider back on Too much or? Nothing like a pending >1200km road trip to procrastinate on sorting the list of wee jobs to sort and a few miles to put on, before hopefully a WoF Next weekend! If not then id better get the brakes on the 125 sorted! Here is a pic to remind me why I aught to pull finger:
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    Finished off the sink unit, nice teak super yacht ply from my buddy who used to work there. lower shelf is a bit frufru compared with the rest, but meh. Sink drains through the ash tray and out a grommet underneath. i have also added a hand pump tap to a 20L water container that lives under the bed Used up the last of the checkered vinyl to cover the grotty brown panels Went for a surf mission to Port Waikato, had a meet with another high roof caravaneer, a slightly later facelift one. Surf was a bit shite so drove the coast road to Raglan. 2 hours of windy gravel though some lovely country, Raglan was better but still shit, Van went great tho, and looked cool doing it Ive bought some awnings (2xfor $20 each!) so apart from adding something to connect them too above the door, finishing the curtains, a bit of underlay/foam for the bed a nd some minor electrics shes already for missions
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    i wish you were my real dad
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