kierbear

What?

1975 hillman avenger super,1.6L, 4 speed auto.

Why?

Couldn't find any cars I liked to drive when I was learning to drive. Guy at work bought a ke30 and I got jealous and wanted something similar but cheaper

When?

April 2010. Left at midnight from hastings, drove to kawakawa. Overheated multiple times on way home, picked up wheels in henderson, got back to hastings at 8pm.

How?

Trademe impulse buy. Negotiated++. Drove all the way to kawakawa and it wouldn't start, empty gas tank.

What next?

Wait till I move back from wellington and re-paint and tidy up. Win lotto and buy bel air

Get crafty for winter comfort

Spotted at my house xmas day. '64 p1800 volvo. Owner has had it since '67 and hadnt driven it 17 years til xmaa day. Legend

Will be there after years of meaning to get around to it. Just dont anyone follow me, brake lights may or may not be operational :s

Hey Sean, i was at the beach and asw your javelin among about 100 motorbikes (which had surrounded my car and it was terrifying!). i didnt realise you had sold it and i said to one of the bikers "does sean still own this?" and they said, yea! santa claus over there. they pointed to a man with a huge beard and i said, okay he sold it then....can you move all of your damn bikes now!! lol

Just a couple of things spotted at rotary nats. I only took photos of things that took my fancy tbh

u find this while disposing of all those dead bodies?

owah, that's intense!!!!!!maybe i like it better as a ute

That lincoln wasn't the one with the huge golden chinese sculptured hearse back end was it?

i believe it was! i know the owner's wife quite well as she is my boss so thats how its kind of my boss's car. I remember her telling me about the chinese part and the hearse part. Everytime i see it all i can think is, gosh i wish i had seen it before it was a ute!

yea. i had to go to the auction house near there anyway cause they have some old cars coming up for sale and a few other miscellaneous things. Heres the link to the auction

//oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/42090-fs-lot-of-vintage-cars-at-havelock-north-auction-house/

Right where i left it

haha ill go see if its still where it was when i saw it. Been a day for cruising

haha "the fuck" is a pretty accurate description. He said i can drive it if i want, i declined. Which dealership was that?

Spotted the boss's new whip today- gold lincoln turned into a ute. Its definatly..noticeable

120Y spotted at the nissan dealer across from work. Apparantly an old couple traded it in?? unsure if its for sale and unsure of legitimacy of story

i had the same problem as i wanted to daily my car but insurance companies wanted me to only drive it a limited amount of kms a year. I got comprehensive with vero which was through my bank. They took insurance off me after making a large claim and NAC insured me with no dramas. so far so good.

I've heard avengers were really good for killing you with the steering wheel. Their seatbelts are garbage too.

thyre okay if you crash really slow

Just FYI Elwood road in Hastings is closed and there is a police check by the show grounds which is on karamu road which is kind of on the way out there

is the ol' blightys british house of horrors ^ ???  I think we did that on the very 1st one?

Yea that's the one. I just remembered after i wrote that, how awful it actually is

Have you done the car museum down the street from where te camp ground is yet? It's practically self directed as the guy is mainly interested in watching emmerdale re-runs all day

i'm getting that shit sorted this weekend then. Thought there would be a pink sticker problem there, its screaming out quite a few decibels

Just went to get my muffler welded today, left my car at the garage for the day, told them to ring me if nothing goes as expected as i get screwed around and overcharged regularly. Get back to my car and he just put a new pipe on, not even the muffler, said he couldnt weld it. Then gave me a WOF. Now i sound like a 17yo boy with honda. this legal? lol

The guy that does my WOFs tries to fail me on not having seatbelts in the back and not having reverse lights. I have to remind him that its factory and then everything else that's fualty he usually passes cause he thinks its factory and doesnt wanna ask. Got a clean sheet the last time, got home and my radiator hoses had all split cause he was mucking around with them. Ahwell, still got a WOF

found the original owners handbook in my glovebox "chrysler hunter/avenger range certified car care plan" with all the details of the first owners, including their 5 digit phone number! and all the maintenence done by kirk motors up till the 72,000km mark. Mr & Mrs Browne from otahuhu i have your car, in my last car i found a diamond ring and even after a year of my windscreen smashing, i continue to find glass everywhere.

if youre too cool for de-misters, this really works

http://www.supercheapauto.co.nz/online- ... escription

as it is i constantly drive with the assumption that people are not going to give way to me at roundabouts and intersections. should be interesting to see how this goes