Alfashark

Were you driving it over the hill towards Ararimu on Saturday?

How's the compression when it's warm? Thinking you may have the reverse issue that plagued a lot of Bountys - They'd smoke like a motherfucker when cold, then when they got a bit of heat in them it stopped - Cracked heads I think in their case. Seems like something expanding when warm in your case and allowing oil to pass.

The weapon of choice for many heavily tattooed Scandinavian women in their late 20s/early 30s. They're a load-hauling lounge suite, but they sound so good and drive so well - Enjoy!

My white S110L had been painted by a previous owner in white with a brush and roller. Couldn't really tell other than a few small spots of roller texture showing at the very leading edges of the front doors down low and the trailing edge of the rear door down low.

Nicely packaged Helmholtz chambers! My Pug had a small one tucked under the inlet plenum for intake runner gains allegedly.

Or make it many times worse... A few haircuts ago I was in a mate's 120L with our patented performance exhaust - Cast manifold, downpipe into 300mm Coby, meaning the entire exhaust from the fourth port to tip was in the order of 800mm - When we happened upon a well-modded Mk2 Escort. Side by side at 70 created an absolutely brain destroying resonance.

Swing-axle life - If you think you've come in too hot, don't lift. Bury the loud pedal and keep that rear suspension loaded, left-foot brake to punch the nose in and as always, make sure your bollocks are safely tucked into the wheelbarrow you're carrying them in.

Seems like an awful lot of Barrys don't understand the fundamentals of driving something with the engine in the right place...

Maybe, just prior to the VAG takeover would make sense. 50/50 really - Time, effort, money either way just in differing amounts.

The ole 4x98 problem strikes again... I'm sure I found something else incredibly obscure that ran the same stud pattern, besides the usual Fiat/Alfa/Lancia/Lada suspects, but that was a few haircuts ago now.

Probably thin on the ground now, but 33s had a nice simple 14" pepper pot alloy, with Series 3 QVs having a 14" with "spokes" and larger teardrop shaped slots.

Thanks guys, I'll pass that on in case he doesn't check back here.

I'll just jump in here for him - Currently needs some rust dealt to and brakes to be made operational. He's a competent welder/fabricator, so dealing to that shouldn't be an issue. I've suggested that if he tackles the rust in the rockers/sills, he document the process with photos for every little step - Correct?

@AllTorque @cletus Can someone please move this to the wof/cert/reg thread? The man has a 1955 yank tank that was imported roughly 20 years ago and has sat in barns and sheds for most of that time. It's never been inspected and assigned a VIN in that time, but appears to have a mountain of paperwork including the bill of sale from the States, right down to the ID of the container it was freighted here in. Is it a case of packing it up onto a trailer and wheeling it into VINZ in Hamilton and starting the process?

Small world eh? It was a mutual friend of ours that had the red one on OZ rims that I mentioned a page or two back, and likely what gave Paul the itch that his GTIR scratched.