DoBro Jesus

For those of you who know me, know I'm a mitsubishi pest. For those who know me even better, know I'm an absolute sucker for mk2 mirage wagons. Spotted this wee duck when we first moved to chch about 3 and a half years ago parked at muscle car madness. Shat my daks tbh, JDM spec twin sunroof wagon. First one of them I'd ever seen. Having seen it around a few times since then and pining hard everytime I knew I needed to acquire it at some point. Fast forward to a couple months back and @azzar found out that it resided only a couple blocks away from me. So of course I did what had to be done and left a note on old m9s window. I then get a call from him in the afternoon and he yarns to me about it, calls it the "mitsuferrari" and tells me the motor is buggered in it, perfect, I'm thinking as this is bargaining power. We agree on a very reasonable price for it. And we pick it up the next day. Combing over it once we got it back to the workshop it's actually a really tidy, rust free little car. Promptly fucked off the ugly mesh grille and hubcaps, replaced the starter motor, as that was all that was "buggered" about it. And she runs smooth as silk. He had put a catch can in as he reckoned the motor was very tired and kept filling it up with oil. Nothing wrong with the motor per say aside from when it's cold, the head drains very poorly so oil fills up in the rocker cover then globs it out into the catch can. Hence it filling up so fast. Took it for a fang once I'd got it running.

Yeah good meat! Wounders Inc. 4wd club is gonna be a success already I can tell.

I'll be in the wags, nice balance of old enough yet with creature comforts haha.

Take a big tarp we can all stand under in the carpark?

Yeah not K33n for standing out in the rain, bloody nippy today too. Haven't been to BF in ages, better check if there's any sweet new additions to the menu.

Yay, excited for burgs tonight!

Nothing disappointing about this! She runs like a little honey now.

Pizza, dobros, and fixing shit cars, Sundays at mimico are always great haha.

Unsure tbh, dunno where Wayne lives! Haha spitfire square is where its at though.

Yeah, weeknight is fine, keep it on the good side of town like always.

Right erre I believe! https://oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/74335-hanmer-springs-gathering-of-os-folk-28-29th-30th-august/

Yeah this is all done and dusted and sitting at my work now, cheers to @smokin'joe for being a legend and getting it as far as timaz for me!

Cool just let me know when would work for you and I'll check with him and tee it up.

That would be pretty rad if you could. When would suit you? I'll ask the dude if he'd be around.

The guy said he can hold it for a month or so until I can get free time to come get it. But if you're coming up this way @smokin'joe, I wouldnt say no to it being brought up, saves me a trip down. He said I'd need a couple guys to lift it though so whether it's just you or not may be tricky.

Cheers boiz @nzstato and @azzurro. Will find out time frame.

Yeah it will be a heavy bloody thing. And yep it's for the lada wag. Guy had modified it to fit into a niva and had it all running and driving, but ran a bearing. Comes with a good crank though. So most the hard work is done!

Hey all, been offered a diesel fiat motor down in dunedin I really wanna get, but can't get down for a month or so. Is anyone able to pick up and store til I can get down? Beersies and reacharounds provided. Chur

Tent? While it's still warmish. Took paj apart to start building a front bar today, so provided we don't get barred from using workshop, will get heaps done haha

So round 2 of this is looking REALLY appealing now haha.

So when's the next trip? Will make sure paj is legal and ready for next time.

Yeah fuck, pretty jealous.

Enjoy it boiz, gutted I'll miss it.

I actually didn't speak to her, it was @76rolla_gurl who was frothing over it more than me haha.