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todays results. or rather, todays productivty, the results will be towards the end of the post lol. I'm not going to do a huge writeup, i believe it should be fairly self explanatory... starting with:   notice here the joys of wonder wheels or whatever its called. costs a tenner a bottle but its great at moving curse word. would do a whole detailing spam-take but cant be arsed at this time of night...     and ending up with:     interspersed with: my new 9-drawer tool cabinet being delivered to the house...!  and jonny, my co driver to england next month, bringing me some much needed vauxhall royal red paint.  and then phoned a lady the guy who does my tyres gave me the number for. so on thursday eve i go to see a 'jade green 97/98 skoda 1.3 with flat battery and stale petrol' for taking away or thereabouts. it has a name i cant pronounce and the woman and her daughter are apparently going to cry. I'm getting a car i feel it must be the only right thing to do to bring back to mot'able state. as its only been OffTR since january, I'm deeming that acheiveable lol. oh and its 4 miles from me in the town. cool. |
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bstardchild
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and jonny, my co driver to england next month, bringing me some much needed vauxhall royal red paint. Wolfrace woodoos nice rimage - had a set on a senator looked stunning!!! PS i quite like the white rally slag wheels but I'm a black wheel kinda guy |
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Dez
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And I won't sit down. And I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up.
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you need to learn how to use a trolley jack  |
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you need to learn how to use a trolley jack  did the job! have i not made it clear enough just how unashamedly dangerous i am with tools lol BC - i draw your attention to previous incarnation of the favorAt phenomena...  |
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looks good, the red nuts and centre cap, but isnt the paint just gonna come off every time you put a spider/socket onto the nuts?
I notice a big fish too...
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heavily lacquered, and used kitchen roll to protect the nuts when going on as well. so nope... i hope  |
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you need to learn how to use a trolley jack Or indeed axle stands. Or was that your point, rather than the apparently sill crunching potential of that photo!?!? They look neat BTW. Just don't die working on your car like a lad I know did when it fell on him. Thats one of my soap box items now. |
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1937 Austin Street Rod - 1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1976 Rover V8 - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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Retrojunkie
Part of things
The drinking team with a racing problem!
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I get worried putting any part of my body under a car even with axle stands set up......keeps running around in my head what could happen if it fell, might have something to do with my OCD though that one  |
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 '84 Mk1 Golf GTi Cabby '99 Saab 9-5 Estate (lpg) 2.3 Turbo |
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I had a trolley jack fail on me (sorry this is going OT) when I was under the car putting the stands in place under the frotn subframe, and luckily the stands were under somethign solid because when that jack went it just FELL it wasn't like someone letting it down on the valve, it just FELL. Scary shizzle and the sump ended 1/4" from my nose and I about poo'd my pants. Like I say, a lad I knew was not so lucky working on his 105E the lot came down and he got a diff to the chest and he died on the spot. Back on topic - you now how Compo MO lookies      and yu rool |
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Last Edit: May 2, 2007 9:18:34 GMT by akku
1937 Austin Street Rod - 1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1976 Rover V8 - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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Stiff
Posted a lot
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I get worried putting any part of my body under a car even with axle stands set up......keeps running around in my head what could happen if it fell, might have something to do with my OCD though that one You wouldn't do this then?  |
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Retrojunkie
Part of things
The drinking team with a racing problem!
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No but I'd love to be able to get a car up that high at home, I am sick of cooking myself welding on my back, worst thing is when your jammed and you jump up and bang your head. Not matter how many times you tell yourself the car is an inch above your head, when a molten bit of metal starts to decend through your dermal layers you jump |
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'84 Mk1 Golf GTi Cabby '99 Saab 9-5 Estate (lpg) 2.3 Turbo |
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i wont go anywhere near the underside of a car unless its on axle stands plus wheels laid under to catch the car if everythign else fails. by OTT but worth it really.
that lupo loosk great on those wheels, god i love lupos
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i was bricking myself when i was under the carlton putting the fuel pump and lines in, and that was up on four of pheonixc,s stands that could hold up a truck!!!
good work on the wheels that man, now slam that sucker into the floor or else ;D
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"quote hairnet"
I'm not paying nine pound for a pi$$!
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SteveP
Part of things
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I'm not sure if I get the point of this car... there's too many themes going on It's not rally enough to be a rally slag, and its not rat enough to be rat..  Stripped, buckets, harnesess, HP suspension, cage and decent tyres and I'd go out annoying barries ;D |
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2003 - Volvo S60 D5 SE (Daily)
1989 - Volvo 360 GLT
1985 - Volvo 360 GLS
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Volvo back as my main squeeze, more boost and some interior goodies on the way.
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its kinda rat-slag. i wanted to rat it but then took it off on a tangent. now i've done the wheels its going full on rally. but retaining what rat features it has already... including roofrack in process you have only one photo btw of the car up. every other pic will show the axle stands under it. Lidl specials no less. i fear not death; as a sidenote lol. and the point of my post. today got two people, both of whom sell alloys for a living, comenting on how cool the compo's were and what an improvement and where did i get them. REZULT, as they say. was suggested to put a blue cap in, but gonna stick with the almost compo's just to confuse people, also I'm not one for making something look like something else, that would just spoil it by making it 'this fella cant afford compos so he made his own lol loser' sadness. |
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Car looks cool IMO, I like mad and different! Don't kill yourself doing it though mate, apparantly dying is bad for your health, and even worse for the health of those that love you.
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i was more concerned about the fact youve probably destroyed your sills  using this patented method i managed to get the bottom of the front panel head height ;D ;D |
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and then phoned a lady the guy who does my tyres gave me the number for. so on thursday eve I go to see a 'jade green 97/98 skoda 1.3 with flat battery and stale petrol' for taking away or thereabouts. it has a name I cant pronounce and the woman and her daughter are apparently going to cry. I'm getting a car I feel it must be the only right thing to do to bring back to mot'able state. as its only been OffTR since january, I'm deeming that acheiveable lol. oh and its 4 miles from me in the town. cool. speaking of which: retrorides.proboards86.com/index.cgi?board=readersrides&action=display&thread=1178227328 |
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