Hi All
This is my second stag and I have now owned it for 6 months or so. It is a 75 mk2 british racing green (I think) automatic. It runs really well starts first time and is a great machine. The paint work is great but the interior is a bitty tatty. It needs new carpets and the seats re upholstering. It makes an awesome noise assisted by the hole in the exhaust pipe.
My last stag was a manual o/d and although the auto works well for round town it really is a very different car from the manual. Longer term I want to convert it to manual - I know its a big and expensive job but having owned a manual and knowing how well they go it would be great to convert it.
The plan is to start collecting parts most important amongst which is a mk2 Manual gearbox with the J type overdrive unit. The reality is that with less than 300 cars in NZ a gearbox is probabaly going to need to come from the UK.
The other feature about this car is that it is a federal spec car which were sold in the US and Australia however the Australian one had the same engine spec as the UK cars, so it has air conditioning, different gauges from the NZ spec cars and lot s of other unusual features - it has had twin fuel tanks in the past so it has a filler on each side and the left hand side has been sealed closed. Trick for young players is if it is switched to the other tank (the switch on the dash is still connected to switch the fuel uptake from one tank to the other even though it now has only one tank) - it wont start - not surprisingly. A good securty feature maybe.
So how do I add pictures
This is my second stag and I have now owned it for 6 months or so. It is a 75 mk2 british racing green (I think) automatic. It runs really well starts first time and is a great machine. The paint work is great but the interior is a bitty tatty. It needs new carpets and the seats re upholstering. It makes an awesome noise assisted by the hole in the exhaust pipe.
My last stag was a manual o/d and although the auto works well for round town it really is a very different car from the manual. Longer term I want to convert it to manual - I know its a big and expensive job but having owned a manual and knowing how well they go it would be great to convert it.
The plan is to start collecting parts most important amongst which is a mk2 Manual gearbox with the J type overdrive unit. The reality is that with less than 300 cars in NZ a gearbox is probabaly going to need to come from the UK.
The other feature about this car is that it is a federal spec car which were sold in the US and Australia however the Australian one had the same engine spec as the UK cars, so it has air conditioning, different gauges from the NZ spec cars and lot s of other unusual features - it has had twin fuel tanks in the past so it has a filler on each side and the left hand side has been sealed closed. Trick for young players is if it is switched to the other tank (the switch on the dash is still connected to switch the fuel uptake from one tank to the other even though it now has only one tank) - it wont start - not surprisingly. A good securty feature maybe.
So how do I add pictures
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