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We all like doner kebabs, even vegetarians. You can make your own mini-elephant leg at home, and it even transports well for taking to shows. 500g lamb mince 1tsp oregano 1/2tsp thyme, onion powder and garlic powder 1/4tsp cayenne pepper Salt and pepper I tend to add 1tsp flour too. Mix all the dry ingredients and then add the mince and squeeze it together by hand. Really mash it all up, the smoother the better. Form it into a log shape then oven for 25 minutes until cooked. Stand the log up and slice down
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Easy Italian-style meatballs: Cook a pan of pasta - any shape, even spaghetti. Either make your own meatballs from minced meat, egg and seasoned breadcrumbs or get them fresh from the supermarket (I usually do this when I've got some reduced short date ones from Lidl!) Roll meatballs in seasoned flour and brown in a frying pan (small amount of spray oil), keeping them moving so they don't stick. Drain cooked pasta and put into overproof dish. Place meatballs on the pasta. Crush 2 cloves of garlic and put them into the frying pan, and after 30 seconds or so, add a run of chopped tomatoes. Keep stirring on a high heat to get any meat flavours off the pan. Add a sprinkle of basil, oregano or any other Italian seasoning, then pour over the meatballs and pasta. Sprinkle with grated cheese and cook in oven until cheese is browned (approx 25 mins at 180)
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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I really enjoy cooking. Most of the stuff I do is either made up or adapted from recipes I find on the net. Since my wife started slimming world we've been trying quite a few new recipes too.
Slow cooker pulled pork - lots of variations but basically as follows: Sliced onion to line the bottom of the pot. Dry rub over a pork joint (fat removed) 1 tsp each of chilli powder or flakes, mustard powder, pepper, smoked paprika, sprinkle of garlic salt, 2 tbsp brown sugar. Place in pot onto onions. Pour a 3:1 mix of water and cider vinegar with a good splash of Worcestershire sauce down the side of the pot (so you don't wash off the rub) to about half way up the meat. Put it on before work and when you get home just shred the meat with two forks. Serve on crusty cobs with coleslaw, or on Jacket potatoes (microwave until soft, about 7 minutes, then sprinkle with salt and transfer to hot oven until crisp, 25 minutes). I've also added chopped red pepper to the shredded pork while the potatoes are cooking.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Jaycee do them. I never bothered in my race car, just went for urethane ones well greased. I remember Paul Woodhead having stock ones on his race car for A-framing the car down from South Yorks and then bolting the bronze bushed ones on when he got to the Pod. He said that he'd been told that the bronze ones wouldn't stand up to repeated street miles. Like I said, I never used them so just passing on an anecdote.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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That's cool. My unit is in Wolverhampton. Hope I get so see it around town!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Boo!
Seriously though, well done Matt. Your thread seriously tempted me to get that one in Dudley but as I found out the wife isn't a fan of 911's (I know, strange!) it wouldn't have been my best idea...
Who bought yours? Someone on here?
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Not going for the full wheel trims then? Not that it looks bad with the hubcaps and black bits. Not keen on the original trims tbh, I may go for black steels with MG Midget trim rings, long term I am thinking 14 inch banded steels. What do you reckon? I'm not keen on the banded steels look - wide minilites would be my choice. How about late Mini Cooper ones?
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Congratulations. My little lad is 20 months old now and wandering around the place clutching toy cars wherever he goes. Every time he sees a four wheeled vehicle he proudly announces "car!" - it's his favourite word in a limited vocabulary! You'll have a great time with mini-misfit.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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My wife told me teenagers needed a new patio area!! I think maybe we've been duped! Looks good anyway, and looking forward to updates, as and when John My wife keeps telling me I need to finish our patio as well! Now our lad is walking she tells me we also need a fence to stop the little curse word from falling off the end of it too... Our wives don't all know each other do they?
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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That looks really nice. My dad and I have built a kitchen extension at my house and saved quite a decent amount with a few good spots and also careful planning. 1 I'd decided to build right across the back of my house but I'd had patio doors fitted 9 years ago. So I designed the extension to reuse those doors, we'll they're paid for already, right? 2 Bought a pair of double glazed hardwood French doors of a well known auction site for about 60 quid. No frames, so built my own when doing the stud work to narrow where the patio doors used to be. No need to build a separate frame when it can be done in the same job. 3 Worked out bulk purchases from builders merchant and had them delivered on large deliveries - only one charge to pay! 4 Reused slabs for patio. Pick them up carefully and they can be put down in a different place later. I actually paved over the crazy paving as it brought the level up! 5 Discount codes are great - Next did some, so family and friends all ordered wallpaper with the codes! 6 Don't eliminate credit cards - Ikea kitchen, paid on a credit card which gave a % cashback on purchases, then paid off when the cc bill came in. The cashback paid for the delivery! 7 Reuse what you have - when we took the wall out between the old kitchen and the lounge, we ended up with a length of skirting board - meant that we had less to buy!
In all, it cost us under £15k to add £40k to the value of the house, but most importantly it's made it a much more useable space for us and our little boy, who's impending arrival was what made us stop talking and actually do it!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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May 23, 2017 19:06:47 GMT
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How about the King of the Hill - the Mulholland Porsche RSR!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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May 21, 2017 13:12:58 GMT
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My Beetle engine stand is a generic one with a bay or type 25 camper bellhousing bolted to it instead of those fiddly arm things. Ideally it could do with part of the bellhousing cut away so that it acts as a true assembly stand.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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May 21, 2017 13:04:59 GMT
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The old school way to chop a laminated screen is to scribe both sides, tap it so that it cracks along the scribed line, then pour lighter fluid into the cracks. When you light it it's supposed to melt the plastic layer in the middle! Never done it myself, my Beetle had plastic windows!
With toughened glass, just tap it with a hammer, then glue together enough of the pieces to fill the hole...
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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May 19, 2017 19:40:08 GMT
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My old '66 Beetle was angle chopped, which usually looks dreadful. I think the reason it got away with it was due to the deguttering as well. The perfect Beetle chop in my eyes is the Tar Babe. A small window car rather than the big window that mine was, but perfect rear quarter window treatment, which is where a lot of Beetles lose it. As for more modern chops, it depends on the model. I like the new 500 on the previous page, but I'm not keen on the ratty BMW.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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May 19, 2017 17:40:02 GMT
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We've got six cats at home, and they definitely all have their own personalities. They are house cats tho, with their own outdoor run. Can't imagine them in the garage!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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May 15, 2017 19:17:28 GMT
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John, I get exactly where you're coming from, and if you've got a local friendly engineer who will talk Tom through processes, you're quids in in the future. I don't have that so I'd be paying much more! Continue onwards and I'll watch with interest!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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I used to have a few MG motors, don't know if there still at my parents house. My Dad still races, been with Dudley Radio Car Club since the late 80's.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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May 14, 2017 22:50:14 GMT
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If you hadn't already bought the Porsche bits, I'd have said don't bother! Front wheel cylinders in the rear drums will even up the balance in a light car like a Fugitive. Just thinking aloud here - why not get the wheels redrilled to Porsche pattern rather than the hubs? There should be plenty of material I'd have thought - there certainly was on the slots on my old buggy. Personally, I'd shift the slots on and look for a set of Cookie Cutters in 6" for the front and 7" for the back - they're not that popular in Porsche circles so a set shouldn't cost you much more than £150ish. A pair of skinny slots could cost double that!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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There are only four things you can do with tin: You can cut it, you can bend it and you can shrink it. Sorry, this made me giggle! Great thread by the way, I often make little repair panels but I'd never think of attempting door skins!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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I remember a red Trekker that had the small rectangular headlights off a bus, possibly a Dennis. Really changed the look of it.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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