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Seen in 2015 in Austin, Texas.
That's a hood ornament. http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...psbcka5urv.jpg Notice also the flying pig hanging from the rear view mirror. http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...ps17xivezd.jpg |
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Still trying to catch back up to real time.
Only 16 hours behind now. Getting some tidying up done was high on the agenda. Found some interesting “details” in the design and build. Can you see it? https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...SizeRender.jpg I also removed most of the original radio and interior light, rear view mirror mess. Need to try get these two parallel bars out as well, Bill whacked his head on them twice, I am still due to do it. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...C54410B678.jpg Also removed most of the seatbelts and mounts from the rear, and despite the bloody long bar, still could not get the roll bar shifted. The seat belt cassettes are on the same mounts. Will try again today when it warms up, and after the bleach job. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...MG_5845(1).JPG Certainly do not want or like this bull bar. Heavy and unsightly, plus rusted through under plastic coating. And if it is on a diet, this will help. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_5803.HEIC Some serious bolts keeping it all together. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_5807.HEIC Better? https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_5811.HEIC Other side? https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_5816.HEIC The moss stains were really resistant. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...ce6ed4e329.jpg Last bit. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_5850.HEIC Anyone know what these lights are from? Body and internals on this one rotted away completely, so need replacing. I prefer to replace like for like. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...024415fd12.jpg Lens after cleaning out the rust stains. Certainly can be refitted. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...3b23eba932.jpg Actually pleased that I could also do the whole engine bay, behind the grille, under the hood etc. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_5868.HEIC https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_5872.HEIC https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_5866.HEIC https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_5874.HEIC Does my butt look big in this? https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_5856.HEIC From up high. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_5875.HEIC Not that there is any money, but yesterday’s Money Shot. Some change so far. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_5855.HEIC So, now it is Sunday 9.25 and the next job is a coffee, walk around the Rezin Rockit for some silly grinning and dreaming. Then get on with the bleach. Followed by one more run with the pressure cleaner. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_5891.HEIC Anyone see hope? . |
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Way big improvement on it. Waiting to see what you are going to do with it. You figured out a drive train yet?
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There is a full build and info thread here: https://forum.retro-rides.org/thread...ockit-cleaning I have been given an 1800cc 140bhp Mazda Miata/MX5 motor and transmission for free, hope it is still free when I go collect it. So that’s the plan. Original plan was to buy a complete car that had failed its MOT test and use it as donor, but free appeals more. |
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Kool. I like the idea of the Mazda over the Ferd stuff. Different, but good!
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That appeals to me. So...... Bleach city. Big brush, generous application https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_5907.HEIC Once All done, leave it to stand for a few minutes. Then pressure cleaner again. Resulting in this. Dulled right now, but I am sure that there will be some polish to bring a bit of a chime back. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...8C3646B05E.jpg The only damage on the whole car, not too bad for a driven car from 1992 https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_5917.HEIC https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_5918.HEIC I also took off the centre bars between the roll bar and front screen. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_5909.HEIC After all of this, I also added the rear lens that I got from @spacekaddett To the back end. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_5915.HEIC Front end view. Happy https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_5912.HEIC After this, I rounded Sally up to come help me with the next job. She really is a good person to abuse. |
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Opinions again.
I do not have any of the stuff needed yet, and not given the it a lot of technical consideration. But. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_6019.HEIC https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_6018.HEIC https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...9_IMG_6020.PNG I a, thinking a simple, hinged pipe bar where the yellow masking tape lies. Then attached to it, a racing style window net (re-used, recycled) hanging down on a 5mm to 10mm Max rod shaped frame for it to be attached to. 99% visual, racer style. Not really an airbag or soft plush cushion. I also thought that buying some nylon webbing and stitching it all together by hand was an option, albeit not a clever one. Opinions? |
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So my helper hates a photo, no matter why.
Still, fooled her. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_5937.HEIC The old seatbelt mounts were attached at the same points as the roll bar rear mounts. They were rotten and needed to come out, so I crawled underneath and let Sally drive the 3 foot breaker bar and about 5 extensions. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_5953.HEIC Got them, and the rotten carpet and under felt out. Then cleaned up again, how many times have I cleaned this out. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_5961.HEIC Other way. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_5971.HEIC Looking at the base, behind the seats, where the seatbelt mounting nuts are welded in, it became apparent that this was not a safe place, and my newly bent and laid out roll bar would be a good idea. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_5965.HEIC But first a bit of fun. I had enough of doing the real job of cleaning and prepping. There would be more to come. |
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Lunch time action.
Micky loves this sort of thing. Today we were back to full social distancing, and it felt so stupid for me to wear a face covering as he is isolating. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_6031.HEIC https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_6032.HEIC Rear end, looks different, coz it is. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_6036.HEIC Front again https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_6035.HEIC So the next trick will be finding some 60mm to 70mm Outside diameter pipe and a pipe bender to make a new roll bar, differently configured. More in a bit. |
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So after all the stuff I did the last few days, yesterday afternoon was also time for relaxing.
So I went to the garage and pulled out some of the stripes I had put on the Blazer Thought it worth playing about a bit.. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_5942.HEIC AND FOR THE PHOTOSHOP KINGS.......... Knock yourself out Lowered, coloured, plain, GOLD WHEELS, change the wheels outright, steels, alloys. Go on.\ https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_5939.HEIC One of my colour schemes will be along this line. Sticking to the white as primary colour. Star Gasoline Racing ? https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_5927.HEIC https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...E_IMG_4123.JPG https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...8_IMG_4124.JPG https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...C_IMG_5950.PNG https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...F_IMG_5952.JPG So there you go team. Show us what you have. |
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I am partial to the white, with the wheels you already have, regardless of the wheel color.
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How about some nice chrome hood latches?
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If it was decent quality chrome. QUOTE=sparkplug;5817207]again, just a rough illustration to give an idea. https://i.postimg.cc/tCthqwTY/RR-sinclair.jpg[/QUOTE] Quote:
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The green strip looks out of place. Still like the wheels you have the best. Maybe do the green somewhat like the race car over the nose.
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OK......... So let’s get this put to bed first. Wheels are back on, its on the floor, and I am safe, tools put away. Ion Monday afternoon I had a Video call with @PaulY to show him the underside and chassis. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...2_IMG_6070.PNG Took some pics for you all to comment on, plan around or just stare at, like I did, in order to plan how to lower this thing significantly, while keeping it driveable. Sally had come over for dinner after work, and took a sneaky pic from the kitchen. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...6a3e0a91ff.jpg Front https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_6071.HEIC https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_6060.HEIC https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_6066.HEIC https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_6067.HEIC Various views. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_6072.HEIC https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_6073.HEIC You will note bits missing, bits undone or loose. I guess that will be part of the challenge. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_6069.HEIC https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_6068.HEIC https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_6064.HEIC https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_6062.HEIC So there you go. . |
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Once the 4-link is fixed, Id say easiest way for the rear is cut or shorter coils (and shocks). I'd like to say mount your front cradle assembly closer to the frame, but that looks like a whole bunch of re-figuring, so maybe cut/shorted coils and shocks. Do you know what the front end is from that was used on it?
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Morning Bill, As always, thanks for the reply, and thought pu in, I love a bit or a lot of shared, joined up thinking You are right about relocation, raising etc. This car’s whole suspension (custom chassis) setup is from an 80’s or earlier Ford Cortina. Loads of upgrade bits out there, mainly due to clubmans racing and rally car development. Some cheap, some not. Saw this, and in love. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...3_IMG_1421.JPG |
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My first thought was "dang, Rian does the sketchy wood block on jack thing too!"
Rear suspension looks easy enough to lower, the challenge does look like the front. Some of the rust looks really bad...I would think about using a Mustang II front suspension from an aftermarket source and just replace the whole front cradle, mount it up higher to get it lower... |
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This is England...... No Mustang etc bits readily available. At best, you will add MX5/Miata front and rear subframes. But that then adds the cost of buying a car to use as donor. I get a kick out of returning stuff from the grave (where they belong) to functional use, or even improving to where people do stop you to take a photo. We will see once I start messing with it, when I have title in my name etc. https://forum.retro-rides.org/thread...rockit-chassis In the original build thread, linked above, go to about page 23 where the UK guys started To talk about the suspension and shifting it to lower the car. It seems do-able |
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I am amazed that in less than 20 days, this thread on one website, it has already passed 25000 views.
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I was thinking something off of ebay that you could get in the UK or at least shipped to the UK...
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Niiiiiice But a lot to add to a cheap build. . Houston, we have a problem. Meet “ Burger “ she lives in a Vauxhall Viva estate. When discovered a year ago,the nobody knew how she got inside a closed car in an engineering companies yard. Turns out, she had found a large enough hole under the rear wheel arch to make her way inside, and create a home. Since then, she was de-wormed, de-flea’d and has two full meals a day, while keeping an eye on the engineering shop’s owner. Seems that ideally she needs a real home. Sweet as a sweet thing and loves a cuddle. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_6218.HEIC https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_6224.HEIC Soooo tempting. While I was in the yard, I was offered this twin axle galvanised car trailer that only had one axle as someone managed to mangle the front axle. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_6242.HEIC No space for it, but wish I did. |
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With slowly returning to normal, and going out again, I got this delivery today.
https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_6146.HEIC Guess the honeymoon could not last forever In another postal related trick, Fil, who went to fetch the Rezin Rockit with his camper van, for the cost of diesel, was not impressed when I rounded up the cost and “overpaid” him. So he sent me an envelope with the receipts and a £2.00 scratch card. That made me laugh out loud, realising it was no use trying to challenge the man to a game of one upmanship https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...SizeRender.jpg Then I made a protesting Sally scratch..... No win though, which was also fine. Imagine a win though. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_6205.HEIC In other news. I went to see mate Darren and he offered me Burger The sweetest stray cat that lives in a car in his yard, Sally and others said yes, I am still contemplating. Inside the shop, this is one of his side projects, alongside the real day job tasks happening. Meet Project Covid. V8 Beetle. Planned for a beach race called Race the Waves https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_6216.HEIC https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_6249.HEIC Out in the yard, he had this galvanised car transporter trailer, was twin axle, one got damaged, yours for £250.00 collected on Sheppey. Wish I had space and use for it. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_6242.HEIC So next stop, inside a container, crawling through a caravan body....... To this. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_6226.HEIC https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_6230.HEIC Gearbox side. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_6237.HEIC Comes with a wiring loom, hopefully the ECU is somewhere too. Should be in there. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_6240.HEIC And found one 5 point harness. May not be the right thing for the car and seats I have , but hopefully it works, and once I have a second one, which Bill in Scotland has a Black example of. Displayed on the Vauxhall Viva’s hood, where Burger lives. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_6241.HEIC Meet Burger, not a Harley, and not yet adopted, but certainly has put the cat amongst my mental pigeons. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._IMG_6218.HEIC So there you have it, engine and gearbox. Clearly needs a lot more........ |
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Shop cat?
Well, anywhere they really want to go ehh? [quote author="@iainr" source="/post/2629522/thread" timestamp="1600502351"]It looks like you have successfully got through the first round of interviews to be Burgers new servant. Good luck with the second round. Iain[/quote] LOL...! I am thankful. Darren, like me is a sucker for animals..... she already owns his asss. Sally says her name is Molly, not Burger. I don’t care what her name is, but rather if she will sit on my lap, cleaning herself. Seems she is a cleaner. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...f474e62657.jpg https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...8cf809d5f8.jpg Looks like a real shop cat. Seems like another Harley . |
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