I have run out a few times over the years, generally back when I wasn’t earning much and never had the $ to fill the tank when refuelling.
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Torch’s son’s name is Otto - just saying.......
The best way I’ve seen it done is to mount one of the wall units in a suitable spot, and get a suitable matching nut or bolt for each thread and leave them threaded in/on the checker. That way you have something you can take to the item being worked on to check the thread in a hole where the original bolt is missing,…
I have a soft spot for the steel rims used on VL Commodore police cars - base VL Commodores used a black steel rim and hubcaps, but the Police versions were redesigned (more and smaller holes in rim), painted silver and fitted with a neat centre cap simply because they did not want hubcaps on the police cars.
I had a Datsun 610 SSS fitted with a Leyland P76 V8, which was a redesigned Rover V8 with 1/2" taller deck height (so heavier than a Rover V8). The V8 was sufficiently lighter than the iron block/alloy head Datsun L Series 4 cyl engine that the front springs had to be cut down just to get the nose of the car back…
Smaller cabover trucks with a dual cab setup are a pain for maintenance though, as they generally aren’t tilt cab even where the single cab version would be. I had a small dual cab Daihatsu and access to the engine bay was a bit of a pain since you had to do it via access panels between and under the front seats.
You need one of these.
Magazines. Stopped buying them some years ago simply because I ran out of room - they fill floor-to-ceiling shelving covering one whole wall of my study.
I’ve had a similar experience, except I was the driver. I only woke up when my passenger woke up to the noise of the rumble strips, realised we were going off the road and reached over to steer us back onto the road. If I had been alone, I would have gone off a steep embankment into large trees at 120km/h at a spot…
The only thing is, because these land yachts were styled to look long, low and sleek, the trunk area often ended up surprisingly shallow - lots of width and length, but unable to fit anything very tall. On the other hand, my Leyland P76, which was reasonably large but not the biggest Australian built car, had a boot…
Not dissimilar a layout to the Fiat 850 Series II Sport Coupe I had, other than the belt arrangement driving the radiator fan. In the Fiat the fan pushed air forward through the radiator (which was in the same position as in the Renault) into a cavity between radiator and firewall, and down to a rear-facing scoop…
My cousin’s hair went prematurely grey when he was 17-18 years old, and he was self-conscious about it. He did a mechanical engineering degree and went straight from university into a job with Ford Australia. Soon after, a new model Fairlane was released, which was a model generally bought by ‘successful older…
My first car was a 1970 MKII Cortina 440 automatic - my sister’s housemate’s old car that was offered free if I could get it running again (minor wiring issues). Some months after getting it running and registered, I managed to put a conrod out the side of the block about 100kms from home, and my dad came and gave me…
Perfect! Now all I need is the $ to race-prep all the Kei cars and launch the 24hrs of Kei Mans on a mini Sarthe circuit.Here’s my entry:
If I had all the moneys this is what I would want. plus a backyard with a replica Circuit de la Sarthe, but scaled down in size to suit the Kei car scale!
Kei speedster race truck?
I had the ‘Estate’ (2 door wagon) version of this, fitted with a bigger A12 engine from a Datsun 120Y. The fuel tank on the wagons was almost exactly the same size and shape as a 20 litre jerrycan, sitting vertically inside the left rear quarter. No locking cap or flap, and you couldn’t stick the fuel filler nozzle…
A Morgan Aero 8. These things were built in very low numbers to start with, but this particular one was rarer because I believe it was the only one imported into Australia before the factory changed the design of the rear of the body to meet US requirements, and even these later ones could all be counted on the…
....the Torch version would have EXTREMELY odd taillights.