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« Reply #5220 on: September 16, 2012, 11:08:04 PM » |
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Not as much of a pain as using every penny of your pension nest egg to build your girlfriend's muscle car.  Spent the day at The Hot Rod Drags at Stratford on Avon today. They always have a couple of dozen trade stalls there. I didn't intend to buy much, but managed to come away with a pair of fibreglass reproductions of the Bakelite interior door window trims, a pair of new rubber bonnet mouldings, (they cover the pointy front corners of the bonnet sides to stop them scratching the rad' shell when the bonnet's up), a handful of nuts & bolts & a second hand plastic windscreen washer bottle -not convinced by the nickel plated header tank I've used. A bit too big & bulky for a simple washer bottle, so might swap it for something less obtrusive. Lots of gorgeous chopped model A Ford pick-ups at the races today, but only one Pop pick-up. |
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« Reply #5221 on: September 17, 2012, 07:34:53 PM » |
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Lots of gorgeous chopped model A Ford pick-ups at the races today, but only one Pop pick-up. So where's the picture? |
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You don't stop havin fun because you get old - you get old if you stop havin fun!
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« Reply #5222 on: September 17, 2012, 11:18:18 PM » |
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This 'un.
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« Reply #5223 on: September 18, 2012, 12:11:41 AM » |
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SORRY------THE MANKY MOBILE is much nicer!Oh and that green is just the job!
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I never wanted to be normal anyways!
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« Reply #5224 on: September 18, 2012, 03:10:45 PM » |
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I have to admit it just dont suit that blue  And yet that little fordson van similar colour looked about spot on to me, only thing i would change on that van would be hight i would drop it just a shade then... Well its perfect. |
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« Reply #5225 on: September 18, 2012, 08:58:44 PM » |
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« Reply #5226 on: September 18, 2012, 09:43:04 PM » |
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I picked up a second hand windscreen washer bottle from Pop Parts Plus at the Hotrod Drags on Sunday. Apparently Pops weren't fitted with washers as standard & only vacuum operated wipers.
We modified an old Transit van header tank as a washer bottle, which Mr Dslam then nickel plated for me. But it just didn't look right. Too fussy for a truck -it shouted Look at me. I'm something really technical & important. Oh, it's just a washer bottle. So I decided to knock up something simpler. A 5 quid bottle, a length of stainless tube, sliced down it's length & opened out to suit, with a "sight glass" slot cut to show the fluid level, plus the modified stainless retaining strap from the previous set up.
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« Reply #5227 on: September 18, 2012, 09:57:38 PM » |
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So go build it!
Man i got more than enough to fettle as it is.  Adding yet another to the fold would be the straw that broke the camels back. In another lifetime perhaps but methinks i must have this one about accounted for already. I am not complaining like. I do like that little van though. |
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« Reply #5228 on: September 18, 2012, 10:09:35 PM » |
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Is it "Speed Freak" rebuilt, or just similar? My favourite Fordson van was always "Hot n Bothered". No-one names their cars any more.  |
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« Reply #5229 on: September 18, 2012, 10:13:38 PM » |
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We'd already welded a recess into the bulkhead for the previous bottle, so the new one sits in it, inside the stainless sleeve & is held by the retaining strap.
I've made up a small step to raise the bottom of the recess. A bit of welding & it'll be done. Much tidier I think.
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« Reply #5230 on: September 18, 2012, 10:55:09 PM » |
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Is it "Speed Freak" rebuilt, or just similar? My favourite Fordson van was always "Hot n Bothered". No-one names their cars any more. I dont know it looks similar could not say if its the same. UPDATE after 3 mins research i am 99percent its not speed freak its similar different reg number speed freak was/is ... van 402.... that little blue van isnt. |
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« Reply #5231 on: September 19, 2012, 05:46:54 AM » |
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I hate when people compare Lemmy with God, i know he is great but he is not gonna be Lemmy, ever If your Dad hasnt got a beard, you've got two Mums there's no point it lookin' pretty if we can't drive it.
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« Reply #5232 on: September 19, 2012, 07:22:33 AM » |
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No-one names their cars any more. i do!!!!! (or will be!!!!) |
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« Reply #5233 on: September 19, 2012, 08:21:59 AM » |
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i want to build a T-bucket using a fibre galss body and call it "The Plastic Bucket"
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I hate when people compare Lemmy with God, i know he is great but he is not gonna be Lemmy, ever If your Dad hasnt got a beard, you've got two Mums there's no point it lookin' pretty if we can't drive it.
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« Reply #5234 on: September 19, 2012, 09:05:25 AM » |
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got a name for mine if i ever get it done  |
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LIVE FAST and DIE YOUNG,, past 50 AND STILL HERE NOW. WAITING. FOR. THE. GRIM. REAPER
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