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OSFW – Aussie Origins

March 18, 2009

In continuance from yesterday’s post, I thought I would do another Country of Origin selection, this time dealing with some of OS’s member’s rides selections from over the ditch.  Again, as with the American category.  There’s not a massive amount of these on oldschool.  I think the main reason for this is that NZ is well catered for, club wise, for these vehicles and so most end up on other forums.  Generally the yokel, one-eyed, incest type forums who think that anything Japanese or European is inferior because it doesn’t have a pushrod V8 in it.  Not all the time of course and not everyone with those cars is like that.  As is the case with the society though, the loud minority makes their presence felt more times than the majority.  I digress!  Onto the cars;

1971 Chrysler Valiant

1971 Chrysler Valiant

This fine specimen of a Valiant was only purchased by OS member ‘lowrota’ quite recently.  It’s been kept in damn good shape and the VG is by far one of my favourites.  I think it’s the parklamps in the top of the front fenders that does it for me.

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OSFW – Americana

March 17, 2009

What’s OSFW?  Well, after showing some of the coverage from the OS Nationals I thought it would be a good idea to do a bit of feature week on oldschool.co.nz, so, 1+1 OSFW = oldschool feature week.  Each day I’ll share a few different project threads from the wonder that is the oldschool.co.nz forums.

First up will be a few selections from what is essentially a minority on OS.  American Cars.

1951 Ford Sports Coupe

1951 Ford 'Sports' Coupe

First up, Lee’s new acquisition.  A 1951 Ford.  Quite possibly the most magic of era’s, that lent to leadsled’s, the smoothest and most ultimate in rides.  Where customization meant a serious amount of metal work, these were not times of bolted on plastic and made to fit aftermarket parts.

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Thanks to retro-rides.org forums, I stumbled upon this project. Which I thought would be ideal to share with you people.  I’ll let the pictures and actual build thread speak for itself.  Here’s the teasers;

Take 1x Mini

Take 1x Mini

1x XE

1x XE

1x Rear Diff

1x Rear Diff

1x RWD Transmission

1x RWD Transmission

Mix together well, with sufficient engineering practices and you’re bound on a journey to hilarity and excitement…

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After a few pictures posted on oldschool.co.nz thanks to member thegreatestben, this mammoth epic effort of awesomeness was discovered;

M-power

M-power

PeeBee Motorsport appear to be making one HELL of an E30 track car.  With Twin Turbo BMW M5 V10 (I think?)  If you think the engine and manifolds are a work of art, here’s a few examples of the rest of it;

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Retro Pitfalls

February 16, 2009

Dodgey work by previous owners is one thing.  Most people who buy a used or classic car are aware that at some point in it’s life it will have been mistreated, the likelihood of stumbling across that shed find wonder is fairly slim.  Both my 1963 & 1973 Skyline, despite some time spent parked up 20 & 10 years respectively, were by no means immune.  With the ’73 being a more common car I did expect it to be a little thrashed and rotten, though perhaps not as much as it turned out.  The ’63 I didn’t expect as much wrong with it.  There is a bit of rott which considering it’s age is quite slim, but the real problems lie in weird additions of wiring by previous owners and quick bodges here and there.  However, as I said before these are things by previous owner’s and we come to expect them.  What we don’t and should never expect is bodge jobs by actual automotive shops or at least those that call themselves such.

If you follow the link further down in this post you can browse through almost 100 pages of what is a horrible and painful saga for the unfortunate purchaser of a Dukes Of Hazzard replica which cosmetically seemed fine, as such;

Looks pretty at a distance

Looks pretty at a distance

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