Authors Cars
Random Retro Snap(s); Citroën ID19s
April 13, 2010
So, seeing as Cameron is too lazy to post up about these missions himself, I figured I might as well share a few pictures that he posted up recently on the oldschool.co.nz website;
How is that so slammed? Oh.. that's right.
Wait a minute....
There's TWO!
Sweet, sweet cars.
-Michael
TX3 worklog: front seat swap
March 17, 2010
Ain’t nothing worse than driving around with a mismatched interior. Well, to me anyway.
Couple of years back I chanced upon some tidy interior trim and seats out of a BFMR Familia which some guy had decided to convert into a rally car some time ago, and said interior was subsequently stored away for safekeeping/reinstalling one day. As it so happened, the rally car was written off and the trim sat in his garage for a few more years until one day he decided to move house and found it all under a sheet while getting ready to shift things. It also turned out to be the ultra-rare “wind-up window door card” version, so I pretty much bought it all on the spot.
there was one slight problem though: no front seats. “Not a problem,” I thought to myself, “I’ll soon be able to find a decent pair on Trademe…”
That was four years ago, and I’ve been looking for those elusive front seats ever since… until this week, when I finally tracked down a pair via the AMAZD club. Cheers Dee (and Ross)
as a stop-gap solution I’d purchased a pair of BFMP Familia bucket seats, which are identical in design save for the trim pattern and the way they mount to the rails (they’re for a FWD chassis, and mine is 4WD). The big drawback of the latter is that the driver’s seat ends up on a massive lean, and no amount of spacing will actually balance it out completely.
this is actually my 2nd pair – the first pair were even shabbier.
BFMP seats
110-Project; Clearance Check
March 8, 2010
So after getting the gasket set earlier that day, I was motivated to at least do something on the 110. That thing was slapping the Leopard L28 into the engine bay so I could check clearances for the headers. Being they were from a Z, it’s a known issue for them to foul on at least something when they make their way into a C110 chassis. So, in the engine went. Resulting in this;
Wheels Straight
Getting pretty close with everything straight, which didn’t bode well for when the wheels turn to the right, and sure enough…
110-Project; One Last Gift
March 8, 2010
So, I finished paying for the two engines I got from the guy I bought the H230 on Friday past, I then got a call in the weekend from the chap saying he had one more thing to give me that he found when he was cleaning out the garage;
Genuine Nissan Part - A Gasket Engine?
Obviously it’s a gasket set, sweet. I have some head-gaskets and manifold gaskets but the more spares the better, right? However, this package isn’t just the headgasket, oh no… it’s much much (more…)
