During the blog downtime last week, I received a message in my inbox from a couple in Malaysia who had contacted me to show me their C110 Project, they had been given my email address by Ewan (hayatonka.com) whose contact details they had received by reading this entry “Want to buy from YAJ? Here’s How” [...]
So, I sent an email to my friend Ewan (www.hayatonka.com – the link is on the left) about some photos he took at a show he was at recently. He had rang me whilst he was there and was quite excited about what was available. He sent me some pictures of said show but also [...]
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 [...]
I went and visited my panel beater chap today. I had left my spare rear panel there and decided to go pick it up and have a yarn. Thankfully he still had it sitting aside, despite one of his workers trying to throw it out at one point. So after a bit of a natter [...]
This weekend saw more work on the 110, (oddly enough, it’s my obsession at the moment and I think it has to be exactly that in order for it to get a wriggle on). First up, after taking the advice from Craig (Vegie) in his comments and using Turpentine to remove the sound deadening residue [...]
Got a little more done today, quite happy with how easy this stuff is to chip off. I assume there’s a solvent that can be used for tidying up the residual crap? If anyone has an idea, let me know. Keen to get the solid floor sparkling. I love that the previous owner left the [...]
A couple of weeks back I got cajoled into entering my 4WD TX3 as part of the AMAZD (non-rotary Mazda) club stand at the Auckland 4 & Rotary Nationals which takes place at the end of this month. I was a bit reluctant at first but then decided “ah what the hell, it’ll provide the [...]
More done today. I started with this front end; You can see residual over-spray from many effort as well as the surface rust from the chassis section that sits behind the front apron. Thankfully it’s only that and the structure of the car is in very good shape as far as those sections are concerned. [...]
C. I got a little bit more paint stripping done, this time on the front apron, which as to be expected was riddled with bog also. However, I neglected to take any photos of it. Instead after I finished with that I decided it was time to mark out where the flares sit and then [...]
With both fenders at about the same stage before my drill packed a sad. In the weekend I decided to roll to Mitre 10 and replace the drill under warranty. We’re up to drill number 3 now. Last one only last two weeks and did a tenth of the work of the first one. Not [...]
