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Guys, thanks for your kind words & commiserations ! The exercise was a salutory lesson in checking everything - again & again ! I was just lucky that it was an 8' run to a brick wall, not a 100m run down a hill to a school crossing !! Naturally, I am now totally anal about parking the car...

4. DISASTER The plan was for a short trip to the local auto parts shop, then a nice drive down the Old Pacific Highway & back home. Well, I got to the shop, parked the car in their parking area, & as it is on a bit of a slope running down to the shopfront, I thought that an extra notch on the...

Re: A dilemma Fran - you must be right ! It is Oliver, re-incarnated as Dogface - all of us old-timers would recall & recognise those unique talents : - a total inability to spell correctly - grammar : what's that ? - try to be controversial : at all costs - waltz into an old established...

Hoppy - the number plate issue is a cracker (no pun intended) - you'll have fun explaining it to all manner of nice young girls every time you stop ! What's this about "parking" it for 6 months & wasting all those QT fees ? Get yourself back asap & drive it like you stole it !! Stone chips...

Welcome to the brotherhood Rick - you are in for some fun !! Some of my R/C aeroplane mates over in you neck of the woods fit skis to their planes so they can fly all year round - a GT40 with studded rear tyres & skis up front could be quite interesting !!! :D Enjoy ! Kind Regards, Peter D.

Great news Hoppy !!! Kind Regards, Peter D.

Brian, that's hilarious ! I can almost understand someone coming up with the ceiling cat concept, but to discover that some loony is working on a full translation of the bible into "ceiling cat speak" is just plain bizzare !! Still, no harm done - it will keep him busy for a while (just...

This is how the test pilots do it. I think it might have something to do with moving the CoG forward - big balls in the cockpit !! YouTube - Crosswind Landing Testing Kind Regards, Peter D.

Bill, either that guy's got very skinny, double-jointed legs, or that girl has a face that I don't want to see !! Kind Regards, Peter D.

Dalton - its the same engineering that is used on those rice-burners - suspension tower struts/braces ! The difference is that whilst the rice-burners seem to use a single solid brace between the towers, these girls have gone for a more flexible "triple-brace" setup. I would be willing to...

Re: A dilemma David - Brilliant !! :D

Hi Martin - now I understand - the dreaded SVA "radius test". And I thought that our RTA here in NSW/Oz were the consumate bastards in terms of thinking up totally stupid rules !! However, as Ian mentioned, there should not be a problem inside the NACA duct entrance - way too small a space to...

Martin, that rear deflector looks so "business-like" - a great addition ! The ducting under the rear deck looks like it was fun to fabricate - not !! But the end result looks good & should work a treat. A quick note on a comment you made quite a while ago regarding opening up the front NACA...

Dave, surely you are not suggesting that there are any real differences between the two main "isodopes" of Governmentium ! Whilst each may appear to give off a different hue when being viewed through the common laboratory instrument known as TV (when it is switched to "Election BS Monitoring...

GRANNIES ON THE ROAD AGAIN..... Sitting on the side of the road waiting to catch speeding drivers, a state trooper sees a car puttering along at 22 mph. He thinks to himself, "This driver is as dangerous as a speeder!" So he turns on his lights and pulls the driver over. Approaching the car...

Brian, I used Hella #1403 reversing lights on mine - nice rectangular units (about 3" x 4") with a good quality chrome finish & a useful bracket for mounting. I glassed aly brackets into the rear clip, just below the lips of the rear openings, bolted them on, then put my mesh covers on. No...

A man and his wife are dining at a table in a plush restaurant, and the husband keeps staring at a drunken lady swigging her drink as she sits alone at a nearby table. The wife asks, "Do you know her?" "Yes," sighs the husband, "She's my ex-girlfriend. I understand she took to drinking right...

Bernie, sorry but I have no idea as to the original cost of the A/C bits - they all came with the car as I bought it (a "rolling chassis" with other bits, all lying around in factory for a few years). Kind Regards, Peter D.

At last !! Someone is looking at a realistic estimate of the true cost ! There are lots of figures quoted around the traps (particularly the "rolling chassis" setups - mostly under $40k) - all designed to suck you in. BUT, when you rigorously add in all the extras, you are starting to look...

Charlie, that is some scary firepower for one bedroom - I started to wonder how many triggers you could pull at the same time, BUT, then I noticed that you are in SoCal, so figured that the number of guns under the bed was probably around twice the number of people in the bed !!! :D Kind...