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Two aliens landed in the desert close to Birdsville near an old petrol station that was closed for the night. They approached one of the old petrol pumps and the younger alien addressed it saying, "Greetings, Earthling. We come in peace. Take us to your leader." The old petrol pump, of course...

Paolo : push-bike downhill, motor-bike uphill ??

Hi Martin, nice work on closing the gaps - you will definitely appreciate the lack of road debris in the front ! The DRB has f/glass panels which cover the sides of the front frame & then extend out & up to achieve the same thing as you have done. For the 1st few hundred kms, I ran the car...

Pete, one for you ... A TRUE QUEENSLANDER The General Managers of Cascade Brewery (Tasmania), Tooheys (New SouthWales), XXXX (Queensland), CUB (Victoria) and Coopers (South Australia) wereat a national beer conference. They decide to all go to lunch together and the waitress asks what they...

Aahh, David - your talk of a milkman brings back memories !! One my earliest (4 years of age) relates to sneaking out of the house at 4am to help our old milkman do his deliveries in our area. A beautiful yellow cart, a friendly old drafthorse, the sparks thrown up from his horse-shoes on...

Steve, you are powering along - nice work ! Re the blue colour - you might like to check out Honda's "Marine Blue" from the late 90's Preludes. I looked for the "right" blue for over 6 months, & eventually had it presented to me by way of a mate turning up unexpectedly in his Honda Prelude -...

Some really good pics for you aeronautical guys (& don't miss the YouTube links at the bottom) !! BZ's '07 San Francisco Fleetweek Photo Gallery Kind Regards, Peter D.

Chris, similar to Dimi's approach, I ran insulated s/s pipes thru the tunnel & put screw-type a/c fittings on the ends to take the compression fittings on the end of the rubber hoses. (With the DRB, there is simply no room to run the pipes along the tanks). At the back, I had 90deg fittings...

Pete, it looks like you have the newer DC&O TB castings - each pair appear to be joined together with a cast "web" - thus eliminating mounting/adjustment between the TB's on a pair (lucky you) ! If your circlips haven't moved, I would guess that they are located in grooves on the spindles, so...

Julian, you have done a stunning job on the car - you must get a real kick out of just looking at it, then go right over the top when you take it for a drive !! Your bump-steer gauge is a stroke of pure genious - one for each wheel, add a bit of high-school trig & some calibration, & you have...

Hoppy, entering the "no-man's land" of bureacracy is just such fun - NOT !! It all seems to depend on who's on annual / sick / maternity / paternity leave, and on what the last bum on a seat had for dinner last night !! I love the Anna Bligh (QLD Premier) rumour - but let's leave that alone...

Thanks for your input guys. Trevor - you are right - I have the old DC&O setup with separate TB's, but each pair joined only by the spindles - ie, no adjustment between the butterflies on each pair. I think that DC&O now have a newer version which has each pair cast as a single unit (2 TB's...

Pete - sorry for the thread drift, but it seems relevant to your interest in the vacuum gauges & tuning. Trevor, I see where you are coming from - perfect 90deg setting at WOT should translate to a perfect idle setting. However, I doubt that I have a perfect set of TB's / spindles /...

Pete - not an issue. All my "good gear" from that era was unceremoniously trashed by my good wife (& she's still trying to drag me into the 21st century, fashion-wise) !! So I'll see what Vinnies has to offer, or maybe follow my photographer mate Sam's lead & get a family kilt (McWhirter)...

Hi Bill, things are looking sweet - not to long now before you hear some serious noise !! The exhaust system looks so neat - I wish that we could get away with no CATS here in Oz !! Quick question - how are you going to do retainers on the collectors ? Like yours, mine are quite close...

Ken, if you think it is a long way from Norfolk, try going there from Oz !! I am booked in & I see it as a "once in a lifetime" experience - I am going with a photo/journalist mate who has done the pilgrimage for years. The pics & videos that he comes back with were finally too much to resist...

Scott, that's a cracker !!

Yep, defensive driving is the order of the day with these cars !! When driving ordinary cars, I assume that everyone else on the road is an idiot, but in the '40, I assume that they are blind idiots !! When on the open road, brakes or throttle will shake off the rubber-neckers, but in heavy...

Thanks Hoppy - the "Codpieces" are 3mm aluminium, so I assume that these could be successfully chromed. Yep, the DRB seems to have hit that "sweet spot" in terms of wheel arch radius vs tyre radius with the 17" jobs - they just look "right". My only issue was with pushing the wheels outboard...

Thanks Bill - I still haven't made up my mind about a radio/stereo for the car, so we left a blank area of door panel at the top/front for future speakers if required. My major problem with a full in-car system is that, in the great "rush to rego", I forgot to install wiring into the doors for...