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This garden bed in particular cops a few hits... at least one a month and its right near my work... its on the exit of a notoriously slippery roundabout. I've seen some very nice cars totalled in that spot... :D

Plodding along doing my daily duties this morning, happened across this interesting scenario. Grandma planted her MX83 in this garden, perhaps in the hope it would grow into a Lexus... I didn't have the heart to tell her she'd planted it the wrong way up. At least she'd given it plenty of water. *she was fine by the way :D

Thats bugger all... I've registered worse :D

More than one every month or two and they'll start asking questions. Trick is not to register them until you have a buyer. Just get the RWC and register it straight into the buyer's name once they've bought it. Getting a licence isn't that difficult... but it does cost a bit, and you have to got through a bit of red tape and beauracratic nonsense... and for technical reasons you must have a trading address (even if you don't actually trade from it) located in a commercially zoned area, with a lease in your name etc etc I don't have a caryard or anything, just a shed... but it satisfies the requirements. oh and you have to do 10 modules of training, they teach you how to fill out forms, word you up on the legalities, and drum into you how naughty it is to wind back speedos and cover up chassis rust with spray-on body deadener. BUT At the end of it all, you can transfer ANYTHING into your name without an RWC, and you get a trade plate :P

You're probably right... I've spent all of 15 minutes in it so far :P And my dog has very good taste. She refuses to get into mitsubishis

This one HAD a TV... some alpine thingy I yanked out the moment it rolled off the truck. Bloody rediculous aerials stuck all over the inside of the windscreen... And yes it does go rather hard... stubbornly refuses to break traction around corners however. May have something to do with the very expensive looking 265's on the back... shouldn't be an issue once I find which fuse to remove to turn off the pesky stability control. My dog likes it

Current drive car. '02 BMW 330 ci Convertible I get to tool around in this until I sell it... I'm in no rush :P *skite* :P

4ac engine mounts, starter, blanking plate, custom headers, yank incoveniently placed distributor off and change to crank angle sensor (or hack a hole in your firewall) and hook up a thermo fan... Thats all I can think of... alternator and intake mani should be fine, may have to get a little creative with the radiator hoses but looking at them both side by side I think its do-able... Give it a whack

Its bouncing because you chopped the springs... it won't matter what shocks you use. If you're going to leave it like that... just use standard inserts. Whatever you use will be flogged out in 6 months so don't waste your cash on decent shocks.

Hi... welcome to ze club Nice wags... I've owned a couple of these and a previous generation Tercel as well. They rock. Front: Standard AE92 with thicker swaybar and slightly stiffer springs. Keep the sway (its big enough) but grab some MUCH heavier springs. The 4wd gear makes these fairly nose-heavy compared to the FWD... on dirt a bit of prescribed understeer can be advantageous as they have a tendency to bog in when cornering and lift the inside rear wheel. Stiff springs, an extra degree or so of negative camber and just a stab of left-foot brake just before the apex puts you into a very graceful arc and brings the arse around nicely, and both your rear wheels will be on the ground ready for the 4wd to haul you out of the corner... while everyone else is making big pretty roostertails revving the snot out of second gear whilst practically stationary. Rear: Post the Axle code from you build plate and we'll be able to tell you what diff you have.... But it should be a 3.7 ratio T series. AE86 stuff will fit, but yes most of it will be too soft. An option is to try a few different setups with EA-ED falcon springs in your choice of ride height, and commodore shocks. They're cheaper and easier to get than sprinter bits, and you can fiddle around until you find a setup you like. Hope that helps :P

If there's one thing I've noticed over the years des, its that when you havea run of bad luck, you have a lot of it at once. This one is turning out like your ae82... a trouble magnet

Dear sweet jesus... Where is this thing... I want to see it! And then I want you to rebuild my Surf Motor :P

Oh man.... That purple crown.... Metalflake paint, 100 spoke daytons, airbags, and a 2JZ Lets cruise

You better learn to deal with soft slippery surfaces before you come up here desmond... I had to come home from work the other day to extricate my GF from our driveway as she had bogged the ke70 up to the axles. AND... thats with rally tyres on the back.

Oh smeg. I've created a monster... :P DAAS Kapital and Big Gig eh Nitephyre?... And here I was thinking I was the only repressed and angry leftwing socialist bolshevic revolutionary on this forum :yes:

There's a recurring theme in your TV preferences mikey.... tight jeans :P

I ride a bike. Its nice, comfortable, relatively quiet and very sexual Triumph Speedmaster. I don't filter, I don't speed, I don't zip around the queue of people waiting to turn left just because I can. Consequently I am treated with respect and courtesy by other road users. This may mean I reach my destination a couple of minutes later than the shitheap Honda CBR that rips past me in traffic wailing its tits off at 10 thou rpm in second cog... but seriously... if you're in that much of a goddamn hurry that you can't spare a few minutes doing the right thing and obeying the road rules, you need to set your alarm earlier in the morning to get to work on time. Reality: Cars outnumber bikes 10:1. The human brain hardwires itself to react instinctively to its environment based on repeated experience. Most road users (read: car drivers) are programmed to interact in a car-dominated environment. A bike is a rogue element, and it takes the brain just a millisecond longer to register their presence on the road and react accordingly... This is fact... an unfortunate one, but true. Riding a bike in traffic is dangerous, and probably always will be... so deal with it, and ride with safety as your first priority... not speed.

Hahahaha wicked.... I did exactly the same thing before I upraded to an actual shed... aircon de wheels and all... must be a northern thing eh? Tip: Aircon works better and shed/tent/wedding marquee stays much cooler if you throw a big tarp over it and peg it out on some fly-lines like a standard triangular boyscout tent. I used a tarp with green on the underside and silver on top to reflect the heat a bit. You can get them from stupidcheap too.

Yeah... I saw that and a small piece of me died.

My GF is a hoon :P

I, and I'm sure many of the slightly youth-challenged members of this forum, grew up watching Knight Rider. The crime-fighting car with its many gadgets and pointless-yet-incredibly-cool buttons and lights... Not to mention the Hoff and his fantastic hair... Like every other pre-pubescent car enthusiast I had a dream... to build and drive my very own K.I.T.T. And when I completely loose my mind after winning lotto, it may just happen... courtesy of the Knight Foundation. For all your knight rider conversion needs Bargain! Turbo Boost! whooooooooosh :P

I have a corolla and a diesel... nobody races me anymore :P

*cough* camry driveline *cough* :P Nah just joshin... you could do much worse for a daily. Cheap to buy, cheap to fix, good aircon, and weatherseals that work :D At least its manual! Personally I wouldn't bother with a turbo... for all the blood, sweat and skinned knuckles involved in creating a torque steering hairdressermobile you could pick up a GT4 in the same series for less than 10k, and its already set up from the factory as a proper driver's car.

Amen ^^ I also have festering hatred for little women in large 4wds... they're dangerous... You know, back in his day, Paul Keating tried to push through legislation that required ALL drivers of vehicles over 2 tonne (ie: fullsize SUV) to hold an LR licence... personally I liked the idea as it would mean that the aforementioned little women would have to be trained in operating a large vehicle and the how differently they must be driven, as opposed to the mazda 121 they used to drive. Unfortunately the bill didn't float... so we still have thousands of ill-equipped drivers of 2 tonne death machines cruising the suburbs (gentlemen included) with no idea how to reverse with mirrors, park, brake well in advance, use merging lanes, or slow down for corners. The training for an LR licence covers all of these things and more, and can be done in a few hours... after that its just practice.

As much as I am not averse to a hearty masculine bonding experience, I think your overwhelming sexiness would leave my GF feeling rather jealous and imtimidated and as such I must decline. Des might though... :P