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1985 Honda Acty Show Truckfr€$h&m1nt¥
@freshandminty
Club Retro Rides Member 99
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Apr 29, 2020 19:48:41 GMT
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Saw the metalwork being done on this in Birmingham when my car was being painted. So cool. Cheers, just checked your thread and yours was the yellow rx3 then. I think @jonnybravo posted a photo in his thread of your car while it was at DC. . I’ll read through your post properly later.
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Apr 29, 2020 20:20:47 GMT
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Phil - Has ever 'very much looking the part'
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Bloody lovely - nice one to get it with the blossom for that full sakura look!
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Still loving it.
Need pics face to face, side by side with an American truck like a C10
Will show just how dinky it is.
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1985 Honda Acty Show Truckfr€$h&m1nt¥
@freshandminty
Club Retro Rides Member 99
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Bloody lovely - nice one to get it with the blossom for that full sakura look! Thanks, funnily enough this is where i came to a few weeks ago but it seems these trees blossom later so it was good luck that they were in blossom this time I came.
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1985 Honda Acty Show Truckfr€$h&m1nt¥
@freshandminty
Club Retro Rides Member 99
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Still loving it. Need pics face to face, side by side with an American truck like a C10 Will show just how dinky it is. Thanks, I’d say this is probably 75% of the C10s size - it looks small next to a mk1 golf!
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Phil I've noticed on a few of your pics, when it's lowered on the passenger side there is an amber light in front of the rear wheel is there a reason for it? ?
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Last Edit: May 6, 2020 1:05:59 GMT by Thanatos
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1985 Honda Acty Show Truckfr€$h&m1nt¥
@freshandminty
Club Retro Rides Member 99
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Phil I've noticed on a few of your pics, when it's lowered on the passenger side there is an amber light in front of the rear wheel is there a reason for it? ? Hi It’s an aftermarket side repeater - the only indicators on the sides of my model of Acty are the edges of the front clusters and since I removed those when I fitted my headlights with integrated indicator rings I fitted the site repeaters onto the plates that I fitted that hit the ground first when I drop the suspension.
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Rich
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1985 Honda Acty Show TruckRich
@foxmcintyre
Club Retro Rides Member 160
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Phil I've noticed on a few of your pics, when it's lowered on the passenger side there is an amber light in front of the rear wheel is there a reason for it? ? Hi It’s an aftermarket side repeater - the only indicators on the sides of my model of Acty are the edges of the front clusters and since I removed those when I fitted my headlights with integrated indicator rings I fitted the site repeaters onto the plates that I fitted that hit the ground first when I drop the suspension. You do know side repeaters are only mandatory on cars first used after April 1 1986 right?
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1985 Honda Acty Show Truckfr€$h&m1nt¥
@freshandminty
Club Retro Rides Member 99
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Hi It’s an aftermarket side repeater - the only indicators on the sides of my model of Acty are the edges of the front clusters and since I removed those when I fitted my headlights with integrated indicator rings I fitted the site repeaters onto the plates that I fitted that hit the ground first when I drop the suspension. You do know side repeaters are only mandatory on cars first used after April 1 1986 right? I do now!! They’ll be off in the next garage time.
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dom10a
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Saw the metalwork being done on this in Birmingham when my car was being painted. So cool. Cheers, just checked your thread and yours was the yellow rx3 then. I think @jonnybravo posted a photo in his thread of your car while it was at DC. . I’ll read through your post properly later. Yes DC Customs did the paint on it after a major screw up with another paint shop who did more harm than good. Darryn and crew took it back to bare metal and spents weeks prepping it before paint. Really happy with the result. I'm still catching up on writing my thread but will post some paint photos soon. I think i'm up to about 2014 in the thread so far Look forward to seeing your slammed acty again. I have a soft spot for mini vans, was looking at importing a Kei truck from Japan. Good ones don't come up for sale often though. Then there's this!
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Some things that can be done just shouldnt be done, I feel. Like that! Last episode I watched of Welderup was the Model A on those silly things. Truck looking fab as always Mr Fresh N Minty
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1985 Honda Acty Show Truckfr€$h&m1nt¥
@freshandminty
Club Retro Rides Member 99
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Cheers, just checked your thread and yours was the yellow rx3 then. I think @jonnybravo posted a photo in his thread of your car while it was at DC. . I’ll read through your post properly later. Yes DC Customs did the paint on it after a major screw up with another paint shop who did more harm than good. Darryn and crew took it back to bare metal and spents weeks prepping it before paint. Really happy with the result. I'm still catching up on writing my thread but will post some paint photos soon. I think i'm up to about 2014 in the thread so far Look forward to seeing your slammed acty again. I have a soft spot for mini vans, was looking at importing a Kei truck from Japan. Good ones don't come up for sale often though. Then there's this! Yeah I’ve been reading your thread but bit too technical for me at the moment but I saw some of the progress photos on Instagram at the time - I was watching out for updates on my truck at the same time. Mine wasn’t a good one until Darryn got his hands on it.
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1985 Honda Acty Show Truckfr€$h&m1nt¥
@freshandminty
Club Retro Rides Member 99
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I spent a couple of hours this morning removing the original fuel tank, pump, and filter. The tank came out easily enough - 3 x 12mm head bolts into blind threads in the chassis. The fuel pump was trickier as I had to get access to the top of the 10mm bolts but one of my spanners was hiding, after struggling for ages with a tube spanner which I kept dropping I gave up and found my normal spanner so that I could use that on the bolt heads about the pump and the socket wrench on the nuts below. They freed up easily enough when I used the right tools. Then it was off with the hose clips and hose removed before taking the 4 6mm bolts out of the filler cap. Luckily the cap base itself is threaded so they held themselves in place while I removed the nuts. I also tidied up a few cables underneath that needed securing better and removed my oil filler hose as I can route that more directly now the fuel tank is gone. I measured up for a replacement oil filler hose - I’ll make the most of it up by using aluminium pipe this time around with just hose connecting up the elbows to route it to the oil filler cap in the bed. I’ll clean up where the fuel filler cap was and the hole will be covered by a luggage / ICE box that I’ll be building soon that will also replace the suitcases and go up to level with the tops of the dropsides so hopefully it will look original.
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