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Aug 29, 2019 13:38:20 GMT
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That is very cool, I had a two door version back in the nineties called a LeBaron white with a crushed red velour interior and a red vinyl roof.
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Jan 15, 2020 23:20:11 GMT
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Any updates? This car is so cool.
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The Millenium Volcon"Get yourself a Volvo if that's what you really want, you might be dead next year. In the meantime, you could be going sideways in a gigantic land barge."
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Jarmo
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Any updates? This car is so cool. Thanks! Nothing much really. Planned to work on the interior while the winter, but hey, even the February is almost over already and I don't see any free time to work on it anytime soon  Been so busy with the Diskustom Magazine and all the painting projects. Also working on slowly starting the workwear/selvedge denim kind of clothing brand, which I'm starting out by making some leather accessories first and we'll see how or when it evolves into clothes too. Also practicing engraving. Everything takes so much time Few photos from the fall though: Late September, went to Finland's "X-treme Car Show" in Lahti, I had a booth with for my pinstriping/custom paint stuff there (One Eyed Morse Kustoms). Photo by Pekka Mannermaa. The jolly fella next to car is yours truly.  Late October, last Diskustom Meet of the year 2019. Freezing weather, so not much people attended, but still fun times.  As it its right now with the winter wheels. Photo taken in the beginning of November, when I kinda finished the season for it. Drove 11 047 kilometers last year. I don't really enjoy driving it when it get's dark and wet around the mid-October, but there are times I need to move the car around a bit, hence the winter set-up. While the deepest winter days we only have daylight from around 9AM to 3PM and if it happens to be cloudy (which it usually is), then it's somewhat dark from 2PM already  Now the days are slowly getting longer again and I found a set of winter tyres and I also have a set of ruff-looking Dayton wires, so maybe I'll throw these under there and start driving soon again. |
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Last Edit: Jan 27, 2020 9:56:06 GMT by Jarmo
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Jan 27, 2020 16:20:14 GMT
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Love the car, love your outlook and just been on your website and love the pinstriping too. Nice one.
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I love the winter wheels as well!
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The Millenium Volcon"Get yourself a Volvo if that's what you really want, you might be dead next year. In the meantime, you could be going sideways in a gigantic land barge."
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Jan 28, 2020 17:52:16 GMT
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Its a cool car man! Edit: We are Insta friends already! Small world. |
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Last Edit: Jan 28, 2020 17:53:59 GMT by Deleted
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Jarmo
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Jan 28, 2020 21:01:52 GMT
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Its a cool car man! Edit: We are Insta friends already! Small world. Heheh, cool. What’s your handle there? |
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Jan 28, 2020 21:36:25 GMT
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Its a cool car man! Edit: We are Insta friends already! Small world. Heheh, cool. What’s your handle there? alan.ganley |
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Last Edit: Jan 28, 2020 21:36:56 GMT by Deleted
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Jan 29, 2020 15:36:46 GMT
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It's a small world indeed  |
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vulgalour
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Jan 29, 2020 23:14:18 GMT
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This is a fantastic project, absolutely love your approach to it and how it keeps evolving. The pink goes exceptionally well with the darker (red? brown?)body colour and that interior is excellent. Bonus points for picking a Dodge Aspen to receive this treatment, it works really well.
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Jan 30, 2020 21:56:20 GMT
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Mate this an awesome build!! I love the ghetto engineering, especially the home brew air ride! I winder how much truck air bags are here in the UK ..?
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'89 Honda CRX siR Glassroof Flint black fully restored track beasty
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This is a fantastic project, absolutely love your approach to it and how it keeps evolving. The pink goes exceptionally well with the darker (red? brown?)body colour and that interior is excellent. Bonus points for picking a Dodge Aspen to receive this treatment, it works really well. Thanks! Yeah, body is dark brown, which I've aged a bit here'n'there. For the interior I'd like to go full pink, but so far finding the time has proved to be difficult |
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Last Edit: Jan 31, 2020 8:49:37 GMT by Jarmo
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Mate this an awesome build!! I love the ghetto engineering, especially the home brew air ride! I winder how much truck air bags are here in the UK ..? Well, yeah, nothing wrong with the DIY if it works fine. It's not like there's a bolt-on kit for Aspen anyway and even the bolt-on's might need quite a bit of engineering. I do want to get it juiced in the future though but I have no clue about the ballpark costs for this kind of build. I know that the Rayvern Hydraulics is one of the main juicers in UK, right? Been thinking that maybe riding the car to UK and get it done there would be one of the options, but I haven't gotten so far yet as to ask about the price range. Anybody here maybe have experiences with similar kind of builds? Would make for a cool roadtrip though: ride straight to the shop in UK, leave it there and work on some feature car photoshoots for the Diskustom Magazine and then ride back home with the juiced car. Probably its not going to be that easy in the real life tho... |
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Feb 14, 2020 16:24:09 GMT
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Air Morse One is gonna be a wedding car next week, as my brother is getting married, so I woke it up from the hibernation. Needed to get some taller tyres cause the previous wintertyres on those black 8-spokes were too low and I can't get over the few speedbumps that are placed around the weddingplace. So I had a set of poor looking 100-spoke Daytons and got some 195-tyres on 'em. Looks a bit strange though, cause this size doesn't really fit the lowriderish feel and also because I had to raise the rear higher than the regular ride height, cause otherwise it will rub. Well, anyway, in late March or somewhere in the April I will put the 14" Roadsters back on, so meanwhile it'll do.  |
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That’s very impressive work, Jarmo. You’ve really turned that ugly duckling into a cool and flamboyant swan, well done!! 😎
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Thanks! So, as mentioned in the previous post, the Air Morse One was gonna be a car for my brother's wedding. It happened on the north coast of Estonia, approximately 100km for where I live. The mighty storm was running hot in here too, so drove through the wind and rain with bad wiper and leaking oil pump gasket, cause the new one arrives a bit later. Anyway, everything worked out great and we got back home safe and sound too. Here's just a few pics from the weekend.     This season's plans (these were the plans for a few previous seasons too tho ): - all new interior, pink biscuit tuck and coffin pleats and adding quite a bit of sound deadening while at it; - fix some holes in the floor; - sort out the situation with the blinkers and running lights, cause the latter got removed while making the custom grille and I have a small motorcycle blinkers installed behind the grille at the moment. But they do want the running lights too at the MOT. So been thinking about the 5x7 led lights with integrated running lights and blinkers, but it's hard to find some that would look more period and not the robotic-led-horror as they usually are... - final clear for the roof paint. It's been unfinished since summer, pulled the last stripes this week actually. - get it juiced perhaps. Well, it's all good if even a few from this list is done by the end of the summer |
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vulgalour
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Feb 24, 2020 20:52:28 GMT
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Looking forward to seeing the new pink interior. Good to see pictures of this in less clement weather too because it still looks ace.
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What an awesome car!
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Feb 25, 2020 19:30:45 GMT
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Beautiful car, very impressive!
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Took my girlfriend's 2003 Lexus GS300 to work today, as she bought herself new wheels for it (Work Eurolines replicas) and my mates' shop CSG Customs will be doing the necessary fitting and will set the coilovers bit lower etc. Well, anyway, as the GS stayed there then I took the Aspen for commuting back home (I live about 40km from the shop). It's still leaking a bit of oil (new gasket arrived, need to change it), the second front blinker has now also stopped working (there's small motorcycle led-blinkers after building the custom twisted bar grille and hence removing the stock blinkers), but at least I have the old bulbs still parallelly blinking there; it's quite damp inside after staying outside for months in our winter etc etc. But still cool to drive. I took the quote from Rayvern and had this grand idea about driving it to UK, get it juiced at the Rayvern's and travel around the UK meanwhile, taking photos of cool weird customs for my Diskustom Magazine and drive back home after the hydraulics are installed. At the moment this plan is pushed into some indefinite future because the coronafun and also because the financials doesn't look too bright (because of, well, coronafun). Anyway, here's two pics I took today while driving home. It was a brief sunny moment, cause it's been actually snowing for the last two nights, but it's melting away after the morning. The rusty-ass winter wheels are still on, haven't got the chance for changing these as well.   Here's the GS getting some work at the mates' shop, CSG Customs www.instagram.com/csgcustoms/ And while I'm already offtopicing, then let's continue a bit with our yard's custom life. Here's the cool Dodge Ram "Madalprofiil" (translates to "low profile") getting the nose treatment by Erkki Joon www.instagram.com/joonkustoms/ in CSG Customs. This truck's gonna be quite wild and I think I will feature it in my Diskustom Magazine too once it's done. It already has a hefty static lowering, rear bumper deleted and custom smooth rolled pan instead. Gonna be a minitruck-Nascar-bosozoku mashup. It got into accident last summer after getting the rolled pan done and I finished painting the logos on the windows literally an hour or two before. So it was a good time to start working on the nose anyway and getting back to stock-look was a no-no.  Here's how it looked after lowering, just to get some idea about the stance. Gonna slap some bright graphics on it too after a while. www.instagram.com/madalprofiil/ Photo by Liisa Addi www.instagram.com/addisation/. And for finishing the post - here's the look from our custom-corner (photo snatched from CSG Customs page):  |
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