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Aug 18, 2009 15:06:26 GMT
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Did you take in some of the roads that Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman did on their Long Way Round Jaunt? Having read the book I seem to remember The Road of Bones being awful for them
If so it proves how demanding the terrain is in these places. They were riding brand new purpose built motorbikes; with two brand new support vehicles loaded with spares and supplies following for the whole trip and a support team on the end of a sat phone 24/7 and even they struggled to complete it and nearly turned round on a few occasions.
This is the sort of amazing trip I can only dream of having the plums to even attempt!
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1967 Morris Traveller 1971 Series IIA Land Rover 1991 Golf GL 4+e 1992 Corrado G60 1986 E28 BMW 528i
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Aug 18, 2009 11:57:00 GMT
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That is mindblowing. They've taken someone's vision and re-created it perfectly. Off to buy a lottery ticket!
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1967 Morris Traveller 1971 Series IIA Land Rover 1991 Golf GL 4+e 1992 Corrado G60 1986 E28 BMW 528i
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I was a bit disappointed when I saw you were selling the bike carbs; but replacing them with a 4 barrel and a supercharger! Sweet baby Jesus you're going to be drawing number 11's everywhere!
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1967 Morris Traveller 1971 Series IIA Land Rover 1991 Golf GL 4+e 1992 Corrado G60 1986 E28 BMW 528i
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Aug 14, 2009 13:24:19 GMT
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The Berg cup polos are proof you can make a tough little race engine out of the old 8 valve (although some are 16v) so I think with a good build with the right parts and the right gearing you could have a competitive car This thread needs pics!
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Last Edit: Aug 14, 2009 13:42:08 GMT by whitbytom
1967 Morris Traveller 1971 Series IIA Land Rover 1991 Golf GL 4+e 1992 Corrado G60 1986 E28 BMW 528i
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Aug 13, 2009 15:24:43 GMT
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That's ace, don't think I've ever seen an estate before. Looks like it seriously hauls ass too
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1967 Morris Traveller 1971 Series IIA Land Rover 1991 Golf GL 4+e 1992 Corrado G60 1986 E28 BMW 528i
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Aug 13, 2009 11:04:22 GMT
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Daily driver/Toy: Project/Toy/Soon to be daily driver:
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1967 Morris Traveller 1971 Series IIA Land Rover 1991 Golf GL 4+e 1992 Corrado G60 1986 E28 BMW 528i
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Aug 13, 2009 10:54:19 GMT
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That would look pretty damn awesome. The cookies will be pretty high offset (53 or so I think) so to fill a set of arches out you'll need some chunky adaptors.
Do it!
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1967 Morris Traveller 1971 Series IIA Land Rover 1991 Golf GL 4+e 1992 Corrado G60 1986 E28 BMW 528i
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Aug 12, 2009 14:53:13 GMT
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Saw this at Edition 38 last year, and it's just as lovely in the flesh. I bet it goes like poop of a slippery shovel as well!
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1967 Morris Traveller 1971 Series IIA Land Rover 1991 Golf GL 4+e 1992 Corrado G60 1986 E28 BMW 528i
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Aug 12, 2009 13:36:16 GMT
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If I remember right Peter D James is drivers over 30 only, but don't hold me to that!
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1967 Morris Traveller 1971 Series IIA Land Rover 1991 Golf GL 4+e 1992 Corrado G60 1986 E28 BMW 528i
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Aug 12, 2009 10:31:08 GMT
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What a sorted machine this is! I remember seeing your write up in Retro Cars magazine, love the bus and your complete collection too!
Hopefully I'll get to see this in the flesh sometime, do they hold all the Autotests fairly locally?
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1967 Morris Traveller 1971 Series IIA Land Rover 1991 Golf GL 4+e 1992 Corrado G60 1986 E28 BMW 528i
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I think I'll stick with singles for now, but if I do decide to go with twins (so to speak) I think this is the look I'll be after: Don't get me wrong, I'd like to have the luxury of spending lots on this, but the idea behind the project was not to spend thousands, and so far it hasn't really needed it. In an ideal world it'd be getting 6 cylinders, coilovers and a set of shiny splits!
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1967 Morris Traveller 1971 Series IIA Land Rover 1991 Golf GL 4+e 1992 Corrado G60 1986 E28 BMW 528i
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Aug 11, 2009 14:58:34 GMT
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I really like that, looking at the list of mods you've got a properly sorted machine! A vid of the bike carbs would be nice
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1967 Morris Traveller 1971 Series IIA Land Rover 1991 Golf GL 4+e 1992 Corrado G60 1986 E28 BMW 528i
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Aug 11, 2009 10:33:38 GMT
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I love em both, they do look excellent de-spoilered.
I think they did a japanese market only bugeye STi version with no spoiler and compomotive wheels, which was seriously oof worthy
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1967 Morris Traveller 1971 Series IIA Land Rover 1991 Golf GL 4+e 1992 Corrado G60 1986 E28 BMW 528i
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Aug 10, 2009 13:50:25 GMT
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I spent a really nice day yesterday tying up loose ends on this, got a mouthful of screenwash trying to fix the inoperative washers, and had to devise a solution for the numberplate lights whose connectors disintegrated in my hands I had a good poke round underneath again, and I think it might just be MOT'able. I'll try and get it booked in for Friday I'm still undecided as to whether to put the twin light grille on too, or just stick with the singles.
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1967 Morris Traveller 1971 Series IIA Land Rover 1991 Golf GL 4+e 1992 Corrado G60 1986 E28 BMW 528i
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Aug 10, 2009 12:45:32 GMT
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Is that a single point injection VW waterpumper on that rolling chassis? I wasn't expecting that...
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1967 Morris Traveller 1971 Series IIA Land Rover 1991 Golf GL 4+e 1992 Corrado G60 1986 E28 BMW 528i
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I'm not going to slag these off, after all in the case every one of the cars posted their owners have tried to personalise their car in a way that they think looks good. I don't think they'd be that interested whether or not their car is our cup of tea or not!
The problem I have with the PT Cruiser is, it seems the Chrysler suits have sat down in a boardroom with a designer and said 'we'd like to design a people carrier in the style of a hot rod' and this is how it ended up. It's kind of design by consortium, and the ideas may have started out well, but once the production, safety and the finance department have all had their say the design is a million miles from the initial concept.
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1967 Morris Traveller 1971 Series IIA Land Rover 1991 Golf GL 4+e 1992 Corrado G60 1986 E28 BMW 528i
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The rack and roof barrel are the things that spoil this for me.
If it'd had the paint ripped off, all the trims removed and a peep mirror, and then given a wipe over with gear oil a-la a proper rat rod, and maybe a different set of steels maybe it would work.
Part of me really likes any car with the paint ripped off, and the other part thinks aargh another one!
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1967 Morris Traveller 1971 Series IIA Land Rover 1991 Golf GL 4+e 1992 Corrado G60 1986 E28 BMW 528i
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Yep as far as I know there was never a factory small block automatic. My Mk1 Golf cabby is a 1.6 and has the 3spd auto. It's pretty capable and trouble free but short legged, 3500-3750 rpm at the legal limit.
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1967 Morris Traveller 1971 Series IIA Land Rover 1991 Golf GL 4+e 1992 Corrado G60 1986 E28 BMW 528i
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Cheers for the feedback! Glad someone is enjoying my ramblings.
Yes the Eclat wheels will defo be going on in time. If I can find someone that wants less than £25 to take the tyres off!
Bogg Bros do make nice manifolds, but I prefer not to spend £80 and make something myself that looks a little less fancy! If it's not free to cheap it generally doesn't get a look in
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1967 Morris Traveller 1971 Series IIA Land Rover 1991 Golf GL 4+e 1992 Corrado G60 1986 E28 BMW 528i
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Mojo status - Restored. After fighting to get this running right for aages, I resorted to taking everything apart, cleaned it, made new gaskets out of proper gasket paper, and rebuilt it all with a thin smear of Hylomar Blue. I turned the key and after filling the chambers it fired up, and it runs like a sewing machine! Only needed choke for 30 secs, and settled to a lovely idle, rock steady at just under 1000rpm, with no missing or hesitation at all. The list of remaining stuff to do now looks so much shorter, I'm going to crack on tomorrow!
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1967 Morris Traveller 1971 Series IIA Land Rover 1991 Golf GL 4+e 1992 Corrado G60 1986 E28 BMW 528i
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