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sputnick60
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sputnick60
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 Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2022 2:01 am Post subject: Re: The push against entropy |
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I’m back in Australia for a few weeks. I’m doing work on my house. That’s the main reason for this trip. I need a ladder but I sold the Passat. The answer is…. Be careful
It was delivered without a problem.
Of course the weather has been really bad. We had to work inside the car space so the Ghia has to endure a long rinse in rain water.
When I get her indoors I’ll let the pedestal fan blow air around her. That and a wipe down with a chamois.
Nicholas
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'65 Porsche 356C Coupe...
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John Moxon 
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sputnick60
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kiwighia68
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| Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2022 11:16 am Post subject: Re: The push against entropy |
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Three days short of the last post on the thread I bookmarked when I started my restoration in 2013, and behold, Sir Nicholas is back!
The best RHD vert on theSamba?
Wish you were here, Nicholas, now that my car is (finally!) back on the road and legal.
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sputnick60
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| Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2022 1:46 am Post subject: Re: The push against entropy |
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| ….The best RHD vert on theSamba?…. |
I doubt it. Wrong colour, hybrid interior, RHD conversion, modified suspension, modified brakes. There must be better examples on the Samba. Any lowlight cab would easily trump this one.
Btw. Today at the hardware store I was asked what I would take as an offer for it. I’m not selling but I wonder what ridiculous number I should put out there just in case. I'm thinking Dr Evil with my pinky to my lip as I say "One Million Dollars".
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56cpe
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| Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2022 6:11 pm Post subject: Re: The push against entropy |
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Nicholas - If you really thought about it, emigrating to WA, you could drive your Cab all year round. If you stay in NSW you may have to fit a snorkel to you engine 
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sputnick60
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| Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2022 6:36 pm Post subject: Re: The push against entropy |
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| Have you had a chance to look at your Vintage Speed add-on yet? |
I finally managed to get out to Boris’s and see the Shorrock and the bits that came with it. It seems to be all there. Two carburettors were sent so I’ll be able to choose depending on what fits and runs best. Disappointingly it didn’t travel very well. Both pulleys have been chipped and the stand has been broken around one of the screw holes. Nothing that can’t be overcome, but I’d prefer to have done without the complexity. I’ll have to search out somebody who can weld cast iron and will build up the metal then machine it down to shape for both of them. The stand is a cinch. Lots of good TIG guys about.
The plan is to get all of it stripped down, cleaned up, water blasted and new kits installed for the lot of it.
Progress will be slow because I’m back in NZ from Sunday. But at least the pandemic isn’t going to be a hold up
Nicholas
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kiwighia68
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| Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2022 7:20 pm Post subject: Re: The push against entropy |
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It really cheeses me off when I see something broken like that, Nicholas. I think there is a subspecies of Homo sapiens that can, and will, break anything, even the indestructible.
I'm out of town at the moment (grandfather duties) but can't wait to get back home so I can take you out for a drive in my "reborn" and fully certified Ghia.
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John Moxon
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2022 3:02 am Post subject: Re: The push against entropy |
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| sputnick60 wrote: |
| John Moxon wrote: |
| Have you had a chance to look at your Vintage Speed add-on yet? |
I finally managed to get out to Boris’s and see the Shorrock and the bits that came with it. It seems to be all there. Two carburettors were sent so I’ll be able to choose depending on what fits and runs best. Disappointingly it didn’t travel very well. Both pulleys have been chipped and the stand has been broken around one of the screw holes. Nothing that can’t be overcome, but I’d prefer to have done without the complexity. I’ll have to search out somebody who can weld cast iron and will build up the metal then machine it down to shape for both of them. The stand is a cinch. Lots of good TIG guys about.
The plan is to get all of it stripped down, cleaned up, water blasted and new kits installed for the lot of it.
Progress will be slow because I’m back in NZ from Sunday. But at least the pandemic isn’t going to be a hold up
Nicholas |
That damage is disappointing. 
That's why the original kits arrived in a stury wooden box.
Hope it won't be too difficult to find someone to make a repair. Ask Kev Barry from the FB group if he knows anyone who could repair it. The pullies will be easy to replicate.
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