Gone to the dark side
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Loving the Minor, it looks great, I always thought the rear whell wells needed to be extended, but then again I love the look of the old '20-'30's cars to along with the 50's cars
Spokane, WA
1962 Austin Mini 850 Countryman Woody Wagon
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now this is a better looking Car!!!! the masking tape, oh i mean the wood is removed . i like the looks of it really...
Thanks, that car is a bit different now:
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Ha-hah!
What's in the engine bay?
is it left or right hand? from the positio of the brake power master, its a leftie, but the other side appears to have a clutch master cylinder. Or do you have very long legs?
I bought a wrecked 1995 Camaro with around 60k on the clock. Pulled the engine/trans from that. 1986 Toyota truck full frame, with Toyota disc brakes up front, Ford Explorer 8.8 rear end with 3.55's narrowed 9", vw scirroco drag radiator, the master you see on the firewall is for a krc powersteering unit, AC, Powerbrakes, blah blah, Dad needs creature comforts. It's a frankenstein for sure. But getting there!
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now this is a better looking Car!!!! the masking tape, oh i mean the wood is removed . i like the looks of it really...
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Ha-hah!
What's in the engine bay?
is it left or right hand? from the positio of the brake power master, its a leftie, but the other side appears to have a clutch master cylinder. Or do you have very long legs?
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"Hang on a minute lads....I've got a great idea."
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"and now it's got some British Green on the engine just to F with people."
Gotta admire an attitude like that!
Cheers!
Thanks, I like having fun with my cars. Take a look at the never ending Morris Minor project. I can't wait to take that to British Car Day, or the likes to see what kind of conversations spark.
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meetthespeakers, hello i see 5 minis in the background, are they all yours???? WOW!!, very nice, makes me love my Mini more
At that time 4 out of the 5 Mini's were, but they are all long gone now accept obviously for the Clubman Estate and the Trabant Kombi.
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meetthespeakers, hello i see 5 minis in the background, are they all yours???? WOW!!, very nice, makes me love my Mini more
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"and now it's got some British Green on the engine just to F with people."
Gotta admire an attitude like that!
Cheers!
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"Hang on a minute lads....I've got a great idea."
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And these are from the Event. Def some nice hardwear there.
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Wanted to post an update, it's been a while, and now it's got some British Green on the engine just to F with people. I placed my order a few months ago from Germany all the parts I kinda ever wanted. They finally showed up 3-8 weeks later. So I redid entire brake system, new carb, new coils, painted engine bay, I reupholstered seats, painted wheels, made up a set of spark plug wires, and a bunch of other odds and ends. Only thing I am waiting on is a new set of leaf springs. Anyway, finally got to take the family out on it's maiden voyage last week to the Raid on the Bay event (Put on my the Slow Riders out of Baltimore... air cooled VW). Went great, without a hitch, got her up to about 85-90kph with the car loaded up. Anyway, here are a few pictures. Looks like the pictures are in reverse order....
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you might need to update your fleet!
Would love to have that in my fleet, or rather my wife really would!! Seriously, she is almost worse than me. These pics are back from last November, but we had a really good turn out this year, almost 20 trabants! 2 Wartburgs I believe. The trabant has been in the back garage since then, hoping to have the seats reupholstered this year, and then just enjoy it, still need to put some form of rear seatbelts in it so our daughter can ride in it around the neighborhood.
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Hey Meetthespeakers, can you post more pics of the 78 Clubby Estate, inside and out, i'm redoing a 77 and you know your stuff. Does it have drums or discs? Engine size? Thx
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you might need to update your fleet!
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Bill, never realized you were only an hour away from me. Have we ever met in person before via CMR, or MAM? We should get together sometime. Mini's, trabants, morris minor oh my! Just trying to focus on getting the Minor driving again at this point and not taking on any more projects! Ha. Air suspension is almost complete, need to get back on finishing up the 3.4 Camaro engine install. Can't wait to get that car done!
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wce/Bill-
If we happen to meet at a car show, please don't let on you know me-LOL-
BIG AL (Corvairs were bad enough) -a smiley emoticon-
new e-mail address-
[email protected]
Please update your records-
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I ended up with the sister car that came over at the same time... not nearly as clean as john's but it gets me back into the Trabie world after a decade's absence...
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I found some great original DDR Stuff, like the blue glass beacon light, two tone euro siren... however not in the budget yet. To get ready for the show I just put in a PA system and hooked up my phone with a downloaded wav file. Anyway, here is a link I saw posted by the Spy Musuem the other day:
//nsp.performedia.com/ism/trabants-2012
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MeettheSpeakers,
Last weekend I was hanging out with a buddy and he had one of friends come over. This guy (Chris) pulls up in a Trabby (not a wagon though). He saw your trabby at the Spy Museum (not sure if it was just pictures or he was there in person) and kept talking about how nice it was. He was wanting to know if you found the light/siren that makes the Two-Tee sound? And if so, where? Chris is certainly into Trabby's, he has three, and the third one he owns was mentioned in an earlier post -- the U2 original Man painted Trabby. He is still looking to find/buy the woman Trabby as well.