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  1. Kroozerdave

    Rat / Rod Model Kit Bash Challenge 2023

    Ollies is stocking some great base kits. Must be my age can’t go wrong with George Barris.
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    Rebuilding a broken Straight 8

    With the amount of riding and whippet running down near the boat harbour your old frame might be worth holding onto. I know there are a couple of ally ‘tinny’ style boat builders around. They would have the gear and if they heat treat the hulls chucking a bike frame in as well would be ‘carton...
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    SWB0 🇭🇲 '82 Malvern Star Sprint 12

    Stunning update of a great piece of brand history to build a bike that fits better and will get hundreds of miles keeping your 4 legged family happily sprinting along. The blue bike was a great inspiration to start you on the journey to this. And your professional work must be interesting...
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    Frankenscoot

    Coming home you might need to do a Marty McFly and get a tow up that hill. She looks loonnggg.
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    ORBO Step-Thru Klunker

    And since a brain infection I have a ‘lazy ‘ left side. So I cannot imagine trusting the leg that drags a foot to do that typical swing up and over the seat landing on the pedal bit. So step throughs have really proved their value. It is funny when you think how much ‘auto’ does for us. Like...
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    Rat / Rod Model Kit Bash Challenge 2023

    Yes pretty much except my spats were straight across at the back. The chrome was a series of fine strips along edge of bonnet back to the tail along the body line. The later mk2 had thinner chrome surrounds on door tops which made it look much finer and two coloured brake/indicator lenses.
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    Rat / Rod Model Kit Bash Challenge 2023

    Great job, and barn find reminds me of a 1956 mk1 jag I bought from a family preferred Toyota Dealer. My mum was making noises about my 1974 Toyota Crown that had been customised with mag wheels and custom paint job and dark tinted windows being ‘a bit old’. Unknown to her my younger brother...
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    the I'll show you OFF TOPIC bike thread

    I must admit thinking of Luke and lack of scrap bike parts. Next thing you have a dude wanders into local School of the Air. Offers to start a bike mods course for all the station kids. what parent does not want their kids learning to weld and let lose their imagination. Thinking back to Mad Max...
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    the I'll show you OFF TOPIC bike thread

    My guess Luke is hunkered down trying to stay cool enough this time of year. It gets toasty where he is without bonus heatwaves. 🍺🍻🍹🍸🧊
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    Do not get them wet!

    My current mazda 2 from 2004 is great in carrying space because of high square roof and amazing fuel economy. But plastic radiator tanks etc will mean it coming off the road before everything else dies. Currently researching if there might be a brass or aluminium radiator that fits even if I...
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    the I'll show you OFF TOPIC bike thread

    Looks useful as the tide rises.
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    Rat / Rod Model Kit Bash Challenge 2023

    Task orientation can be a good friend when just a little more effort solves a problem. On the other hand the more stressed I am the harder it is to just leave a task for when I am better able to do it best. There is certainly no one going to judge you here for doing clearly your best in the...
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    the I'll show you OFF TOPIC bike thread

    Good to see the cat on duty helping her heal. Just it it to up the volume of the purring for a while.
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    Any other seamsters/seamstresses?

    Ironically like bikes and cars it is the older sewing machines with metal gears etc that still can be great tools and used to be cheap to pick up. Laughing because I apparently have a radar for Toyotas bought a machine off gumtree.
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