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[RetroShite]

More cars!

A brown w123, forum bike Audi 80 cabriolet plus another 80 tdi arrived in the last week.

The s13 needed some welding.

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The other Audi 80 tdi

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Must be the day for red cars.

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The Skoda Rapid I already raffled in September then it appeared at East Anglian Motor Auctions so stuck a bid on and won it.

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Hilux had some welding around the rear arches!

 

Picked up a Daihatsu Fourtrak, its tidy enough but handles terribly on those massive tyres.

Also picked up this beige beauty!

It's decent enough, just a shame about the crappy minilite alloys and racing steering wheel.

[Metal Guru]

2 hours ago, RetroShite said:

Hilux had some welding around the rear arches!

 

Picked up a Daihatsu Fourtrak, its tidy enough but handles terribly on those massive tyres.

Also picked up this beige beauty!

It's decent enough, just a shame about the crappy minilite alloys and racing steering wheel.

That model of Fourtrak handled terribly on any tyres.

[RetroShite]

Another interesting one arrived this month.

This AE92 Corolla

[Schaefft]

8 hours ago, RetroShite said:

Another interesting one arrived this month.

This AE92 Corolla

Certainly a rare sight in the UK, very much in the shadows of the AE86 despite objectively being a better performing car.

[dome]

1 hour ago, Schaefft said:

Certainly a rare sight in the UK, very much in the shadows of the AE86 despite objectively being a better performing car.

Are they rwd or fwd?

[Schaefft]

Just now, dome said:

Are they rwd or fwd?

AE92 are fwd which is the reason they aren't nearly as popular.

[dome]

22 minutes ago, Schaefft said:

AE92 are fwd which is the reason they aren't nearly as popular.

Ah, that'd explain it. It looks cool anyway. 

[RetroShite]

 

Hilux's much like buses, wait for 1 and 3 come along at the same time. 2 red red and 1 green 4x4.

Some more progress on the brown w123, this sides welding is pretty much finished.

Some more tat picked up recently including the forum bike td cavalier.

 

Also picked up a little R tech inverter welder so invested in a spool gun to try some alloy welding.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

That 505 is looking better than it has in years. 

[yes oui si]

It needs to lose the bolt-on arches and chin spoiler and be back on 13s... I'd settle for 15" slot mags and 195/45s though. 

[warninglight]

10 hours ago, RetroShite said:

 

 

Also picked up a little R tech inverter welder so invested in a spool gun to try some alloy welding.

Been looking at buying that spool gun for a while. Never welded aluminium but got some projects in mind.

Any good?

[RetroShite]

16 hours ago, warninglight said:

Been looking at buying that spool gun for a while. Never welded aluminium but got some projects in mind.

Any good?

It's quite noisy, messy and spattery but it seems to work. I went for 1mm and 0.8mm wire but have only tried the 1mm on some alloy which had already been welded.

I need to get some material to play with and figure out what works best.

[warninglight]

Cheers! 

Next year I want to make a dropside bed for the laplander. Might just stick with steel for simplicity this time.

[sutty2006]

I may have accidentally bought tickets for two upcoming Vauxhalls with this months pocket money 😲🤣🤣

[RetroShite]

eBay wins are getting out of hand. one week it's a Daewoo Espero the next is a BMW e23 728...

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People seem to be losing their shit about the 505 Gti, it was a popular car last time around in April 2023 but there seems to be even more want for it now! I'm not a fan of the styling but I'm not keeping it so it'll be staying like this.

 

 

I removed the massive wheel spacers from the Fourtrak and now it looks just right!

 

 

I picked up a cheap C50 which actually seems to ride quite well.

[Westbay]

505 Gti ... 😍

[RetroShite]

Some progress made on the brown w123, welding complete and some paint chucked at it!

[RetroShite]

Phwoar!!

[chaseracer]

WOOD.

[Pieman]

Not usually a big fan of BMWs, but that one....WOOF WOOF!

[Rustybullethole]

Its the brown 123 that's giving me the horn. 

[RetroShite]

After a short drive on Sunday it was clear there was something up with the BMW, turns out the spring cup had partially collapsed and was rubbing on the tyre.

Fixed it in situ by compressing the spring, used a bottle jack to return it to the correct position then welded fuck out of it.

I'd been dreading trying to sort it but it was actually quite easy in the end.

[RetroShite]

A couple more on for January's line up!

[reb]

I doubt that can do 207mph somehow

[RetroShite]

2 hours ago, reb said:

I doubt that can do 207mph somehow

No shit