Australian Belly Tank

[Dr Goggles]

Fiat?

[Milwaukee Midget]

Rain and you are having issues this year.

[ben james]

Fiat?

should look good when it's finished,
rat rods annoy me.
& then the fight started

[Milwaukee Midget]

Hey, Gang - this was Doc's original post.
  
I thought I had reposted this complete original post and when I went back, I had deleted his complete original post.

James, I'm so sorry about that.    

I missed the cut.

The rain came down in a big way when I had about 2hrs of daylight left yesterday, that was it. I couldn't put it on the truck because the drag link wasn't in, the drag link wasn't in because, the body hadn't at that point hadn't been secured,because I'd only just got the radius rods done.....you get the drift. This morning the sun came out....and here is where it stood....


 

I was going to Chopped tank or no tank....the countryside is green after the recent rain( did I mention the rain?)...

 

at one of the on ramps I saw Fat Steve heading on


 

..we traded places at a little bit over the limit for the next 30mins until I got to Castlemaine where I caught up with Simon and Jim-Bob...Simon has just had the 289 in his XM Falcon rebuilt, the boys were a little weary, worse for wear and tear....


 

then we got to the Chopped show, here's Ryan ,one of the co-props of Chopped's 32


 

there was all manner of stuff there, good bad and ugly( in no particular order)....I only stayed for an hour and a bit , I had to leave before I told anyone my Plymouth-weak sob story.... here's a quick selection of the turn up,








 

 

 

 

 

 

Ryan at the start of the dirt drags.....


 

the return road, I dunno but that Biscayne looks like it might be crabbing a bit.....





 

On the way home I rang Emu Ben to fill him in on the near miss, yes I was using the hands free, "so, what's goin' on?" he said......

"er, well right now I've got a cop on my clacker with his lights on and I'm fifteen over...."

turns out the cop was in a hurry to get somewhere else, he gave me a dirty look and took off as I pulled over....

I've got a gig this arvo, I have to go.....there's always next year.......

[Milwaukee Midget]

An explanation - as a former moderator, I have a few keys on my screen that I never use.  I posted earlier, using an edit feature to inquire about what I think is a Fiat on Doc's post.  I had two screens open, and when I backed out of the original screen, I accidentally deleted Doc's post.  So THAT's how I was able to reference a post that wasn't there.

Dr. G sent me a "wtf" e-mail, and I felt about miserable - I completely messed it up.  Doc re-sent me the original post - a copy of which he had kept in word - very wise.  I re-posted it, and then the pics didn't come up.  So I went back to the Fiat pic, located the image host, and reinserted all of the pics originally posted.

My huge mistake - I own it, and I can't be trusted to not run with scissors.

[Freud]

You are a pseudo daredevil.

You didn't tell us that your Mom broke the points off of the scissors when she bought them.

FREUD

[Tman]

Chris, I have done that moderating on the Jockey Journal as well.  :oops:You should have a restore function

As for the Fiat, sorry to see the Aussies have POS ratrod garbage like us. Pestilence spread slower in the dark ages than that crap! hat ever happened to pride in your work...........and taste?

[Dr Goggles]

aha....big-brother!....actually I didn't have the post saved in Word ( Word!)what I did was use the "back" button until I got back to where the original post showed up and then C&P'd it to word... man do I ever wish my LIFE had a back button........

I thought maybe the Spambot the was on the board last night had somehow hijacked my post...then I thought maybe someone had cracked my super complicated algorithmic password......

No, my mate had tripped over the lead and kicked it out of the socket, phew.

Thanks for all the effort Chris, and no thanks to the auto deleters and the other post edit pests who made it so the edit function was time limited here..... or I could have fixed it myself.......

as you were men.

ps: yeah Fiat, big cubes....

[Dr Goggles]

If my life did have a back button I would have been busy last night pressing it until I arrived at the day before I bought my tow truck......

Last week the truck wouldn't start..."r-r-r-r-r,rrrrrr,r-r-r-r"....the battery showed full charge...nope,nope and double nope. It's parked in the drive..between the garage and the gate....three tonnes of immobility with a ute on the back.If I was even close to getting the little tank to finished stage then I needed to be able to start, and move the truck.......

Graham came over we checked the battery under load, I bought another battery, $200. The truck started three times, then last night r-r-r-r-r - - - - - - -r. I pulled out the starter motor, the brushes were very fresh but the whole thing had a smell of death about it...

An auto elec took one look at it today and crossed himself, "chuck it in the bin"

He suggested various things, "buy a new one, find a T3500 swap the motor,....go away".......... If you expect people to fall at your feet don't buy a 30 year old truck........

I just bought one for nearly $260 less than what I'd been quoted by helpful rogues.

So, $530 later I have the same crappy ol truck in the drive..........

Makes hiring look pretty good.

did I actually say that?

[Milwaukee Midget]

So, $530 later I have the same crappy ol truck in the drive..........

Makes hiring look pretty good.

did I actually say that?

Renting or owning.  ANYTHING.

The ongoing conundrum of the low budget race team.

Personally, I'd have bought Grummy's truck and a couple of ramps.  If you're going to break down, you might as well break big.

[wobblywalrus]

What is happening with the big belly tank?  The star of the show.

[Dr Goggles]

What is happening with the big belly tank?  The star of the show.

I just got the 2.56:1 ring and pinion set which I bought three months ago from a guy in Idaho, then it got sent to Sparky, Sparky gave it to me at Bonneville and then I gave it to Simon (because he had a bigger baggage limit) and he brought it back to Aus, Sydney to be exact.....I caught up with him on the weekend for the first time since..

OK, so now we have that we can start the set up on the rear end, then we can measure up exactly what length axles we need and then we're off. On another front we need a new helmet and a HANS device......

so, there's your answer Bo........

[grumm441]

Personally, I'd have bought Grummy's truck and a couple of ramps.  If you're going to break down, you might as well break big.

Not my truck?
That was Nicks truck, and thankfully, it's gone
The only thing I have now that's even closely resembles a truck was made in 1941, and is spread all over my yard.
I would have stuck with a trailer
Truck license plate $750+ per year
Trailer License plate $35.00 per year
G

[Freud]

The steering wheel is on the US of A side.

FREUD

[grumm441]

The steering wheel is on the US of A side.

FREUD

Yep
It sure was
G