Dingo Dave

awww i gotta get more active. I could have brought my poosar along for the trip lol. Sorry Guys I have been quite the slacker of late at getting on the web. dont know where my time is going but im searching hard to find the plug i must have pulled out of my hour glass.

Well datsuns I would own. I think there is a lot out there i would play around with. Of course I dont need to worry about the misses and cars because she already left lol. But i have the 260z and the 280 and I gotta go pick up an old and tired 1200 coupe as a fun car. But I dont think I shall wish much more appon myself atm. But yeah they all could be fun

i had a sII bluebird as a daily for a while. good reliable car. was my parents from new my sisters learnt to drive in it and drove it then i learnt and gave it some. it was straight as when i got it. engine had done 500000 by the time it died. I did stupid things in my youth. pushing trolleys out of the way with the front bar. drove for like 14 hours straight one day. got to Canberra fell asleep comming down this road. woke up to thump thump thump. looked up to see a line of empty garbage bins on the side of the road and I'm hitting them. through a few like 5m off the road. hardly any damage to the car. some bins though. engine Finely died and bad things happened to the shell. still got all the doors and stuff out in the parts shed. was thinking of scrapping them in a couple of weeks when i do a run. Old cars had good and bad points as dailys. easy to fix (most of the time). new cars it stops on the side of the road. So you open the hood and look at the masses of wires running through the barsted. cheap and less things to go wrong with them. fuel, air, spark alot easyer to chase

I know I have recommended him to a few people on here already. I'm pretty sure that they are happy with his work. Mark Oliver is a good mate of mine. He is Mark Oliver panel beating. He is a guy who has a gift for the art and loves what he does. Has been doing it for years and doesn't want anything comming out of his shop that doesn't meet the hot rod standards. He is the panel beater for Most of the car clubs in Canberra. People from down in begga have brought their cars up to have him do them. He does almost any oldcar from Australian, America and Europe. He has worked on cars of 100 years old and up. I swear this guy could beat a crushed coke can back into shape.

I think that engine goes with make. Someone told me they world help me put a 2jz engine into my 260z. Well thats all good and all but its a Toyota engine. plus then its less confusing for others when they look at it work on it. If i was to put something completely done up for drags in the z i would probably go hemi. But if its a daily or a show car there is not need for it. If your going insane and doing something not done before then OK. I know of someone with a sr20det in an excel. personally i think its wankerish. but they did it because they had a shell and an engine and were bord. I also know of an excel with a merc v8. Turned into a rear wheel drive. mad little burnout car. It also looks cool. But if the brand your doing up makes an engine that does what you want then why destroy an awesome car. Really we should probably move this to its own thread instead of someones personal thread. But I'm computer Illiterate so I don't know how.

ooh eh. yeah actually i have already done a lot of work on sr20s should just stick to what i know. although they both have advantages and disadvantages. there was a rotary powered vs sedan at one stage. This was when i was running a blown vs 5l. while i was starting to make things happen in the cruises around canberra. the guy pulled in to the area we were all hanging with "a commodore that actually goes" stickers all around it. Figured my ute looked like a good peace of pray. Told me he wanted to take me on in a 1km drag. My ute ate his car. He drove past laid into me. the rest of the guys around laughed at him so he left canberra upset. So glad im out of the whole scene now. Much prefer cruising. But weight is the main problem I assume in the rotary scene.

would love to come but i recon people would laugh at the pulsar. 260 still a bit off

more sheep but less sheep per human head.

depends on what materials you use to build the rest of the car, lol. 1200 can be made to way a small amount.

greetings from the act. But not canberra. Canberra sux. Tuggeranong is the good act place to be. still sux though. Nothing wrong with any datsuns. but if you want something fast and a hatch go for a 1200 coupe and then stick a ca18det in it bord out to 2l and running a disco potato. then tub the rear end and stick some hot rubber in it. Hehe 700kg of fighting datto. hehe then watch the passangers grab hold of the jesus bar and scream. (project yet to come and may be subject to copy right Devise Automotive A.C.T.) nah the datsuns are good cruisers no matter what. Everyone here will help you out somehow. Dont be ashamed to ask for help or anything. Good look finding a good car. Dingo Dave

Lol it is a barely second hand motor bike. Looks very hot. Good buy mate. Scott and I know what its like to tow in heat with a commi. drove to newcastle (pritty much) and back in 11 hours in 40c heat. Most of the trip back he ended up with the heater on and us hanging out the windows to try to not be like the other 200 cars on the side of the road on the trip. Got the old valiant back to the workshop though. Big plans for that one. Should make a nice bbq and a great storage box. As well as parts for an old ute.

So I went in for a second interview today. Been getting stuff from there for years now i get to see the whole place. we stood around and chatted for a while. I asked lots of questions lol. So I will be on the same wages as what I am on now. I will have weekends off yay. He has also told me that family is everything and that i should not change my Friday mornings with my son but continue having them and come in at lunch. So my job will not only be a fitter and turner making things out the back but part of my job is to help maintain stock in the place. So a little computer work not so bad. A little customer sales as well. 2 fitter and turners to train me up. seems pretty good by me. plus I can get new machinery for my workshop through the business lol. Mandrel bender, hmm what else can i Think of lol. I do have to pay lol.

Already done 2 years of my apprentaship when i worked of nasa at cdscc. I loved it out there and I have my own machines in my workshop. I think I should take it too. Just know I got it good where i am.

Today i went in to a shop i always use for my machine parts. while i was in there the owner pulled me into his office and offered me a job to finish off my fitting and turning apprentaship. The buisness has been around for years. nasa uses them to get their parts for the deep space facility and taff uses them too. I am working as a sales man atm at autobarn and i love it. But this job could open a lot more up to me. whats everyones thoughts. I already think i know what im gonna do.

damb need to change my pants