Well done Eddie.. Looks like u really got value for ur money... The steering wheel looks like its in good condition(salvageable)??? hehe cheers Mick ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 10:11 AM Subject: Re: paddock bashing
> Hehe...That's actually the exhaust! It's a supertrapp I had kicking about. > The pipe kept getting ripped off and it was too loud without one so I made a > hole in the bonnet and stuck it through tractor style. The bullbar is an old > gate of a pig pen :-) I was going to put a radiator inside the car but never > got round to it. The little A series seemed to do just fine air cooled :-) > > Eddie Rattley > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.ratdat.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 11:37 PM > Subject: paddock bashing > > > > Eddie thats a great idea for a paddock basher! The home-made bullbar was > > always a drream of mine... AND the air snorkel! Well done! It's always > > hard to keep a working radiator on a thrash car. I had the idea of > > installing about 4 little heater radiators with fans on them in the boot > or > > back seat or back of the engine bay or something. > > > > > > > > > > From: Paul Stanley > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 12:39 AM > > Subject: Re: Fast Fours results > > > > > > > Yeah, Datsuns are pretty tough. This was my basher until recently... > > > > > > http://www.ratdat.com/e10basherf.jpg > > > > > > This was a '74 Datsun 100A which was unstoppable despite being FWD and > > > small. It could even cope with getting through mud and towing/pushing > cars > > > and being jumped over ramps (never could get it on two wheels :-). I > > stuffed > > > the rear end pretty bad eventually ... > > > > > > http://www.ratdat.com/e10basherr.jpg > > > > > > ...and after I got an old Patrol 160 to do the work it was taken down > the > > > scrapyard but even then it still went okay ...even though only three > > wheels > > > actually went round!. It never had any water in it ever as the first > thing > > > to get stuffed was the radiator. Even with a cooked motor and blown head > > > gasket it still started first turn. > > > > > > Datsun gets my vote! > > > > > > Eddie Rattley > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > www.ratdat.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: "Richard Clough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > > I love the humour this Fast Fours poll has generated. > > > > Best paddock basher, what a corker! Dattos will win that too! (180Bs > > > would > > > > dominate, what else will run for years without oil and water and only > > half > > > a > > > > body (the unrusted bits)). > > > > Great idea! send it in! > > > > > > > From: "Paul Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > I dont know about rallying but they (Sigmas) are the most > comfortable > > > > > PADDOCK basher... Fast Fours should do a "Best Paddock Basher" I > > > would > > > > > vote the 120Y #1. Sigma would be second just because they are so > > > > > comfortable as you flounder in the paddock. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
