Australian Belly Tank

[Tman]

No need number you have already wun twenty five milion in Happy Lucky Aussie Gold Mine Lotery, just send account details and we send your prize, send to:

desperateforracebudget@rustyheap.com

Happy Lucky.

Tman - I just got that same e-mail today!

Looks like we BOTH won!

Isn't THAT a coincidence?

I've also got some cash coming my way courtesy of an exiled Ethiopian prince who I loaned some money to in order to clear up a misunderstanding with Lithuanian authorities.

Hmm, somethings fishy, mine was a Lithuanian Prince and Ethiopian authorities.............and his name was Bill!?!?!?!

[Dr Goggles]

Rustyheap.com??  What happened to fourdoorsh!tbox.com?? 
Mike

Still the Figurehead brand in a feeble folio of fundless f#*#-ups.....

now, I just this moment spoke to Simon who is blasting across the country in a convoy of two of the original three cars that left Sydney for the chopped show that starts tonight. A Cusso that they were travelling with renovated it's bottom end and got parked in Tarcutta.

A very good friend told me about playing a gig in the Tarcutta pub one night......

" we were just kind of noodling away in the corner there , pretty packed in the pub, absolutely freezing outside.. Anyway this pissed guy staggers over to the pot belly stove and mucks with the controls on it.....in hindsight I think he closed the flu and shut off the air at the bottom at the same time..... It immediately started spewing out white smoke that was so thick you couldn't move it with your hand, let alone breathe it.....people were falling over each other to get out, it took about an hour to clear the smoke enough so that they could re-open the bar. By that time pretty much everyone except the pissed guy who caused it and a few other lost souls had left, I hate Tarcutta"

Another time I was driving with a bandmate from Mullumbimby to Melbourne...about 20hrs if you stay in it. at about 2.30am we arrive at Tarcutta....."is that truck on our side of the road?"......sure was , a prime mover barrelling toward us on the wrong side of the road.....they(about forty trucks) were busy swapping trailers to evade the transit cameras on the highway between Melbourne and Sydney....drive to Tarcutta swap with a truck coming from Sydney , turn around and take his trailer back to Melbourne...... It was this mad hive of activity in this tiny little town...


So anyway...Simon is on his way to the show that I have to admit it will take a miracle if I'm to get the Sprite of Sunshine to......still predicting hail tomorrow.

[38flattie]

I had a time in lieu day off today.....just in time for the heavens to open. The Colonel came over and every single thing went, as he kept saying....swimmingly, we'd had an inch and a half of rain in two hours.

I started the day by going shopping , to the industrial zone...bought some rod ends, bolts and the sort of stuff you come away with whenever you go to one of those places, a litre of CRC , that sort of thing.

I got busy sorting out the radius rods after I'd made rudimentary arrangements for the exhaust stubs.



I plated either side of the rails , I shorted the rear rods and then welded some nuts onto the end of 'em, the fronts just needed a 7/16 hole drilled and a thread tapped into them.Yet to finalize how they will mount.



This is the mount for the steering box, brilliant , it's just that the pitman arm is exactly where I want the drag link to go through the body....



We scrounged a Jag shifter( well I've had it hanging around for years)...it should guarantee that the car will leak oil, rust quickly and the interior will rot out of it in short order.....



We , well Graham got all the electrics sorted out...believe me it was miserable....



I cut the top of the tank, because the motor just sits too high to keep it in one piece...and yeah, we kept going til the light ran out




forecast is bad for the weekend......

You gents are hardcore- I love it!

Maybe you should make this a multi-purpose vehicle-kind of like the old Amphicar!

[Elmo Rodge]

Buddy sed "You gents are hardcore- I love it!

Maybe you should make this a multi-purpose vehicle-kind of like the old Amphicar! . "

Buddeeeeeeee. Don't encourage them.  :x Wayno

[38flattie]

Buddy sed "You gents are hardcore- I love it!

Maybe you should make this a multi-purpose vehicle-kind of like the old Amphicar! . "

Buddeeeeeeee. Don't encourage them.  :x Wayno

Sorry!

I forgot who I was talking to!

[Dr Goggles]

Buddy sed "You gents are hardcore- I love it!
Maybe you should make this a multi-purpose vehicle-kind of like the old Amphicar! . "
Buddeeeeeeee. Don't encourage them.  :x Wayno

Don't forget Moller

Just been on the blower discussing options for a fuel tank with Grummy, a quart thinners can with a metal valve stem is looking good, to get it running I need to secure the shift, make a clutch release , make a seat, a firewall, and a brake-pedal....oh yeah and secure the body.

easy peasy........

[38flattie]

Buddy sed "You gents are hardcore- I love it!
Maybe you should make this a multi-purpose vehicle-kind of like the old Amphicar! . "
Buddeeeeeeee. Don't encourage them.  :x Wayno

Don't forget Moller

A flying, hovercraft Amphicar??!!

Sorry Elmo, I gotta say GO FOR IT! Lol!

[grumm441]

I was keen to turn it into an amphicar, but Goggles has something against propellers!

G

[Elmo Rodge]

Buddy sed "You gents are hardcore- I love it!
Maybe you should make this a multi-purpose vehicle-kind of like the old Amphicar! . "
Buddeeeeeeee. Don't encourage them.  :x Wayno

Don't forget Moller

A flying, hovercraft Amphicar??!!

Sorry Elmo, I gotta say GO FOR IT! Lol!

Now that's a whole different story. I'm wicha.  Wayno

[hotrod]

A flying, hovercraft Amphicar??!!

Already been done --- Spirit of American salt pond episode
First it was a very fast car, then for a short time it was sort of an air plane, then it pretended it was a submarine.


http://myquartermile.com/loader.php?story=craig

Larry

[Dr Goggles]

Some days I look at this thread and think to myself..."top effort fella, you've created a magnet for mangle-headed whack-jobs , a speakers corner for the auto-insane"..........then I think again.

A flying, hovercraft Amphicar??!!

Already been done --- Spirit of American salt pond episode
First it was a very fast car, then for a short time it was sort of an air plane, then it pretended it was a submarine.
http://myquartermile.com/loader.php?story=craig
Larry

everything about Larry's post backs up the best bits of landracing.com . There is a wealth of wisdom and advice here.... and pretty much everything has been thought of, and done, you just need to search the history properly....and finally, no matter how sober or serious someone seems? they've always got a smart crack in 'em somewhere....good call Larry.

Just to add to the Breedlove story...I'm not planning on "setting myself on fire"..........but sometimes the best laid plans.........I'll be whacking some ColdFire in there..........

[Dr Goggles]

Solved the fuel tank problem with a visit to Bill my friendly dismantler/recycler/hot-rodder......."Bill, have ya got any stationary engine fuel tanks?, rotary hoe fuel tanks?.." "Na James , well yeah, I have but I don't want to sell them".....then, the thrill of the sale/urge to show off his hoard took over....I kid you not he had one that was almost bellytank shaped..."here you can have this on loan"....." na, bulls*** Bill that's too good!" and it was ...straight out of the Jetsons....turns out he had lots..... then he found this, "here that's a gift"......aaaaaand he had the stainless straps,

[SPARKY]

now the big decision:    Do I mount it with or against the "FLOW" 

[Milwaukee Midget]

Looks familiar . . .

Two fezes - welded together?



I knew the Shriner's were involved.

[MC 1314]

Looks like 2 of my small dredge intakes welded together.
Bob