There is a Hawkes bay avenger meet this sat (the whole 2 of us). We are meeting up with the guy who came to wheels in windsor that time and started telling us about how cool his avenger was and it sort of seemed an urban myth. Anyway, its real, and its as cool as he said. So we are meeting up at 4pm this sat (11th Jan) napier burgerfuel for a feed and Aaron wants photos and then probably go to this guys house to check out his donor cars and shit. COME ALONG!!!
Damn it. My Avenger is still in bits after melting a piston.
Make sure you get some photos of this rare beast.
ive seen some pics of it on facebook, its really tidy
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Sweet. Was looking at coming across on Friday anyway to look at some flats. The ex-missus won't let me borrow her Hyundai again (there is half a tank left over from New Years I had wanted to use) so I guess it will have to be the Hillman: lack of tune be damned.
this is very exciting, i didnt think more than the 3 of us would be there. thought it was a long shot even asking. :):):)
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will do (aaron will do)
good timing, my car has just become running and road legal today!
Should be there : 4pm sounds like a weird time for a feed!
I'm old and need a early dinner hahaha
lol and extra lol at good englund
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spoke too soon about car going. will be going either way. pretty excited if its going
Postponed
This happened yesterday and today. Photos pending. Will definatly have more meets cause a couple of people couldnt make it and still hanging out for good weather
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phwoaaaah
shiny
Jared, it has got to be seen to be believed. We have another meet coming up which ill make a new topic and give u more notice lol
I would be keen for a meetup when I get my Avenger back on the road.
totally! when is that happening?
Talking about Wheels this weekend: is it worth going across for a look? Because I'm feeling really unmotivated at the moment and there is shit loads of work needing to be done on the old girl. Maybe if I had a goal to work towards in the next couple of days? I'm surprised with how good exhaust mounts cable ties make, though. Giving me absolutely no grief at all.
Quote from: kierbear on March 05, 2014, 05:21:37 PM
totally! when is that happening?
I am dropping my Avenger down to the mechanics today to get the engine back in so it should be ready in a couple of weeks.
Quote from: blekkja on March 06, 2014, 10:38:32 PM
Talking about Wheels this weekend: is it worth going across for a look? Because I'm feeling really unmotivated at the moment and there is shit loads of work needing to be done on the old girl. Maybe if I had a goal to work towards in the next couple of days? I'm surprised with how good exhaust mounts cable ties make, though. Giving me absolutely no grief at all.
i'm surprised that youre surprised that cable ties werent amazing. they can fix anything
My thought was that the exhaust being hot wouldn't be the best for plastic. But seems I was wrong.
My old Orange car was absolutely disgusting with cable ties. Had some holding the accelerator linkages together, wrapped around the clutch cable so it wouldn't pull through the firewall, the battery in place and for dozens of other smaller things.
Oh nooo haha my car went for a WOF today and now I have a list of things to do, typical!! $$
Japanese cars would be no good for me. I wouldn't know how to fix anything on them. I've replaced or repaired just about everything on various cars over the last 10 years. Manual conversion in the back yard? Piece of piss.
My main constraints at the moment is a lack of free time and bloody studylink.
I am just getting my Avenger back on the road and it failed a few things on it's WOF
Oh god. What month is it? Must be almost that time for me again, too. What happened to this yearly business they were bringing in? ;)
Quote from: blekkja on March 13, 2014, 12:54:29 PM
Oh god. What month is it? Must be almost that time for me again, too. What happened to this yearly business they were bringing in? ;)
If you can find an Hillman Avenger made after 2000 you'll be able to get a one year WOF!
Too easy. Where did all the tooling end up? Mexico? The Iranians still make the engines...
I think I prefer my classic reg and insurance premiums more.
Argentina got the tooling. Yes 40 year old rego saves more money than yearly WOF's!
Am counting down the months until next January for mine!
Yep: That is why I stuck with the 71 rather than trying to upgrade to another Alpine. It was a good feeling when I could convert my reg from A back to G.
Quote from: avenga on March 13, 2014, 08:38:47 AM
I am just getting my Avenger back on the road and it failed a few things on it's WOF
oh no! what did it fail on? i somehow managed to time my rego perfectly so that my avenger runs out on 02/04 and then my other car runs out exactly a month after that, which also just happens to be my birthday, DOH!
Rack mount bush, adjust front wheel bearings, & Left rear shock leaking. everything was new when I rebuilt my Avenger a couple of years ago so I am surprised they broke already, I do drive my Avenger pretty hard so I guess breaking stuff is inevitable.
Also they didn't like that it didn't have a boot. It got damaged at my mechanics so it needed to be repainted. I am going down to the panel beaters today to pick the boot up.
Happy Birthday for next month.
Haha its in may but near enough, far too near enough :s
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I couldn't help myself, had to get a pic with my fav blue thing!!
Woohoo. Congrats on graduating.
Have you misplaced one of your arms?
hahahaha yea bt i found it again, good thing im a nurse eh