bravo

I struggled to get some. Eventually I reused the old ones, but bought new seals for them from Suspension Tech.

used to be a site called rangimods.co.nz but I see it no longer exists.

Tom's his uncle, but yep. Didn't hear about Tom, that's sad, but the way he smoked/drinked, I'm surprised he made it that long TBH. Just looked him up and spoke to his wife. She's going to get him to ring me later on. Starting to get off topic - will PM details but she confirmed he's no longer hospo.

Yep. I see Keith went bust. You know what he's up to these days? (Ex-owner of Two Bears, Southern Break, Arthur Daley's, etc)

The cook was bought by a group of students a few years back. Cliff and some of you other older Dunedinites might be able to back me here, but my recollection is that it wasn't the best thing for the pub as the student owners didn't really do it right. The Cook has been around for longer than me. IMO it should have historic places protection. There's an old stables and living quarters underneath it from when it was a pub in horse and cart days. There used to be flag poles outside. I've heard stories from students in the 70's who were drinking there under age on the top floor who would stake a lookout at the window. When the cops came in the bottom they'd all jump out the window down the flag pole and hike it out of there. One guy told me he used to park his motorbike outside to use to get away from the constabulary. Raised the handle bars up so he could blast across the footbridges over the Leith without the handle bars hitting the handrails, and thus leave the cops behind. Good times. As for the Gardies - it'd be a shame to lose it, but it's more of a shame to lose the older "institutions" with character - like the Fat Ladies Arms, The Robbie Burns (yes I know it's still there, but not in its former glory), and so on. Places like the outback will never really measure up.

Needs independent front brake so you can control the skids/drifts better. Hope they fixed the motor after they killed it at the burnout pad. So much awesome. Still think 327 eater might have the edge on grass.

It depends on what you want it for. Great around town car or commuter.

Badass. So much win. I can't wait to hear it in the car with those carbs making it scream its head off!

Yep, could be - was just telling you my experience. Could be: Poor amp earth, poor headunit earth, earthloop from amp casing onto car body (if mounted to metal part of car and amp is a cheaper brand or has internal earth short to its case), damaged or cheap RCA leads, blown fuseable link in headunit (usually caused by plugging things in with battery connected), poor earth on alternator, speaker wire touching car body etc etc. Trouble shoot by isolating parts of the system. Disconnect battery. Unplug the RCA leads from the amp. Reconnect battery. Start car and turn on whatever you need to to get the amp to turn on (headunit, or switch, or however you have it wired). Turn the gain on the amp up gradually until you hear the noise (with motor running of course). If you get to max amp gain and no noise - problem is before the amp. If you hear it, problem is amp, speaker wiring or speakers. Once you've done this post back with results.

Earth loop. Google speaker whine. I found a really good troubleshooting guide on it which is now on my other PC, so sorry - can't link you to it just now. In the end mine turned out to be a wire on the speaker (the one on the speaker cone) touching the car body when mounted (eventually isolated whine to only occur when speaker was mounted). Was an easy fix that took me weeks (and several curse words and hours on the internet and ripping the car apart) to find.

If it's a pre-f/l sw20, that IS how you drive it!

If your wheels have smooth centre caps you can by BMW transfers to stick on them that will last for years for about $10 a wheel. If you want to do this let me know.

Actually. There was something on the news the other day about a car dealer in the US who was doing a roaring trade offering free firearms with ever pickup sold!

Awesome. Thought maybe you'd never get around to it. I'm glad you did.

A Ford F650 of course! f**king ridiculous!

Only good thing about our Baur is that when you're at the beach, you can sit on the parcel tray with your feet on the back seat and the roll bar provides a perfect resting place for your beverage. Otherwise a full cabby is the only way. People buy them because they are cheaper than full cabby's but offer many of the advantages of one.

You mean a shroud cliff. Ray should have one.

Nice bench! If some of you want to build a bench, but don't want to go buy wood, here's what I did: I built two huge six-legged benches when I moved into my current house. Its a 2.5 car garage, and they go right across the back wall with a gap in the middle to park the fooze-ball table and the beer fridge. Scrounged old kiwifruit laterals for the frame (free from orchard that was changing type of crop). and the tops made from old business signage (semi waterproof) scrounged from the skip at the local industrial area. Shelves built out of removable planks scrounged from same orchard. Sounds rangi, but apart from the fact the wood looks weathered ('cause it is), it's strong as. More than strong enough for hammer pounding, a vice or two, all my tools, and a bench grinder. Cost me a few bucks for some nails. Oh and a couple of hours with the skillsaw.

Yep most exciting couple of hours of my life. I should start a blog. Would have liked to have done LED's, but couldn't find the how-to so I just used regular 12v bulbs in parallel. Wish I hadn't pulled the whole dash apart and done it the bimmerboard way! Would be slightly more fiddly on RHD, but would still work.

Certainly priced better than last time. Unfortunately I'm not in the position where I can spend that much on a car - esp. not one that'd spend 90% of the time in the garage. I love it.

Oxymoron of the day?

Sympathise Sam, the only reason my mother is here today is because we were fortunate to have several tens of thousands of dollars saved to do some house alterations which were able to be deferred to pay for chemo (It is prohibitively expensive if it's not on the approved pharmac list). No new house, but she's still with us. Many not that fortunate. Benefits seem to reward long-term bludgers and punish short-termers in dire need. Hard to get on it, long stand down, not really enough to live on (My g/f had $12 a week left after rent, power, groceries, and water when she was on it last year, and that had to pay for clothing, personal effects, and so on. Woefully inadequate.). But once you've been in the system long enough, you can get instant approvals, more grants, added benefits, and so on. The system is definitely broken. Don't look to me for a solution though - I don't have one.

Happy to ring/email the owner for you if you like. Interested in e30 Baurs? (TC 2). We have one.

According to the highly accurate reporting of the NZ Herald, they did question and he told them he made it trading stocks online. Just thought I'd mention it before someone took your comments and tried to make a crusade out of them. As you can tell from my previous post I agree with you whole-heartedly.

Street racing vid was fairly lame TBH.