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Hi Mate yep you are right no welded or cut steering components allowed..it would be so much easier if i were building this Damn car in the STATES..as for the shocks ive cleaned them up they look like new so i should get my money back ..i hope still waiting for dash to arrive

Kiwi Dave waiting ..waiting.. DAMN that scooter is cute

QFT!!

You can say that again .... Have noticed its getting harder to get some used car parts her in NZ
have been told its because alot of the wrecks have been sold for scrap and will probably end up in china..seems to be pushing the prices up in the used parts market as well

Kiwi Dave

QFT!!

Hey mate thanks for the link about the volcano erupting..ive got freinds there saying it stinks! i remember when i think it was ruapahu ..did i spell that right? ..sorry dont speak maori too well cos im a honkey ..anyway it smelt like rotten eggs..or how rotorua smells ,hope it doesnt get too bad ,my family is in napier .I gave up messing around with road cars over there when all that certification bs came in and built a street stock..

No problems mate ..stinks of sulpher lower half of north island..i dont blame you trying to build anysort of road car here is ridiculous to many rules and regulations..and now the Maoris wanna own the water..if it wasnt for the fact i only have 10 years left till retirement i would be gone
i would love to live in the states ..how do you find it

Kiwi Dave

Reasons to complain here too, depending on your tastes (cultural, political, food, weather) and general disposition. Generally speaking, the laws on building your own car are, depending on where you live, a bit more favorable here though. Should you come here, we have a lonnnng list of auto-related events you should attend, starting with the Indy 500 w/ visit to their museum, the Detroit Autorama custom car show, Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, Henry Ford Museum, Daytona 500 (must camp at the grounds), and my favorite little-known museum, the Auburn-Cord-Dusenburg museum in Auburn, Indiana.

People, though, are much the same no matter where you go -- a few saints (too few), a few evil ones (too many), and most people just trying to have a good day.

laserracer wrote:
i would love to live in the states ..how do you find it
Kiwi Dave


Quantas has a map....... actually, from there you can go north south east or west....you will get over here no problem.....

Amen... Well said, and true.

I like Gordon's answer too! Smart-A$$... Team Slotus material, ferr shurr!

Quanta's has a map ...what only one it must be awfully used by now with all those pilots using it... (actually, from there you can go north south east or west)..kinda sounds like i exploded and parts of me went everywhere

sorry guys just having a bad day. ..im sounding like a whinging kiwi..i suppose i should be grateful we still have free hospital care.our cops still dont carry guns (that can be a good and a bad thing) petrol prices arent the worst in the world..we have plenty of seafood and meat..Theres work out there if you look hard enough,...3 major racecar tracks within 2 hours drive of me..waterskiing and wakeboarding lakes and rivers everywhere,..so all and all i suppose things arent that bad really..i might just have to tough it out another 10 years or so..thats when i become a government sponsored full time race car builder

YOURS in Paradise..Kiwi Dave

Well, your health care isn't "Free", you pay for it differently than we do here in the 'States.

I do hear that you have wonderful trout fishing there too?

no its free ..my mommy told me so ..ok we probably pay a percentage of our tax towards it and it seems free.. i know 3 stents in my heart total of about 2 weeks in hospital, off and on over the years and havent seen a hospital care bill yet..but you are right we will be paying for it somewhere..Trout as big as whales...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hE_m2-ltc0 ....well maybe small whales..http://www.tongarirorivermotel.co.nz/tr ... o-fishery/ ... http://www.bestofnzflyfishing.com/

How about moving to Canada? Geez, we have lakes that are bigger than your country and they're full of clean water. Wide open spaces and wonderful urban areas too. Free healthcare (works great if you can wait your turn) and a very stable economy. Of course everywhere in Canada is a full day drive from everywhere else in Canada so that would take some getting used to. We're still a Commonwealth country and we speak the Queen's English, although French is acceptable too. We have great neighbors to the south and no neighbors to the north. Best of all we have four, count them, four full separate seasons.... how many other places on earth can you enjoy +40C to -40C then back again in the same week? You can still get land here for $1 an acre so you could build your own race track. We are winning a few metals at the Olympics and these are the summer games when everyone knows that we excel at winter sports (not as much competition). I need to stop now before I break out in "Oh Canada".

Oh, one potential problem. Canadians tend to frown on dating sheep, so that might kill the deal for you.

Bill

Dating sheep there isn't a problem if you're in Toronto and they're gay sheep. However, if you smoke in public (unless it is marijuana) or even THINK of owing a hand gun, you're in trouble.

Canadians are great friendly people, unless someone drops a puck in their immediate presence -- which they do often. At that point, they bring out this guy for commentary:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=letiPyPYlWY

The Canadian Air Force is there mainly to monitor the hoards of black flies and mosquitoes, and to guard against another American invasion. I went camping in Canada, and killed a mosquito that tried to bite me, and 100 million of his friends showed up for the after-funeral dinner.

Every once in a while, the Canadians get fed up and produce stuff like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXtVrDPhHBg
Sadly for the Canadians, right after this commercial was made, Molson merged with (American) Coors, and moved the headquarters to the States. And so that too is part of being Canadian I guess -- their hockey teams, beer companies and famous entertainment stars all seem to end up in the States. Did I mention those American invasions in the early 19th Century?

Yes, Canada does have big lakes bigger'n your country, but they have to share them with their neighbors to the south. Most Canadians view this water system as something of a moat, guarding against another American invasion.

WOW looks like i started world war 3 ....ducks down and hides behind chair...
Well i do like my sheep..but i do have a nephew in canada and he says the sheep there are FINE.but bleat with a weird accent...everything else sounds fine..but the sheep thing may be a deal breaker...as for airforce ..we had a airforce 6 or so old skyhawks that they spent millions on upgrading them then mothballed them tried to sell them back to the states and were finally sold as scrap.. so now we have a tigermoth, a sopwith camel, and 2 divebomber hanggliders
we do play hockey ..field,inline and ice everynow and then a canadian team comes over so we can whip there arses..ooops or should that be the other way around.. +40c to hott -40c to cold...........one thing that we all agree on...JD likes goats...NOOO not that

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