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Splitty for UtahDOG!
Posted by Billy Goat
on 03/09/2014
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Hello interweb buddy in Florida this is for you…
Fire up your Super Villain Mainframe computers at One Utahdog Center and search the Interwebs for more info on Wayne Allman’s 1965 VW Splitty ‘Recovery Truck’ Mental Breakdown…..this thing RIPS
8.4 litre Keith Black Hemi V8 running on Methanol, shortened Top Fuel chassis….circa 2000 BHP 🙂
(@Photographers: If I have ganked your pix please let me know and I will credit you)
One hundred and ninety…
Posted by Billy Goat
on 29/08/2014
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Another 10,000 miles in the Cockroach…still not a squeak.
Target? 250,000 🙂
eBay Out Door #2203
Posted by Billy Goat
on 27/08/2014
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eBay says I completed my 2203rd transaction last week and I’ve sold £27,319.82 ($36004.78) of wares, so why is my house STILL full of junk?
Is it because as fast as unloved hoard pieces get sold they are immediately replaced by the latest object of desire in a never ending loop???…..could be !!
Recent departures….Kona Bash Ring, Worlds Longest Bar Ends (Profile XC Sierra), NOS Ringle Moby
Tip of the iceberg in the mahoosive ‘spares bin’
Kama The Surfing Pig
Posted by Billy Goat
on 08/08/2014
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Pigs rank up there amongst the coolest animals (but naturally behind Aardvarks and Goats!!), this video is sick though…..enjoy
Having It…
Posted by Billy Goat
on 31/07/2014
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This is what Land Rovers were invented for….not posing around on the school run or driving round town with your ‘One Live, Live It’ or ‘4×4 Response’ bullshit decals (when you never ever dip your diff’s in any mud).
My mate Winch ‘having it’ at the 2014 Billing Land Rover Show…
Billing Land Rover Show – Mud Run 2014
Dragstalgia 2014
Posted by Billy Goat
on 21/07/2014
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Summertime, time, time,
Child, the living’s easy.
Fish are jumping out
And the cotton, Lord,
Cotton’s high, Lord, so high.
Also high this weekend was the level of Nitomethane in the air at Dragstalgia 2014, Santa Pod Raceway.
Now in its fourth year this annual homage to Vintage Drag Racing took place over a scorching July weekend and I was in my element….old enough to remember seeing most of these cars 30 years ago at this exact same Drag Strip this was history come back to life and I loved it 🙂
Highlights for me were 1970’s Funny Cars, Nitro burning Gas Altered’s and a large contingent of 1941 Willy’s but there was also lots of other classic hardware either on the strip or in Show & Shine.
No more talk, here’s some pictures…
Borg Key AKA eBay Flip Key Fail
Posted by Billy Goat
on 25/06/2014
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So you’ve got an old Astra G AKA Mk4 and you’re jealous of the Astra H/Mk 5 dudes with their fancy schmancy flip keys and you see a Flip Key Conversion kit on fleabay and you spring for one.
You get him in the mail, take him to your Go to key cutter buddy then and spend 20 minutes trying to get all the tiny pieced assembled on your kitchen table. Satisfied you run out to your car ‘flip’ the key and feel all cool.
Fast forward less than 12 months, you go to flip your key and it doesn’t quite come out, but with a bit of goading it flips out and off you go. Repeat this process several times and what you are not noticing are hairline cracks in the monkey metal shit that the hinge is made from until one day >>SNAP<< the whole thing snaps off in your ignition.
Luckily for me I was at work and quickly rigged up a Borg Key bodge – Mini Mole Grips to attach the key, door remote zip tied into plastic bag and immobiliser chip zip tied into front section of bag….yes it will get me home where I can spend 20 minutes swapping all the bits back into my old style Vauxhall key body that I saved…
Lesson? Avoid the cheap shit on eBay
Final piece of the jigsaw
Posted by Billy Goat
on 09/06/2014
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Been collecting body parts for the Astra for the last two years and finally the last piece of the jigsaw has been found…a GSi Turbo front bumper, complete with grilles and fogs.
They are getting quite scarce now and command some fairly serious money as a result so this was a good find. The rest of the collection comprises of side skirts, rear bumper and rear boot spoiler, along with the already fitted steering wheel. Next task now is to find a Paint Shop who will colour match these to my car (or blow everything over…)
