One for the Corrado lovers out there...

[evorobin]

Too busy on the phone at silly o’clock, diagnosing electrical faults on an OZ A4, and paying for the call

ROFLMAO

Sick build it takes a set to tackle a project like that.

[vrbanana]

dude, this is a great build, i hope everything works out for you.
the banana will be flying again soon....man will it be worth the wait (just gutted i am the other side of the world so i wont he to see it in action!)

Velly

Strange you should say that, looking into emigrating to NZ

Any sort of track day scene in NZ?

[DaveMack]

Strange you should say that, looking into emigrating to NZ

Any sort of track day scene in NZ?

What part of NZ? There are tracks at:

- Invercargill (Deepest South)
- Christchurch (Middle of South Island)
- Blenheim (Top of Sth Island)
- Wellington (Bottom of North Island)
- Palmerston North (1/3rd the up the N.I. from Wellington)
- Napier / Hastings (East Coast N.I.)
- New Plymouth (West Coast N.I.)
- Taupo (Middle of N.I.)
- Hamilton (80kms South of Auckland)
- Auckland (at least 2 tracks ... and the Southern Motorway )

Dave

[vrbanana]

What part of NZ? There are tracks at:

- Invercargill (Deepest South)
- Christchurch (Middle of South Island)
- Blenheim (Top of Sth Island)
- Wellington (Bottom of North Island)
- Palmerston North (1/3rd the up the N.I. from Wellington)
- Napier / Hastings (East Coast N.I.)
- New Plymouth (West Coast N.I.)
- Taupo (Middle of N.I.)
- Hamilton (80kms South of Auckland)
- Auckland (at least 2 tracks ... and the Southern Motorway )

Dave

Nice, now tell me the police are chilled, I’d like a clean licence for a change

[DaveMack]

Nice, now tell me the police are chilled, I’d like a clean licence for a change

Haha ... wish I could, Mate. But if they catch you speeding ... they will certainly ticket you. Altho ... I did have a copper for a mate when I lived in Hawkes Bay ... he was a decent bloke. I had a MKII 2-door Lotus Cortina that went reasonably well and another mate of mine in the little town of Waipukurau tuned said copper's old HQ Holden Belmont at the time ... told me it 'topped out' at 98 mph. My lil, lowered Lotus was considerably quicker than that and one night I drove a friend through the Manawatu Gorge to Palmerston North to catch a flight home.

I drove home late on a summers evening ('bout 1:00am) ... warm evening, lots of stars, smooth straight roads, no traffic everyone asleep, right? Well, not quite. At one stage this road comes down out of the hills down a swooping cambered turn onto a 21 kilometre straight (the Takapau Plains) ... and no traffic. So I floored it. Just where the sweeping bend straightens up on the plains ... there's a shingle road that extends off the end of the straight ... where the red & blue flashing lights appeared. By this stage ... (bearing in mind that it's about 1:30am in rural Hawkes Bay with no traffic on a good highway) I was doing approx 185kph ... and Dennis' lil V8 HQ was haemoraging and wheezing as it crossed the 145kph mark ... soooo ... I just kept my boot in it and Dennis just ... faded away.

Problem is ... Waipukurau is a small town ... and there was only one MKII, British Racing Green, 2-door, Lotus Cortina in town. He shows up at work the following Monday ... takes me quietly aside and says: "Dave ... you owe me a jug ... and by the way ... you should join the local car club."

Good bloke, Dennis.

Dave