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Re: Tumbleweeds
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Re: Tumbleweeds -
11-03-2009
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In article <7la73eF3bcs7lU1 (AT) mid (DOT) individual.net>, Douglas Payne says... Wow, do you have much use for a hardtop in WA? Too feckin right. Out of the burning sun and the aircon whacked on. |
and early evening before the sun is full force.
Fraser
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Conor wrote: In article <7la73eF3bcs7lU1 (AT) mid (DOT) individual.net>, Douglas Payne says... Wow, do you have much use for a hardtop in WA? Too feckin right. Out of the burning sun and the aircon whacked on. Indeed, but that's what the soft top is for, shirley? The hard top realistically takes 2 people and several minutes to install/remove. The soft top goes up or down in under 3 secs. I use my hard top to keep out the snow and ice and stop the soft top turning green during winter. I know it's going to be too cold to put the roof down during the day, let alone the night. I am led to believe that warm evenings in sunny countries are ideal for convertibles, although I imagine it gets chilly in deserty parts of WA at night. |
around 20 degrees C. I love having the top down at night and the heater on
full blast.
Fraser
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In article <7laf2jF379aktU1 (AT) mid (DOT) individual.net>, Douglas Payne says... Conor wrote: In article <7la73eF3bcs7lU1 (AT) mid (DOT) individual.net>, Douglas Payne says... Wow, do you have much use for a hardtop in WA? Too feckin right. Out of the burning sun and the aircon whacked on. Indeed, but that's what the soft top is for, shirley? The hard top realistically takes 2 people and several minutes to install/remove. The soft top goes up or down in under 3 secs. I use my hard top to keep out the snow and ice and stop the soft top turning green during winter. I know it's going to be too cold to put the roof down during the day, let alone the night. I am led to believe that warm evenings in sunny countries are ideal for convertibles, although I imagine it gets chilly in deserty parts of WA at night. Ragtops aren't that popular in Oz mainly due to the lack of ozone protection. |
get slightly cheaper convertibles. Up until a few years ago your choices were
Audi/Merc/Beemer, MX-5 or an old FJ40 Landcruiser.
Fraser
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It's scratched to feck. The seller is a painter, it's £170 as is or £300 painted to his colour code which seems a fair deal to me. It has a headlining and a heated screen which is apparently not always the case. |
Fraser
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Elder wrote: In article <hcmonm$5b5$2 (AT) news (DOT) albasani.net>, no (AT) spam (DOT) thanks says... Busy on here... Was just about to post "Death of Usenet, more at 11" Maybe everyone has hibernated. Mind you Carl G hasn't posted a what car for a while, and I haven't found a rare but cheesey peice of Japanese tat for a few weeks, oh and Pete was in CZ, so there go the main posts. Friggin' Escort is taking forever to restore. It'll be worth it when it's done, but it is taking a long, long time to sort. Had to go to CZ to give the chap some money to buy repair panels - luckily with a Mk2 they're pretty much all available, but hopefully it'll be sorted before 2010. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=113738&id=804084643&l=3e373aee3d is a load of pics of it so far. |
about doing this as a business at some point?
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"Pete M" <pete.murray (AT) SPAMFREEblueyonder (DOT) co.uk> wrote in message news:hcnvee$n9q$1 (AT) news (DOT) eternal-september.org... Elder wrote: In article <hcmonm$5b5$2 (AT) news (DOT) albasani.net>, no (AT) spam (DOT) thanks says... Busy on here... Was just about to post "Death of Usenet, more at 11" Maybe everyone has hibernated. Mind you Carl G hasn't posted a what car for a while, and I haven't found a rare but cheesey peice of Japanese tat for a few weeks, oh and Pete was in CZ, so there go the main posts. Friggin' Escort is taking forever to restore. It'll be worth it when it's done, but it is taking a long, long time to sort. Had to go to CZ to give the chap some money to buy repair panels - luckily with a Mk2 they're pretty much all available, but hopefully it'll be sorted before 2010. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=113738&id=804084643&l=3e373aee3d is a load of pics of it so far. What sort of money does it cost to get a motor out there? ISTR you were on about doing this as a business at some point? |
something that could be driven there then you could probably get it
there for £250ish one way. All depends on fuel economy etc :-). It's
1000 miles near enough from Liverpool to just NE of Prague.
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Pete M - OMF#9
'62 Rover P4 100
'61 Rover P5 3 litre
'78 Escort 1300 Sport
'99 Audi A6 V6 Quattro Avant
"It's an Alfa, it will go wrong, it will piss you off, why should your
Alfa experience be different from everyone else's.
Now get back out there and swear at it before something else breaks."
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