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[Darren65]

No idea what comes next...

This'll give you an idea! .........

http://www.ddk-online.com/phpBB2/viewto ... 28&t=31622

[Reza]

How did i miss this thread. Really nice car Jamie. It aint right if it aint got some pateeneer.

I still have nightmares about you leaning out of a sunroof on a New England twisting montain road...with giant frost heaves allover the tarmac....and mooses in lakes.......just for the sake of a picture

[Reza]

Hahaha i once bought a saab for $400 and drove it 4 hours round trip. The next day i died in bed from the worlds lousiest headache. Upon investigation the car had been setting with decaying leaves in the vent box, and i survived a mold hangover.

The sketchiness of this plan increased significantly on realising that the shipper's office closes at 4pm on Friday. This gives me approximately 10 hours to cover 365 miles in a car I've so far only driven for 20 minutes.
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[jamie]

No idea what comes next...

This'll give you an idea! .........

http://www.ddk-online.com/phpBB2/viewto ... 28&t=31622

My god...

[jamie]

Can anyone sell me a new throttle pedal bell crank?

I broke mine on the drive from San Francisco to LA.

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[jamie]

Today was a weird day. I'm in Texas, and have been photographing some cars. When I travel to the US, I come in on a visa, and my camera equipment comes in on an ATA Carnet. I'm due to leave from Austin tomorrow, and because I'm on a very early flight, the customs office there won't be open to sign the carnet paperwork as I leave.

I was staying near San Antonio, so in order to get around this issue, I took my camera gear to the airport there and try to explain the situation. Despite having done this at other airports several times before, the lady wouldn't sign the paperwork. She tells me to go to Austin before it closes at 4pm, which I do because you don't argue with customs people since they often deal with idiots and therefore assume you are one too.

1.5 hours caning the Lexus V8 Megalith up the freeway, I'm at Austin, and... there's no one there because they've gone home early. A cop shouts at me for knocking on the customs office door.

1.5 hours blasting back to San Antonio for another go. I think there had been a shift change - a different customs officer takes one look at my boxes of knackered old crap and signs the carnet without a single question.

I love the US and, with the exception of this total bloody waste of time and fuel, I've really enjoyed Texas. It's mega. Absolutely tonnes of this, everywhere, too:







And, of course, the world-famous Texas Andalusian stallions:



Anyway, the upshot of this tiresome tale is that, after putting an ad on Pelican a few days ago, a nice guy called Steve got in touch with a replacement for my snapped throttle crank. We met in a parking lot near San Antonio airport. Steve gave me the crank, so I gave him a cheap polystyrene cooler of weird American beer that my work colleagues had kindly discarded in the back of the Lexus. Steve also gave me a beer bottle sleeve - a traditional ethnic product of Texas, or probably China.

I'm going to sneak the throttle crank out of the US without declaring it's enormous value. Hell yeah I will.

[Mitch]

Bad news about the bureaucratic to-ing & fro-ing but nice result with the crank, that's good karma! There are a lot of good people out there

[jamie]

Got these unused Cobra RS Classics off eBay - they are lovely.



... and started taking the car to bits. Bumper off, wings nearly off.

[jamie]

Dubble car crib under construction:

[johnM]

Looks like its going to be a proper man cave.

[sladey]

That's going to be quite a crib


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[jamie]

Garage complete. Went and spent the last of my money on a new car.

OK, not a car.

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4149/4974 ... e9d2_o.jpg

This may delay work on the 912 somewhat. Oops.

[Gary71]

Nice car

Can't you strap the beige mobile under a wing Bond baddie style?

[jb]

Love the new 'car' it looks great. I have never actually seen a tricycle Europa although I have seen quite a few of the trail-dragger version and have the advertising video for building one.

[jamie]

I never wanted to own a nosewheel aeroplane. The Europa is the one exception. It's a lovely aircraft, but a friend smashed his prop within three days of buying a monowheel one. They're tricky, and variable-pitch props for this engine are £5k.

There are taildraggers around, but they are rare. There are lots of tri-gear ones around, but this is unusual in that it's an early model that has been converted.

Also get space for two folding bikes, bags, and 80 litres of fuel, all moving through the air at 125mph

My 912 is still a rustbucket, though