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manager of a wildflower nursery. Its part of a habitat restoration company servicing Ireland and scotland, cleaning up after windfarm developers a speciality

lots of time spent in plastic tunnels with temps touching 45 degrees, If I could run my shower through my freezer Ide do it in a heartbeat.

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interested in the mk1 headlamps and surrounds
any chance of a picture?

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hey! modifying a capri isnt destroying it Its improving it im on yanks side with this one, how boring would the scene be if everyone kept their cars standard, shows'd be a f*cking yawn fest! each to his own and all that but it bums me out when people complain about modified classics. whats wrong wi...

hey! modifying a capri isnt destroying it Its improving it im on yanks side with this one, how boring would the scene be if everyone kept their cars standard, shows'd be a f*cking yawn fest! each to his own and all that but it bums me out when people complain about modified classics. whats wrong wit...

v interesting idea. im planning on doin something like this myself in afew years youre looking at custom engine mounts, custom gearbox mount, probably a new gearbox tunnel, new rear axle, new driveshaft that fits the distance (that will be different) perfectly, modified engine bay to allow bigger ra...

I stripped my entire shell using a wire wheel on a grinder, it took over 30 hours and was a bastard from start to finish. if you can find an easier way of removing paint ide use it ive never used real paint stripper but i had some success with painting brake fluid onto my land rover afew years back....

so my work van's started feeling abit funny recently i can feel a wobble when i press my foot to the brake pedal, theres a quiet rubbing sound coming from the front from 55mph up and sometimes when turning hard at speed it feels like its riding on a big jelly and its about to flip if you dont slow i...

fair play for digging into a mk1 with that much rust. mine looked nearly the same as that three years ago when i got it. i took the wimps way out though and paid a bloke to do the big stuff :( . not cool but i didnt have the knowledge so i had to fold and let someone else do it. good luck with the b...

Bug wrote:The fan goes at the front

no it doesnt, the fan goes in a cupboard in the shed next to the engine....well, mine does anyway

its just a flashy way of getting your carb sucking nice cold air instead of the warm stuff under the bonnet.

cold air induction has marginal benefits but you probably wont notice the difference unless you wana drive everywhere at 150mph

pretty cool though

3's the best it looks to me like a mk1 mixed with a mercedes 300SL http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll53/mcmahonmorgan/mercedes-300sl-gullwing-4.jpg i dont know much about design but my two cents would be, dont lose the line down the side or the bonnets bulge, they define the mk1. good luck :D

happy days! five minutes fiddling with the welders settings and my whole day was improved a hundred fold :D . hardly any splatter now and thanks to a new pair of overalls and a old hat any blobs that did come my way didnt touch me (unfortnately my gloves have afew holes in em so there was afew momen...

bite ya tongue when it splashes down your sleve ;) :lol: impossible for me unfortunately, last week the next door neighbor actualy came in to check i was okay. i was shouting AHH, F**K! at about three second intervals as the sparks hit me, he thought ide got trapped under the car :lol: im working o...

oops, yeah i mean mig. i couldnt think of the name for the thing. im definetly welding on rubbish metal, my setup probably aint right either. the welds were penetrating well but my god was it throwing out alot of sparks looks like i just gotta fiddle with my settings till i get the splatter under co...

so ive nearly finished tubbing the right rear arch. Ive cut out the original, made a new wider peice and welded it in (i posted afew weeks ago wondering about how it would affect the bodyfiller that was near it, turns out it realy didnt do much atall. a little bit bubbled and fell off but apart from...

god damn tesco juice lids!!!! why did they have to replace the old, perfectly servicable lids they used to have!! just tryed to take a drink outa one of the stupid things, now im covered in juice AND I DIDNT EVEN GET A DRINK! (and the juice is shit too :) ) their too small to let the air outa them s...

anythings possible i suppose, just remember the golden rules for doing any work on your car. 1. its always harder than you thought 2. itl always take three times as long as you thought it would 3. never say "how hard could it be!". itl haunt you if youre wrong :lol: i say go for it, just b...

imagine a land rover having a more complicated system on it than a capri, i mean the things basicly a tractor with more seats

clutches left for awhile will stick easy enough, try turning it over in first for a second to destick the clutch. itl jump forward obviously so clear a space so u dont wreck anything expensive if that doesnt work, jack up the rear end and start it in first, that should do it if all of those fail, th...