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Coming from Australia.... getting a 1970 Cadillac fleetwood 75.... she's a big ol' girl, 472 cube motor... planning on bringing it back home at some stage... we're coming over for my brothers wedding, he's living in San Jose at the moment, and has agreed that if it fits in his shed at home, it...

Hey guys... Am going to be looking for someone to supply and fit an alarm in the bay area shortly... I should be having a car delivered to San Jose in the next week or so, and afaik, it does not currently have an alarm... I won't be around until mid August, and when I arrive, won't really...

i would love to see someone do a hybrid setup on a mk3... with the standard driveline still in place, and a pair of electric motors in the front hubs... would have to be the least stressful (on the original driveline) way of adding 50, 100 or more hp.... and good for fuel consumption at the same...

And to finish it off, a couple of group shots... This is not all the guys who worked on the car over the weekend, but it is most of them.... And these are the Cranksters... Flathead's club and a great bunch of blokes...

Flathead firing up the flattie for the first time... And driving the tudor out into the yard under it's own power...

Almost there now... time to drop the body onto the chassis...

Of course, it's not really a Crankster car without the club sticker and plaque....

As soon as the paint was dry enough to work on the body again, it was time to fit the glass and fit and wire the dash... Gauges by MOON... Striping by Von Kustard...

Sunday morning and it was time for the engine to meet the chassis... Meanwhile, Doc was blowing on some colour...

The finished artwork on the doors... And that was about when the tools went down and the fire got cranked up.... (Tho a few of the panel n paint crew decided to do a bit more prep work on the rest of the body)

Flathead even put on a band for us on Saturday night...

Frank and Doug kept everyone fed all weekend... Scully taking care of the artwork on the doors...

Some of the hours of hard work that went into the chassis... This is Ben aka Flathead, the owner of Ferret Boilermaking and the man behind the project, now the proud owner of Las Drogas...

Some of the panel guys working on the body around lunchtime on Saturday..... "Doc" Claydon blowing on one of the many coats of paint applied over the weekend....

This weekend, a couple of local rod clubs, and a heap of other talented individuals, got together with the aim of building a hot rod over the course of a weekend... Starting Saturday morning with a body in pretty much bare metal, a chassis that was still box steel sitting on the rack and a...

what would be cooler, in my opinion, is a set of hinges allowing it to open like a subaru bonnet.... ie. all the way back, when required... from memory, some mercedes gas struts had a clip to stop the bonnet opening at the normal height, or you pop the clip when you need more access, like...

agreed.... is the socal section really busy enough to be it's own geographical location? why not just a general california section? *shrugs*

and now the wastegate is back off the car... think it's been on and off 3 or 4 times now... tomorrow i'll send it off to a mates workshop to see if he can stop it sticking part way open... he's had some before that he had to linish the valve stem as they were not sitting flush in the valve...

time for another update... i've changed the plugs, checked a heap of inlet and exhaust joins, found a big intake leak that is now fixed... car was quiet at the gate, made good boost, for about 20km's... now the gate is leaking again and it's not making any boost again...

ok... i've now managed to get the gate back on... was having trouble getting enough force on it to seat the seal properly in order to be able to do up the v-band clamp... but by supplying 10psi to it with an old 12v air compressor, i've taken care of that... the car is still not making any...