TimHansen

Shakotan Boogie, eh, Desmond? I had to Google it just to figure out what the hell you're on about. Glad to see you here. For those just joining the discussion, Desmond here has wound up with the grim duty of custody over most of the derelict heaps in my parents' backyard (who are fed up with such things, especially since I'm summering in central New York State...) This particular beast hasn't been run since '05, wherein it ran for aoubt 15 min. before we noticed it milkshaking. Prior to that, it was off the road since the early '90's. Up next for him will be doing an EA82 engine replacement and 5-speed D/R swap into the Trashwagon replica which I am also giving him. We've got a little more to shoot with it and this is most likely the quickest way of getting it on the road again.

Was wondering if anyone had a set of EA81 blueprints; I'm entertaining the idea of a 3D cgi model of the Trashwagon for the movie. Yes, I'm still working on it...

#5, over the trim. I've seen it done, and it looks good. Even better, ditch the trim and fill the holes.

Nope, stuff is still afoot, looking at heading down middle of next week. Who is this fellow and how do we contact him?

Columbus is more or less on the way between Milwaukee and Virginia, though, and we might stop by anyway. As it happens, a couple of Yugo aficionados from C-bus that we met a a junkyard there last October wound up running the BA/BE rally with us...small world. We're back in Wisconsin and have regular internet access now so stay tuned.

Tim Hansen here checking in from the BA/BE rally. The Trashwagon never quite made it to the event proper; Fox blew the head gasket in Ohio and limped it to VA. The Camry wagon we've entered is doing fine but we need to come up with a way of retrieving/storing/fixing the car. Essentially, if there's anyone who lives in the vicinity, we'd like to find some reasonable offer to pick up the car and store it for a while since it may be a month or so until we can come after it. We need to rustle up another EA82 engine to throw in it since the right side of it has no compression. We have internet at the hotels and will be checking regularly. The car still runs, if only on two cylinders. Time is of the essence; the gas station will only let it stay there two weeks. -Tim Hansen 262-325-0346 - call me if you have any bright ideas.

Maroon. Totally an "old man" color. Any red that's not bright retina-scorching #FF0000 red just ain't gonna cut it for me. White and silver are pretty boring colors but not as aggressively unpleasant as maroon. I actually really liked the light metallic green. Any green that's not remotely "teal" is AOK with me. (ie, everything more towards yellow than blue)

Why do I get the impression that you tried all three simultaneously?

that green is too cool to paint over. if you must accent it how about a flat camo green?

Hell, destruction of Gen2's is starting to bug me! A $200 4WD D/R EA82 is ideal!

The Trashwagon 5 replica is, for general intents and purposes, simply Trashwagon. Trashwagon 5 II if you want to get technical; it's a promotional vehicle for the movie. Which is coming along nicely, thanks. Incidentally, TW5II has TW5's engine in it now, and we'll be finishing it up just as soon as Fox gets the sedan and Chris Smith's wagon done...

If this is the EA82 one from the late '80's GL's, I think Fox has a grey one in a car he's parting out/putting together with leftovers from another project. I'll ask him tomorrow...

check the tension next time.......suppose you had the covers ON and the belt popped off, that would suck. be glad the belts were open!!!! -milesfox

take a spare distributor. also the basic tools, 10-14mm wrench and socket, flat and phillips screwdriver, and your favorite pliers. bring odd bits of wires and connectors if you have to hotwire the fan or coil or lights of any sort spare tire, jack, qts of oil dont take too much more than you will reasonably need. you know your car best so that alone will tell you wnat it will want to have along

Digital! All the way! (of course, I'm big on goofball nerdy '80's crap) Wire up an extra tach if you crave analog. Hell, I'm having fits trying to find an '87-'91 Toyota Camry digital dash. They only sold them in Japan and Canada. If any of you PacNW folks see one, tell me!