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General Category => CF Bedford Chat => Topic started by: obsession on March 06, 2011, 07:47:31 PM
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No Gutters
still like it
I'll have two, do they come with the blonde accessory ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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That looks smooth I like the front
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Real nice :o :o
Any other pictures?
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that looks sweet :o
Is it really low at the front or are they huge wheels?
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Taken in the 70's by the way the rear tyres are sticking out(those were the days)
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no seams and no door handles - I like it
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oh my that looks amazing! WHERE did you get that photo craig? must be england ay?
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that looks sweet, i like what they've done with the bonnet
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now thats wat i call sexy
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one look is all it took ..... thats it I'm changing the style of my van and building one like this .... hmmm but then again looks like a lot of filling and sanding
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but yumm!
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That looks smooth I like the front
lol which one ??? ::) ;) that is one hot piece of gruntiesmut metal though!!
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Taken in the 70's by the way the rear tyres are sticking out(those were the days)
No, a 40 year old photo isn't that clear, this was taken far more recently
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gotta agree with Jesus if thats not clear over black base two pack paint i'll give away my vans and buy a Hyudai ;D ;) :o
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would love to see the other side and back
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What do you suppose those side mirrors are off??
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I would like to see how they did the passenger seat. ;) ;D ;D ;D ;D
george.
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George, get out of the gutter. Oh wait, it hasn't got any. carry on then :D
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would love to see the other side and back
:o an u tell george to get out of the gutter lol oh wait it hasnt got any. carry on then, as well ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)
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Mirrors look like they are off a motorbike
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very smooth n round curvy yea! nice mate
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her shirt looks like a scooby do shirt
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:D bet it wasnt the writing you were lookin at on her t shirt busy!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)
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this is interesting as well
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38919941@N04/4546785414/in/photostream/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/38919941@N04/4546785414/in/photostream/)
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someone got your van busy!
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Like the black van
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I want to know where he's going to put the pedals and stuff
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that red one obs is.. :o uuuuuuggggglllllyyyyy... :o front reminds me of hannibal lecters facemask :-X :-X
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Could skip the pedals and just fit handcontrols, i did. ;D ;D ;D ;D
I took my cruiser in yesterday for a service, got in there, guy took some info and gave him the service key. The mechanic went over to my truck and he was standing there for a while, and i saw him ducking and looking under the dash, so i rolled down the drive and said to him, mate just use the peddals as normal. He saw the handcontrols and was trying to find a switch or work out how they worked, being a young pup i told him that the peddals work independant of the handcontrols.
Last time i took it in, they test drove it, when the head guy brought my truck back,
he said to me, man that is scary,
i said what is,
he said driving with those handcontrols,
and i said why did'nt you just use the pedals,
he said OH.
He thought they were disconnected and he had to use the handcontrols.
George.
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HA HA :D :D ;D ;D God thats gold George!!!! My old next door neighbour is a paraplegic and has used hand controls for years . Used to amaze me as a young kid how he used to drive the car so easily ;)
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Believe it or not john, handcontrols are easy after a while, they are so smoothe when installed properly. Everyone that sees them are amazed at how simple a set-up they are, makes you wonder why they cost $1,500-00 and up for a set up. FREEDOM is priceless though.
george.
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What a crack up George. At the risk of sounding like that mechanic, can someone please tell me how the 'no door handles' is done?
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he said to me, man that is scary,
i said what is,
he said driving with those handcontrols,
and i said why did'nt you just use the pedals,
he said OH.
He thought they were disconnected and he had to use the handcontrols.
George.
Before my old man went to hand controls he had an auto with a left foot accelerator, while keeping the right one for me and mum to drive. (His right leg had spasms so he couldn't drive with it)
After one instance where someone started the car with the foot on the 'clutch' and the brake he made a sign up
WARNING: This is an automatic vehicle fitted with a lefthand accelerator. IT IS NOT A CLUTCH
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I remember years ago i delivered a customers car back to him that had hand controls, very basic set up - rod from hand control to brake pedal ... was awkward to drive with pedals so used the hands controls, was so easy to floor it, and freaky as it was a Chevy Impala with big block
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What a crack up George. At the risk of sounding like that mechanic, can someone please tell me how the 'no door handles' is done?
::) ::) ... he hasnt got any hands?? ::) ::)
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ahahhahhaaaaa ummm ok
solenoid popers
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O.K. No1 no door handles, take them out and weld them up then buy a keyless entry system from someone like Dakota Digital, they have a kit with a key fob that you press & the door pops open for you,great system but check with the rego boys first as you may have to fit an external device to open the door in an emergency, if it's a bloody emergency you would think that they could smash a window, what if your in a car with door handles and the doors are locked how do they get in?
No2 When I lived in Darwin there was a disabled guy that drove around hard in a blown big block 57 Chev on a push/pull system no problems
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What i did for my system - no door handles
got an alarm with extra channels on it, so the alarm remote does the doors as well as alarm and others, the signal goes from the unit to the door units which is just a solenoid (used jap car central lock units), and the poppers push the door open.
I brought an autoloc shave door handle kit but the solenoids were way to strong for the latches, they actually bent a bedford and a nissan one.
So if you have an alarm with a extra channel, you just need some wire, a couple of central lock solenoids and door poppers (which is just an alloy tube with rubber on the end).
Down side to shaved doors:
when your door is shut it's basically locked, even if is only open/closed on one click of the door catch so if you leave your keys in the van and the door closes one click and you haven't put in a break-in (hidden button) like i did you need to get a coat hanger or such.
I call it a break-in button because someone just needs to see you use it once and its theirs
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Busykiwi, there are emergency openers that work with a key. That way it's always safe.
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I call it a break-in button because someone just needs to see you use it once and its theirs
what about this idea thou.
have a combination of 5 switches under either the front door or inside bonnet or something. have the combination worked out so you need the 5 switches to be set right before the push button will work.
once you pushed the button, reset the combination so anyone that knows where it is need to get the 5 way combination right before you can push the button and the door will open
there are only 25 different combinations.
or
have 2 push buttons that need to be pressed together to work the door. like one in the guard and one under the door.. they may see you grab onto the guard but theyd never guess there are 2 switches that need to be pressed at once.
im sure theres other ideas you could have ways to fool the crook
ben
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Hey busy, where is your break in button located. ;) ;D ;D ;D just kidding.
Here is a thought busy, instead of a button, why not mount a barrel key lock somewhere, say in your fuel filler compartment, or under a flip down number plate, that way if you do happen to lock yourself out, or electrics get funny, you can still let yourself in, and you have to have the right key on these locks to open.
When i had my new head unit fitted to the cruiser, because the screen drops down to show the cd/dvd/sat-nav dvd slots, i had a barrel lock fitted to the console. What i do is this, when i put the truck in for a service as i did last week, b4 i jump out i lock the head unit. I designed it to shut down the power to the unit, so you cannot operate the radio or cds, which means mechanics can not put their cds in there to listen to while working, and my $400 a disc GPS disc can not go missing. The lock is in plain view on the dash, but it is not labled and you need the right key to unlock the unit again. The good part is i have not lost any disc since, and the radio is never tuned to some head banger station, and there is still power to the memory, so you dont loose your settings when you lock/unlock it. The lock cost $9 and about 8 inches of wire, cheap as, and it has saved me losing hundreds of dollars of discs, and i dont have to empty all my disc out when it goes for a service, and amazingly enough it does'nt seem to take so long to get the truck back now. ;) ;D Lock is above the Hazard light switch.
george.
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All good ideas but sadly all have faults.
the mutli switches: if battery goes flat you can't get in
key lock: where do you usually keep a key, on the key ring. if keys in ign. your still stuck.
Hidden key lock and/or switch: battery failure, keys inside ...
Plus I don't have any hidden areas, petrol cap is behind number plate which is on cable release from drivers seat, number plate is recessed in rear panel so can't actually get fingers behind it to force open.
What I was going to do was have a switch in the engine bay (the original one) that put power into the system via motorbike battery - would be good if battery was flat, problem is batteries wont hold the charge without top up and they need load to cycle (battery guy told me this).
at the moment I dont actually have a back up set up, but will have to put something in place
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how oftern do your batteries go flat busy? maybe a secret trap door in the floor for backup:) just enough room for only you case theifs are lazy and fat and wont fit through the trap door:)
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what we use for our limo's / funeral cars is a second batt instalation with a "red arc" I think it's called, a simple push button located to ur desire and at a push it fires a full charge to start (with ign on), (or for batt back up). I'm not exactly sure of the details as the sparkies used to set it up, but since they've gone ,I'm doing a crash coarse in auto sparkism , sooooooooo I'll find out more on this.
http://redarc.com.au/home (http://redarc.com.au/home)
cool, lovin this linky thingy......
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a couple of easy reach terminals some place just in case the battery does go flat might be an idea
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A small solar panel fitted to the roof to trickle charge battery, you could even have this sucken in............. ;)
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All you'd really need to do is have a +ve terminal situated on the van somewhere underneath. If the battery should go flat then you can just use a set of jumper cables from someone else's car to get in. Hook the +ve onto your hidden terminal and the -ve to the bodywork. Call the AA even. Let's face it, if the battery has gone flat you'll not only need them to get into the van but you'll need them to jumpstart it anyway because you're not going to start it with a flat battery.
It shouldn't be a major drama anyway. How often do you have a flat battery? If the battery is constantly going flat then I thnk there are other issues that need to be sorted.
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On my bobcat there is no room for jumper leads so i had a set of remote battery posts mounted on the outa body, thats where i connect my charger to when its not being used. I will get a pic and post it.
As for the key being locked in, these days i have a spare set that i keep in my back pack on my chair, so if i ever loose, lock in car or break one i just grab spare from back of chair, problem solved. As for location, under guard, bumper or anywhere you have 40mm flat surface.
george.
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Ok, so if we want to borrow any of George's toys, all we have to do is hijack his wheelchair...............