What have you been up to this week

[John Abbott]

And this is another contact maybe? It says he is an assistant to the transport minister ? so just maybe another avenue to try..
Contact the Minister
 
Honourable Brendon Grylls MLA
Minister for Regional Development; Lands; Minister Assisting the Minister for State Development; Minister Assisting the Minister for Transport
Address: 9th Floor, Dumas House, 2 Havelock Street, WEST PERTH WA 6005
Telephone: 9213 7000
Fax: 9213 7001
e-Mail: Minister.Grylls@dpc.wa.gov.au

 

[Bedfordcrazy]

Hey guys, GOOD NEWS, i recieved a phn call at 1700hrs, exactly 2 weeks to the day and time, from the W.A Transport ministers office,24rs after getting all my documents, the minister has ordered that all the bills are to be quashed and i now owe wa nothing. I still need to get all this in writing, but that should be sorted by next week. Even the ministers office thought this was a disgrace and never should of happened. So thanks to all those that helped and provided info.

Time to go beddying again. oh yeh..
george.

[John Abbott]

Hey Big Georgy... Bloody great you got some action at last mate. Maybe there are some "pollies" that can actually help out at last...Fingers crossed

[Bedfordcrazy]

hey john, yes i was surprised, but i also knew that when someone with common sense looked at the facts, there was no way they could condone this stupidity. As this woman from the ministers office said, the law is the same aust wide, if you dont pay stamp duty, you dont get rego, and you dont get insurance. I had both, so i paid my stamp, so she ordered them to dispose of the whole thing, they had no choice. So short of some paperwork and a signature, it is over, thank god. It really was starting to wear me down. I was getting ready to tell my lawyers to go for it monday if something had not happened by close of business today.

MY TIP : No matter how much paperwork you get, save it, if i had shredded my paperwork for the truck a month ago like i was going to, i would never of had the proof i needed. They say keep your reciepts 7yrs, make it 10yrs, when it comes to the government to long is never long enough.
george.

[mezzmo]

I have seen this ad for selling a Mazda Shades on Ebay - the listing is closing soon so i thought  would copy it into the forum before it disappears - use this as a future reference if your ever going to sell your Beddie - its brilliant!! Read on.....




If you thought muscle cars were a thing of the past, think again. This Mazda is probably one of Japan's most formidable street machines. In fact, Subaru were lucky that these little boxes were produced before the first WRX, because it gave Subaru something to strive for.


On first glance you may just think that this is just another Japanese girly car, aimed at practicality and economy. You're right. But what Mazda put into these was a level of technology matched only by Casio calculators from the 1970s.


Not only does this car look sporty and powerful, it also has aerodynamics equivalent to a garden shed, enabling it to reach speeds well beyond 100,000 metres per hour. In fact, with a tail wind these things can go even faster, but a cross wind presents problems, especially after the car ends up on its roof.


Aside from the factory styled aerodynamics, this car is fitted with aftermarket speed dimples, known as 'dents'. Like a golf ball's dimples, the dents allow the 121 to travel even further when hit by a 9 iron.


One of the major problems you will have owning this car is that everyone wants to race you from the traffic lights. Even trucks. I know this because everyone takes off really quickly and when I catch up to them at the next set of lights, they pretend they weren't trying. In this 121, you have to be really careful with the throttle control as too much acceleration is likely to cause wheelspin, whereas anything below 3,000 RPM is likely to cause stalling. Driving in the wet is a real problem as far as traction goes, especially on wet grass or oiled steel plates. This truly is a driver's car (because no passengers are likely to get in it).


Although it appears massive, the exhaust is the original 3cm job. Mazda had to go up a size from the drinking straw used on the Mazda 1000s because of the radical cam timing used in the 121. When they put together the first B13 motor it was a twin cam job, but it was so powerful that the exhaust cam ended up getting blown out the exhaust and the inlet cam often ran away in fear of the pistons. So they stayed with a single cam version and threw out 8 valves in order to lighten the car up even further. The motor produces almost as much power as four high quality split system air conditioners, which when coupled to the advanced five speed transmission and front wheel drive provides enough power to charge a mobile phone.


Mazda tried desperately to dress down the 121, including the fitment of 13” wheels just to take away that guard filling look of the bigger 14” rims. They didn't compromise on width though, this car has tyres as wide as a shopping trolley with a rubber compound to match. Without such huge road hugging bags, this car would not be able to handle the race tuned suspension that it is fitted with, in fact it may even have a small sway bar somewhere. Mazda also kept the bumper bars a different colour to the car, because with such curvy styling some may not have been able to tell where the car started and ended. Ford's Australian Taurus from the mid 90's is a classic example of a car which has no front and no back. The seats in that car can swivel 360° so that it can be driven in either direction. Mazda didn't want the same problem with the 121, so they put a slight angle in the roof of the car where it meets the front windscreen.


To give you some idea of the way this car performs, let me relate a recent road incident I was involved in:


I was traveling along the freeway minding my own business, when suddenly a Mercedes ML63 AMG came up beside me and the middle aged driver nodded at me with his leather jacket and Armani sunnies on. It was on. I was in third gear getting ready for a steep climb up the hill so I thought I'd give the big AMG a head start. Off we went. I planted my foot to the floor and the scenery started to blast past me (admittedly it was painted on the side of a garden supplies pantech). I think I saw the same AMG about an hour later, pulled over outside a cafe with the driver reading the Financial Review and sipping on a soy latte. I blew the horn and accelerated in a cloud of tyre smoke, which may have been attributed to the container of baby powder I had run over.


That was the closest race I've had in the 121, in fact for a few seconds, I could almost read the rear number plate of the AMG. I learned from that incident that losers should never give winners a head start, so now I just drive off before lights even turn green. Sure, I've caused a few taxis to peel their retreads off trying to avoid me, but the satisfaction of winning the race to the other side of the intersection is worth it.


This 121 isn't just built for speed. It is also built for practicality. The rear seats fold down providing enough room for a stampede of rats to be carried in comfort. You could even fit a fridge in if you could buy one small enough. I've even picked up a few models in the 121, including a ship in a bottle. It doesn't have a towbar purely because scientists haven't come up with a material strong enough to withstand the forces encountered when the clutch is dropped. The car is so powerful that they even had to leave out back doors because they were afraid the car would pull apart at the seams like my last pair of trackie dacks.


Parking is simple in this car. In fact, it is so light that it can be parked on top of a Subaru Liberty if the Subaru is fitted with Rhino racks. Some people even take their 121 into the shopping centre with them and save on putting $2 into an Aldi trolley. Once when I went to Newtown for dinner, there were so few parking spots that I put the 121 on a Marickville bus for only $1.20 and picked it up later.


It has a turbo button which can be handy sometimes, especially when the guy next to you on the Yamaha R1 wants to drag you. It has to be used with caution because depending on your body weight, you could brake the backrest of the seat under acceleration. I liken it to nitrous oxide, but without the reality. It works by having the air conditioning on most of the time, but when you need an added burst of power, just turn it off and away you go. I reckon you pull an extra half a kilowatt out of the beast with the turbo boost feature.


You may also notice that this model is the 'Shades' series. The Shades was Mazda's codename for the Small Hatch And Definitely Enough Speed project, where they attempted to set a world record by mass producing the worlds best selling flat pack car. Ikea would have taken on the Shades project, but the engineers could not make fasteners strong enough to keep all the panels together, so they abandoned that aspect of the project and Mazda produced the 121 from recycled CRT computer monitors instead, maintaining

the classic lines.


If you're after that discreet look where nobody notices you, this isn't the car for you. It's like riding a Ducati 998 up to a motocross track when you park this thing somewhere. People will stare, some will even want to touch it, some may be jealous. But like fame, after a while you get used to it (apparently). The best thing I've found for avoiding attention when driving this beast around, is to park next to a car with similar formidable characteristics, like a Daihatsu Charade.


For those interested in the minor details, the car is registered in NSW until next March, almost a year away. For a cat, that would be like having almost seven years worth of rego.


It doesn't have power steering because as you can see from the colour, it was built for only the toughest of drivers.


It is not fuel injected, but still manages to run on the smell of an oily rag; provided the oily rag is left in the fuel tank and covered in 20L of unleaded petrol.


Everything works as it should, even the brakes slow you down.


Mechanically it is fine, there is no rust and the tyres are near new.


With GT Falcons and HK Monaros going for many of thousands of dollars, this may just be your chance to buy on of Japan's true muscle cars before there are less than 4.3 million of them left.

[pickmeup]

Now thats funny, I dont care who you are thats funny right there.........

[beddiediesel]

i'd be happy to do that for anybody who wanted one, was even thinking about doing the front guard aswell


still got the part number on it, what a find ay he-he

Hiya stevo, i'll be needing a new bonnet for my beddie at some stage, do you know anyone got a tidy metal one liying around?

[Bedfordcrazy]

Hey guys, well another week has gone, and for a change good news, as some now know, W.A Transport now have egg on their face, and instead of me paying them nearly ten grand, i can now spend money on my van, oh yeh. This week we have started on my body work, doing some of the custom gear. We have now done the template for my new front grill, we should get that lazer cut next week, and back ready to install. We have also started to install our new headlights. Over the next month it will be full speed ahead on the sheet metal, also in 2 weeks my new steering column will be done, i have to wait for my mechanic to come back off holidays, how dare he go off now. lol  I also will be doing my tailshaft, so the month of june is going to see a lot of work done. I have also found a guy who does an amazing finish on dashes and other panels, they dip the product in this liquid copy of something, dip the dash, and when it comes out it has the design on your dash, so as i find out more i will let you know.
Love my beddy.
george.

[delrazor]

Yesterday I failed a RWC.
 Today I changed out all the shockies, changed the steering thingy, re-hung the spare tyre, filled some rusty bits with metal-bog and made a new gear knob.
Oh and I acidentally bought a piano.
Now to watch the Saints spank Adelaide.
derek

[Bedfordcrazy]

hey razor, show us the pics, or is that the money, lol no it's the pics of your shift knob. What did they get you on for the rwc ? My sheet metal guy has put me in touch with an engineer, this guy will come out 4 times, after that you can ring him as often as you want for advice, or email, and tell you what is right and wrong. My sheet guy said he will tell you what you can't do and everything else is up for grabs. What tweeked my interest was, i dont have to take my van into the transport for an inspection, and the engineer will take all the paperwork in for you as part of the fee, he will talk to them in transport jargan, and bring back your new plates and rego, which means i dont have to explain what i did for my power steer conversion, he deals with the lot. Awesome. He charges my sheet metal guy 2 thousand from start to finish, but that is for a race car they are building in their shop, so i need to find out if that is the same for the private sector or not, even so, if he garrantees me a registered van at the end, then thats worth it. As soon as we get my new column fitted in the next 2 weeks, i can get him out to check everything we have done, so i will let you know how we go, if he is as good as my sheet guy says, then i will let all the qld guys know, if they want a good engineer.
george.