kibitz - My car's history

[kibitz]

As promissed I will try to present my car's history a bit.

The small improvements I did to my car were to put a set of 33 inch mud/terrain tires (COOPER STT), a President JFK II CB radio and a SIRIO 5000 CB antenna.

The colleauges from Holland will notice that the car is bought from there, by looking at the plates . It is a two seater, because it was converted to a utility van before I bought it (I want it this way because the taxes are smaller in Romania).

This is how the car looked liked when I bought it (about two years ago):
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The new tires:
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I worked a little bit to make room for the CB as it was a little bit longer than expected:
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New IronMan steering dumper:
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More to come...

[kibitz]

Next thing I did was to take down the roof as I intended to buy a new suspension lift kit and the car wouldn't fit anymore in my garrage.
The roof for the utility vans is modified (I believe because they must have a certain load capacity). The modification consists of installing a fiberglass roof on top of the existing one, which is cut to make more room.

I started by dissasembilng the side panels for rear windows:
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I dissasembled then the roof light support, the temperature and heading indicator from the front of the roof, the rearwivew mirror and other small things that were attached to the roof. I coud then take down the roof lining/cover (hope this makes sense - my english is not so good especially with technical terms).
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Thext on the list was the roof window (it is a bit heavy 10-12 Kilos):
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Next part was a little bit hard to persuade to come off as it was glued vey well to/through the original roof (fitted throgugh the hole):
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Here it is how it looked like after taking it down:
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Next step was to take down the external fiberglass roof; it was relatively easy to cut. Unfortunatelly I have no pictures with that operation.
I bought a piece of the metal rooftop from some guy who disassembles old/crashed cars and weld it over the hole in the original roof.

To be continued...

[NissanGQ4.2]

Looks good Sorin

[threedogs]

Wow good stuff Sorin keep them coming

[MEGOMONSTER]

There must be a heap of these shorty's over in Europe.
They look great.

[moneypit]

Bună Ziua Sorin,

Looking good with the build.

Perfect vehicle for Romanina.

[kibitz]

Hi,

@threedogs: Thank you!

@MEGOMONSTER: Indeed there are quite a few . As moneypit mentioned, these are perfect for Romania. For both on- and off- road (as some of the streets here are bad). For off-road it has the advantage that it can take tight turns.

@moneypit: Multumesc! Cum de stii romaneste? Ai plecat acolo sau ai rude/prieteni aici? (Translation for the rest of the forum members: Thank you! How come you know to speak romanian? Have you gone there [Adelaide] or do you have relatives/friends here?)


Cheers,
Sorin

[moneypit]

Hi Sorin,

Worked in Romania for 18 months in the Oil and Gas industry so managed to pick up a bit of the lingo. Unfortunately most people couldn't understand the Aussie accent, one of the guys i worked with could understand a Scottish accent better than mine

[kibitz]

Hi Sorin,

Worked in Romania for 18 months in the Oil and Gas industry so managed to pick up a bit of the lingo. Unfortunately most people couldn't understand the Aussie accent, one of the guys i worked with could understand a Scottish accent better than mine

Oh, ok. It makes sense.
18 months? It's quite a long time, but I guess is common in your line of work.
How did you like it here?

[Mitch20b]

I wish the shortys were deliverd here in aus