Magnificent 7

70's HQ holden monaro colors-- lone orange..r, lina mint....lettuce alone..seriously and rally red. classic names

Hemi orange !

Hummmm!

I like the light grey, dark grey, black,white trim and yellow.

Also there is a light greenish grey on this but we will rule that out.

But I do have a good anodizer that could prob dial the rims in.

Hmmmm? What is in my arsenal that's German?

its broken....get an armstrong or a ccm and paint it dark earth and light sea green with duck egg blue underneath the guards

dk earth green and sea grey

Teeth!

If I had lots of money! I'd own one of these......

a p-40? over a spit or a 109??

Well! Then I need a lot more money.

Go online and look at what these old warbirds bring.

Cha Ching ! That's why I guess we are all on here, dirt bike broke!

Hannah has a P-51

That's right! I forgot about him years ago playing around in some aviation stuff.
I did not know he owned one....... Good info!

place up the road does up the kittyhawks, they have jigs for all parts. quite often get one at the local airshows. great old bird. went to an ANZAC service with my father years ago and this old bloke in a tattered suit rocks up and starts chatting to dd. he introduced me to a mr Lyons.."Mr Lyons" (lucky to be 5 feet tall) says dad, "flew spitfires, kittyhawks, hurricanes and mustangs during the war". " He is famous in Bendigo for flying up the main drag from Bgo to eaglehawk in a Mustang, cleaned the leaves of most of the poplar trees along the way. i asked him what was your favourite kite? (expecting spitfire of course) Kittyhawk he says. i asked him why? and he said when you fired the guns, whatever you were pointing at you hit...same as the hurricane, the others jumped around all over the place when you took a shot. yes he said, slow, lower roll rate and turning than the spitfire but like a sherman tank, gave him great confidence to attack. then with a real twinkle in his eye he said but nothing on earth flies like a spitty...great fella. if you want a great read re kittyhawks, grab the Nicky Barr auto biog. great story.

Good story!
I talk to a lot of old vets. They are becoming fewer from WWII. I find their stories interesting. My wife's dad was shot down over Germany and spent time in prison camp. Think he flew a P51.

I'm doin a Wheelie!

Took 4 hrs and 45 mins.

45 mins to lace and true wheel and 4 hours trying to find the spoke nipple that went flying in my shop!

too much talk about planes!!

Tip:

When lacing wheels. Try to bring all the nipples in till the tip comes dead even with end of threads. Nother words no threads showing. Then mark each spoke and nipple with a sharpie. Then mark a starting point spoke on each side of rim.

Each spoke I run in 1 turn at a time until resistance. If couple spokes are lil loose you might be a thread off, so bring those up till resistance is same.Work on side to get your wheel off set if any. Then go work on other side. By time you get this all done drawing them in even. The wheel is almost true. If you get spoke from Buchanans and they give you a bottle of anti seize. Combine both bottles into one and put lil lacquer thinner in. Stir with a some and it comes out of bottle with ease.
You can wipe your sharpie marks off with lacquer thinner.

390 hub in oven and soon as I blast front hub and paint! It goes in too!

Instant divorce in my house, sounds like a good idea!

I'm with you on that. I have an extra large toaster oven in my shop I use and also an electric smoker oven, which I use for bigger parts.

Dang you would post a rim. Got a set of rims from SMpro in Uk did not use them until now. Spoked the front in 40 mins( but not trued yet) - and yes the rear is wrong
someone sent a wrong drill pattern. Hours thinking i was wrong. Nope its wrong. Nightmare

Name of Company is Central wheel. The sm rims are the ones that came on KTMs and made of 7075 grade, nice but inexpensive also. But hard to walk or drive down to this shop. Now well Its just become expensive.

Plane story, I was in huge workload at old job. Older guy walks in and we talked about restoring , then he made me an offer want to come to his hanger and help restore/ work on his P-51 mustang, I couldn't, , regret forever a chance to work on this plane. Even showed me orignal blueprints of his plane , he stopped back in my work to show me. Opportunity lost !!

Gary! I'm sending out 3 more sets of rims to get anodized after this week of sanding then polishing them.

Here is 250 fox head in oven. Plus 125 ignition cover before black goes on.

That's all tough as nails gun kote.

Like to have a Mustang but it's unfortunate that I do not have the funds for one.