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Hi everyone,
As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.
When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.
Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.
Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.
Thanks for your patience and support!
126,875mph. Stock Production 1983 500XC
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https://www.amazon.com/GT-40-Individual-History-Record/dp/0760317402
I spent 3years on historic research before commisioning the car which represents specs of cars which raced and won in my part of the planet. This vehicle was accordingly inspected and certified for competition by the Historic Racing Car Association of South Africa. It is also registered for road use.
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my old neighbour is a porche nut ...so much so that the factory regularly consults him on 70-90's porche issue...he has built from scratch (using blueprints) a 917 and a 908.
He did all the fibreglass moulds (then burnt them when he was finished) joined two 6 cyls together to make the flat 12, bought some parts from paul newman for it. its spectacular in white and orange.
he even makes the fans and fan shrouds in fibreglass, casts his own wheels at the local foundry and he used a v12 jag distributer to spark the motor.
a friend of his in the US found a genuine 917 car stripped for a rebuild and he took 300+ pics of the frame detailing the factory added brackets and braces that weren't on the blueprints so his car is an exact racecar replica.
he also has 1 of only 2 of the first porche powered ground effects cars (possibly Lola's) that Paul Neuman commissioned for a race series. 18 of 20 cars had chev v8's and two had porche 6's. ol mate found the car in mexico and got it back here and has refurbed it. its a piece of work.
so - its easy to build a car from scratch if you know how.
halfway thru the 917 build, he rebuilt an MGA and a healy bn100 ("the first car I got a r**t in" he said when I asked him why the Healy)
pretty fascinating guy...his early relatives were bought to Bendigo from Italy to do the big cathedral here, they were stonemasons etc
at one stage he bought a Rolls Royce merlin engine that he was going to put in an old truck for drag racing but someone offered him good money so it went. I really wanted to see that truck.
my skils only run to cars that I can unbolt and bolt back together (if I can remember where the bolts go)
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Sorry clarification .
It looks like I am remembering a story about the Mk 111's