opinions please, on the rover im thinking about buying

[Daurie]

What kind of watch are you selling?

[autoguy]

What kind of watch are you selling?

pm sent, tis a rolex

[Tim Smith]

pm sent, tis a rolex

Now you're talkin'. You may be in the "new frame territory" with that thing up for sale!

[autoguy]

Now you're talkin'. You may be in the "new frame territory" with that thing up for sale!

i hope so it is a GMT master 2

[Tim Smith]

i hope so it is a GMT master 2

Holy smokes! That thing is worth more than most of the cars I've ever owned.

http://www.google.com/products?sourceid=gmail&q=GMT+master+2&um=1&ie=UTF-8

[Daurie]

LOL Between all the cars and parts I'm sure most of us own / have owned we could all have had a FEW Rolexes... Welcome to your new money pit autoguy!!

[Tim Smith]

LOL Between all the cars and parts I'm sure most of us own / have owned we could all have had a FEW Rolexes... Welcome to your new money pit autoguy!!

True that! I was talking about the buy-in price... Some cars you really shouldn't buy into!

[autoguy]

LOL Between all the cars and parts I'm sure most of us own / have owned we could all have had a FEW Rolexes... Welcome to your new money pit autoguy!!

thanks I already have two money pits, recon I might as well have a third

my first money pit is a 1979 trans am and my second is a 1964 vespa GL, with a racing kit, racing clutch and racing pipe that was the major money pit for awhile got it running proper now though and I did all the work on the vespa and me and dad restored the trans am

tis time for another project

I bought the GMT used and it is the stainless steel model

are british electrics worse than Italian electrics ?

[Daurie]

Some cars you really shouldn't buy into!

LOL Now thats good advice often heard, but rarely heeded.

[Tim Smith]

LOL Now thats good advice often heard, but rarely heeded.

Yeah. I got one word for you. FIAT.
I loved it until I realized that I had turned every single bolt and put more in parts into it than the thing was worth.

thanks I already have two money pits, recon I might as well have a third

my first money pit is a 1979 trans am and my second is a 1964 vespa GL, with a racing kit, racing clutch and racing pipe that was the major money pit for awhile got it running proper now though and I did all the work on the vespa and me and dad restored the trans am

tis time for another project

I bought the GMT used and it is the stainless steel model

are british electrics worse than Italian electrics ?

Ah, Italian. Um, well you don't know the meaning if iffy wiring until your dash board lights up the foot wells, when you don't have any lights down there!

In the same sort of twisted way, you don't know how to drink unless you've held onto the grass for fear of falling off the earth!

But I digress. A Vespa can be a great little project. When you've got it running well enough, you can strap it to the back of your Rover and then you'll be sure to have something that needs a little TLC everywhere you go.


PS: Be sure to shake your Vespa well before running it. Ethanol, now found in our gas, doesn't like to stay mixed with 2-stroke.

[autoguy]

Yeah. I got one word for you. FIAT.
I loved it until I realized that I had turned every single bolt and put more in parts into it than the thing was worth.




Ah, Italian. Um, well you don't know the meaning if iffy wiring until your dash board lights up the foot wells, when you don't have any lights down there!

In the same sort of twisted way, you don't know how to drink unless you've held onto the grass for fear of falling off the earth!

But I digress. A Vespa can be a great little project. When you've got it running well enough, you can strap it to the back of your Rover and then you'll be sure to have something that needs a little TLC everywhere you go.


PS: Be sure to shake your Vespa well before running it. Ethanol, now found in our gas, doesn't like to stay mixed with 2-stroke.

aye sounds like a good challenge thanks for the info on the electrics

my scoot is complete i finished it months back, it is running proper now and fast for a scoot i do the old roll and stop/brake to mix the gas and oil

do you have a scoot ?

aye been there holding onto the grass to hold on to the earth, did that on my 21,s birthday i didnt roll down our hill in the front yard but i still dont know how i got out there or back inside, i know my big brother brought me back inside but i dont remember coming inside

[Momo]

Some cars you shouldn't buy into...

Yeah. I got one word for you. FIAT.

Yeah, as in,

Fix It Again, Tony.

Alfa Romeo too. My buddy's dad had a Giulia that was a complete
joke. Then he dumped that money pit and bought a Lotus Esprit!

[giorgio]

Fabrica Italiano Automobili Torino (Italian Automobile Factory of Turin)

[Tim Smith]

All you'all is wrong!
Fix It Again Tim
Or at least thats how I remembered it.

aye sounds like a good challenge thanks for the info on the electrics

my scoot is complete i finished it months back, it is running proper now and fast for a scoot i do the old roll and stop/brake to mix the gas and oil

do you have a scoot ?

aye been there holding onto the grass to hold on to the earth, did that on my 21,s birthday i didn't roll down our hill in the front yard but i still dint know how i got out there or back inside, i know my big brother brought me back inside but i dont remember coming inside

I'm a vespa man as well. Unfortunately mine is in pieces up at my brother's place about 200 miles north of me right now. A VB I think but it's been a while.

Was great at getting you just far enough away to piss you off when it failed or got a flat. But that was ages ago when it was in one piece and at my house.

---
As for holding on to the grass story.

My best story (that I'm willing to admit) is releasing into a metal basket some where in the middle of Caracas.

Although not from drinking, I was holding onto the cemented waiste paper basket as if it were to save me while I was sick and a squad of the local cops had their varied MPG's aimed in my general direction (and about 3' from me). My best buddy who didn't know a lick of Spanish was send on an errand of "AUGUA CON GAS NOW DAMMIT".

Eventually I relieved my self of all evil and the cops slapped me on the back for it, but my mark was made. The basket had no bag in it.

Long story short, if you think your stomach is tough, don't order the "hambuguesa con toto" from the local street vendor in Caracas!

[autoguy]

All you'all is wrong!
Fix It Again Tim
Or at least thats how I remembered it.



I'm a vespa man as well. Unfortunately mine is in pieces up at my brother's place about 200 miles north of me right now. A VB I think but it's been a while.

Was great at getting you just far enough away to piss you off when it failed or got a flat. But that was ages ago when it was in one piece and at my house.

---
As for holding on to the grass story.

My best story (that I'm willing to admit) is releasing into a metal basket some where in the middle of Caracas.

Although not from drinking, I was holding onto the cemented waiste paper basket as if it were to save me while I was sick and a squad of the local cops had their varied MPG's aimed in my general direction (and about 3' from me). My best buddy who didn't know a lick of Spanish was send on an errand of "AUGUA CON GAS NOW DAMMIT".

Eventually I relieved my self of all evil and the cops slapped me on the back for it, but my mark was made. The basket had no bag in it.

Long story short, if you think your stomach is tough, don't order the "hambuguesa con toto" from the local street vendor in Caracas!

so im guessing you or your brother is going to rebuild the VB ? they are a fine machine when they run right, if you have any questions about it feel free to pm me my dad has a 1979 P that we rebuilt from the ground up, it was in many pieces when he bought it, twas fun putting back together though my gl has a 166 malossi kit on it a simonini pipe a 24/24g carb on it and a banded and welded cosa clutch, tis fairly trick/custom and a side stand, i couldnt run the center stand with the new pipe


lmao about the waste basket lol i will remember that though no hambuguesa con toto in caracas