moving on...

 

moving on, from the old...

...a family gathering...

to the new garage...

last midsummer at the cottage.

this place is going to be history, i will move forward, 

to a more suitable place, for my cars.

but maybe somewhere in the lohja-region... who knows.

there's many things to do.

agent orange and the red rooster

 both of these needs some action. the red one needs the front brake, assembled at the garage, and then back to the cottage. to put it in its place. i don't like the cold weather and working outside. but got to do that, then its done. and as i drive a audi quattro, i can even come back from the cottage, the down hill to the cottage is a bit icy and slippery. and good news with the orange bug, as the transmission is good and ready,  so it might be best to get the bug from cottage to more suitable place to change the gearbox. more of that later. have to go to garage now. ciao!

Jimi is concentrating in the stoplights

waitng for a sunny day to assemble the brake parts.

steps back... huh

 Well, i went to pick up the violet wbx bug, but the battery was totally dead. so no improvement for that, i took the battery with me, but the defa charger was so clever that it didn't want to charge the battery... Daaaaamn! ok, have to get a old style charger to charge it, hope to get one. and it needs cooling fluid also, wbx marks it spot... sadly. and it should be inspected too, next month.

ok, the panel van was waiting for better times... maybe it will get some movement next time, at least have to start it up and let it run ...have to think when to get it inspected too...

and the dodge needs some new/rebuildt brake calipers. i think it has e-body brakes. pretty heavy after all the brembo brakes... :-) but endless work with these...

its getting colder...

the dodge disc brakes are still having bugs. 

so i took one off and try to get that working today.

this bug has also some problems, 

with the front brakes, but i will fix them too but later on.

Lahnajärvi cruising 6-2024

 we came too late, so there was not that much of cars, but still, at least we made it. here's couple of shots.

Dodge D100 "ex-town panel"

 

i wanted to go to the Lahnajärvi cruising with the dodge, 

so i would see what needs to be taken care of, to get this pickup to the inspection.

the carburetor is fine now, and the engine runs smoothly.

when i started the trip from somero to saukkola...

the brake pedal went down. there's some brake power but not much.

have to check for leaks, and take care of bleeding as well.

the engine temp meter didn't work... and the engine started to make noises...

well i got safely to our cottage, but there's something to work out.

Winter is coming - AGAIN!

 The summer was short in Finland, as always. but i really enjoyed it. And as my plans change like always, this time i didn't change the clutch to my panel van, and i didn't change to the alternator, but maybe at 2023 if we are in some kind of shape. so the DODGE, PLYMOUTH and VW panel van is now sleeping at somero, its a long, cold, twisty and a very dark road to the somero, but we made it, even with the summer tyres, bad lights, no heater and - 1 degrees... 

Vintage drags at Kiikala 2022

A great and a very hot day, more picks coming...