Pulled the ID out of the shed after a couple of month spell lying dormant this long weekend just gone.
saw the local vintage car club having a display in the centre of town...Easily the coolest thing there was a Citroen traction. Very nice. Got a hearty wave from the owner as I passed him on the road the next day
Took her for a 700km Jaunt yesterday too.
Got around 8.5km/l. Not too bad considering I thundered along at around 70mph the whole day in very windy conditions
. I'm constantly amazed at how much it loves cruising at such high (for a 48year old car) speeds, and how little fuel it uses, all the while running a little bit rich. I'm looking forward to the improvements I can make to increase it's economy!
Top radiator mount broke somewhere around a very dodgey, run down town called Patea so a cable tie has been despatched to sort that until I can get to dad's workshop to weld her back up.
Had a few waves from other older cars, and drivers of newer Citroen C4s, Xantias and a bx or two
Got her down in wellington again for the week on daily driving duties.
The only quibble I have with the car is the lack of Audio system. The longstroke motor is great to listen
to but it still gets a little boring when you're driving by yourself, so after i dropped the girlfriend back to her place in New Plymouth it was a little tedious when stuck behind some slow moving campervans......
Not wanting to add a permanent system I may mimic what I've seen on a Volkswagen website previously. Over in the states people often use old suitcases to mount a speaker or two and a cd headunit, and a smallish 12v sealed battery.
I'm thinking a large-ish suitcase with a small (circa 100w) amplifier, cooled by a couple of small pc fans, and some reasonable speakers, hooked up to a power socket mounted in the car will be a good idea. doing away with the headunit in favour of an amplifier with relevant cord to plug an MP3 player or similar would be alot easier, and look alot more like luggage than a makeshift stereo
looking around on the net there's a few different ideas though. I bought very cheaply form a junk shop a few months ago, a small suitcase record player that the lady didn't think actually worked. pluged it in and it goes great! so now I don't want to pull it to bits to do with it what I originally intended....
It's so small anyway that I'd only be able to have one speaker which isn't ideal... hmm
anywho a couple of pics of different systems. some pretty haggardly built but others are really nice. I want a case that's very 'retro' looking. thinking of plastic hard sided late-60s to early 70s type thing to start with. project for weeknights I think...
top one's pretty rough looking but the red one is exactly what I want
wonder how it sounds