Jamberoo Car Show October 27th 2024

 Another fantastic car show in the Illawarra. Jamberoo never fails to turn on a nice day and this year the place was even more packed than last year. Plenty to see, but, unfortunately other people I were with just wanted to socialise among each other, while I just wanted to browse the vehicular offerings. So, alas, a bit like last year, I never got to have a really good gander. Having said that, I still managed to snap a few cars on my cheapy phone.  Hope you like them. 

Just a small sample of the action. I tried to do a diorama, but someone waiting for me to shout them a beer...

Gotta be one of my favourites. I just naturally gravitate toward the hotrods. 

McLaren in all of its delightful goodliness. So many people milling around it, I just couldn't get off a decent pic. Anyway, the grass was soft and didn't seem to have any bindi's. 

Grass everywhere. Here's a duo playing some bluegrass being enjoyed by two girls and a guy in a ladie's hat which he purchased from Target photobombing the whole scene

This very cool bus thing was allowing people to cue up and take a peek. I think my wife went in there and took some pictures and nearly fell and broke her neck on the way out. completely missing the step, while totally ignoring the sign that said "please watch your step" 

I don't know much about Alpine's excepting that one of my sisters used to smoke them. They say smoking Alpine cigarettes made your breath fresh, just like an alpine forest. I can tell you this much. They're the new Renault sport's division's offering.  I think this is what the stunning Megane RS materialised into.  I have never seen one on the road, and I think they are banned because they don't comply with Australian safety standards or some such thing. Gotta say, I don't particularly like the look of them that much. Here's a pic of its butt.

As butts are concerned, this one needs work. I can tell you I won't be rushing out and buying one. But I do miss my Megane RS 275 Cup. What a little rocket ship that was! 

I meant to get a photo of the front, but the sun would have set before I got round there. Such a big car. Not my thing, unless maybe you could stick a hot tub in the back and invite girls in bikinis to ride with you.... just sayin'

OF COURSE I am gonna take a couple of snaps of this very nice '56 Effie.  Bloody envious, I can tell you. Two years and counting and mine is still a basket case...

I like the metal tonneau cover thing. Can you buy them like that? 

 

Just beautiful! 

Big block goodness! 

Had a nice chat with the owner, Cube. Didn't get to find out his last name, but with a big engine like that it must have been "centimetres"

This custom beast (I think it was a Willy's) was for sale. Had some interesting work done on the rear, which I omitted from photographing on account of just being an idiot.  No, I don't think that is a port o loo in the background.  Standing room only, if it was. 

I am a big fan of cars that tell their story, such as on a board like this. 

This one and the one below were in the car park. Two very desirable coupe's on their own. Why weren't they in the show? I dunno. You be the Judge. 

Messing with Vevor stud welding dint pulling thing and a sneak peak of the truck outside for the first time in years!

 Rob came over and we tried out his Vevor dint pulling thing with mixed results. It seemed to work a little bit on the solid metal. I think it would have been more effective on thin steel, that is, the kind of steel you find on a modern car, but it did actually pull some of those door dints up a little. Was it worth it? I don't really think so. The offshoot of all this is now I have to grind the studs off and it appears as thought the studs have gone right through the metal and left holes. Rob tried a piece of the wavy weld material on a longer dint but it just kept pulling free of the metal, so we gave that up. We also knocked out a couple of dints in the roof and hit that with a thin film of filler. Will be sanding that back on the weekend.

I also plan on doing the bonnet again as it was starting to show some rust patches appearing through the 2k. I only gave the bonnet just one coat, so I guess that was why it was rusting again after a year or so sitting there. Unfortunately, I will have to strip it right down to metal again and start over. It is the only way to be certain I have removed all the rust.   This time I bought two cans of 2k epoxy primer in a can as I have no idea what I am doing with a spray gun. 

Also, check out the old girl catching a tan in the sun!

We had to remove the truck from the garage while a new single roller door gets fitted up. It will certainly solve the problem of moving in and out of the garage once the truck is mobile.

Speaking of which, we have been in touch with the engine builder and he has shown us some of the parts he has gotten ready for the rebuild. So far, I am very disappointed in the whole experience as it has been over six months.  Add to the fact that he has sent me another invoice and has omitted the bit where he has quoted to fit up the engine in the engine bay. He has also reneged on providing me with the roller rockers I asked for. Earlier in the build he was going to rip me off on a set of cheap ass procomp heads for four grand. You can buy them on eBay for around one grand. Anyway, with luck, I will have something in the engine bay soon that should be half of what I expected for about thirty percent more than I had budgeted for.

After a two month pause, we're slowly getting back into it again

 

It looks like a hive of activity, and it kinda was. Rob came down and spent a lot of hours helping me get some of the panels into shape. He did some good work on the door and really hit the roof hard. Afterwards he hit it with some 2k epoxy primer. We followed it up today with a light skim of filler on the roof. 

We tried out Rob's new Vevor spot welding/ dent pulling gun thing with mixed results. On the stout steel the studs worked to a fashion. We tried the wavy steel option with the craw but that did not weld to the metal anywhere near as well as the studs, and anyway, the dints weren't big enough or long enough to warrant that kind of treatment, but it was fun trying. 

If you ask me, the jury is still out on the effectiveness of the gun, as now you have to grind off the stud marks in the body, and there is a risk of putting a hole in the steel.