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loosewheel · **October 08, 2010, 07:52:39**

Hi all,
Loosewheel here. New i30 owner as of next Tuesday. Out of the western suburbs of Melbourne. Yeah.

Cheers

SRT Metro · **Reply #1: October 08, 2010, 08:36:10**

Hi Loosewheel,
Welcome to the club!

Dazzler · **Reply #2: October 08, 2010, 09:50:53**

Welcome loosewheel

Wheel look forward to hearing (and seeing more of your car)

Myowni30 · **Reply #3: October 08, 2010, 09:53:29**

Hi Loosewheel,

Welcome to the i30 Owners Club

2i30s · **Reply #4: October 08, 2010, 11:20:59**

welcome aboard .

Keith · **Reply #5: October 08, 2010, 15:29:46**

Yo Loosewheel Welcome here!

eye30 · **Reply #6: October 08, 2010, 16:22:53**

Welcome Loosewheel,

Hope you don't get one

bumpkin · **Reply #7: October 08, 2010, 22:23:20**

Welcome to the club

hipposniper · **Reply #8: October 09, 2010, 00:15:22**

welcome to the club

loosewheel · **Reply #9: October 12, 2010, 06:22:09**

Thanks for the welcome everyone. I have been reading through the forum and there is good range of info contained here. Glad to get the inside scoop on everything from tires to wiring schematics.

cheers

babis_xo · **Reply #10: October 14, 2010, 11:46:37**

Hi loosewheel and welcome!

Quote from: loosewheel on October 12, 2010, 06:22:09

I have been reading through the forum and there is good range of info contained here.

Wait till you see our loosebrain off-topic section

loosewheel · **Reply #11: October 19, 2010, 03:40:45**

Great to get such a warm welcome. BTW, this is first online car forum I have ever joined and I am very impressed with the technical and general info folks share. In a previous life I worked restoring antique automobiles ("horseless carriages" really) circa 1900 - 1910 vintage; the kinds of cars that had hand made brass lights that ran on kerosene or acetylene gas. I worked for a small company that hand manufactured the brass lights and fittings. I learned A LOT and got to work on some real beauties. Attended car meets at Harrah's automobile club in Reno and had lots of good times with collectors and petrol heads (motor heads) in general. It's love of a pretty machine doing what she does best... look great and run like the wind! Cheers to all the builders and modifiers.

babis_xo · **Reply #12: October 25, 2010, 23:05:00**

Quote from: loosewheel on October 19, 2010, 03:40:45

In a previous life I worked restoring antique automobiles ("horseless carriages" really)

Would be interesting if you you could post photos of these first cars restoration proccess

(as long as cameras where invented in that previous life...

duke · **Reply #13: October 26, 2010, 02:50:09**

Loosewheel Great post TO ALL THE MOTORHEADS !!!!

loosewheel · **Reply #14: October 26, 2010, 06:02:36**

Not sure that I even have any photos left! This was back in the mid-70s. But if you google any of the cars from that era (Ford model A, Maxwell, Stanley Steamer, Moon, Whippet, etc) chances are the head lights or sidelights were either built or restored by the small company that I worked for.

babis_xo · **Reply #15: October 27, 2010, 10:41:20**

Found some Stanley Steamer's '23 restoration pics:

Stanley Steamer Frame (pic 1)
Stanley Steamer Spare Parts (pic 2)

Wait a minute... what's that white coloured spare part at the left-bottom of the second pic?... Is it what i'm thinking?

(click to show/hide)

Yes, It is!

Keith · **Reply #16: October 28, 2010, 15:45:52**

Quote from: babis_xo on October 27, 2010, 10:41:20

Found some Stanley Steamer's '23 restoration pics:

Stanley Steamer Frame (pic 1)
Stanley Steamer Spare Parts (pic 2)

Wait a minute... what's that white coloured spare part at the left-bottom of the second pic?... Is it what i'm thinking?

(click to show/hide)
Stanley Steamer Spare Parts (pic 3)

Yes, It is!

Help me out... what am I looking at but cant see?

Dazzler · **Reply #17: October 28, 2010, 20:55:13**

It is not just me then

Shambles · **Reply #18: October 28, 2010, 20:59:56**

Errmm.. Isn't Babis' hidden text a link you can click?

Tis for me

Dazzler · **Reply #19: October 28, 2010, 21:01:30**

Quote from: Shambles on October 28, 2010, 20:59:56

Errmm.. Isn't Babis' hidden text a link you can click?

Tis for me

But what are we looking at in THAT picture???

Shambles · **Reply #20: October 28, 2010, 21:28:41**

Quote from: Dazzler on October 28, 2010, 21:01:30

But what are we looking at in THAT picture???

Sorry, I thought you guys couldn't see it was a link.

But to answer your question... all I can say is... it's all Greek to me

babis_xo · **Reply #21: October 29, 2010, 11:12:30**

Sorry, you have to look at the middle bottom of the 3rd pic.
The white thing...
If you still can't see an unusual "spare part", then i'll have to visit my eyedoctor. Or my psychotherapist...

loosewheel · **Reply #22: November 01, 2010, 06:05:11**

http://antiquecarbrass.com/pages/inventory.html

just so you all know what I was talking about with the brass lights....

2i30s · **Reply #23: November 01, 2010, 06:38:34**

wow, theres some big $ items in there.

i bet you cant put a big wattage globe in those lights.

Dazzler · **Reply #24: November 01, 2010, 08:13:13**

Quote from: loosewheel on November 01, 2010, 06:05:11

http://antiquecarbrass.com/pages/inventory.html

just so you all know what I was talking about with the brass lights....

Interesting link thanks m8 ... to the untrained eye the $2800 ones don't necessarily look much better than the $400 ones..

babis_xo · **Reply #25: November 01, 2010, 11:12:01**

Quote from: Dazzler on November 01, 2010, 08:13:13

Quote from: loosewheel on November 01, 2010, 06:05:11
http://antiquecarbrass.com/pages/inventory.html

just so you all know what I was talking about with the brass lights....

Interesting link thanks m8 ... to the untrained eye the $2800 ones don't necessarily look much better than the $400 ones..

Maybe the $2.800 ones are original /restored and the others just replicas?

loosewheel · **Reply #26: November 01, 2010, 11:38:19**

Right-o. makes a difference if the hardware is original, restored or "new replica". The headlights run on acetylene gas; the sidelights and taillights run on kerosene (with wicks, just like storm lanterns). These are all pre-electricity fittings. These lights are from a era when hand manufacturing automobile parts was standard operating procedure. Everyone designed and built something!

Dazzler · **Reply #27: November 01, 2010, 21:22:18**

I guess some might be solid brass and some plated too..

loosewheel · **Reply #28: November 02, 2010, 04:45:41**

No brass plating. Unless you didn't want to show your car. And most guys who trick out their old cars definitely want to show!

babis_xo · **Reply #29: November 02, 2010, 06:38:09**

This applies to owners of new cars as well 8)