so i'm there, in the eve-of-the-first-day-of-spring sweating under my load of tools, climbing under the hoods of rusty and mangled cars. Wish i had my camera, as there was so many stories there of death and destruction at high speeds... so many twisted wrecked dreams and [hopefully not] lives...
However the problem i had, was all thousand of these beauties in front of me were securely buried deep in the engine and require lifting it out to get to them... all i could ever get to was a tantalising glimpse of the cogs and some beautiful belts.... but never extract them.
on the way out i tripped over two big crankshafts with the timing gear still attached... grabbing them, i dashed the hundreds of meters left to the exit and presented them with glee to the guy at the desk.. who laughed, (as i was later to find out that these parts are usually rubbish), and tried to charge me 89$au!
This was well outside the budget so i had to swallow my pride and leave empty, but greasy handed... the twenty or so engine reconditioners i visited on the way back were a real lesson in the extremes of humanity... of special special note was two individuals / small businesses - one in a mobility scooter shop (Sydney Scooter and Age Care) who went out of his way (after i told him about the idea) to try find me some super-motors, and dis-assembling half the scooters in the shop, and even pulling out his iPhone to show me all the diy projects he had done over the years :)
Show ya the best bits later ;) ....
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