RIP Ashley Cooper
Unfortunately Ashley Cooper has succumbed to his injuries this afternoon. Here is the statement released today from his website, ashleycooper.com.au. Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series driver Ashley Cooper passed away this afternoon, at 1.00pm Adelaide time. 27 year old Cooper failed to regain consciousness, and succumbed to brain injuries after a high speed racing accident at [...]
Please say a prayer for Ashley Cooper
If you saw the lead up races to the Clipsal 500 V8 Supercar race in Adelaide on Saturday you will know what I am talking about. For our international readers and those that didn’t see the race, Ashley Cooper is a 27 year old driver in the Fujitsu series which is a support category to [...]
How To Replace The Head Gasket – E Series Falcon
We had an email today from Mick asking if we could do a ‘how to’ on replacing a head gasket on the overhead cam six cylinder engines found in EA to EL Falcons. I did have a Falcon engine here up until a few weeks ago that would have been perfect to photograph each step [...]
Anthony’s Wolseley 6/80
Here is a great testament to the do-it-yourself approach. We first ‘met’ Anthony when he was looking for info on re-spraying his Wolseley and through a number of emails back and forth I think we helped him somewhat, although I’m far from an expert on the subject. For the historians amongst us (according to Wikipedia) [...]
Neville’s Corolla – Part Two
We have an update onNeville’s Corolla, he has kindly sent us some shots of the car being painted and they are a good example of the shine that can be achieved ‘straight off the gun’ with 2-pack paint. Although acrylic takes a lot more elbow grease to achieve a similar result I still believe that [...]
