Hi guys/girls
Long time stalker/lurker.
I am 34, from Bloemfontein, Free State Province in South Africa and I am a partsalesman at the local Midas motorspares.
I am always reading on the forum about guys building, modding or upgrading cars and it makes my heart happy to see guys on a shoestring budget.
I am one of these and always looking at 30sec ideas, ie, a piece of scrap/part/random item gets one look, and if I don't get an idea for it in 30seconds, it gets binned.
Until I am allowed to post pics, I will just tell you that 2 projects I am busy with is 1) converting a 26"rigid mountain bike into a hard-tail, ie front suspension, and single speed. 2) Is a drift trike build from 2 different bicycle's and a fence. And project number 3 will be revealed soon.
Now my last thing, I want to find out from you guys, what free image hosting site are you using?
Photobucket can go .... I don't upload any-more since they now want money for me having more than 60 pics of my car's upgrades and mods. And I can't access them to download to my phone or PC, so they are lost to me forever...
Kind Regards
Welcome aboard.
Good thing here is you don't have to use a photo hosting service to post pics. You can just upload them.
What I do is right click on the picture file name, copy, then in the "Your comment" box, paste (Control-V, or right click, paste.) Like this, from my Hess vander Boer collection:
This one, from a web page, right click on the pic, copy, in here control V:
Thanks Dr Hess
Will I be able to upload directly from my phone?
Will keep looking at the forum until I can upload to my garage.
Drift trike build pics will be first, but that project stalled, because my friend is helping me and we have to do it when we both are off duty.
He is a fireman, so we really have to wait. Also, like the rest of the world, South Africans is waiting at home to go back to work.
You can upload photos from your phone. Click on the mountain icon, then click on the upload tab.
Ok cool thanks bgkast. Just a look at the trike during tacking phase.
A long story short, I still don't know why I decided to build a down hill drift trike, while I am staying in one of the flattest towns, in the flattest regions in South Africa. We don't even have decent corners on the slight inclines we do have.
But I think it is the build, and the knowing you can do it, that is driving this build
If you have any hills near you house, they are CHEAP fun! I've ridden, crashed, rebuilt and crashed these over and over again. It's fun once you get the hang of it and quite painful until you do.
Welcome aboard! More info on small hatchback, please.
Brett_Murphy (Forum Patrón) said:
Welcome aboard! More info on small hatchback, please.
Hi it is my friends Fiat Uno 1100. It is a 2door FIRE spec, ie 1125cc carb, power steering. Was just a base model for the 1100's. He sold it shortly after the photo was taken due to head gasket failure.
Welcome. I like your pictures. Feel free to add more. You might see them as boring pictures but I would like to see anything more that highlights things that are uniquely South African. We dont have the Fiat Uno here.
We don't have the Uno here, but we do like small hatchbacks.
Yes the Uno was small. Think VW Mk1 Golf/Rabbit... Just shorter still.
We had a lot of strange SA only cars that the world did not see.
There was the Perana Cortina's, Perana Capri's, Chev Firenza Can-Am's and the Sierra XR8's. Last three were all small block V8 homologation models for local racing series.
Then we still had the VW Mk1 Golf branded locally as the Citi up until the mid 2000's, some even still sporting the Keihen carb, while higher spec models got the Bosch MP9 injection system and the Skoda Fabia dash. We even still had the Mk1 Jetta till '96 branded as a FOX and wearing the Citi grill design.
Another small notable vehicle also sold until 2007 was what we call the 1400 or Champ, depending on the trim level. Was the old Datsun/Nissan B110 pick up, but with the latet model A14S engine and a higher roof.
