another gtr

[coxy]

Just missing a few things like a motor.rear shocks and in need of nuts and bolts

[moonpup]

Looks nice coxy, but where did that engine go? Have you checked under the sofa cushions or behind the bedroom door yet? Those things don't just get up and walk away on their own ya know..... 

[coxy]

The engine for this one went to the tip before I got it .the frame has just come back from the powder coaters and is very nice .I think the plan of attack is to complete a concourse rolling chassis and worry about a motor later cheers

[RayK]

Very nice Coxy. I'll look out for one in Thailand.  See you when I get back to Oz.   

RayK
 

[Mike Anderson]

Hey Coxy,
Wish shipping was not so awful for you. I have a decent builder engine that could help you get that one up and running.
Later Mike

[slawsonb]

Aren't there spiders down under big enough to carry a motor off
...bert

[coxy]

Mike thanks its not just the shipping we are sitting around 70cents to the us dollar will send you a email later cheers .the spiders were I'm at now are not that big though a major plague of red backs basically the same as the black widow have been killing them for months .if I was back in Sydney there is a spider to worry about and have had two very close encounters with let's say I was glad I had steel capped boots on cheers

[slawsonb]

I've seen some nature shows about the Sydney Funnel Web Spider. Is that the one that nearly got you coxy? They are said to be deadly venomous and nasty tempered. Here in the US desert southwest, we have Black Widows and Tarantulas which are large, but pretty mild mannered.
BTW, the GTR project is looking very nice!
...bert

[coxy]

That's the one .one bit me on my steeltoe boot it died qquickly and the other when I was doing the weeding and one was fangs up ready to strike about a inch from my fingers .no gloves on .to close though all the years I lived in Sydney I only ever saw three

[slawsonb]

Yikes! Sounds like 3 too many. We'd rather have you on here than as a spider statistic. 
...bert

[coxy]

Were I live now its the snakes you have to look out for a couple of years ago I was driving a tractor and a little brown snake decided that the tractor tire was a good meal and sized it up gave up and slithered off  I know some of the biggest hardest men who won't get out of there trucks In summer in fear

[slawsonb]

Not to shanghai this thread, but we got our share of those here too. Mostly rattlers of various descriptions and the occasional coral snake. Wear your snake proof knee-highs!
...bert

[ziggy stardust]

I came face to face with a Cobra while in India, it was only after that I realized how stupid I was to get so close.

Z

[moonpup]

Well one time when I was...... ahhhh never mind, I got nothing 

[srpackrat49]

OK here,s my story... i was reroofing this house.... i was at the top of a 10ft. laddder takeing up the dripedge.... when i pulled the board up.... i was nose to nose with a Blackwidow spider... it looked at me... i looked at it... then i used my 16oz. hammer to kill it.. Bang..... bang... bang..... i looked down... no spidey... then looked at the end of my hammer... no spidey... Thats when i did the spider dance OFF the top of that lader... hit the groud.. tore off my T-shit and it went flying...... I still don,t know were that dam thing went....  I never want to do that again... Next

[slawsonb]

OK, I got one more. When we built our house in Tucson in the late '90s, the lot was virgin desert before we cleared the place for the house. It was covered with prickly pear and saguaro cactus and mesquite trees. Very dense vegetation with no clear way to walk through it and everything has thorns and needles. I was trying to determine where to put the house one day and was picking my way through and over prickly pear on a hot summer day making my way around the lot. At one point, I stepped over a cactus tall enough that my short legs would barely get me over it. Halfway through this step over with most of my weight on my leading leg, I looked down, and right at the base of the cactus I was straddling, was a small (2 feet long) black and green mojave rattler (the most poisonous of the species we have in Tucson) just starting to rattle because of my intrusion. Well needless to say, I took a deep gulp and quickly determined I needed to get as far away as I could, so I jumped (probably farther than I have ever jumped) and landed right in the middle of the next big prickly pear along my path. Ouch! Man! $#!%
Well, I didn't get bitten by the little dude, but I may still have some cactus needles in my hands, arms, chest, back side, legs (everywhere really) from that landing and roll. No Bueno!
...bert

[old smokey]

Coxy, looks like a good start for something.
Recently moved into our home here in Phoenix northwest burbs. Second day here I go in the garage and am looking at a scorpion at eye level on a book shelf.
Old Adidas shoe took care of that.
Also saw a starving coyote walk down the street last Sunday morning.
We have 2 small dogs I'd like to see die of old age.

[moonpup]

ooh,ooh, I've got something now.... no wonder no one has rung the doorbell in a while!  

[Jeff Bar]

Smokey you could feed the small dogs to the starving coyote 

[Mopar392]

Wholly Crap SrPackrat, appears as if Pup is in need of your hammer!!!