Hi Iain, If you join the Westy Club in Bris they have "test & tune" days about 4 times a year at Morgan Park for about $25 for a half day. You will need them...
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I used to know someone who had a Berkeley, if it is the same make of car you are on about. It was a 3 wheeler with the single wheel at the rear and it had a...
Hi Rick , will keep that in mind when I get that far , best wishes Iain ... From: Rick Hargraves To: locost@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 7:20...
I don't suppose that Mr. Chapman was able to have Armstrong make up shocks to his specifications for a run of a few hundred cars, but Armstrong did make a line...
I think it's the same company but the three wheelers were later models. The car that Kieth had was a four wheel car that looks a lot like a sprite but no where...
wayne- i doubt seriously if anyone else was driving. when keith mcclure sold it to wayne eeley it had belonged to a real klutz who put the bars in the control...
are you sure about the 3-wheeler? i think there was one but it sounds nore like a german victoria with a 250 sachs and 2-sets of points so you could start it...
the 328cc berkeley weighed in @ 710lb. and 80% was on the front wheels. it carried 4 us gal, gasoline and 1-qt of oil. i used to dump it in and pick up the...
Keith, So you're about 65 years old I'd guess as I'm 55. I don't know how many times I've told somebody about the little Berkekey and the girl with the blond...
Saw a Berkely with a 3 cylinder 2-stroke absolutely blitz the field at the Carnival of Flowers hill climb at Toowoomba in Queensland, Australia I was a...
Ello, Got a reasonable belt drive 3hp, 12CFM, 50litre thing in the shed now, and have had a play with the cheapo " 5 tools for £20 " 1.5mm spray gun.. Doesn't...
It was definitely a Berkeley. It had a nice looking fibreglass body, not ugly, similar to a lotus 11 style in pale blue. The engine was also definitely a...
HVLP is supposed to be the bees' knees, I wish I did enough to justify the outlay. I use a gravity fed cup gun for small stuff as you can just mix a little...
john- the achilles heel of the 3-cyl was the keyway connecting the cranks together. one fad that got started in tulsa was to fit an ariel square-4 in a...
dunno what country you are in, but if you don't mind importing, i suspect harbor freight tools has a bitchin' website catalog. i'm looking at an hvlp that is...
actually i'm 68 and still live on myers just 2 houses n. of tuxedo. that fiat abarth zagato you spoke of used to sorta turn me on. the other was a "boy...
The other night there was a TV show about collector cars and there was a guy who had gotten one of those "boy racers" before he could even drive. He had worked...
wayne-- one more bit of nostalgia about the berkeley--bartlesville auto club had a poker run one day and a friend of mine from the motorcycle club, a scrambles...
john--- my wife bought a fiat bianchina like yours in a basket to learn to drive in. i proceeded to put it back together on the previous owner's assureance...
Don't know much about that racing Class.. have dealt with 924's tho (briefly :-) these machines have V Odd mechanical detail design.. IE: rear suspension taken...
Here's a question to the ford experts out there.... Can the crown wheel and pinion of the Capri 2.8i LSD Atlas axle be swapped with normal Atlas crown wheel...
george-- guess this was aimed at me. sorry. guess i should have e-mailed wayne evans directly rather than bore the whole forum about the berkeley crap. tried...
I think that it was 2 liters or bigger meaning it came from VW trucks. Esko ... From: Keith Williams To: locost@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004...
Keith; Have been reading your letters about the Berkley's. In the early 60s I got a ride in a Lotus 7, Now I am building a clone. In the late 60s I saw a...
Already done the kart thing, which is why I am 'moving on up' to cars. Still trying to find a relatively inexpensive series to compete in, hence the question!!...