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My name is Eirik, and I like cars. If you don't like to read, scroll for pictures. I present to you my stable.. 
Four years ago I built this Daihatsu, low with wide wheels. I guess that car started it all:
Since that I've had and hoared some.. I like to post in the member's rides thread, but I've decided to collect it all in one thread. Instead of posting just glimpses, why not try to make a decent thread..
I currently live in a capital city flat - not an ideal base for a car nut but I can have some time away from the cars as well. I rent a little garage 30 miles north of here with three buddies where I can work on one car. Me and another buddy also have this 'toy barn', but it's 60 miles from here so I don't go there every day, safe to say.
I recently lost a lot of pics in a hard drive crash, but I still got enough to give a good picture of what my life is all about.. Everything is from my P-bucket, and some cars I don't have interior shots, close ups etc of right now. But it's a start I guess..
The outside of the toy barn on a typical day:
The Mk3 pictured is mine.. The pic is from early last year, a couple of weeks later it looked like this:
I still need to paint the rockers.. It's a '93 with 100k miles on the clock and a 1.8 (euro) power plant, about five owners before me I think.. It was picked up by one of my best buddies a little after I built the blue Charade, we did the works, coilovers, rust repairs, lights, switches, basically we made a sweet little daily Mk3. Mechanically sound, floor boards have been welded for a rust hole, one rocker replaced. Sand blasted and painted the rear arches, they've also been cut and rolled to accomodate wider wheels without rubbing. Red and blue Mk4 lightning inside, with plasma gauges and Mk3.5 bits - I need a light switch and it's complete.
2.9 VR6 Recaro seats, Sparco wheel, etc. It's a nice place to be
The Golf was bought to replace my old Corolla KE70 as my daily, but I decided not to winter daily it to keep it good.
My old KE70 looks like this:
Best Car In The World. Nothing more to write home about really. Not my top priority (for a good reason), but I haven't been able to crush it either. It served as my daily for quite a long time, I had started sourcing bits to build it cool when a tire blew out, sending it straight into a ditch. Not the best day of my life.. But we straightened it out with a huge tree and a huge chain and I beat on it the next winter again. All downhill from that point really
Inside the toy barn, located as far from the entrance as possible, rests another KE70.
This one has some rust, but not more than you would expect from a 30 year old car driven in the country. We drove from Oslo to the North Cape with this car some years back, it was awesome. I moved to southern Norway just after that road trip and dismantled it for a complete resto, I had the facilities but perhaps not the skill or contacts to make it happen - hindsight is a bitch, but that's life. I moved back to Oslo a year later and brought it with me on a trailer - it's on the back burner, but it's a good starting point for a resto when the time is right.
Speaking of Toyotas, I also have a 1977 Toyota Cressida:
Right now it's parked in the toy barn for work to continue when the weather is a little nicer. It's done a little over 100k miles.. Bought new, then as far as I've understood sold to another guy who died and his son got it. My buddy bought it from him, I remember collecting the car with him just after coming back from a Tokyo flight.. When he decided to sell it, he asked me first. I've started on the panels, absolutely each one is mangled, bent, rusted, bondoed etc. I have made friends with a body guy that does good work and is constantly broke over the winter, so I'm planning to get him to do some simple work on it, mostly welding. Got the car cheap, could be a nice summer occasional oldskooler, plan is just to have it road legal without rust painted white (cheap). It will never see a car show..
Current status, in hiatus:
For a while I got side tracked with a mini truck.. '87 Nissan Hardbody, we did a lot of work to both a house and the barn last summer so I picked this one up for cheap and had my fun:
It's ready to go. I also have a Golf Mk2. It's a very particular car.. I got talking with a dude in Cali about four years ago. It was low on 13" Schmidt TH-Lines, basically the lowest Mk2 I've ever seen. I liked it - a lot. It was sold to a buddy of him, then brought back to him. Then last summer he asked me if I wanted it.. I have some contacts within shipping, now I had the money, the place to keep it, if maybe not the time for it.. It arrived in Norway in October, and I've basically driven it from the port to the barn for winter storage:
It's a 1986 California car, rust free. 71k miles, 1.8 auto with no options. A weird car to bring here perhaps, but I figured why not.. I like out of the ordinary. Taken straight after driven in for winter storage:
I like Volkswagens, I can't lie. I had a boring Toyota Corolla winter beater, sold it yesterday and picked up this one the past week:
1996 Mk3 w/AC, (this shouldn't come as a surprise) I got it cheap and (neither will this) I've wanted a white Mk3 for a long time Won't be anything spectacular, just a little daily fun..
Speaking of daily, I kinda daily a Toyota Yaris Verso. My dad has owned this soon twelve years now, but he rarely uses it and it's been my daily for 1 1/2 year since my red Mk3 went into arch work. It's the car behind the scenes on all my projects, it's awesome. It's a van, it's a people mover, it's a grocery getter, it's a parts hauler, it's a camper and it's a city car
So, that leaves us with the Daihatsus. I picked up a red Charade in December.. "I got it for cheap". It's a reason for that, I picked it up basically at a farm field as a runner but barely. Drove it home with the exhaust straight out of the down pipe. The blue car has donated its exhaust, tails and some body parts and it's starting to come together. It will go through an MOT/state inspection, the coilovers from the blue car will be fitted and it will get a set of wheels. I have a good set laying on my kitchen floor (as you do). It will be lower than the blue car was, and if everything works out as planned (funny thing, it rarely does) it could be the base of a 1.6 swap. It currently looks like this:
My blue Charade is very sadly due for the crusher - it was a pretty car with a rusty shell, also with some frame damage it's really nothing to keep. Status of Saturday:
First priority is getting the blue Charade out and gone.. I live my life day by day, I don't have dates for completing projects because as you can see, I'm pretty good giving myself more work, I don't like cutting corners just to finish something and I know that everything will need more time and money than you initially guess. Now I also remember the reason for why I don't make these kinda threads really - I'm reminded of the fact that I have some work ahead of me..
Anyway, that's basically it. I try from time to time and collect some cars together for pics, but it's not always that easy.. I do have a little picture from the street this weekend:
Car count: Too many. Before questions on why not owning one cool car and a beater that always works, or just one cool car, I can just say that I have my reasons, mainly because at times I feel like I'm living my own automotive dream Thanks for watching I'll use this thread from now on when progress have been made..
Four years ago I built this Daihatsu, low with wide wheels. I guess that car started it all:
Since that I've had and hoared some.. I like to post in the member's rides thread, but I've decided to collect it all in one thread. Instead of posting just glimpses, why not try to make a decent thread..
I currently live in a capital city flat - not an ideal base for a car nut but I can have some time away from the cars as well. I rent a little garage 30 miles north of here with three buddies where I can work on one car. Me and another buddy also have this 'toy barn', but it's 60 miles from here so I don't go there every day, safe to say.
I recently lost a lot of pics in a hard drive crash, but I still got enough to give a good picture of what my life is all about.. Everything is from my P-bucket, and some cars I don't have interior shots, close ups etc of right now. But it's a start I guess..
The outside of the toy barn on a typical day:
The Mk3 pictured is mine.. The pic is from early last year, a couple of weeks later it looked like this:
I still need to paint the rockers.. It's a '93 with 100k miles on the clock and a 1.8 (euro) power plant, about five owners before me I think.. It was picked up by one of my best buddies a little after I built the blue Charade, we did the works, coilovers, rust repairs, lights, switches, basically we made a sweet little daily Mk3. Mechanically sound, floor boards have been welded for a rust hole, one rocker replaced. Sand blasted and painted the rear arches, they've also been cut and rolled to accomodate wider wheels without rubbing. Red and blue Mk4 lightning inside, with plasma gauges and Mk3.5 bits - I need a light switch and it's complete.
2.9 VR6 Recaro seats, Sparco wheel, etc. It's a nice place to be
The Golf was bought to replace my old Corolla KE70 as my daily, but I decided not to winter daily it to keep it good.
My old KE70 looks like this:
Best Car In The World. Nothing more to write home about really. Not my top priority (for a good reason), but I haven't been able to crush it either. It served as my daily for quite a long time, I had started sourcing bits to build it cool when a tire blew out, sending it straight into a ditch. Not the best day of my life.. But we straightened it out with a huge tree and a huge chain and I beat on it the next winter again. All downhill from that point really
Inside the toy barn, located as far from the entrance as possible, rests another KE70.
This one has some rust, but not more than you would expect from a 30 year old car driven in the country. We drove from Oslo to the North Cape with this car some years back, it was awesome. I moved to southern Norway just after that road trip and dismantled it for a complete resto, I had the facilities but perhaps not the skill or contacts to make it happen - hindsight is a bitch, but that's life. I moved back to Oslo a year later and brought it with me on a trailer - it's on the back burner, but it's a good starting point for a resto when the time is right.
Speaking of Toyotas, I also have a 1977 Toyota Cressida:
Right now it's parked in the toy barn for work to continue when the weather is a little nicer. It's done a little over 100k miles.. Bought new, then as far as I've understood sold to another guy who died and his son got it. My buddy bought it from him, I remember collecting the car with him just after coming back from a Tokyo flight.. When he decided to sell it, he asked me first. I've started on the panels, absolutely each one is mangled, bent, rusted, bondoed etc. I have made friends with a body guy that does good work and is constantly broke over the winter, so I'm planning to get him to do some simple work on it, mostly welding. Got the car cheap, could be a nice summer occasional oldskooler, plan is just to have it road legal without rust painted white (cheap). It will never see a car show..
Current status, in hiatus:
For a while I got side tracked with a mini truck.. '87 Nissan Hardbody, we did a lot of work to both a house and the barn last summer so I picked this one up for cheap and had my fun:
It's ready to go. I also have a Golf Mk2. It's a very particular car.. I got talking with a dude in Cali about four years ago. It was low on 13" Schmidt TH-Lines, basically the lowest Mk2 I've ever seen. I liked it - a lot. It was sold to a buddy of him, then brought back to him. Then last summer he asked me if I wanted it.. I have some contacts within shipping, now I had the money, the place to keep it, if maybe not the time for it.. It arrived in Norway in October, and I've basically driven it from the port to the barn for winter storage:
It's a 1986 California car, rust free. 71k miles, 1.8 auto with no options. A weird car to bring here perhaps, but I figured why not.. I like out of the ordinary. Taken straight after driven in for winter storage:
I like Volkswagens, I can't lie. I had a boring Toyota Corolla winter beater, sold it yesterday and picked up this one the past week:
1996 Mk3 w/AC, (this shouldn't come as a surprise) I got it cheap and (neither will this) I've wanted a white Mk3 for a long time
Won't be anything spectacular, just a little daily fun..Speaking of daily, I kinda daily a Toyota Yaris Verso. My dad has owned this soon twelve years now, but he rarely uses it and it's been my daily for 1 1/2 year since my red Mk3 went into arch work. It's the car behind the scenes on all my projects, it's awesome. It's a van, it's a people mover, it's a grocery getter, it's a parts hauler, it's a camper and it's a city car
So, that leaves us with the Daihatsus. I picked up a red Charade in December.. "I got it for cheap". It's a reason for that, I picked it up basically at a farm field as a runner but barely. Drove it home with the exhaust straight out of the down pipe. The blue car has donated its exhaust, tails and some body parts and it's starting to come together. It will go through an MOT/state inspection, the coilovers from the blue car will be fitted and it will get a set of wheels. I have a good set laying on my kitchen floor (as you do). It will be lower than the blue car was, and if everything works out as planned (funny thing, it rarely does) it could be the base of a 1.6 swap. It currently looks like this:
My blue Charade is very sadly due for the crusher - it was a pretty car with a rusty shell, also with some frame damage it's really nothing to keep. Status of Saturday:
First priority is getting the blue Charade out and gone.. I live my life day by day, I don't have dates for completing projects because as you can see, I'm pretty good giving myself more work, I don't like cutting corners just to finish something and I know that everything will need more time and money than you initially guess. Now I also remember the reason for why I don't make these kinda threads really - I'm reminded of the fact that I have some work ahead of me..
Anyway, that's basically it. I try from time to time and collect some cars together for pics, but it's not always that easy.. I do have a little picture from the street this weekend:
Car count: Too many. Before questions on why not owning one cool car and a beater that always works, or just one cool car, I can just say that I have my reasons, mainly because at times I feel like I'm living my own automotive dream
Thanks for watching I'll use this thread from now on when progress have been made..
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