Welcome to my collection of mainly automotive content, specifically my 1930 Ford Coupe Hotrod construction, Isuzu Bellett, Nissan GTiR, 200SX and SSS,  various fast cars, Amateur radio, electronics and other activities.

I have always played with, and been interested in cars, since I taught myself to drive in a Fiat 501 as a young teenager. I love to modify and build things and these pages reflect  my hands on approach to most things, where I try to do as much as I can myself.

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MY 1930 FORD COUPE

This is my current passion.  9 years already !!!

Building a Street Rod, based on an all steel, 1930 Ford coupe. I started in Feb '98.

Go to My 1930 Ford Hotrod    for  information and progress on the construction of my Hotrod.

	See the body assembly   as I start to put it back together  30th Nov 2000
	Fitting the SUNROOF    A big job!  10th Oct 2000  - 30th Nov 2000
	Building a stainless steel exhaust system. now almost finished. Apr 2007
	Problems with repro windscreen.
	Making a centre stop light in the beltline
	Making a new deck lid.
	Making Radiator rods
	Windscreen wiper update

	Steering setup:- new  page coming soon
	Mounting bucket seats
	See everything on my Rod buildup
	5th Dec 2002. Body is in Hi Fill !
	Making a trans shifter
	Making Trans Cover and Toe-board
	Making a 3 piece Hood.

  Outside, late March 2002 See link below for current pictures in 2007!

 I've run out of Web space here, but will soon migrate to a new one of my own www.carnut.info 

  June 2001 trip to York, Pennsylvania, USA, Street Rod Nationals. Over 5500 Hotrods !  Bill, Jeff and myself even featured in the NSRA magazine with Bill's coupe! We also met up with Mike. who unfortunately missed the NSRA photo session.

My Rod History

 Feb 1998 This is what I started with. It took me 2 weeks to decide to buy this!

  Dec 99      Jan 2000    March 2000     April 2000

  4th October the coupe is outside for the first time in over 2 years.

Go to My 1930 Ford Hotrod  for progress in 2007 and information on the construction of my Hotrod.

These Hotrod pages are dedicated to my Mother, Val, who passed away suddenly on May 7th 2000.

  See What I'm aiming for in looks of my Hotrod  

Hotrod Electronics   

My everyday job is in Electronics, so I have decided to put some of that, into my Rod. I could have built a set of digital instruments, for example, but since I want my Rod to be more ‘resto’ style, analogue style instruments will be retained. In this case, VDO Cockpit Royale™ style.

As I also need a ‘gear indicator’ for my T700/R4 auto transmission and a speed sensitive lockup, I decided to make these functions electronic, and build it myself. As I thought about it, a few more functions could easily be incorporated by using  a small  8–digit LED display driven by a micro-processor.  Just a few examples are:- radiator electric fan control, warnings of low oil, battery voltage and brake fluid, etc The display will possibly be mounted under the speedo, in a new, enlarged, instrument panel.

A new page detailing this project has been added. Please let me know what you think of this idea.

HOTROD LINKS and RODS

Aust Street Rod  Federation  See the latest magazine of the Federation.

	Greg Wapling's Australian HOTROD pages lots of Rod stuff and links
	Australian Street Rodding magazine.  Australia's only Rod magazine now has a Web page
	Australias top fibreglass hotrod body maker
	Choc Munday's Australian hotrod site
	Roadsters. A US site with lots of Rod info, pictures and more links
	SMITTY'S HOTROD PAGE  Maine USA
	HEAPS of ROD photos from the USA
	American Street Rod magazine  Good site
	Lots of great Rod pics including many A model Fords.
	LOTS of Rod links in the USA
	NSRA,  US Street Rod Assoc.
	Castlemaine Rodshop  see a Rolls Royce Merlin V12 powered 55 Chev !!!
	Australian rod pages by Bill Jansen  nice site
	Horton rod builders (Canada)
	32 Ford roadster buildup    NICE car
	MAC's street rod parts catalogue (USA)
	Swedish Hotrod site
	Car parts etc swap/sell etc
	Model A history  from USA
	more A model pictures than you ever saw before Coupes, Tudors, Vicky etc etc
Some nice A model and other Rods:-     (links & pictures)

Mike's Build stages of his 1930 Ford coupe hotrod (pics from USA)  Now finished and driving the legs off it ! I vosited Mike in 2000 Bill's primered 30 with 302/350, 2" chop   USA I visited Bill in 2000 Jeff's 30 Chev and 32 Plymouth in A Building an improved A model coupe Rod too  (USA)      Joe's  Black 1931 Ford A model coupe  since sold.    Shane's 30 Ford A coupe, finished Nov '99 after almost 4 years. 350/350, 9" &  tan interior.  His first rod!    rear view is just as nice    Interior of Shane's coupe. Terry, from Qld is building a 30 coupe too. Terry plans a 5" chop. Bodywork is now under way.      Thanks for pics!    April 2000 John's '30 coupe from NZ has 4" chop  Pic from Terry building a 28 coupe many pics   building a 30 tudor nice shots of buildup (He's a Ham too!)   1929 - 1930 Ford links   Casey Woodward's 30 Coupe , chopped top 3.5 inches in front and 3 in rear, channeled 6 inches front and 4 in rear. Has stroked 350, muncie 4 speed and 3.70 gear ford 9 inch. Paint job with '95 Mustang chrome yellow and purple flames to come.   A Hotrod 30 Nash   Here's a rare rod from Dan & Melanie in Canada  Yellow 30 coupe with 32 grille  looks sharp A new trend? Rear engine Rods.    Great web pages on a 27T & 32 roadster    Big block powered yellow 30 Hiboy      Real NICE blue 31 coupe with orig grille a RED one all paint with 32 grille real nice 29 coupe orig bumpers etc another nice blue 29 coupe nice blue/green 30 tudor totally WILD 30 coupe. Blower sticks up over roof ! step by step, building a 31 Tudor building a 31 Tudor and a 29 roadster (in Queensland)    step by step building a 1933 Ford coupe in USA    Amazing  details  as 'Scooter' builds a 1933 Hotrod coupe.       The car is now finished but keep up to date with this web page. AMAZING All aluminium home built A model roadster.   AMAZING home built  Daytona (Cobra) coupe.  Not an A model but a must see page      Marts rusty A model roadster project    LOTs of build picture from a very rusty start in the UK  Rick's Nostalgia 30 coupe build up    USA build with flathead and traditional running gear  This is a real cool car (now chopped)  Lucky Rick also has another 31 coupe project  waiting too.   A nice 30 Hotrod Ford coupe    Great conversion from a 33 roadster to a coupe, in Sweden    Nice buildup of yellow 30 coupe   budget build and a great result    Chopping a 30 coupe      A nice unchopped 30 coupe     Check this link ! A 31 coupe too    The wildest 30 coupe you have EVER seen !     Build of a 29 A model Rod   Link to FAQ's on the GM T700 R4 auto trans My new page on the T700 trans   Excellent site on the T700 R4 transmission        Engine weights. A useful site  Very nice restored 1930 A model coupe:- Restored "A",  Owned by Rick Botti (USA),  http://www.home.earthlink.net/~rbotti/model-a/ Interesting Facts and information on the model A Victoria The first 200 prototype model A's Pictures of the factory where Model A's were made   14th AUSTRALIAN STREET ROD NATIONALS April 4th 1999  Pics of 14th Australian Street Rod Nats  Over 1300 Rods were entered.    star of the Nats (click to enlarge) HOTROD RUNS & PICTURES etc MY OTHER SITE:-    All Hotrod pictures Also, 2 Bay Rodders:- Rod run to Mornington   over 300 Rods entered. Then check Greg Waplings Street Rod Nats Pictures (over 200!!)  More Hotrods & Vintage Tin   miscellaneous pics of other Rods, incl. Vic Hotrod Show   San Remo Rod Run     some pictures of the Rods at the start of the run.

   Isuzu Gemini fitted with 3.8 litre Commodore (Buick) V6 ! !

JAPANESE CARS

	Really odd Japanese cars
	Japanese sports cars includes GTiR
	Interesting Japanese cars in Canada A passion for Japanese cars
	Supercars of the world link   a great site of the world best cars.

FUEL INJECTION

	Motec fuel injection
	Australian EFI manufacturers links to many EFI makers
	Bosch L-Jetronic efi from the mid 90's
	Do it yourself EFI
	More on DIY - EFI
	Ford EFI and lots of good info
	Chev Tuned Port Injection

INTERESTING INFORMATION

	Mainly Toyota, but lots of information on mods, specs. etc
	Military aeroplanes  profession pictures here
	Possible place in Sydney that may have technical books for imported vehicles.   Hybrid Development 27 Carlotta Street Artarmon Sydney (02) 9966 0899

  NISSAN    

	My NISSAN's
	M Nissan Nissan GTiR AWD Turbo ,  200SX Turbo coupe, Pulsar SSS etc.

GTiR    

	More GTiR info lots of links too. A Top GTiR site
	Caleb's GTiR page   lots of good info on upgrades etc here
	More GTiR info then I have ever seen  Great site from Chris New URL
	GTiR  Workshop Manual !!   finally !
	links to Nissan GTiRs
	GTiR brochure

TURBO INFORMATION

Great info on modifying turbo's and lots of general turbo info too        OTHER CARS My first car   A Skoda !    My previous road car   A 1999 supercharged V6 Commodore "S" model    Previous cars   I have had a few ! 1914 Austin  a Veteran car my dad restored and also a 1928 Ford tourer  Fast cars   Quick cars I've seen about Melbourne  more Fast cars from around the world sent by surfers of my pages  Australian 'utes'   Typical Australian Pickup or Utility vehicles (utes) Australian Police car picture of Commodore police car. If you speed, then you should check out this site     Motorbikes  My Nephews Yamaha bike.   (bike has now passed  away) METAL WORKING   Metal working tools  http://www.metalcrafttools.com  Low cost metal working tools  PRO TOOLS specializes in tube, and pipe benders, bead rollers, notchers for tube or pipe, also sheet metal brakes, shrinkers More low cost tools   from Harbor freight Eckold tools   http://www.eckold.de  This is Kent White site, tons of info and tools, great metalworking site! http://www.tinmantech.com/index.html Williams low buck tools  http://www.lowbucktools.com egroups metalshapers  discussion group on body work.  JOIN up !!   AMATEUR RADIO & Electronics Amateur radio / Electronics  I dabble in this too! (VK3PE) Syntrx  modifications for Ham use.  How to identify UHF ranges 30th Nov Syntrx conversion to 6 meter Amateur band   PA mods How to fit the Syntrx with an EPROM   11/11/99 Icom IC22S mods.  Adding a digital display, scan, channel up/down etc Fuel injection link   to Ford efi info and do it yourself efi.   Turbo timer to build great project and web page with lots of other functions too   Electronics for a Hotrod  My 1930 Ford coupe, that is! AUSTRALIA Click to see where I live. Melbourne, Australia  That's where I live. Melbourne is in the State of Victoria      Government site link to more Australian information (better maps too!) Please e-mail me with comments etc This is me and my cat  Mickey passed away 5/12/00 aged 13. A sad day for us all. Contents:-                         Full list of what you can see on more than 60 pages I have here ! Please note that I have no financial connection or otherwise with any of the companies which may be shown here by way of their trade marks or registered names etc which are shown only for clarity. Every effort has been made to include accurate information only, but please accept that these pages reflect my interests and ideas only. No guarantees are given or implied as to the suitability of this material for any purpose whatsoever. Feel free to link to these pages! Last  this page, Aug 2003          Most pictures on these pages shot with a Canon PS350(tm) Digital camera. (C) 1999 - 2002  G. Percy      Images may be used for non-commercial purposes.