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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: firko on March 06, 2013, 09:50:05 pm
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I took the seat from my flat tracker to the upholsterer I've been using for years, Syvelle Motor Trimmers in Seven Hills and found a "closed until further notice" sign on the roller door. The ex president of HEAVEN, Kelvin Moore's son worked there as an apprentice and I've been told he's out on his own now. He's a nice kid and he did a brilliant job on my Cheney seat so I'd like him to do this seat too. Does anyone have a contact for the young bloke?
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I don't know where the apprentice might be but I know that Greg the trimmer died a week or two back. He had heart trouble a while back and this is what ultimately was his demise. I had not seen him for a few years but all the work he did for me was first rate and very reasonable in price. He was a nice bloke and certainly went too young.
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Check you PM's Firko
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Firko,
if you dont do any good there, try Dave Briscoe at Cambridge Park, he's an old bike nut and a very good trimmer from what i have seen, 0402698955, works from home.
Kt
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Thanks everyone, I've found young Lewis Moore thanks to Shaun 2-NINE-7. I'll take my seat over there tomorrow...........http://www.moorestyle.com.au/ (http://www.moorestyle.com.au/)
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That's very sad to hear about Syvelle Motor Trimmers, as I too found him a good bloke, great service and great quality.
Thanks everyone, I've found young Lewis Moore thanks to Shaun 2-NINE-7. I'll take my seat over there tomorrow...........http://www.moorestyle.com.au/ (http://www.moorestyle.com.au/)
242 New Line Road, Dural, NSW 2158
Excellent news. File this one for future use.
ta!
Luke
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Well, young Lewis has decided not to do my seat in protest to my supposedly calling hid Dad 'Son of Satan' in another thread. If he and his father checked again they'd find that it was another member who made that comment, not me. I will however admit to being critical of Kelvins attitude while at the helm of HEAVEN. A situation at the CRC where Alistair and I were refused infield access to take photos and another situation where the trophies I had personally donated were shuffled aside as if they were an afterthought still sticks in my throat.
Such is life however, I've found another upholsterer,10 minutes home and half the price. Don't let my personal situation deter you from using Moore Style. I still think he's very good at his trade and I don't blame him one iota for going to his dads defence. In fact, once I cooled down I actually thought he did the correct thing even if he was wrong about the Satan crack.
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That's a pity because that thread ended up being quite complimentary to the crusty old buggers that give up their time to run our sport.
<if somebody called me the son of Satan I'd be quite pleased ;D>
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and that alternate upholsterer is... ?
always handy to have these known.
Luke
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and that alternate upholsterer is... ?
always handy to have these known.
Luke
Let's wait until I get the seat back Luke....it might be a shit job ::).
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i get all mine done in caringbah all good work he dose mainly classic cars.i was there once getting my cz seat recovered and they were doing a complete interia for a p76 station wagon that was a bear metal up resto
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i get all mine done in caringbah all good work he dose mainly classic cars.i was there once getting my cz seat recovered and they were doing a complete interia for a p76 station wagon that was a bear metal up resto
P76 wagon, now thats a rare vehicle
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Rare alright....you couldn't keep the shirt boxes on the road
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ted
they have grown as a cult car now and worth way more than when new. family had a few v8 sedans good for towing but rattled a little. all alloy motor pulled like a train.
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Ted, my wife and I drove P76s for many years, they were the BEST tow vehicle we ever had, 100mph with trailer plus two bikes,two kids and all the gear, not a problem, EA drove one for 18 month averaging 1000k plus a month from Taralga to Narooma, down the Clyde Mountain and all that was ever done was regular oil changes and an occaisional rub up of the points. 24 mpg was not uncommon from the 4.4 litre V8
Handling was almost above reproach, with good tyres and shocks, so much so that EA was known as the Red Flash on the twisty at times Goulburn to Taralga road. However the six cylinder motor WAS a shitbox, heavy and slow.
We drove Holdens and Fords for a while before we got a P76, the Holden shit a motor just about every time we went to Griffith, admittedly , they were greys, and the XR's lights used to go out, for no apparent reason, at warp factor ten, not good when you are at speed.
Bad points for us were the clutch cable and windscreen sealing, wish I still had ours, coastal cancer got it !!
Foss
Oh yeah,the point of this post ::) I still do bike seat covers, but only for friends and family these days, my favourite seats that I have done were for me Godden, I sewed up a Pommy flag seat cover with all the crosses in correct proportion for it, and me young blokes '77 R100 seat, 20 something years ago, it still looks great. I did a '57 Chevy seat and door skins job in oyster vinyl and wine red velvet once, the only major car job I did, me hands are too buggered these days.
Foss
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Commonly known as the P38, half the car they thought they'd be.
I had a mate who had one of the V8's and it went all right, did you ever put a 44 in the boot Foss?
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Yeah, Steve but the P38 Lightning was one of the faster WW 2 piston engine warbirds Ehh !! but I prefer to call them the P152, twice the car everyone reckoned they were !!
They did share a lot of components with the common Ford Valiant and Holden cars, gearboxes , diffs brakes etc etc AND the motor was originally a GM or some other Yanke mob's design.
Nuff said
Didn't put a 44 in the boot, but put a heap of BMX bikes in there plus a heap of Taralga kids on the back seat when I took them to the races in Goulburn, Steve Bennet, who rode the Gally at the '10 CDT Nats at Griffith used to race BMX with my mob when he was a kid
Foss
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When I lived at Maroubra Beach in the late 80's the University of NSW Arts professor who lived across the street had a genuine Leyland P76 Force 7 coupe (and a Porsche 911 wide body). The old bloke was in his late seventies then so I'd presume he'd be long dead so I wonder what happened to the car? I'd imagine it would be worth a fortune, despite being as ugly as a boil on your forehead. Very few hit the showroom before the whole P76 project was dropped altogether. Back in the early 80's I worked with a couple of travelling Pommy boilermakers who'd bought a 6 cylinder P76 to drive around during their stay. One of them got busted for drugs so they had to bolt back to the UK pretty quickly so they just left the Leyland in the work carpark with the keys in the ignition. We all used the car for months until the rego ran out and we then dumped it. The 6 cylinder motor was a wheezy piece of crap that had no hope of competing with the Holden 202 or Falcon 250 sixes on an even footing but the car was roomy and handled really well. Naturally one of the first things we tried was whether a 44 gallon drum would actually fit in the boot and yup.....it most certainly did!
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/force7_zpsa4d3434a.jpg)
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the motor was originally a GM or some other Yanke mob's design
The motor was based on the Buick/Olds/Pontiac alloy V8 that was used by GM in the sixties. The P76 version was a bored and stroked 4.5l copy of the 3.5l Oldsmobile version while the Range Rover used a straight copy of the Buick version, the main difference being the heads and metric threads and dimensions. The famous Repco V8 formula 1 engine was also based on the same block. The BOP engine was one of the most advanced and versatile designs to come out of Detroit but being only 3.5 litres was a decade ahead of its time in the big block muscle car mad USA of the 60's/70's.
For years I had a pair of P76 alloy wheels on my bike trailer until one morning I arose to find the trailer sitting on the ground with both wheels gone. I'd like to think that they ended up on some punters P76 resto.