WAINUI BEACH – GISBORNE

Once again it was time to visit WAINUI ESCAPE our holiday home, of course driving “Orange” our MACHsr7. Shopping for updates and supplies often requires a little creative packing. A new surround sound system was soon out at the beach.

GISBORNE

It’s nice to return to Gisborne after spending my formative teaching years there which shaped my future in so many positive ways. While shopping we found a message left on “Orange” requesting a meeting with the Gisborne Herald who wanted to feature the MACHsr7 in the local paper.

BLACK

Slowly I am deleting all the shiny chrome/silver fixtures on the car. The problem being that the options of pure satin black components were at that time difficult to find and slapping on the chrome/silver parts on the car had me driving it well ahead of schedule.

Once the muffler was replaced by the new satin black coby free flow I began to look at the wheels. I had a set of 13 inch wheels in Christchurch and Robert and I dropped then at the powder coaters to make them satin black. The wheels looked stunning and a surprisingly sunny Friday Auckland afternoon allowed me to put them on the car to see what it looked like!

Huge smiles and new tires for the 16 inch wheels and they are off to the powder coaters to become satin black….this will be great! This also meant the small decal on the wheels needed to be redesigned too….black and orange of course!

These little detail projects are simply perfect for a lazy radio listening garage afternoon.

CRAWLER

I have always looked for practical solutions, now being chronologically challenged the solutions are becoming more suited. The days of crawling around on cold garage floors no longer hold that appeal it once did…or was that simply youth and financial constraints.

Enter the “orange crawler” that has already clocked up about 10km’s slipping around the garage. It does help with a handy drink container, not much to do and always something to simply sit and ponder.