purplebargeken Posted February 9, 2017 Share Posted February 9, 2017 Anyone going? http://mgandtriumphsparesday.co.uk/home/4579844994 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted February 9, 2017 Share Posted February 9, 2017 I am going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplebargeken Posted February 9, 2017 Author Share Posted February 9, 2017 Excellent. How are you doing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seth Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 I might be there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 In past years MG and Triumph have been allowed to park inside the cattle shed. My dilemma is whether to bring an estate car in case there is something big I want to buy or bring the MG ZR so I can park in the shed. I am erring towards the ZR at the moment because it is still the new toy! purplebargeken 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Breadvan72 Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 I may go in my Dolomite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Breadvan72 Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 As is typical whenever I am thinking of taking a car to a car show, the Dolly has this morning started to misbehave. Possible clutch bollocks, ooh er. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplebargeken Posted February 12, 2017 Author Share Posted February 12, 2017 Go there in something more clutch happy, buy Dollopmite clutch bits after haggling, enjoy the warm glow of having obtained bits in a flurry of excitement and cheapness. Never hurts to have spare components for these cars within grabbing distance. Clutch kit, slave and master cylinders, seal kits, Brake bits. It really does make sense. Ball joints - upper and lower, these are going up in price and if you can store a set for that awkward moment then good on you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Breadvan72 Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 I already have a clutch for it and if time permits will get it fitted this week. The slave cylinder was replaced last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 Providing breadvans help of choice is fixed in time I'm in! If it's not then I'll drive the xantia providing it doesnt disgrace itself by then , drop bv off at the door and go park up the road out of the way or something... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Breadvan72 Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 The Dolomite should be fixed by the weekend. If it isn't, I may go in the SD1, but I'm not sure. You can have a go at ye olde heap driving if I do go. beko1987 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 Oooh I've never driven a proper car before! My neighbor with the triumph toledo will be proud. He was out a few weekends ago changing the clutch outside our back gate. I gave him power and a cup of tea... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 It looks like I am not going to be able to take my MG ZR as it has been untaxed, I am waiting the 28 days before I can send the V62 in to get a log book. Alfa 156 is my car of choice at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Breadvan72 Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 The SD1 feels modernish and has power steering. The main oldness about it is that it has carburettors, so you have to open the throttle to get it go fast. The brakes are a bit old skule, given the weight of the car. The Dolomite is a much more retro driving experience. Power nuthin, noisy noise, thin tyres, and easily lock uppable brakes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 The SD1 feels modernish and has power steering. The main oldness about it is that it has carburettors, so you have to open the throttle to get it go fast. The brakes are a bit old skule, given the weight of the car. The Dolomite is a much more retro driving experience. Power nuthin, noisy noise, thin tyres, and easily lock uppable brakes.And your happy for my first driving experience of anything like that to be in your car... I'm very flattered but very nervous! Never had a car without power steering... (zx didn't have abs but probably had much better brakes anyway...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OwdChina Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 Ooooooh.........there's an autojumble. Can I be cheeky an ask someone to grab a hazard lights switch for a 1970 TR6 if you spot one. Mines fucked. Monies and postage will be covered. Ta muchly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Breadvan72 Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Annoyingly, the garage did not get the Dolomite's clutch fixed before they biffed for the weekend. I may go in my SD1, subject to family hoo hahs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holbeck Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Unexpectedly, I'm going to this as a neutral. My friend Steve has an MGB, and I'm going 'cos I'll go to the (car based) opening of an envelope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 I think I'll go and make lots of pappage of flatcapped OMGMGBGTBYMG how much pain etc. etc. owners buying kackered spares.Maybe I should also buy a Pitney Bowes Dictaphone off Mongbay and record stories of how they rebuilt a gearbox in their toiletwith nothing else but their teeth and how it took them 27 years to get a rear bumper rechromed in their neighbour's kenneland other interesting* horseshit you read about in Craptical Plastics every week for the past 30 odd years. Sigmund Fraud and holbeck 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Breadvan72 Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Expect all inside lanes of all Midland motorways to be clogged by MGB geezers going at the regulation 55 mph. I so wanted to drive past them in a Triumph at 95 while mooning my butt at them, but DENIED. (OK, Triumph borked, giffer MGBs not, but even so). Junkman and purplebargeken 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seth Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Expect all inside lanes of all Midland motorways to be clogged by MGB geezers going at the regulation 55 mph. I so wanted to drive past them in a Triumph at 95 while mooning my butt at them, but DENIED. I'll do that for you in the Herald if you like. Junkman, Six-cylinder and garethj 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Breadvan72 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Flip them off for me, please. I ain't going, due to family blah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Breadvan72 Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 Fairness to MG drivers Dept reports: Today I followed a lovely 1950s G saloon (a Magnette, I think), in two tone green. The driver did his best to overtake some modern 30 in a 60 twat, but was foiled by oncoming traffic. When the giffer/ditsy mum turned off to buy Werther's or whatever, the MG wizzed off at 70, and cornered in le style sportif. NB: not an MGB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seth Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 MGZS and MGF suitably dispatched on the M45. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 I dispatched a Toledo properly using the 156 V6 but I think that might be cheating! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplebargeken Posted February 19, 2017 Author Share Posted February 19, 2017 Big numbers of attendees. Got a few non-Triumph and MG things, happy. Haggled to get my mate 4 NOS 1300FWD wheel trims for a tenner each. Seller wanted 20 quid. Bargain! Six-cylinder 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 Just a few parked cars! holbeck and Sigmund Fraud 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garethj Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 Didn't get the parts I wanted but a nice look around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seth Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 I bought a pretty solid Herald spare wheel well, some Motorsport magazines from the '50s I was missing and, rather excitedly, some wheels that I will struggle to fit on the car but I couldn't pass up. purplebargeken 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holbeck Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 I saw this, and thought I might have papped Mr 6 cyl's car. But no, I iz disappoint. Six-cylinder 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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