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This cropped up on , as Brewer so eruditly used to say, “ a well known auction site”. I put in a stupidly low bid , and 😱😱😱😱😱won the bloody thing. It’s in that there Alloa, collecting Wednesday

Re. French language. Any shiters know this YT channel?? https://youtube.com/@smellslikegasoline?si=q142Mv3fyM6VDTK6 if not, let me tell you now: it's friggin fantastic. It's basically this French lad repairing cars in his garden. He's honestly king of the shiters. He's completely fearless. Merc CL500 with a busted auto box? He just buys a gearbox on a pallet from Lithuania and fits it. Audi 200 turbo with rusty screen pilllars and almost no electrical functions working at all? Out comes the multimeter and cheese wire. Alfa 33 with worn out engine? He'll spend ages rebuilding the engine only to find it runs and sounds like absolute shite, forcing him to buy a spares car and nick its engine. Respraying the side of an MGF outdoors in freezing conditions? He's your man. The best thing I've seen him do is get a very ordinary Peugeot 605 2.0 8v that's been sat in a field for 3 years, and gradually fix it right up, to the extent of driving it to Tunisia for a full respray!!!! When it's all done he takes it to a track day where it amazes him with its handling, and you also see that this guy can seriously DRIVE. There's nothing he won't have a go at, and he's not afraid to show you when it goes pear shaped. He buys cheap tools off eBay and shows you how he gets on with them. He's super modest and his videos are quiet, thoughtful and very well made. No shouting, silly faces or 'OMG U WONT BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT' bollocks. He has something like 300k subscribers but he doesn't have any sponsors except one company that supply him with engine oil and brake fluid. Anyway I highly recommend watching his channel, obvs its all in French but the automatic YT subtitles are really excellent nowadays so just bosh them on. I think once you've chewed through all his content you'll be fluent speaker too, so tell your lass you're having a language lesson and not just watching any old 'shite car fix-up vids'. Get it in your eyeballs!!!!!

About three hours later than planned am loaded and a smoke away from ready to roll. Out of practice having been about 5 months since last jaunt. This shows in the amount of tat strapped to the moto. First leg to the Cotswolds for tea. Via Screwfix for for timberlocs. More about these later. In a bit.

Yes it is a Citroen CX2400 I/E Pallas Auto spares car for the one I have. Maybe we should have a, can we start it session!

Yesterday myself, missus, the boy, the oldest stepdaughter and my niece popped up too the 'the stag pub' on the roundabout of charing Kent, these are the older motors there.. very nice too, there was some exotica like aston martin , mclaren etc if u like I can put them up too.

For the eagle eyed that spotted Smoll Eddy's wrecker is indeed an amalgamation of these two trucks. He's quite proud of it too. "It's a cut n' shut I built in me lockup M8"

Have made a good early start, partly because the cat was scratching on the bedroom door, but partly due to barely sleeping. On the plus side, poo count = 1.

Now I'm nearly 50 I value green stuff more than tarmac so the cars are going to have to fit in round the green stuff!!!!

Hey all, I've barely posted anything on here for a couple of years (or indeed anywhere, I have pretty much canned all internet posting since Twitter turned into a bin fire) but I've got something interesting coming up and we all love a good collection thread so lets see how we get on here. I've not left the country for several years now although I used to love travelling. Nowadays, an unenthusiastic-about-travelling Mrs_Bo11ox, a no-longer-valid dog passport, all the br*x*t bollocks and just the hugely increased cost of everything (particularly channel crossings), make the bar much higher for getting off shite island. But a few weeks back, after scanning Leboncoin and Wallapop for the 1000th time, I said 'fuck it' and decided to treat myself to a new old heap with a decent collection mission. I warned Mrs_Nuts that I was doing it and she'd just have to manage without me for a few days, which to my surprise didnt cause too much friction. Since buying this book a few months back I've had a mega urge for one of these noisy, flimsy shitters and I've watched quite a few coming and going on those two sites. Messaged a few sellers but never reached 'critical mass' This one had been on Wallapop for ages, located in Spain, but on French number plates. I like the later ones that look a bit 'end of the line' with the smooth doorhandles and later dash that looks like an Avenger. Also love the 70's colours these come in, bright oranges and metallic greens and whatnot (although most of the metallic-coloured ones all seem to have lost their lacquer years ago). Anyway metallic chocolate brown sounds good to me. 1300€ was the asking price. Anyway I struck up a convo with the seller and he seemed decent, honest and that, didn't mind waiting a bit for me to collect. Sent a few videos by whatsapp which revealed an honest looking old motor, one rear wing in grey primer, and noisy but not unhealthy-sounding engine (theyre always noisy these things arent they, known for tappet rattle). He said it had belonged to his wife's parents from new but now he needed to move it on cos he was not big into old cars and it was just a hassle he could do without, although he was still bobbing about in it here and there. What about the logistics? Well the car is just outside Valencia. After some researching I found I could leave home (Derbyshire) at 8 am and catch a train to Stansted, then jump on a ryanair flight and be in Valencia by 6pm ish. Seller said he would come and pick me up from the airport so I could in theory be heading home the same day in my new brownmobile. So that all seemed alright as well. I'd been looking at a few old heaps in the S of France and seeing if I could get there on the train, its certainly doable but its a €250+ touch - this was a lot cheaper (albeit worse news for polar bears). Still chit-chatting with the seller he sent me a few more pics where I saw one of the rear doors is a bit sad. But by now I had pretty much made up my mind to buy it anyway. I had a ratch on Leboncoin and found someone selling a few Simca 1100 panels including 2 rear doors that was very close to my likely route North. Obvs these will need painting but I have recently bought myself a spray gun and am steadily learning how to use it (been spraying panels from my Mazda 929 with increasingly shiny results), so that's all manageable I think. https://www.leboncoin.fr/ad/equipement_auto/2450559206 So, all the moons were slowly coming into alignment. The seller knocked 100€ off to cover the cost of some doors, and he also offered to leave the insurance on it for my journey home (!) and so we did a virtual handshake. I sent him €200 deposit and started booking some travel and some time off work. So, heres the route. 2000km. I'm flying out on the Wednesday and need to be back at work the following Monday. Belpech is where I'm picking the doors up and Paulmy is the home of Mutha Bo11ox who I am gonna drop in on too. Got hotels booked for the Weds and Thursday nights and I'm hoping to do the Paulmy-Derbyshire leg in one go if I can, on the Sunday. Thats just under 600 miles in a day in a Simca 1100, I don't know if thats too ambitious or not but I'm gonna get moving at the crack of dawn and if the car has made it that far, I'm thinking it'll probably be OK. But will I? I'm nearly friggin 50 man. 600 miles in an 1100cc car with 4 gears and no headrests? Jesus. I doubt very much I'll be getting to work on time on the Monday. Still, I honestly can't wait. I'll just have to down a big cup of the old 'getoverittaccino' from a roadside cafe or something if it all gets too much on the last leg. What I'm really looking forward to is the Thursday and Friday when I'm driving through Catalonia and the Pyrenees on my own, in the sunshine (hopefully), stopping here and there for a drink or a bite to eat or a leg-stretch or whatever. Seems completely blissful. The seller later realised that French law says he has to sell the car with a recent MOT, pass or not. If he doesn't, he can't declare it sold at his end (actually I knew this myself but forgot all about it in the excitement) Being in Spain he can't take it for an MOT so now I have to do it!!!! I've got to drop in on an MOT station on the way home so thats another little job. (Seller is paying for it). I'm staying in a B&B near where the replacement doors are, so I'm takin it for its MOT on the friday morning. Anyway thats the big mission. I am taking a check-in bag so I can bring some tools and I keep thinking of more and more things that I should take - 3/8 socket set, some screwdrivers & spanners, pliers, cutters, cable ties, tape, WD-40, spare points & condensor, mechanics gloves, head torch, jubilees, fuel pipe/hose, wire, photocopied maps, power bank, bluetooth speaker, sun hat, fuck knows what else. Got a week to think of more stuff as I'm setting off a week on Wednesday. Fingers crossed!!!

Let me just check something here, was Anneka Rice booked to come round? PM me if so and we can work something out. CHEERS

I've recently finished some of my Fake Corgis inspired by catalogues I had as a kid Whizzwheels (teledial) Camaro, I tried painting in the "SS" on the front wing decal, but my hands wouldn't co operate. I need to send it to @bunglebus or @eddyramrod to get it done! Golden Jacks Firebird note the boot spoiler filed off and new air intakes on bonnet I did my usual trick and painted two left doors green and two right ones blue! I also cut a section of the base from each car and swapped them over. I didn't have a dremel then and filing by hand was impossible so I got fed up and painted them anyway. I now have (not) a dremel, but cba stripping and re painting etc. Firebird from interim catalogue on this one of the doors wood not shut properly and I ended up taking it to bits again and painting a door from another Firebird/Camaro which set me back again I think they make a nice little set shame these colours and convigurations were never made by Corgi

https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1725569

Travelling through France I came across a bunch of British touring with what I can only describe as Chit-Chitty-Bang-Bang cars. There were about 20 together - I did not manage to snap them all as only some stopped. I did not have chance to speak to anybody - maybe someone here knows who the are? The cars certainly weren't simple restorations - more like variations on a vintage theme. Overall very impressive.

I spent the day arranging for local companies to come and do it all for free Challenge Anneker style but I’m so upset after reading this you can stick it up your arse

This: Is a car I've not mentioned much on here so far. It was bought as an accidental ebay purchase just after the "high speed oxidation event" of the E300 last year. I put a load of bids in on cars, none of which I expected to come to anything as they were all really low. So of course, a few days after buying the W203 and driving it to Glasgow, I got an email through: "Congratulations, you've won, pay now!" Ah bums. Ok, well I suppose I could go and have a look at it. It is, after all, a C250 Turbodiesel S202 estate, with an OM605 engine in it, so it's a great stablemate for the E300 OM606, and might be useful. So, I lobbed my bike on the train and headed up to Maidenhead. What I was presented with was a seemingly half-decent car. High miles at 259,500, but it started well, drove fine (albeit with quite a hefty delay on the gearbox) and the worst thing I could find was the headliner hanging down very badly. Worth it. So I paid for it, lobed my bike in the back and drove it home on the remaining few days of MOT it had left. Overall impressions were good, although there was definitely something amiss with the gearbox. Not that that mattered at the time, as I had already got the W203 to use as a temporary car while repairing the S210, so what on earth do I do with it? Answer? Lob it in the works car park and forget about it for about 6 months. It came in very handy for supplying a spare alternator when the E300 shat its one in the breakdown detailed above: It being an OM605, pretty much all the auxiliaries on it are identical (or at least compatible) with the OM606. The engines are all-but identical, save for 1 cylinder difference and 500cc. And 30hp. After I had sorted the E300 out above, I thought it best to get the c250 on the road, either to use or to sell. Either way, it's doing no good just sitting about, so having re-instated it's alternator, topped up the gearbox fluid with an aftermarket dipstick, and a perfectly-fitting funnel in the tube: Which allows the fluid to be dipped even when the funnel is in place... (yes, different car, but the same principle:) It was lobbed in to my local MOT place. It failed, naturally, but astonishingly only on corrosion issues. Absolutely everything else was a pass... So that's rusty brakes that have been sat for months, 260k mile suspension, 4 questionable tyres (3 of which go flat over a few weeks) and an engine that has been beyond the moon all passed... it's just got some holes in it. Well then.... Time to get the Electric Pritt-Stick out and fix it. First area of issue: NSR. Patch. Patch like you've never patched before. I should qualify the above: I just did not care how good/bad/indifferent the patching and welding was. I just want it through an MOT. I know it's bad. Actually I know it's utter dogshit, but if it's acceptable for an MOT, that is all that matters. Hole: Patch (and the bit above too) Move on to the OSF, which was quite bad: Extensive use of Cardboard Aided Design again: Weldy Weldy: You'd never* know I'd been under here!: Were it not for this mess anyway.... General scene of chaos: There was also some rot in the OSR and NSF, but nowhere near as bad... so that was patched up too, and with some fingers crossed, it was lobbed back in for MOT. Yes. It's rusty, has crap tyres on it and the wiper is falling apart. ... but it's a pass.

Try putting her in a cage and draping a large blanket over the top so she thinks it's night time

Factory colours are awful. Make nice customs though

F355 Replica | eBay I've not really peeked inside a Ferrari F355, but I'd be pretty surprised if the interior looked like a fucking Scania aftermarket tat catalogue. 'Car still looks great' Mate, even your guinea pig is leaving home because of it

Had a trip out with a good friend yesterday to the omoc AGM in Prestatyn, called in at Talacre beech to relive some memories. Did 180 miles yesterday and it didn’t miss a beat.