Uncle Jimmy

3 minutes ago, warren t claim said:

The Invacare would have to run on a 50/50 premix of Four Star and Funky Cold Medina.

Or spunky cold semolina. Oozing from every fibreglass orifice...

It'll be revealing to hear what it's like with functioning spheres. I had the opportunity to ride in an XM about 10 yrs ago, I thought it better than a DS. 

4 hours ago, N Dentressangle said:

OK, excitement over.

Just put 12v to the starter - she spun a few times then died and now does nothing, so I'm guessing it's all seized inside.

Onwards with the strip down and rotisserie building, I guess. @Uncle Jimmy here are the dimensions for you to get cracking.

Starter solenoid packed up? You need one of these...

5 hours ago, N Dentressangle said:

Yep - even though the silver 25 was one owner from new, and only had MoT work by the local garage there was still plenty of bodgery and filler to get through, making the rust 10x worse.

The black one is going to get completely stripped and then mounted on something like this:

I've got a long scaffold pole. If only I knew someone who was good at making stuff out of wood, eh @Uncle Jimmy?

Is that the fashionable central steering option there or do you pop rivet a couple of bits of fridge door over the holes at the end of the project? 

Fuck me that's ripe. It's the U boat that sunk the Luisutania? 

43 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

What do you get when you try to reply to a post, on the phone?

It just churns over and over when I press 'submit reply'.

Hello, hoping you maybe able to assist, whilst I am able to view the forum and leave 'likes' I cant seem to contribute to threads or send any messages using my Samsung android phone,
no problems using this desktop though. Is that possibly this forum as I have no issues elsewhere?

Tidy cars them 404s, suspension will be long travel like all the French stuff, worm diff too so bulletproof.  Compare to the British equivalent, the Austin Cambridge....

Mine was leaking like a sieve when I bought it. Easy enough to silicone around the pollen filter box. The blower motor was also not working, got my arm in there with some WD40 and pushed the motor spindle to and fro. Got it going and then greased it. Its lasted over a year since then. 

GM era Saabs ain't a patch on the real deal but they're cheap enough rammel so I'm not complaining. 

8 hours ago, Rocket88 said:

FD and FE Vauxhalls were both supposed to have V8 as an option. Vauxhall, unsurprisingly, bottled it.

The '73 fuel crisis might have had a little to do with it too; some fantastic motors were in the pipeline before then, only to be cancelled or at least modified. 

51 minutes ago, JeeExEll said:

Sorry, not VX4/90 but interesting if you haven't seen it before. We've seen this roadtest elsewhere (thanks Trigger) and I think someone mentioned what happened to the car, but I don't remember the outcome.  I think it was stripped for parts.  Two were built.

(Text is blurry but click on the pic).  Note position of gearstick.

Fuel consumption, -  standard Ventora  20.8mpg / Black Prince V8 13.0mpg.  Ouch.  Bet it sounded lovely though.

Roadtest is dated June 1972 so any further conversions would have been on the FE Ventora.  (Unless they bought a stock of the outgoing FD Ventoras at bargain prices).

'Vauxhall and Rover', I'm suprised that  Rover sanctioned Winchester motor co.  popping V8s in Vauxhalls, even if they were GM ones.

Tidy as fuck that; very much my sort of motor, shame so little of that age that's in decent nick turns up anymore, Jealous I R! 

17 hours ago, lesapandre said:

 

Enjoy a Simca...

You play a V8 Vedette, I raise you a Matford V8. Old French cars are fantastic, in fact most French cars up to the end of the last century have much to offer.

Ya poorvert

'Climate', was that an early admission of guilt by those beancounting scallywags I wonder. 

Did they ever make Yuppies oop North? I thought they were something that only us down here were blessed* with. I hated the 80s with a passion, although with a little hindsight the cars were alright. Had an accident in a 340/360 and it looked after us pretty darned well considering the speed of the impact. 

Big fan of the Voldafs, bin them wheels though- bloody awful

On 1/30/2021 at 12:04 PM, Vantman said:

One of my previous 9000s, now owned by @Nibblet---

 

Gone to meet it's maker, a busted waterpump pump and a house move saw to it. I also sold my '96 as well as the Datsun 120Y I owned. 

Well, I feel better about some of my balls ups. Suck it up; get a head gasket kit in and fix it; isn't that what Autoshite is about?  

The XJ6 was renowned for it's suspension on it's release, in fact it was thought to be the best in the world at the time. Whether that continued through into more modern cats I don't know.

In terms of 'modern' cars ride is a difficult find, we've had 20 plus years of daft low profile tyres, shock absorbers that don't absorb and springs that world suit a Tiger tank.  An LS400 would be good, maybe some Infiniti or other high end Jap stuff, Benzes that run on air. My current Saab '93 has hard suspension to me at least and it was purportedly turned down a bit on later cars. The W124 I owned was good.  

5 hours ago, Barry Cade said:

Peugeot 604.

The 604 had fantastically good ride, being a passenger over long distances in one was a pleasure; driving one, at least a V6, wasn't too bad either. 

The world is changing, prices may stay the same but values are dropping; I see a lot of stuff hanging around for month after month, some cars have been for sale for years. If you have a fundamentally sound car of a favoured variety, describe it honestly,  photograph it well and put it out there at a competative price, it will fly off the shelves. Otherwise be prepared to put up with a lot of tyre kickers and a very long wait. 

Found this earlier. The '96 is on an Anglesey plate and spent most of it's life there but I was unaware that I had the disc and BMC garage holder from Pentraeth.

With the winter weather on the island I'm amazed it survived.

The next approach was to take a vetinary syringe full of DOT4 and attatch to the nipples on the calipers, a lot of pressure was required but that blew air out into the reservoir and I had brakes and very powerful ones at that.

There is a leak to the rear of the master cylinder, where it joins the servo, I thought that the considerable pressure of the syringe might have precipitated that but on inspection- again....it all looked good. I rather think that it is the quality of the kit, so another will be purchased from Malbrad this time.

However, after a mere 6? years I have a functional vehicle. This is the only car I can say that I have rebuilt but I have shown that I have the skills know-how and profanities to achieve it.