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FSO Combi. If you could get that with a K-series that'd be just about perfect.

Cut n shut I reckon. Too neat a fail.

Tayside again. Dundee was big on it's Rootesmobiles before it got into Beemers and Heroin.

Mixed Crossply and Radials.

Went to see an Ovlov 850 yesterday with a view to MOT welding it. Looked okay at first glance. Then the sideskirts were removed and it wasn't. The other side was just as bad and the edge of the floor was starting go in places. Advised although you could fix it, it wasn't the work of a weekend. The owner, a mates dad was lovely about it considering I'd just told him his Volvo of twenty years was effectively dead. The ZR soldiers on with a mildly leaky inlet manifold. I spent a uncomfortable sum of money having it resprayed on the painters driveway last year. Yeah I know Stevie Wonder etc, at least it looks respectable enough to not scare the birds away. And for a while this thing seemed to stalk me round Dundee until mercifully it fucked off to Edinburgh. Whereupon it continued it's stalking electronically by showing up on FB marketplace.

Dundee. Tagora caught in the wild.

At least it's a fairly benign BCU/SCU failure. Quite often they fail and deadlock doors, that you then can't open. If the specialist is offering to replace all the relays in the bcu for better quality items I'd do it. Stops it failing again.

Next to the Verdant works in Dundee. According to the MOT history it covered near 30,000 miles a year until sometime in lockdown when it just stops. Probably a refugee of one of several garages on that street.

Dundee City Square. Everything in the shot is now pedestrianised.

Damn that's a nice car. C-series 6 cylinder?

A lot of them leak around the boot hinges. The recesses the hinges sit in tend to rust and as soon as pinholed water runs down the inside of the c pillar. You get these direct replacement clocks off aliexpress. https://m.aliexpress.com/item/4000852083086.html?spm=a2g0n.productlist.0.0.44eb4995efAq4s&browser_id=62f22bb65839446dbf3a79e6b02ebd6d&aff_trace_key=&aff_platform=msite&m_page_id=gh4hhfvx2x0cadxn184f2f4417cd3fed3941b6ef42&gclid=&pdp_npi=2%40dis!GBP!30.88!29.34!!!!!%402100bdd016705234035448998e1ae0!10000009390096714!sea&curPageLogUid=azXrLTDzcnhW&algo_pvid=0e3b1ed2-fa50-4af7-8b43-7ede291c55b0

They're dependable enough little buses as long as the maintenance is kept up. Biggest bugbear on the Mk2 is the electrics. Where the wiring loom passes from body to boot wires often break inside the rubber boot and cause weird problems. Also the Pektron BCU/SCU can fail and cause various problems. There's a well known electronics dude called Technozen who has a dedicated website who if you post the BCU to him he'll fix it and send it back. Keep the front caliper pins well greased as if there's any brake binding it can rapidly warp the discs as they're solid and not vented on a 105. They're quite noisy as a lot of soundproofing had been stripped out by project drive. Inlet manifold gaskets can leak. Rust can be a problem as MGR was skimping on rust protection in the last years. Other than that they're slightly cheaper to insure than mk1s as they're harder to nick. They're better looking inside and out than the fussy looking mk1s. Mines done about 142k.

Oddball Mazda MPV V6. It may have been a grey import as DVLA has it first registered with them in 2012. Did they even sell them here?

1978 Orange Mini for 80 quid in about 2001. Missed the 80 quid Mini boat now.

Been sitting a couple of years in Dundee.

The Jensen Tempo van/truck. Made under licence in the UK so stretching the point a bit perhaps.

She didn't, but when passed to us it got two sacks of gravel in the boot.

Colt Celeste an unusual sight. Grandmother bought one new in 1979.

Comforser. On a PT cruiser. Grim.

Much the same as it always was...

Rovers and Fiat's. A man after my own heart. How's Grumbleweed.

For some reason in 2003ish I convinced myself I needed another boxy Panda. They were getting thin in the classifieds by then but there was a bright red 1000CLX in Glasgow for a few hundred. Spoke to the guy who seemed an enthusiastic sort. He asked whether his Panda's recent FTP was likely to be a snapped camshaft. Having ascertained he was probably not a mechanical genius I went to see it. Not a great part of town. The owner somewhere in his 60s emerged and immediately made clear this was a done deal. The fag dangling from his lips didn't go out when he got in and puffed away. Not for the first time judging by the overflowing ashtray. The car was shite. It was filthy inside and out. It had been described as in good condition and rust free which didn't extend to the fucked doors. The inner wings in the boot had been battered to fuck. No just dented but caved in as if someone had assaulted them with a sledge hammer. It was mechanically still hanging in there but screamed neglect and drove indifferently at best. None of this dented Billy boys confidence until I opined it was worth £100 not 500. I was accused of being a cheeky shite and wasting his time.

Lovely cars. What's going on ere though. Looks like it's been to a river bottom. Was the SW flood damaged?