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There was a chap on Retro Rides years ago who was selling a matt black Triumph and there were some amusing photos in the sale thread of him standing in front of it in a lumberjack shirt and shades with his arms folded looking quite menacing. It became something of an AS meme at the time, he got the piss ripped out of him royally - he actually joined up here briefly to defend himself and turned out to be an OK bloke.

I trust you will also be wearing a red and black checked lumberjack shirt?

Decided to have a look at the PCV on the Rover today, following recent discussions on here. Got the housing off which was a bit of a faff (had to pull off one of the injector leak-off pipes as that was getting in the way), but mine looks like this inside: Which is different to @Split_Pin's, and @dollywobbler's old one. I assume this is the "vortex" type PCV I've seen mentioned in various places? Saves me having to replace the filter anyway. The air filter looked reasonably clean too so I'm going to leave that for now. The pollen filter was rank but I knew that anyway and I've got a new one of those on order.

I had to rebuild the inner CV joint on a Volvo V70 after I pulled it apart getting the driveshaft out. Not the most enjoyable job I've ever undertaken...

Get out!

That's a job I need to do on mine, now it's back up and running properly...

I don't know why so many people seem to think they can flip ACA purchases for multiples of the auction price, which usually wasn't particularly cheap to start with. The TATA seller hasn't even bothered to MOT it... Still, going on that logic your Cinq' must be worth at least £2K!

I felt self conscious when I was in a rented Mustang convertible in LA, but that's because I was crammed in the back (met up with friends who'd driven down from SF in the car) and felt a bit of a twat.

That was at the ACA classic auction last month - made £1,560, and I thought it was overpriced at that. It's a bit rough round the edges... It's also obviously not one owner from new anymore like...

Seen a few nice cars around the roads of Norfolk over the bank holiday - I was overtaken by an early '50s Lincoln whilst cycling into Norwich yesterday, and when I was at Tesco filling up the Rover a '69 Mustang rumbled in. There was also the middle-aged bloke in a tidy red ADO16 who passed me in Norwich. Spot of the long weekend though has to be the two identical silver Ssangyong Tivolis with identical roof boxes following each other down the A47. Extraordinary.

Not had that many convertibles really considering the number of cars I've owned over the years. Three Saabs, three MGFs, a couple of Golfs, a couple of MX-5s, and a Morris Minor-based 1930s style special, and that's about it unless you count 2CVs.

Been having a look over the newly-purchased Peugeot 107. I've done a couple of minor bits to it - got the radio working again (one of the wires had come out of the plug in the back of the unit), fitted new wiper blades and adjusted the rear wiper so it wipes the screen rather than the tailgate. It really is quite amusingly basic - electric windows and central locking are all you get, there isn't even a courtesy light switch on the passenger door. Most of the MOT issues don't look too bad. The brake pipe is a bit annoying as it's just gone in the usual place - the final inch before the rear flexi - but because it's one pipe from front to rear with no joins and I don't have the wherewithal to flare steel pipe I'm going to have to replace the whole thing. The welding is a hole around 2" by 1" in the rear of the nearside inner sill, which will probably only cost about 60 quid even if I get the garage to do it. The brake imbalance issue I reckon was a result of it having been taken for a test after sitting for 3 months as the brakes seem fine now and the car pulls up in a straight line. Of more concern is the EML, which has come back on a couple of times. I plugged the laptop in and apparently it's a fault with the ROM in the ECU, so not the nice easy sensor I was hoping for. It's an intermittent light and sometimes it goes out of its own accord - I think I'm just going to have to take it for a test and keep everything crossed that it doesn't choose that moment to come on, 'cos I'm fecked if I'm paying for a new ECU. I had a crack at polishing the Mazda 121 this afternoon. Bits of it are actually coming up OK, but other bits are completely beyond hope. It's had some paint applied at some point, and I don't know what sort of paint it was but it's faded badly and gone weird in places and it won't polish up. So it looks like the rough-as-a-badger's-arse look is here to stay... This evening I've been attempting to dismantle the Volvo's carbs for a good clean up. I got the tops off OK (and discovered a split diaphragm in one which may have been what was causing the running issues) but the float chambers won't come off - I've got the screws out and I can wiggle the bowls back and forth but they won't part company with the carb body - apparently there's a plug which goes over the jet and I think this is getting stuck somehow. I'm not quite sure where to go from here - I can clean the main jet from the top but that doesn't get rid of any mank in the float bowl, and anyway I'm going to need to fit new gaskets before I put the carbs back on the car as otherwise they're going to piss fuel out. So I'm a bit stuck at the moment... I seem to be getting increasingly absent-minded. On Sunday afternoon I opened the passenger door of the LDV to borrow one of its speakers to put in the Pug. On Sunday night I went out to retrieve my laptop from the Pug and found the LDV's door still wide open - it'd been that way for at least 8 hours and the interior lights had run the battery down. Good job I live in a safe area...

Fuck me! That's ugly enough to make a Marcos weep...

But not what they should cost.

That is fantastic. The quaint village scene with the DB railbuses chasing each other round between the amps and subwoofers adds the perfect amount of WTF.

Nah - too much ground clearance.

Nope.

And home. Smoll car is smoll. Smoll car is also tremendous fun. I picked it up from just the other side of Leicester and Google Maps sent me down some nice windy little back roads to get to the A47 - it really is a great little thing to chuck around. It's a mid range model so has electric windows but no aircon - and seemingly no air recirculation button, so if you're driving past a pig farm you know about it. Needs a bit of welding and a brake pipe for the MOT - it also had the EML on but that went out half way home after I stopped for pez. It's surprisingly nippy given how high geared it is (a 1-litre shopping car shouldn't be able to do 60 in second gear) and the gearing means it's a lot more refined on the dual carriageway than the Daihatsu was as it's not screaming its tits off at 70. Overall I really rather like it so far.

Collectioned.

Peatboghorror achieved - 30 minutes wait for the next train.

Another day, another collection mission.

I posted one in the eBay Tat thread a little while ago.

Mine's not quite as nice as that but it is less than half the price...

I had a go in a 1.4 K11 once - was surprisingly rapid.

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