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My first car was an N reg Mk2
 

So the paints knackered, and its a bit accessorised. So very 1990. But then again its unwelded and original- not very 1990 at all.
 

Once off loaded….

1990 just arrived with someones first set of wheels…..

Today was Drive It Day.  So I drove it. 

Today was Drive It Day.  So I drove it. 

Today was Drive It Day.  So I drove it. 

Today was Drive It Day.  So I drove it. 

Today was Drive It Day.  So I drove it. 

Today was Drive It Day.  So I drove it. 

Today was Drive It Day.  So I drove it. 

Today was Drive It Day.  So I drove it. 

Today was Drive It Day.  So I drove it. 

Today was Drive It Day.  So I drove it. 

Watched the chinese GP

Looked over last weeks Barcelona photos

And Took delivery of an old skool ford

 

Being such a glorious day it was definitely an excuse to get the 2CV out (plus it was drive it day…) 

Went to a little meet in the morning, and it was little. But there were a few gems there! 

Then a short drive to the beach, and met up with some friends and their Morris Traveller. 

(There was a car between them when we parked)
The long way home was used too… a lovely day out in the 2CV! 

Family fleet attendance at another enjoyable East Coast Japanese meet:

Star car of the day, for me at least, was this lovely Camry:

Recently purchased at an ACA sale.
Closely followed by this Piazza:

The Laurel was second-oldest, with a friend's Celica Liftback taking the honours of being the most aged:

I've never had my three parked side by side before. They have to park line astern on the drive and even then one of them has to be in the garage. 
Well I was doing a bit of shunting this morning and there is a space at the top of our Close for two cars that was empty, which is a rarity in itself. Plus the sun was shining and the leaves have just started coming out on the trees so I thought why not.

Like I say, parking for two cars, but when they are all quite small and all yours you can squeeze three in. Obviously you have to start from the left. If I'd put the Triumph in last I couldn't have got out of the car.

Also, how to make a Favorit look like a big car. Park them either side of a Triumph 1300.

Now that it's properly spring I thought it was time to dig the Renault 6 out of the garage.  It always needs a jump start after it's been sat for a while, and I cleverly* hadn't left any room to get to the bonnet when I put it away - I remember thinking at the time "that's going to be a problem - oh well, fuck it, I'll worry about it in the spring".  Well the good news is that my brake repair last year seems to have held as the brakes were still free, and thanks to the new tyre on the nearside front all the tyres were fully inflated.  So all I needed to do was climb in through the tailgate, knock it out of gear, climb back out again, grab hold of the back bumper and pull, and out it came.  
The Rover 75 and a pair of jump leads soon got it running, and I took it for a quick run round the block and was reminded of the issues that had cropped up shortly before it went into hibernation and that I hadn't had a chance to look at properly.  So that was the first task for today once I finally got my arse in gear.
The first issue is that the bonnet latch isn't locking the bonnet.  I couldn't immediately find what was causing this, but removing the latch soon revealed the problem - the mechanism is made of plastic (yes, really) and after 51 years one of the bits had decided it had had enough and snapped off.  So that's irreparable then.  Of course bonnet latches for Renault 6s are completely unobtainium, but a Google session suggested that the Renault 12 latch is similar - or at least the plastic bits are - and those are available (albeit at some expense), so I'm going to order one - worst case I can butcher it for its plastic bits and make one good one out of the two.  For now I've put a Bungee strap on to stop the bonnet flipping up - it's a forward opening bonnet so in theory shouldn't be an issue but aerodynamics can do strange things.
The other two were easier fixes.  The nearside rear indicator was behaving funny when the lights were turned on - this turned out to be a cock up on my part, when I refitted the light unit after the car was hit last year I put the earth wire behind the clamp instead of between the clamp and the nut, so it was flapping around and barely making contact.  The other problem was that the choke wasn't returning properly when the knob was pushed in - this was a slightly stranger one as it transpired that the clamp that holds the end of the cable had come off the carb - I certainly don't remember doing this (and I would have remembered as it was a fiddly bastard) so can only assume that the bolt had vibrated loose and fallen out.  One of the three screws holding the end plate on the carb had also vanished, but I found suitable replacements for both in my stash so that's all sorted.
I then chucked a bucket of water over it to get the garage grime off - next job is to make a template up for the repair section I'm going to need to make for the nearside front floor, but I didn't get time for that this weekend.

Most of the rest of the weekend was spent playing with pushbikes.  I did get the Mobylette fired up - it took a few more kicks than last year but still not bad for an elderly two-stroke engine that's been sat for six months - but I didn't get a chance to take it for a spin as I'd been hoping to do, and the forecast looks shite for this coming week so that might have to wait a little while.

I'm not sure that I'd trust anything from a place that has nine consonants and no vowels in its name.

Well that was a more than averagely productive lunch break. 

I'm not sure that I'd trust anything from a place that has nine consonants and no vowels in its name.

I'm not sure that I'd trust anything from a place that has nine consonants and no vowels in its name.