chodweaver

It was/is. His Samba may get an honourable mention in his epic 'SambaS in Alpine LE ohdearage' thread

Please someone on here GIFB

Yak, yak, yak! Carry On Loving?

Yours has an undertray?

ETA Not 2 bags cheeky though

What a cheeky little thing that Chevette is!

I've taxed worse. Doesn't have a reg ending in XLM does it?

2 randoms please

One plodded around Britain on the decrepit infrastructure from a bygone age, wallowing hopelessly in corners and high winds, the other is a narrowboat

Made an appearance recently* on the soundtrack of Guardians of the Galaxy, which Mrs CW delights me with/inflicts on me periodically: this may be where you heard it

Better that than a Kia Picanto on which the (bomb site) dealer was unable to open the boot at all. On that particular car, the dealer's bucket of Macdonald's cola was still in the centre console (and yet he had not been driving it that day) so I feared what treasures the boot might conceal. I didn't buy it

"I've got it started and warmed it up for you"

Also, make full use of time lapse. An hour's work can be viewed in a matter of seconds, with far more instant gratification for the youtoob viewer, which is what the shallow, can't-be-arsed-to-do-it-for-themselves public wants. I used to have a knock off GoPro that i bunged on a tripod, set to timelapse and pointed variously at the garden and camperport when i was working on either. The resulting video clips show me rocketing around the lawn planting bulbs, or up and down ladders with timber and corrugated plastic sheets, yet can be paused if desired to show detail, like when i hold a bowl up to the camera to show the bulbs ready for planting. Also, a GoPro on a tripod can be left pointing at the wing, sill etc all the time you're grinding, welding, trial fitting, without you having to worry about it. And it's a source for any stills you forgot to take. Oddly, modern camera sensors are completely undamaged by being pointed at welding arcs, as long as they're not so close that spatter gets on the lens

Ps great progress on the MG. And seconded for a youtoob channel

That was my local library when i was a kid! I had no idea you lived in (redacted)! That is a brilliant building, i remember it and the precinct around it being built, and borrowing books on bicycle repair and using an oscilloscope from it (#geekconfessional). Huge shame that after just 60 years, it's no longer fit for purpose.

I was too, but I'm a hopeless optimist.

Two please, kind sir

What fantastic historical documents these films are. Moar of this please!

Very sorry to hear this. There's some special people out there who, while not being on the beige themselves, have contributed massively to it. She's a kind hearted soul and we've all benefitted from her generosity.

They're fantastic* Get It Bought

That MOD minis' back seat looks like a monkey's arsehole. I'd rather not have anything to do with a car so upholstered, thanks all the same.

That's my fix of proper engineering voyeurism for the week! Keep up the good work

Well bought! I thought i was doing well when i picked up one for 40 quid the other week, but that did include a battery. The angle grinders are also perfectly decent. No, they don't have the torquey grunt of a good mains, or expensive cordless one, but I've been using two of them for grinding, flap sanding and cutting for a couple of years now and have very, very rarely had to resort to a mains one for more welly.

Can confirm that these are decent. Mine's taken a bit of abuse and not failed in any respect. Yet Edited to add: the pricing of these Aldi skins is not the least appealing feature, as evidenced by my ordering the impact driver that they are flogging for a tenner plus postage. ETA 3 - 7 days. Nice little early Christmas present to myself.

Interesting about those V70 engines - i felt guilty about not persevering with mine after woes with the AWD system, the ABS, its general thirst for tyres and petrol, and the insanity of running flexible fuel hose over the top of the tank with no access panel in floor, which rodents then got a taste for turning it into a fire hazard. I still regret scrapping it, but i just didn't love it enough. I really hoped it would be a forever car for me and still have an itch for a Swedish estate* *Goes off on a tangent to the Shitemove thread. Again