strangeangel

Just watching a Wheeler Dealers where they're doing up a Syrena! Thought that'd be more than a bit left field for them.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vauxhall-Bedford-MIDI-van-Isuzu-engine/312954987521

Didn't die in the Battle of the Beanfield! Can't remember the last one of these I saw that wasn't a new age traveller's residence. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bedford-Embassy-J2-Classic-Bus/352926900416

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bedford-HA-VAN-White-colour/164041128724 EDIT: the yellow heap of shit next to it is available for sale separately, FFS. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bedford-HA-VAN-Yellow-colour/164041117265

I'm guessing you live in Kent or somewhere... South Yorkshire != West Yorkshire. I wouldn't have wound the windows down in Rotherham, never mind stopped and bought a car there. Sorry you got shafted Jamie.

Lovely shot! Just pinched it for my desktop background. Maybe it could be re-created with the Ami in.

but never fear... Fucking A! Where do I sign? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/classic-car-1974-FIAT-850-SEAT-850-BARN-FIND-project-LHD-Classic-car/324047398547

So it has no redeeming features whatsoever then. JFSI BRO. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/classic-mini-mayfair-project/303456567070

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CAMPER-WINTER-BARGAIN-0-99-START-NO-RESERVE-MOT-MARCH-LOW-MILEAGE-NUNEATON/133313458179

Charming, if extremely crispy... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fiat-900t-camper/324046567972

Nipped out to Tescos to get stuff for a late tea, but within a few hundred yards I noticed a hideous rattling coming from the back of the Ami. When I stopped to investigate it transpired that the NSR hubcap bolt had worked loose... 🤣

After a fairly successful morning upgrading the garage's solar power system, I decided to have a go at the Aixam. The aim of today's session was to definitively isolate the power from the engine end of the car, in a real and definitive way totally unlike the way that the main isolator switch fails to do. This job necessitates the removal of the front seats. Well, that can't be too hard, can it? WRONG. The runners are bolted to the inner sills without the benefit of captive nuts, so the whole lot just turns. Helpful. You can't unbolt the seats from the runners either. Yes, that's right - Aixam really did build the whole fucking car around the front seats 🙄 Much sitting around variously swearing, tutting and muttering led me to the only possible way of getting the seats out: if you push them far enough forward they should just fall off. Well, not *just* fall off, they'll need a good shove against the dash, because the runners are, helpfully*, that bit too long. None of this was helped by the fact that the runners were as dry as a nun's twat and were all but seized in place. Eventually, after much pulling, pushing, kicking, grunting and swearing they came off. This was achieved at some cost, you can see from this photo how the seat runners have been 'flared' as a result of all this. The car is made with everything at the lowerst tolerance they could get away with. Granted, that's for obvious reasons particularly with this electric variant, but it doesn't make it any less of a ballache to work with. I'll straighten those some other time. By the time I'd disconnected all the power lines from the battery pack (and carefully labelled them all, natch) I'd had more than enough for one day. In other news the BX trundles ever onwards. The washers failed last week, thanks to a build up of rust in the washer jet that runs through the boss of the wiper spindle. A straightened paper clip and a good clean of the length of hose between the tank and the nozzle fixed that. Unbelievably, MOT time is starting to creep into view (early March)! The Ami is still rattling along in its own, inimitable style; now with the added benefit of yellow headlights!

Having driven one I'd agree - a perfectly nice - if basic - little motor that should have been pitched as the cheapest new car you could buy. I reckon they'd have sold in droves.

When I found this picture of my authority's now disbanded mobile library service, I wanted to share it but wasn't sure where to do so. As this vital service was summarily closed down, and the buses flogged to other authorities, I suppose that grumpy fits the bill best.

It's unlike me, but I didn't check that! That's made my night 👍