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    petermcpete reacted to Sheefag in LightBulbFun's Invacar & general ramble thread, index on page 1, survivors lists on Pages 24/134 & AdgeCutler's Invacar Mk12 Restoration from Page 186 onwards, still harping on...   
    Does any of this involve the study of skin?
    You know, thin skin or the art of growing a thicker one?
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    petermcpete reacted to warren t claim in LightBulbFun's Invacar & general ramble thread, index on page 1, survivors lists on Pages 24/134 & AdgeCutler's Invacar Mk12 Restoration from Page 186 onwards, still harping on...   
    I'm thinking of getting some ink done. Either a pic of Raul Moat and Jade Goody cradling Madeline McCann with the inscription "never in our arms but forever in our hearts" of maybe pics of the three men shot in a Range Rover in Essex back in the mid 90s.
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    petermcpete reacted to stereotype in LightBulbFun's Invacar & general ramble thread, index on page 1, survivors lists on Pages 24/134 & AdgeCutler's Invacar Mk12 Restoration from Page 186 onwards, still harping on...   
    What the fuck you lot? 
    Clearly you've never been close to an addict and seen the shit these people suffer with nor been one, take your privilege off this fucking forum you nasty piece of work. Just because you can't rationalise a decision doesn't mean someone must be doing drugs to make that choice. Maybe you should find some drugs that make you less of a grumpy fucking wanker. Sincerely, someone with addiction issues.lockquote widget
     
    @Missy Charm "Have kids these days never heard of paper?  It's so much more convenient for drawing on than one's own skin..."
    Could you be any more ignorant? We're in our mid 20s, just because you had no fucking fun in your life. We're not children and maybe you'd get a crumb of respect of you didn't talk like we are. You have no place to judge someone else's body. And you know what's more convenient than carrying around an entire body's worth of your favourite art, memories and stories? Getting them stuck on you forever. Even in the 21st century you're ignorant, not to mention the complete dismissal of the millennia of work, research, history, culture, everything that's gone into tattooing. Never come by my shop unless you want a self portrait of a penis on the back of both hands. 
     
     
    Both of you seem to lack something along the lines of comprehension of consent. @reb *wanted l* this tattooed. I *wanted* to tattoo it. That is all you need to worry about, and if you don't like it, maybe don't say anything now that it's done? Just be a decent human being and work on your fucking conscience. 
     
    if you have no concept of how tattooing works, the only thing you can comment on is whether or not it's aesthetic to you, then your opinion is completely irrelevant, the only one who needs to like it is the one who's wearing it. Kindly, everyone else can sod off.
     
    Sorry Dez for fighting ableist and patronising cunts in yer comments, I'd rather give em incentive to block is now rather than later 
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    petermcpete reacted to stereotype in LightBulbFun's Invacar & general ramble thread, index on page 1, survivors lists on Pages 24/134 & AdgeCutler's Invacar Mk12 Restoration from Page 186 onwards, still harping on...   
    Hate to tell you this, but that tattoo is going to warp constantly, never look right unless it's held in this exact position and the distance between the thin lines is too small for it to blur and age so it'll be a muddy mess in 2-5 years. Also it's facing the wrong way for a forearm tattoo, it should face down towards the hand. This also doesn't work well with the area of the body, the curve of the arm makes it look disproportionate when the stencil could have been spot on, this should be a shoulder onto chest or side of a muscly thigh.
     
    Also I did tattoo it properly; I altered the original design so it wasn't a copy whereas tattooing mechanical drawings taken from things like Halfords books is actually a breech of copyright and can get artists in heaps of trouble. You'd need to pay someone to draw it or do it yourself which is expensive until you have a friend doing an online apprenticeship needing practice. Simpler bolder designs always last better.
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    petermcpete reacted to somewhatfoolish in LightBulbFun's Invacar & general ramble thread, index on page 1, survivors lists on Pages 24/134 & AdgeCutler's Invacar Mk12 Restoration from Page 186 onwards, still harping on...   
    Troll you are. No quantity of smilies will change that. Much as I disagree with the modding policy on here it's against the rules.
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    petermcpete reacted to Out Run in LightBulbFun's Invacar & general ramble thread, index on page 1, survivors lists on Pages 24/134 & AdgeCutler's Invacar Mk12 Restoration from Page 186 onwards, still harping on...   
    Looks straight to me, too. Nice work.
    We'll have to critique LBF's parking skills, to the nth degree, if he gets the Ali G motor on the road. 😬
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    petermcpete reacted to DodgyBastard in LightBulbFun's Invacar & general ramble thread, index on page 1, survivors lists on Pages 24/134 & AdgeCutler's Invacar Mk12 Restoration from Page 186 onwards, still harping on...   
    For the oil change I'd recommend parking over a drain to catch all of the oil but be careful not to drop the sump plug in there.
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    petermcpete reacted to JJ0063 in LightBulbFun's Invacar & general ramble thread, index on page 1, survivors lists on Pages 24/134 & AdgeCutler's Invacar Mk12 Restoration from Page 186 onwards, still harping on...   
    I do and to be honest the claims side of things isn’t my area.
    The closest info that I do work with on a daily basis which to be honest should be known by everyone is that even if a vehicle is MOT exempt, it still has to be completely road legal and if an accident were to occur and it was deemed the car wasn’t roadworthy then it could of course then open up a whole can of worms from claims being voided to god knows what if the worst were to happen. 
     
    Im genuinely shocked that it’s even been suggested that LBF continues to drive it ‘if he’s careful and doesn’t go too far’
    This is currently in short a barn/field find vehicle that someone has stuck a new fuel tank in, few little odd jobs and put on the road FFS.
    Why is anything other than locating a classic car garage/specialist and asking them to make it roadworthy being considered? If you buy a car like this surely you have considered the fact that you can’t rely on people to do all the work for you at no cost to yourself? Yes I’ve read previous posts but this thread has turned lately and it’s now gone from interesting to a bit surprising to be honest. 
    From what this thread suggests and please forgive me if I’ve missed anything, so far you’ve had the car moved around  the country and had any labour along with some parts all for free - that is both bloody kind and lovely at the same time. 
    If I were you LBF I’d look at this two ways from here onward.. you either need to ask the SD1 owner as suggested or ring around locally etc to get someone to take it on - an Invacar is nothing compared to some of the specialist cars that will be maintained in London!
    If funding a proper few hours work by a garage isn’t financially viable then I think you need to accept that this REV needs to go into storage or stopped being used until you’ve been able to save some money to do the above. 
     
     
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    petermcpete reacted to Split_Pin in LightBulbFun's Invacar & general ramble thread, index on page 1, survivors lists on Pages 24/134 & AdgeCutler's Invacar Mk12 Restoration from Page 186 onwards, still harping on...   
    I have just read through the last 5 pages.
    You have an unbelievable attitude towards people whom have tried to help you LBF.
    You press that you are grateful and don't mean to come across as otherwise, but you do and you can't take that back now.
    Unless you have Jedi levels of spannering ability to fix something quickly at the roadside then in my opinion this Invacar should be a weekend toy and no more, with a more conventional and dependable daily to get you from A to B. Especially if you are looking for a job. I wouldn't buy some of the projects I have unless I and my wife both had other cars to use whilst the project sulked in the corner when things don't always go right.
    I wish you the best with this but unless you start listening to some of the advice on here about re-evaluating the project, its not going to end well.
    I'll probably get shot down for the above but, well, more fool them.
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    petermcpete reacted to dozeydustman in LightBulbFun's Invacar & general ramble thread, index on page 1, survivors lists on Pages 24/134 & AdgeCutler's Invacar Mk12 Restoration from Page 186 onwards, still harping on...   
    I need to concur with Red5 and a couple of others here. You can daily a classic quite easily if it’s been in regular use. REV, as far as I can tell, spent an amount of time off the road before being transported to the FoD, where it sat on grass doing nowt. Recommissioning something after an amount of time of disuse isn’t a couple of weeks’ work in many cases, and REV is far from ready to be on the road IMHO - while a historic vehicle doesn’t require an MoT, it still needs to be roadworthy.
     I do not think the seat in REV, if it’s standard, will offer you any support for your fragile back - I think you should consider quite seriously a sensible small car (Micra, Yaris, 107/108) as a daily vehicle and keep REV as a weekend plaything to gallivant around in and tinker with
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    petermcpete reacted to loserone in LightBulbFun's Invacar & general ramble thread, index on page 1, survivors lists on Pages 24/134 & AdgeCutler's Invacar Mk12 Restoration from Page 186 onwards, still harping on...   
    To be fair, it sounds like Adam has done a pretty good job of freeing off and getting working just enough of the bits you need to get a good start.  And to do that for free is pretty spectacular.
    Any car as old as this left standing for this long will keep finding significant issues for a while unless you did a whole car restoration before getting it anywhere near a road.  And I'd have thought that would be close to £10k of work though.
     
    As is, it looks like you have started the overwhelming process of realising that you have an old car on the road and that it's always going to need stuff and it's never easy or convenient.
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    petermcpete reacted to Conrad D. Conelrad in Rolling mot exception ending?   
    The MOT exception was such an awful idea. You wouldn't believe some of the stuff I've seen since it came in. 
    My cousin has an old Mercedes with no indicators, so he carries a loudhailer into which he yells "I am turning left" or "I am turning right" My next door neighbour is running an old Land Rover with no brakes, only a large parachute At a car show I overheard a man boasting that he 3D prints his own tyres out of hard plastic so they don't wear out so quickly My local NHS trust switched its entire ambulance fleet to Bedford CAs so they wouldn't have to MOT them anymore At the same hospital, a man woke up from a 40 year coma and while leaving the car park in his old car crashed into a vending machine, spoiling the snacks inside At another car show I saw a Capri where the speedo was clearly inoperative I could go on, but these are all made up because it's been like, a decade since the MOT exemption came in and nothing bad has happened. 
     
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    petermcpete reacted to M'coli in The Doctor's travels through time. Fin.   
    Save that pish for a blue forum, man, AS has never been that way.
    I'm a big believer in, "don't do something attention-seeking if you can't cope with the attention it creates".
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    petermcpete reacted to loserone in Group Buy: 1982 Ford Escort bASe. Purchased.   
    But hey, some good folk might have more loose change than me.  Do it with long term forum friends, export it to Belgium, crowd fund some tyres, WCPGW?
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    petermcpete reacted to JayB in Most stupid message while flogging a shiter   
    I had a bit of a nightmare trying to sell my Daihatsu Sirion last year. I did enjoy this exchange though... 
     

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    petermcpete reacted to TripleRich in 1975 Ford Granada Coupe - Lots & lots of tinkering   
    Its running!  Pulled some late nights and fitted the gearbox, driveshaft and exhaust ready for the big moment.
    Doesn't matter how many times you do it its always a bit scary.  This one especially being my own car!  Here's a short vid of the first cough then start and some initial tuning.

    First Start.mp4 I'm now working my way through the various jobs left to do including some engine teething issues such as...
    Fuel leak from carb - already fixed it, filter bolt wasn't tight Valve clearances need doing Oil leak from crank pulley due to it being in very poor condition -  I'll swap it for another one Temp sender doesn't work It needs tuning/ setting up but to only have those 4 small issues so far is fantastic.  I've had it much worse in the past on other engines.
    Lots of little jobs left to do but I can relax a bit now, the hard stuff is done.
     
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    petermcpete got a reaction from DSdriver in eBay tat volume 3.   
    That's the one, bloody expensive now though!
    https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-4379810/Twin-engine-Citroen-2CV-Sahara-sells-68-000.html
     
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    petermcpete got a reaction from Mr Laurence in eBay tat volume 3.   
    That's the one, bloody expensive now though!
    https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-4379810/Twin-engine-Citroen-2CV-Sahara-sells-68-000.html
     
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    petermcpete reacted to barrett in eBay tat volume 3.   
    I'm too old to get stressed out about people ruining old cars with half-arsed modifications like I used to (certain exceptions apply of course), but I definitely get properly wound up about people making a start on their half-arsed mods and then selling of the project halfway through because they CBA finishing it off. That Minor is an excellent example - it looked like it was pretty much ready to go in the first pic, and a really late Traveller in that proper '70s colour would make such a nice little car to run around in. Now it is literally just a pile of scrap. I suppose if you have a rotten Traveller you could transfer all the rear bodywork over to this one, but then you'd have to paint it and that would destroy the lovely patina... these people are just thick and really shouldn't be allowed to own old cars.
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    petermcpete got a reaction from LightBulbFun in eBay tat volume 3.   
    These are owned by an old workmate of mine, he bought a giffers house about 3 years ago and the chap left the cars there. Two are totally beyond repair. The third is actually quite nice, he asked me to come and see if I could get it running. After a bit of fettling got it running ok off an external tank, my god it was smoky to start off with! Just needed a new fuel pump from what I remember.
     
    There was a tasty Wartburg camper type thing too (can be seen in the background) - that just needed a fuel pump too, was the same type of engine as the others. Must be a weak point on these.
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    petermcpete got a reaction from Kringle in eBay tat volume 3.   
    These are owned by an old workmate of mine, he bought a giffers house about 3 years ago and the chap left the cars there. Two are totally beyond repair. The third is actually quite nice, he asked me to come and see if I could get it running. After a bit of fettling got it running ok off an external tank, my god it was smoky to start off with! Just needed a new fuel pump from what I remember.
     
    There was a tasty Wartburg camper type thing too (can be seen in the background) - that just needed a fuel pump too, was the same type of engine as the others. Must be a weak point on these.
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    petermcpete got a reaction from Mr Laurence in eBay tat volume 3.   
    These are owned by an old workmate of mine, he bought a giffers house about 3 years ago and the chap left the cars there. Two are totally beyond repair. The third is actually quite nice, he asked me to come and see if I could get it running. After a bit of fettling got it running ok off an external tank, my god it was smoky to start off with! Just needed a new fuel pump from what I remember.
     
    There was a tasty Wartburg camper type thing too (can be seen in the background) - that just needed a fuel pump too, was the same type of engine as the others. Must be a weak point on these.
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    petermcpete got a reaction from Asimo in eBay tat volume 3.   
    Ah...l think I'm getting confused...the other ones that were good are for sale separately!
    Some proper tat in that back garden.
    https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/675506136379331
    https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2618165821798949
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