Mally

Many years ago I had a lucrative sideline taking my fellow workmates cars for MOT in my lunch hour.
Mainly lucrative because I generally got the work.
My late wife drove all the failures that I ended up with for next to nowt.
Think Allegro, Ambassador, Mini, etc. She was over the moon years later when she bought a brand new 205 with her own money.
My latest flame has a Kia Picanto Auto, owned from new 6 years ago. Around 5K on the clock now.
She passed her test in a manual years ago and bought an auto first car, by mistake. 
Had to buy Auto's ever since because she forgot how to use a clutch! 
 

Many years ago I had a lucrative sideline taking my fellow workmates cars for MOT in my lunch hour.
Mainly lucrative because I generally got the work.
My late wife drove all the failures that I ended up with for next to nowt.
Think Allegro, Ambassador, Mini, etc. She was over the moon years later when she bought a brand new 205 with her own money.
My latest flame has a Kia Picanto Auto, owned from new 6 years ago. Around 5K on the clock now.
She passed her test in a manual years ago and bought an auto first car, by mistake. 
Had to buy Auto's ever since because she forgot how to use a clutch! 
 

He did mention the gears.
I'm on the insurance  but I can't see me getting behind the wheel except in an emergency.
My old fella started trying to squeeze through gaps that weren't there aged 72 and I'm a little* older.
 

New * Yaris just back from having signs. Had a lot of scratches but they are all hidden now.
It's a spare car just in case.



Nothing much to report, recent weekends racing have been cancelled, next weekend is cancelled all because of rain.
Work on Luton van is progressing slowly. Photos of that after my hols, when I'm hoping for Sun.

New * Yaris just back from having signs. Had a lot of scratches but they are all hidden now.
It's a spare car just in case.



Nothing much to report, recent weekends racing have been cancelled, next weekend is cancelled all because of rain.
Work on Luton van is progressing slowly. Photos of that after my hols, when I'm hoping for Sun.

New * Yaris just back from having signs. Had a lot of scratches but they are all hidden now.
It's a spare car just in case.



Nothing much to report, recent weekends racing have been cancelled, next weekend is cancelled all because of rain.
Work on Luton van is progressing slowly. Photos of that after my hols, when I'm hoping for Sun.

New * Yaris just back from having signs. Had a lot of scratches but they are all hidden now.
It's a spare car just in case.



Nothing much to report, recent weekends racing have been cancelled, next weekend is cancelled all because of rain.
Work on Luton van is progressing slowly. Photos of that after my hols, when I'm hoping for Sun.

New * Yaris just back from having signs. Had a lot of scratches but they are all hidden now.
It's a spare car just in case.



Nothing much to report, recent weekends racing have been cancelled, next weekend is cancelled all because of rain.
Work on Luton van is progressing slowly. Photos of that after my hols, when I'm hoping for Sun.

Might get a Couple of stripes, motor home style. Has a few scratches high up. Wouldn't bother me, but it's not mine.
Won't be race van stickered, although it is insured as a race van.

These tend to last. 
The Stock car  signs cost twice the price and could last one race if you rolled it.
About 3K there all in.  13K for a low spec F2

New * Yaris just back from having signs. Had a lot of scratches but they are all hidden now.
It's a spare car just in case.



Nothing much to report, recent weekends racing have been cancelled, next weekend is cancelled all because of rain.
Work on Luton van is progressing slowly. Photos of that after my hols, when I'm hoping for Sun.

These tend to last. 
The Stock car  signs cost twice the price and could last one race if you rolled it.
About 3K there all in.  13K for a low spec F2

New * Yaris just back from having signs. Had a lot of scratches but they are all hidden now.
It's a spare car just in case.



Nothing much to report, recent weekends racing have been cancelled, next weekend is cancelled all because of rain.
Work on Luton van is progressing slowly. Photos of that after my hols, when I'm hoping for Sun.

Never mind, at least you can read* the registration

May be waiting for this vote to decide if they are allowed to. 😂

Ha ha, I left out the other sister thing today as being too fantastical. She's started another miracle diet, I think it's one of those where you have like 800 calories a day in packet soup etc, and starve yourself thin. While giving them £70 a week for food* supplies.
So it's day 3, are we by any chance going near Staniforths? Well no, wasn't planning on it. Why?
Surprise, we are going there, her diet needs a fuck off cream cake. But it's ok, the diet is based on ketones as well as 800 calories, so cakes are in.

Home. Bang on 200miles. Pretty respectable economy. I did get above 40mpg until I got near home and decided to have some fun. 

Need to figure why that airbag light is on. Code reader wasn't exactly clear what was the problem. Something about no communication with a Right Satellite module?

Motorboating?

May be waiting for this vote to decide if they are allowed to. 😂

I’ll stick another poll up to see what people think 👍

They do, limp mode. I'm guessing you've never owned a Peugeot?

Returning home from Kings Lynn Stock cars and must have got carried away. 
Know the route very well but I'm not normally driving.

Last weekend was the VSCC Light Car Section Welsh weekend. this year marked 100 years since the RAC Small Car Trials, which inspired the event, and in which a Palladium did exceedingly well over 1000 miles of hard test driving at the hands of its designer H F Smallwood. Since the aim has always been to take my Palladium on this event it was absolutely essential that it was back up and running in time. Sadly it hasn't been driven for about 4 years, since it suffered some mechanical problems (on the way home from Wales, funnily enough) which resulted in a load of water in Number 4 cylinder and a couple of bent valves. Anyway, we rallied some troops and had a mad week of putting it all back together (absolutely minimal input from myself, obviously) and a few days before the trip it was running for the first time and sounding nice and healthy. I did a quick trip round the block and all seemed well, so all that was left was to keep a positive attitude and pack lots of tools. Here's how things looked after about 100 miles.

And approaching the border

Noo hood or weather equipment wasn't great considering we were in the grip of Storm Kathleen, but the weather was pretty kind on the way up and I did 200 miles behind the wheel with no problems whatsoever. Made it to Wales and spent two days fannying about, actually much more challenging than the drive up, driving on small roads with lots of hills etc. Here it is in the middle of a section through normally-closed Forestry Commission roads

It shed a sidelamp lens going over a nasty bump annoyingly. Here it is resting at the summit of Bwlch-Y-Groes, 'the Welsh Terror', a absolutely nasty very long climb which saw off a few competitors back in 1924, but which the Pall sailed up without any problems (in first gear)

And here it is going down the other side

After all that, we set off quite early on Sunday. The first leg was quite tough going with awful rain and wind, but the last 100 miles were pretty great going.

Got back by 6pm which was alright. The best part of 700 miles covered in four days, which might not sound like much but it takes a huge amount of concentration and energy to drive this thing at speed. Apart from a blocked slow runnning jet there were zero mechanical issues for the whole weekend. The number plate bolts came loose, one of the wing valances sheered the rivets holding it in and was rattling around, I think the gearbox is possibly even nosier than it was before but otherwise it was smooth sailing! So glad to actually get this heap to Wales and re-enact the 1924 event, which was the marque's most notable achievement, particularly on this anniversary year. Next stop: get a hood made.
 

47 in a 40.  Long while since I had my last classroom stint.
Hope I get  chance of another.