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  1. Yoss

    Stars in Shite

    Here he is with Mrs Peel in his Bentley with that same Jag in the background. And standing in Mrs Peel's Lotus with the Jag in the background again. Excellent bit of Woollarding on the Bentley. He was using this 1930 Bentley in most series as his daily driver in the 1960s but towards the end he chopped it in for a 1923 Silver Ghost. As an everyday car in 1969. Seeing as he is supposed to be a secret agent it's not very inconspicuous. You can't hide in it! But that wasn't really the point was it.
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    Ambitious towbars

    From the DDR museum in Dresden.
  3. Hmm... Well I don't think I have anything planned next weekend and it would give me an excuse to give one of the cars a proper run. And I could do a good proportion of it on the A272 on the way out at least. I love the A272 but it's nightmare with other people on it but if I leave home at 8 o'clock on a Sunday morning it should be relatively free of idiots. Apart from me, but I mean the normal idiots. TL,DR, put me down as a possible.
  4. ^^ My heated rear window was never reconnected when the previous owner fitted a new tailgate so I've not had that issue. It would probably be fairly easy to reinstate but I've never bothered. The amount of condensation in there makes them next to useless anyway (it still works in the blue car so I can confirm this). It's far more effective to open the windows.
  5. That's interesting as mine has thing where the rear fog light warning light comes on slightly when you select reverse. You can only see it at night and it doesn't seem to be affecting the lights themselves, they still come on separately as required. This is only on the green car which is a mk2 like yours. The mk1 has a completely different set up with eight plungers in the tailgate and brass contacts on the body. Four on each side as can be seen here. So there is no physical connection between the electrics in the tailgate and the rest of the car. On the face of it this seems like lots of extra complication and a recipe for problems but, so far at least, they have been faultless. The only problem I've had in that area is that occasionally the reverse light bulbs have vibrated themselves out of their holders but that's nothing to do with above system.
  6. I was parked I hasten to add even though it doesn't look like it.
  7. Unless you turn up at school kicking out time. Although if they did turn up then you might be able to show them one of your other problems.
  8. It's to prevent cloning which is fair enough if you have a grey mk7 Golf but to clone this you would have to have another 1958 Cambridge so it does seem rather pointless.
  9. That's a very late registered 2000. I know a lot of people here frown on minilites but they look good on there. Probably 15". What with that and the Witor exhaust I very much would. There is no car in the world that sounds better than a big Triumph with a Witor exhaust. I'll admit I've never heard a BRM H16 but certainly no road car.
  10. You spent longer looking than I did obviously. Shame they've written Getty images over Sonya's face.
  11. And did have a song about a Fiat 500. That always helps.
  12. You like your Lush don't you? These aren't the first pictures you've posted of them. I'm more of an Echobelly man myself but I can't find any pictures of them with cars in.
  13. That I can't tell you. I know what happens but I don't know how or why.
  14. I never did the starter motor on one but I did have to change the alternator on RM 2213. It is just like a car but bigger, obviously. You do it from underneath but you don't need to jack it up, just take the grille off and lie underneath. Interesting* fun fact: the interior illuminated advert panel at the front downstairs runs directly off the alternator. If that stops working it's a sure sign the alternator is bolloxed. Most vehicles just have a small ignition light on the dashboard. Routemasters have a big fluorescent advert panel.
  15. Seems like it's starter motor season. Green Favorit has been getting slow to start recently especially in the morning which you would think would point to a flat battery. I even went as far as putting a spare battery and jump leads in the boot as a precaution. Then on Monday night we drove in to town and as I was reversing in to a space I stalled it and when I went to restart it seemed like the battery was flat. This made me wonder if the alternator was charging as we had just driven in to town with the lights on but the warning light wasn't on. As we were blocking the car park I just decided to push it in to the space and go and have something to eat, which is why were there in the first place, and worry about it afterwards. Like I say there was a spare battery in the boot and if all else failed we could bump start it, it's not a heavy car. Came back from our meal and it started first time! Drove home with just the sidelights on just in case. So I went out next morning when it was cold. The battery on its own was on 12.6v and with it running (it started easily) was on 14.4v which would suggest the battery and alternator are fine. I had been wondering about the motor itself they can draw more power than they are supposed to if they are starting to seize up, I'd imagine. So I dug out the old Felicia motor that didn't fit blue Fav about two weeks ago (see about three posts back). They are definitely the same type this time. Felicia one on the right, Fav on the left The one I just removed had a sticker on saying guarantee void if removed which I thought was odd because you'd have to remove it if it was faulty. Then I realised it probably meant if the sticker was removed. But apart from that it had no other markings at all. Whereas the Felly one had this on the back. And if you look very closely it says made in Czech Republic on the body so I'm thinking this is a quality original part and the other one is cheap German copy made for Volkswagens. Anyway, the job itself was exactly the same as on the blue car except there isn't quite as much room what with the bigger engine. It's down there under the fan and the power steering reservoir and all those hoses. The teeth on the old one are bit worn but nothing like the one on the blue car. so we shall see what happens now, but I'll keep the spare battery in the boot for a while longer just in case.
  16. I've done the same with our old Royal Mail Transits. Most of them were 05 reg, mine was LC55 GOX. I used to do an early morning business run and would always try and park in the same spot when I got back. This day I couldn't because there was already another van there. So I went back inside, did some more stuff and when I came back out I forgot I'd parked somewhere else and got straight in to the other van. It was only after I'd sat there for a few seconds I felt something wasn't right. All the rubbish was in different places for a start. I thought maybe the other guy had left it unlocked so I put the key in the door and it operated the lock as easy as if it was the right key. So out of curiosity I went and tried another Transit and it was exactly the same. Turns out you could open any Transit with any Transit key. These were the early 2000s Ford keys that were like a shaft with a series of flats machined in to them. We didn't have central locking on them so we had to unlock them manually every time and had to do so maybe 100 times a day so they obviously wore out rather quickly.
  17. Holy shit, I've hit the jackpot. Two Lancia Dedras! This is not the same car twice, this is looking in both directions from the same spot, that spot being near Ruse station on the Bulgarian/Romanian border. And in between the two Dedras, two dodgy blokes messing around with an old Passat. And all three together. Shame it was 12 years ago, I doubt they've lasted this long.
  18. My mum has one of those, she's had it from new. It was even the same colour once. When she first got it she had some vinyl leaves made up to stick all over it. Big ones. And lots of them. After she crashed it a couple of times she decided to have it painted Honda Jazz Pink and stuck lots of fake crystals in strategic places. Then she crashed it a couple more times but only minor ones so we have the odd cable tie holding the bumper on here and there. Funnily enough I've never taken a picture of it. I'm not going to tell you how accurate you are there.
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    Bus Shite

    I do already have this one. It's a nice book with English captions under the Czech ones and everything is listed chronologically so you end up with trams, trains and trolleybuses on the same page and you never know what's coming next.
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    Bus Shite

    @Dyslexic Viking, look what you made me do! I suddenly felt there was a gap in my knowledge that needed filling.
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    Bus Shite

    It's almost like they finished building it then realised they'd forgotten the engine.
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    Bus Shite

    If I don't ask are you going to tell us anyway?
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    Bus Shite

    The reason they are all called 706s is apparently because they are built on the same chassis. The buses look so stylish, in my biased opinion, but perhaps they might be rather agricultural to travel on. But I have a chance to find out as I've found one for sale in Plovdiv, Bulgaria which is good because it's somewhere I've always wanted to visit. It's a bit pricey even if it's a quality restoration so far. Power looks decent. 160hp from 11.7litres seems about the same as you'd expect from a Leyland or AEC of the same era. The advert, which I used Google to translate from Bulgarian says the bodywork is finished, the engine works and it is drivable and all parts are present except the seats. So all I have to do is pop over to Bulgaria for a week or so, refit all the windows and lights and drive it back. Perhaps I could stop off in CZ to find some seats on the way. They came in bus and coach versions. I'm off this week too. This a coach seated one. Simple but comfy looking perhaps? But look at the cab. It is front engined. I'd be fighting over that front passenger seat but I suspect normals would be trying to sit as near the back as possible. And not really suitable for one man operation.
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    Bus Shite

    It will be a Škoda 706 of some sort. Probably a 706 RTO. I don't know why but it seems all their commercial vehicles of the time were 706s wether bus or lorry then they had a two or three letter suffix for the individual model but I don't know enough about them to say any more.
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