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"little blue fucker" is that you giving it... a name?! on a more serious note, sadly not yet, but I have been informed after a bunch of parts swapping a workable carb has been put together from the 2, and she is running again, with tuning planned for Monday hopefully I think the plan is to then get the choke control/cable un-seized, and after that im not sure you will have to ask Red5! but I know she still needs her exhaust down pipe patched or replaced and she also needs a full service/fluid change and grease up, so hopefully those issues will be attended to in the near future

ah thats much appreciated depends how rough is rough, how is the other end out of shot? im not worried about a bit of surface rust, it can be stripped back and repainted, but if it has broken lamp holders or such, then its probably game over sadly but would still be good to strip for parts to help with other Atlas Atlantic 2's in other peoples collections

if your able to save the fixture and hold onto it for me for when I am able to collect it or have it collected that would be much appreciated, id be more than happy to exchange a few beer tokens to make it worth while for you? (out of curiosity are there any other fixtures or fluorescent tubes in the garage?) if its too much faff or such I understand! I just figured id ask to be safe rather then sorry

the wheel cylinders are Girling 64673476 and im PRETTY sure that GWC1208 are suitable equivalent (twas what I had researched to be compatible with the above girling part No) although I have not personally actually tried, this exact set https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/371257751842 Is what I was planning on ordering to do REV's brakes from before I knew she was going Red5's way brake shoes are Girling GBB45774CF which are the same as Spitfire Mk1-4 rear brake shoes IIRC and are readily available everywhere AFAIK! (as an aside, brake components are the same on 12 and 10 inch wheeled cars, so if you find yourself with bits from a 12 inch car you can still use those ) hope this helps

if you dont mind me asking, whats happening with the garage itself? more specifically that fluorescent fixture in shot? I ask, as its a pretty rare Atlas Atlantic 2 from the early 1960's that id love to see saved if possible and I would be more then happy to take it off your hands if its being removed or such!

Yeah, book it, and then we can work out/worry about who else wants the chalet from there (even if I end up on my own it will be worth the £100, and im sure* out of the 30+ people going someone will be sober enough to take me there and back each night) dont worry I can also ramble on about Lightbulbs, Routemasters and computers almost just as well!

well theres still a couple months to go, who knows maybe by then you will own something, that I can actually get Temporary insurance on otherwise good to know and sounds good to me once again its much appreciated! you can count me as game for both nights

thats twice on here now I have gotten my V6's confused for my straight six's! (the first time was when the Red forum bike, Jag was doing the rounds, I wonder what happened to that in the end)

had to go somewhere to get some help with an upcoming PIP tribunal, and while waiting for the bus near home, this Jeep Cherokee pulled up at the lights proper 4L V6 one too for bonus points

that could work nicely! as long as @beko1987 is still game for giving himself PTSD by picking me up from near central London! just want to double check, when you say take me back monday, am I correct in saying that is from your place, so I would be staying Thursday night and Sunday Night at your place? (so I only need to book the chalet for the 2 shitefest nights?)

so what your saying is I should bring with me a basket of eggs? gotta be careful what you say there as @Crackers might just be able to have that arranged!

I wonder if @Six-cylinder's Ami will be there? having driven a 2CV im quite eager to see what the 2 major derivative types are like in comparison (although I dont know if the actual field portion is available? or if its full of lambs again!) so I am more then happy to help* out, especially so if I can blag a drive around the FoD not that I can claim to be any good at mechanical work, it took me about one and a half hours just to replace the ground strap on my car... regardless I am pleased to hear the Dyane will be visiting once more I was disappointed in myself that I missed it the last 2 times, so hopefully 3rd times the charm! same with @Crackers's in the Landy, after I missed @mat_the_cat's visit with his Landy! I am glad there will still be one there for me to look over

I just want to say that Like is for the Scarab and Pop up head lamps in general and to make sure that no one accuses me of liking LED tat LOL (as an aside, aside from being LED's (and yall know my thought on those are LOL) I find atheistically these particular style of 7 inch LED head lamp always look quite naff, black soulless almost, looks like your staring into dead eyes if that makes sense) but my usual grumblings about LEDs aside its also very awesome to see progress with the Exo is happening! hopefully not long until the next visit to the Ministry man?

@Sunny Jim mentioned theres a chalet available for booking which might be suitable? I have been wondering if anyone else was planning on booking it, id be happy to split the costs then the only problem id have to solve is actually getting to it from the site LOL

Driving lessons for me where about £28 an hour, but because Central London, they where always 2 hour lessons, as you couldn't actually go anywhere in an hour, so swings and roundabouts and all that! @Eyersey1234 glad to see your changing instructor without too much hesitation one of the "bad" things I did was stick with an instructor who's methods did not get on with me, as I was thinking of the mind set of a bad workman blames his tools, but when I switched instructors things improved quite a bit! another thing I find helps, is if you can take your daughter to the FoD or such location where she can drive some actual autoshite cars I learnt Clutch control in a Lada Riva which meant for me when I started proper driving school lessons, clutch control was about the one issue I never had on my road to learning how to drive LOL and then later on I drove quite a few cars round the FoD, and the 2CV especially, boosted my confidence enormously, such a lovely car to drive and bomb around in, it was pretty much the only car beside my own that I felt relaxed driving in at the time I found doing that, going around the FoD, with no instructors or other external traffic, road rules or where your going to worry about, helped me a lot, as I was able to just focus on having a good time and getting an actual feel for this whole driving malarky and by working on getting the actual driving aspects into muscle memory so to speak, freed up brain space for focusing on all the other stuff that comes with driving on the public highway, like roundabouts LOL although I imagine a lot of this probably helped me, because of my actual *want* to drive, where as a lot of people only drive as a means to get from A to B and im not sure how much it would help them!

Just giving a fair warning, looks like ill be able to make this gathering its been far too long since I Have been able to make it to a FoD gathering, I sadly wont be visiting in REV, but Im very much looking forward to it still! (really hoping we can get the Bedford CF going, thats my personal goal)

interesting! I figured it was a fuel related fire as their aint much else to catch fire in a Model 70!, guess the standard equipment fire extinguisher came in handy then! and I imagine once the engine was shut off, it would of stopped the fuel pump and literally run out of fuel to burn, what im surprised about is that the fibreglass itself did not just go up, I have seen a few Reliants burn completely to the ground, but from what I have seen, Model 70's are surprisingly fire resistant for what they are made of! (or the fire extinguisher they came with was very effective!) there are supposed to be fuel clips there, it even states so in the workshop manual, but it seems like they where lost over time by people working on the cars being lazy about it so thats no fault of the Model 70, in the same way that in any car, leaving off the fuel hose clips is asking for similar trouble!

yeah thats exactly what my thought is, as to what happened to it, but even an Approved repairer would have a normally setup disposal system, so you would have expected even an unplanned withdrawal to still go to that yard with all the other cars, much like how @Mrs6C's Mk12 came to survive (where the scrap yard was disposing of Invacars for a time and then XWC came in a while later after the "main batch" and so was just stashed to one side rather then broken up) I almost wonder if, this Model 70 never made it back to the Approved repairs yard, in that it caught fire and it was just taken straight from the roadside to this dumping ground of cars, back then the Ministry was a lot more lose over their grip on things, so the approved repairer could of said "yeah it caught fire so I just had the roadside recovery man dispose of it as he saw fit" hence it ending up in a non contracted yard, I also did wonder if perhaps it was stolen and joy ridden and then an attempt made to burn it out? but neither of these would explain the missing controls (unless the approved repair went out of their way, to the dumping ground to salvage them after the fact) and as mentioned previously its notable in that it does not have a scrapped marker against it, so as you say most odd! I sadly dont have any inside pictures to look for clues as to what it may of been fitted with often times even with controls removed or reconfigured, there will be witness marks, of what was once there, to give us some clues, like the screw holes and missing sections of floor rubber in REV from when she was some sort of foot control machine (of which Im still curious about, since said witness marks dont line up with any normal foot pedal brackets so I do wonder if by foot control, they meant it in the most literal sense that she had no hand controls at all, but sadly other than who all her keepers where, I have little in the way of history for REV, for example I dont have any period photos sadly) or the remaining foot pedal brackets in one of the Handle bar cars found in the TWC/TPA Field (which I wonder was converted because of a change in user, or if because the user had a disability that got worse over time so went from being able to use their feet to being unable to so had the pedals removed?)

Yeah yeah I know bite me! but I just couldn't help myself, especially as this my thread and I cant let something like that slide! (at least you didn't say AC invacar which is like saying "its a Rover Ford!") it literally says in the thread title "AdgeCutlers Invacar Mk12" like come on man LOL plus I have been looking for an excuse to post about those AC Trailers for a while now and you gave me the perfect opening

they didn't* because Brian is an Invacar Mk12E, the only thing AC about it is the Parallelogram front suspension although to be pedantic to myself, the Heat exchanger of this type was a standardised Ministry part common to all Villiers machines of this specification (including AC types) but it would of been manufactured by an external company and supplied in, so its not an Invacar part either! (*AFAIK! AC made everything from Golf bags to Rail buses so who actually knows!) AC did make Trailers during the war, which may of been used for guns of some kind? but I have not been able to find much on them sadly

im curious, you use this lovely car pretty regularly which is really awesome to see how many have you clocked up in it? I really do love how its being used, as it would of been 71 (bloody hell) years ago, not too many modern upgrades much, still its glorious flat head straight 8 driveline, its just been expertly fettled back into good health just wonderful to see because you just dont see this anymore, I love how its not even a weekend only toy I love how its just used as a "alright i need to get something from the shops" and you look at the driveway and go yeah ill take the Chieftain, type car still

looks like a nice old thing now you just need a Mercedes camper van, and a Sinclair C5, bonus points if its also husky powered those number plates need to go tho! they are making my teeth itch! (thinking about it, given that RHD Lada production started only in 1973, I dont think there where any Lada's in the UK in period with white on black plates? unless there where some diplomatic cars over here before then or such?)

twas just doing some DVLA bashing after a tip off about a possible princess and managed to unearth up XVC951X for the list curiously in a sea of Land Rovers and Range Rovers go figure!

if you hold shift while hitting enter/return (carriage return) then it wont automatically double line break like so (you can also copy it into a text editor, fix it and then paste it back, in plain text if needed to get rid of any residual formatting/colourations)

its quite interesting to see inside one of these at long last! im hoping someone will slice open a Model 70 one at some point, I know those are somewhat sought after so it would be good to find out how they are put together and if they are reproducible or not its fitting you should post one of Brians wheels with Hubcap like that, as one of the side projects I have been looking at pictures over, is the 12 inch Ministry Wheel hubcap see what you have there is the Standard hubcap fitted to AFAIK, All Invacar Mk12's and AC and Invacar Model 70's and possibly most Model 67's but I had noticed that Early Metal Acedes had a different type of hubcap fitted with a pointy profile instead of a pressed in middle which you can see in these pictures here, I always thought these hubcaps where something only fitted to earlier Metal AC Acedes, but looking at my pictures shows them to actually be fitted to most if not all Metal Acedes, and even all the way up until at least the earliest Model 67's even heres a picture of RPA509E, part of the very First AC Model 67 block, and you noticed its got the same hubcaps, I just never noticed until I looked closely, because the reflectiveness makes it hard to see the fine lines! and heres a couple example of later metal Acedes with the pointy hub caps fitted some of which which where sometimes body coloured as well and heres an example of an Earlier Invacar with the standard dished hubcap, which leads me to believe that the dished in hub cap was the standard design and that AC did their own thing heres an AC Acedes Mk14 or Mk14A Model 67 with the standard not pointy hubcap, so it looks like AC may of switched pretty quickly into the Model 67's production run but the thing is these final pictures are all current day photos, who knows if these hubcaps where original to the car or if they wore a different style in period? so more research is needed! just one of those interesting things, Im not sure when exactly AC switched over to the Invacar style of hubcap, but its interesting that there where 2 styles in the first place! sometimes its the small details that keep you on your toes