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    JimH got a reaction from DeeJay in It is just so Super (Sentinel).   
    A quick update from the last couple of weeks' work.
     
    One of the front axle swivels being fitted up. The big bit in the middle is the axle which turns in the plain bronze bushes. Lubrication of the axle is by grease which is fed down the top of the "king pin" via a copper pipe from a screw down greaser in the cab. Give each grease pot a turn every few miles.
     

     
    Another view. The taper takes the front hub and then there is a jolly big nut which is rattled up with a very butch impact driver to keep it all together.
     

     
    The bronze bush is stepped so you have a decent face to take the thrust. Normally these would be cast but when you aren't making many it is more cost efficient just to use cored bar. However, there are still a lot of cuttings. Non-ferrous cuttings get collected and weighed in. This is what the engine and front axle has yielded so far.
     

     
    Slight change of plan. The was to get rivetted in but we had no confidence that we could weedle white hot rivets into the holes from underneath without making a mess of them or killing ourselves. I suspect in the factory they turned the frames on their sides. We can't do that so the stiffening plate has been bolted in. It's not as if we are going to be towing anything, anyway. The two bits of channel are also bolted down. That is what the water tank is suspended from.
     

     
    The ash bend is getting there. It's taken a fair bit of bending, cutting, welding and grinding to get it to this stage.
     

     
    Slowly it starts to look like the piece of 1" thick ash it is meant to be. There is a lot more fettling to go yet but you can only do so much of this before you get bored and do something else for a bit.
     

     
    After a lot of cutting, grinding, measuring, grinding, trial fitting, grinding, grinding and grinding the boiler is in. Now it starts to look like a steamer. The stub at the top is the chimney base.
     

     
    And from the rear. The chequer plate is pretty much the area of the cab so you start to get a feel for how much of the cab is filled with a very large, very hot boiler. It tends to dominate the interior almost as much as the centre console does in a Panamera. The red box is the feed heater. I know it looks like it is just sitting there but the footplate has been cut to take the varius tappings and fixings on the bottom. The large piece of channel at the rear is temporary. That will be replaced with a large piece of oak.
     

     
    All neat and tidy round the footplate. Bottom angle is on to stay on hopefully. When these things were built production engineering was in its infancy and companies like Sentinel struggled to engineer their way out of a paper bag at times. This means that fits and tolerances tend to be a little wouldn't hold small coal. Historically inaccurate possibly but the thought of having gapping holes around the boiler mounts offended me. The boiler will need to come out once everything is piped up so it can be lagged.
     

     
    The wood for the cab has been ordered. That was pretty painful.
     
     
     
     
     
     
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    JimH got a reaction from catsinthewelder in It is just so Super (Sentinel).   
    A quick update from the last couple of weeks' work.
     
    One of the front axle swivels being fitted up. The big bit in the middle is the axle which turns in the plain bronze bushes. Lubrication of the axle is by grease which is fed down the top of the "king pin" via a copper pipe from a screw down greaser in the cab. Give each grease pot a turn every few miles.
     

     
    Another view. The taper takes the front hub and then there is a jolly big nut which is rattled up with a very butch impact driver to keep it all together.
     

     
    The bronze bush is stepped so you have a decent face to take the thrust. Normally these would be cast but when you aren't making many it is more cost efficient just to use cored bar. However, there are still a lot of cuttings. Non-ferrous cuttings get collected and weighed in. This is what the engine and front axle has yielded so far.
     

     
    Slight change of plan. The was to get rivetted in but we had no confidence that we could weedle white hot rivets into the holes from underneath without making a mess of them or killing ourselves. I suspect in the factory they turned the frames on their sides. We can't do that so the stiffening plate has been bolted in. It's not as if we are going to be towing anything, anyway. The two bits of channel are also bolted down. That is what the water tank is suspended from.
     

     
    The ash bend is getting there. It's taken a fair bit of bending, cutting, welding and grinding to get it to this stage.
     

     
    Slowly it starts to look like the piece of 1" thick ash it is meant to be. There is a lot more fettling to go yet but you can only do so much of this before you get bored and do something else for a bit.
     

     
    After a lot of cutting, grinding, measuring, grinding, trial fitting, grinding, grinding and grinding the boiler is in. Now it starts to look like a steamer. The stub at the top is the chimney base.
     

     
    And from the rear. The chequer plate is pretty much the area of the cab so you start to get a feel for how much of the cab is filled with a very large, very hot boiler. It tends to dominate the interior almost as much as the centre console does in a Panamera. The red box is the feed heater. I know it looks like it is just sitting there but the footplate has been cut to take the varius tappings and fixings on the bottom. The large piece of channel at the rear is temporary. That will be replaced with a large piece of oak.
     

     
    All neat and tidy round the footplate. Bottom angle is on to stay on hopefully. When these things were built production engineering was in its infancy and companies like Sentinel struggled to engineer their way out of a paper bag at times. This means that fits and tolerances tend to be a little wouldn't hold small coal. Historically inaccurate possibly but the thought of having gapping holes around the boiler mounts offended me. The boiler will need to come out once everything is piped up so it can be lagged.
     

     
    The wood for the cab has been ordered. That was pretty painful.
     
     
     
     
     
     
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    JimH got a reaction from coalnotdole in It is just so Super (Sentinel).   
    A quick update from the last couple of weeks' work.
     
    One of the front axle swivels being fitted up. The big bit in the middle is the axle which turns in the plain bronze bushes. Lubrication of the axle is by grease which is fed down the top of the "king pin" via a copper pipe from a screw down greaser in the cab. Give each grease pot a turn every few miles.
     

     
    Another view. The taper takes the front hub and then there is a jolly big nut which is rattled up with a very butch impact driver to keep it all together.
     

     
    The bronze bush is stepped so you have a decent face to take the thrust. Normally these would be cast but when you aren't making many it is more cost efficient just to use cored bar. However, there are still a lot of cuttings. Non-ferrous cuttings get collected and weighed in. This is what the engine and front axle has yielded so far.
     

     
    Slight change of plan. The was to get rivetted in but we had no confidence that we could weedle white hot rivets into the holes from underneath without making a mess of them or killing ourselves. I suspect in the factory they turned the frames on their sides. We can't do that so the stiffening plate has been bolted in. It's not as if we are going to be towing anything, anyway. The two bits of channel are also bolted down. That is what the water tank is suspended from.
     

     
    The ash bend is getting there. It's taken a fair bit of bending, cutting, welding and grinding to get it to this stage.
     

     
    Slowly it starts to look like the piece of 1" thick ash it is meant to be. There is a lot more fettling to go yet but you can only do so much of this before you get bored and do something else for a bit.
     

     
    After a lot of cutting, grinding, measuring, grinding, trial fitting, grinding, grinding and grinding the boiler is in. Now it starts to look like a steamer. The stub at the top is the chimney base.
     

     
    And from the rear. The chequer plate is pretty much the area of the cab so you start to get a feel for how much of the cab is filled with a very large, very hot boiler. It tends to dominate the interior almost as much as the centre console does in a Panamera. The red box is the feed heater. I know it looks like it is just sitting there but the footplate has been cut to take the varius tappings and fixings on the bottom. The large piece of channel at the rear is temporary. That will be replaced with a large piece of oak.
     

     
    All neat and tidy round the footplate. Bottom angle is on to stay on hopefully. When these things were built production engineering was in its infancy and companies like Sentinel struggled to engineer their way out of a paper bag at times. This means that fits and tolerances tend to be a little wouldn't hold small coal. Historically inaccurate possibly but the thought of having gapping holes around the boiler mounts offended me. The boiler will need to come out once everything is piped up so it can be lagged.
     

     
    The wood for the cab has been ordered. That was pretty painful.
     
     
     
     
     
     
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    JimH got a reaction from The Reverend Bluejeans in Crappest engine ever   
    As you use or work on a particular engine its "foibles" become more and more of an annoyance so you need to be careful that judgement on the worst isn't clouded by familiarity. It is also clear that by any objective measure massively popular engines can be terminally shite. They built plenty of Dub flat fours but at the same time no one who has rebuilt a few would argue that they were anything other than pitiful pieces of aluminium and cast iron which barely held together. The Ford CVH engine may have been very popular but short of replacing it with a washing machine half-filled with bricks it is difficult to think of a more unplesant engine to hear and feel. Other crap engines were crap because they were so laughably badly concieved that the fact they bankrupted their manufacturer could be considered a mercy. In the Museum of Real Badly Thought Out Engines the NSU wankel engine is on a flood lit plinth in the foyer. There is a long list of manufacturers who ballsed up cam chain tensioners, camshafts, cam followers, cooling systems that wouldn't and lubrication systems that didn't . And then there are the dear French who will insist on giving reliable electrics yet another bash. Shabby engineering for sure but you can hardly condemn an entire engine as the worst ever just because the VP (Valve Train Systems) signed off the wrong solution.
     
    I'm going to argue that in most cases the manufacturers had their hearts in the right place. Sure there was more than a hint of cynicism in the CVH abortion but at least the car was reasonably cheap to buy and reasonably reliable. They were trying solmething new, they were constrained by cash flow or they just plain got it wrong are all reasons to cut them some slack. 
     
    I would argue that the worst has to be judged on the chasm bewteen expectation and reality. As far as I am aware the engines installed in any Citroen DS were not bad engines per se but they were abysmal compared with the powered by some alien space technology that had dropped off planet Moon the rest of the car lead you to expect. For me - and I am forced to declare a slight bias here because I absolutley loath the sodding cars  - surely the worst engine ever made belongs to that Brazilian built Tritec abortion they put in the early MINIs. A more wheezy, rough and downright gutless piece of shit I have yet to experience. Premium. New. BMW. Premium. British. Quality. Fun. Pizazz. BRG. Colour coded roof. Quality. Union Flags. Quality. And then you drive the thing and you would have been as well in something Warsaw Pact.
     
    Oh yeah. And anything that runs on diesel. Obviously.
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    JimH got a reaction from Rocket88 in It is just so Super (Sentinel).   
    A quick update from the last couple of weeks' work.
     
    One of the front axle swivels being fitted up. The big bit in the middle is the axle which turns in the plain bronze bushes. Lubrication of the axle is by grease which is fed down the top of the "king pin" via a copper pipe from a screw down greaser in the cab. Give each grease pot a turn every few miles.
     

     
    Another view. The taper takes the front hub and then there is a jolly big nut which is rattled up with a very butch impact driver to keep it all together.
     

     
    The bronze bush is stepped so you have a decent face to take the thrust. Normally these would be cast but when you aren't making many it is more cost efficient just to use cored bar. However, there are still a lot of cuttings. Non-ferrous cuttings get collected and weighed in. This is what the engine and front axle has yielded so far.
     

     
    Slight change of plan. The was to get rivetted in but we had no confidence that we could weedle white hot rivets into the holes from underneath without making a mess of them or killing ourselves. I suspect in the factory they turned the frames on their sides. We can't do that so the stiffening plate has been bolted in. It's not as if we are going to be towing anything, anyway. The two bits of channel are also bolted down. That is what the water tank is suspended from.
     

     
    The ash bend is getting there. It's taken a fair bit of bending, cutting, welding and grinding to get it to this stage.
     

     
    Slowly it starts to look like the piece of 1" thick ash it is meant to be. There is a lot more fettling to go yet but you can only do so much of this before you get bored and do something else for a bit.
     

     
    After a lot of cutting, grinding, measuring, grinding, trial fitting, grinding, grinding and grinding the boiler is in. Now it starts to look like a steamer. The stub at the top is the chimney base.
     

     
    And from the rear. The chequer plate is pretty much the area of the cab so you start to get a feel for how much of the cab is filled with a very large, very hot boiler. It tends to dominate the interior almost as much as the centre console does in a Panamera. The red box is the feed heater. I know it looks like it is just sitting there but the footplate has been cut to take the varius tappings and fixings on the bottom. The large piece of channel at the rear is temporary. That will be replaced with a large piece of oak.
     

     
    All neat and tidy round the footplate. Bottom angle is on to stay on hopefully. When these things were built production engineering was in its infancy and companies like Sentinel struggled to engineer their way out of a paper bag at times. This means that fits and tolerances tend to be a little wouldn't hold small coal. Historically inaccurate possibly but the thought of having gapping holes around the boiler mounts offended me. The boiler will need to come out once everything is piped up so it can be lagged.
     

     
    The wood for the cab has been ordered. That was pretty painful.
     
     
     
     
     
     
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    JimH got a reaction from drum in It is just so Super (Sentinel).   
    A quick update. There are times when a lot gets done but there isn't a lot of visible progress.
     
    However, this is reasonably visible. First fit of the front axle beam hanging on by the skin of its teeth. This is meant to be held in with a slice of 1/2" plate and 4 off 3/4" whit bolts. There will also be a 1" packing piece between the axle mount and the spring. This was to lift the chassis up to increase clearance when they converted them from solids to pneumatics. This will do for starters.
     

     
    You should start to get an idea of how the front axle works. Badly, mainly.
     

     
    Can't see the join. The bend is so it fits around the boiler. These were forged originally so they looked a little rough and ready. We've tried to replicate this. Once the paint is on it you wouldn't tell the difference.
     

     
    So now the beam is in place we can go back to these bits which have lain on the floor for a few months while other things were done. A swivel. You see the big hole in the axle beam? That takes the pivot pin. Then the stub axles go through the big hole in the swivel. Ovbiously there are a few bronze bushes needed too.
     

     
    The other thing that has been started is the cab. The footplate was cut and fitted a few weeks back so now we are happy with the curve on that all the other bits of the front apron copy it. This is the 1" angle that takes the bottom of the apron plate. Bending angle is a right pain in the arse and it takes a lot of heating and tweaking to get it right. Actually, bending angle is a piece of proverbial if you have bending rolls that can take angle but we don't so we have to freehand it.
     
    A bit of 1" angle. Wow.
     

     
    See the 12 foot radius on the front section? Important bit that. It's what makes a Super look like a Super.
     
    The next bit is trickier. The angle sets the shape at the bottom of the cab but at the top where the roof is there is the ash bend. This was originally bent from a 3"x1" section of ash which was steamed and bent to shape. This wasn't very durable and if you look at period photographs (and a fair few current ones) you'll see ash bends bodged back together with plate, chewing gum and string. When we did the last one we fabricated the ash bend in steel which is somewhat more long lasting even if it is a bit of a pain to build.
     
    There is a length of 1" box section at the top and the same at the bottom. There is then 3"x 1/8th flat section on the vertical faces. Tack it all together, make it look pretty and no one would ever tell the difference. Easy to say, takes a bit longer to do. It is made easier because you are trying to replicate the curves and angles of the footplate which means you have a handy, very stiff and just at the right height jig to work from. You should be able to make out the top and bottom box sections and the front vertical being tacked into place. I was actually in the process of taking it off at this point which is why there are almost no clamps on it. You never have enough clamps. Please be a tiny bit impressed with the shape. We're pretty pleased with that.
     

     
    And the same from the other side. It got bigger than this after the picture was taken because it extends to the rear of the cab.
     

     
    Check out the curves on that. There is a lot of welding, grinding and fettling to go before it looks plausible. Good start, though.
     

     
    Things to think about while you are working. Express is falling out of favour, BTW.
     
    We now have a Sentinel drawing for a van body which looks pretty good and shouldn't be too horrific to buy the wood for so it's definitely having a big box body on it. By the way - look at the top picture (photocopied out of a sales brochure which explains the flowery language) see the rail running around the roof of the cab? That's the ash bend. This picture isn't a perfect representation of what they actually made but it is a very good image to keep you on track while you try to work out what goes where.
     

     
    Drawings from the archives. Most of the information is in there as long as you take everything with a pinch of salt.
     

     
    This, for example is the rear hub for the pnuematic converstion. Make two of these and you've nearly got a back axle. Doddle. Ish.
     
     
     
    Finally today the stiffening plate for the rear drawbar. A chunk of 1/4" plate which will be held in with 23 5/8" rivets. The bits of channel are what the water tank will hang from.
     

     
    What's next:
     
    Cab uprights to get bent
    Front footplate to cut around steering box
    Boiler to drop in
    Front axle to get on with
    Ash bend to finish
    Wood cutting list to finalise
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    JimH got a reaction from djim in It is just so Super (Sentinel).   
    A quick update from the last couple of weeks' work.
     
    One of the front axle swivels being fitted up. The big bit in the middle is the axle which turns in the plain bronze bushes. Lubrication of the axle is by grease which is fed down the top of the "king pin" via a copper pipe from a screw down greaser in the cab. Give each grease pot a turn every few miles.
     

     
    Another view. The taper takes the front hub and then there is a jolly big nut which is rattled up with a very butch impact driver to keep it all together.
     

     
    The bronze bush is stepped so you have a decent face to take the thrust. Normally these would be cast but when you aren't making many it is more cost efficient just to use cored bar. However, there are still a lot of cuttings. Non-ferrous cuttings get collected and weighed in. This is what the engine and front axle has yielded so far.
     

     
    Slight change of plan. The was to get rivetted in but we had no confidence that we could weedle white hot rivets into the holes from underneath without making a mess of them or killing ourselves. I suspect in the factory they turned the frames on their sides. We can't do that so the stiffening plate has been bolted in. It's not as if we are going to be towing anything, anyway. The two bits of channel are also bolted down. That is what the water tank is suspended from.
     

     
    The ash bend is getting there. It's taken a fair bit of bending, cutting, welding and grinding to get it to this stage.
     

     
    Slowly it starts to look like the piece of 1" thick ash it is meant to be. There is a lot more fettling to go yet but you can only do so much of this before you get bored and do something else for a bit.
     

     
    After a lot of cutting, grinding, measuring, grinding, trial fitting, grinding, grinding and grinding the boiler is in. Now it starts to look like a steamer. The stub at the top is the chimney base.
     

     
    And from the rear. The chequer plate is pretty much the area of the cab so you start to get a feel for how much of the cab is filled with a very large, very hot boiler. It tends to dominate the interior almost as much as the centre console does in a Panamera. The red box is the feed heater. I know it looks like it is just sitting there but the footplate has been cut to take the varius tappings and fixings on the bottom. The large piece of channel at the rear is temporary. That will be replaced with a large piece of oak.
     

     
    All neat and tidy round the footplate. Bottom angle is on to stay on hopefully. When these things were built production engineering was in its infancy and companies like Sentinel struggled to engineer their way out of a paper bag at times. This means that fits and tolerances tend to be a little wouldn't hold small coal. Historically inaccurate possibly but the thought of having gapping holes around the boiler mounts offended me. The boiler will need to come out once everything is piped up so it can be lagged.
     

     
    The wood for the cab has been ordered. That was pretty painful.
     
     
     
     
     
     
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    JimH got a reaction from cobblers in It is just so Super (Sentinel).   
    A quick update from the last couple of weeks' work.
     
    One of the front axle swivels being fitted up. The big bit in the middle is the axle which turns in the plain bronze bushes. Lubrication of the axle is by grease which is fed down the top of the "king pin" via a copper pipe from a screw down greaser in the cab. Give each grease pot a turn every few miles.
     

     
    Another view. The taper takes the front hub and then there is a jolly big nut which is rattled up with a very butch impact driver to keep it all together.
     

     
    The bronze bush is stepped so you have a decent face to take the thrust. Normally these would be cast but when you aren't making many it is more cost efficient just to use cored bar. However, there are still a lot of cuttings. Non-ferrous cuttings get collected and weighed in. This is what the engine and front axle has yielded so far.
     

     
    Slight change of plan. The was to get rivetted in but we had no confidence that we could weedle white hot rivets into the holes from underneath without making a mess of them or killing ourselves. I suspect in the factory they turned the frames on their sides. We can't do that so the stiffening plate has been bolted in. It's not as if we are going to be towing anything, anyway. The two bits of channel are also bolted down. That is what the water tank is suspended from.
     

     
    The ash bend is getting there. It's taken a fair bit of bending, cutting, welding and grinding to get it to this stage.
     

     
    Slowly it starts to look like the piece of 1" thick ash it is meant to be. There is a lot more fettling to go yet but you can only do so much of this before you get bored and do something else for a bit.
     

     
    After a lot of cutting, grinding, measuring, grinding, trial fitting, grinding, grinding and grinding the boiler is in. Now it starts to look like a steamer. The stub at the top is the chimney base.
     

     
    And from the rear. The chequer plate is pretty much the area of the cab so you start to get a feel for how much of the cab is filled with a very large, very hot boiler. It tends to dominate the interior almost as much as the centre console does in a Panamera. The red box is the feed heater. I know it looks like it is just sitting there but the footplate has been cut to take the varius tappings and fixings on the bottom. The large piece of channel at the rear is temporary. That will be replaced with a large piece of oak.
     

     
    All neat and tidy round the footplate. Bottom angle is on to stay on hopefully. When these things were built production engineering was in its infancy and companies like Sentinel struggled to engineer their way out of a paper bag at times. This means that fits and tolerances tend to be a little wouldn't hold small coal. Historically inaccurate possibly but the thought of having gapping holes around the boiler mounts offended me. The boiler will need to come out once everything is piped up so it can be lagged.
     

     
    The wood for the cab has been ordered. That was pretty painful.
     
     
     
     
     
     
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    JimH reacted to warren t claim in eBay tat volume 3.   
    £2200 for a Honda C90 Nonce Rocket paedoped!
     
    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1985-Honda-C-90-E-C90-Cub-Blue-29-096-Miles/223218573085?hash=item33f8dd1f1d:g:QREAAOSwx8pbA-jh
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    JimH got a reaction from Ghosty in Korean Cortina - MOT day   
    That made me smile
     
    Notice thread title that probably relates to a Hyundai Stellar Open thread, see that it indeed relates to a Hyundai Stellar Smile at the idea that back in the day a number of people commented that they looked very like a Maser Biturbo. Notice that the thread is over four years old and is very long. Jump to last page Fail to understand the relevance of a photograph of an inlet manifold from a V8. Twig that this Stellar not only looks a bit like a Biturbo but probably has about the same amount of power.  
    I like it when people do daft things well.
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    JimH got a reaction from Kringle in Thread of the year & Spirit of Shite 2018   
    louiepj and his FiL's efforts at making running cars on a budget more entertaining.
     
    http://autoshite.com/topic/32136-vw-passat-facebook-bargain/
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    JimH got a reaction from JeeExEll in Eye-catching black and whites   
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    JimH reacted to cros in eBay tat volume 3.   
    Are you as daft as a fucking brush? This'll be right up your street then, as long as you give it a week after actually turning into your street.

    £30,000, 950cc. As useful as a bull's tits.
    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/An-Award-Winning-Standard-Atlas-10cwt-Pick-Up-in-Shell-Service-Vehicle-Livery/283253552811?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908105057%26meid%3D46432235c7a2471c8ab8a19e97ec544d%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D15%26sd%3D302810591281%26itm%3D283253552811&_trksid=p2481888.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci%3A5bb4a125-f344-11e8-9031-74dbd1802e6d%7Cparentrq%3A5bcf0eb91670a9ccca29512cfffd1e65%7Ciid%3A1
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    JimH got a reaction from MrBiscuits in Thread of the year & Spirit of Shite 2018   
    louiepj and his FiL's efforts at making running cars on a budget more entertaining.
     
    http://autoshite.com/topic/32136-vw-passat-facebook-bargain/
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    JimH got a reaction from catsinthewelder in What's the slowest car you've owned?   
    We did a fair few miles in a Fowler T3B roller. Full out and on good coal you could keep up a decent walking pace. Did 36 miles in it once. Averaged 3mph for the day.
     
    Slowest "car" I have driven was a 55 plate diesel Megavan which was in poor health. A genuinely terrifying thing to drive in busy town traffic.
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    JimH got a reaction from D Spares & Tyres in Thread of the year & Spirit of Shite 2018   
    louiepj and his FiL's efforts at making running cars on a budget more entertaining.
     
    http://autoshite.com/topic/32136-vw-passat-facebook-bargain/
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    JimH got a reaction from jumpingjehovahs in Thread of the year & Spirit of Shite 2018   
    louiepj and his FiL's efforts at making running cars on a budget more entertaining.
     
    http://autoshite.com/topic/32136-vw-passat-facebook-bargain/
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    JimH got a reaction from LightBulbFun in What's the slowest car you've owned?   
    We did a fair few miles in a Fowler T3B roller. Full out and on good coal you could keep up a decent walking pace. Did 36 miles in it once. Averaged 3mph for the day.
     
    Slowest "car" I have driven was a 55 plate diesel Megavan which was in poor health. A genuinely terrifying thing to drive in busy town traffic.
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    JimH got a reaction from Lacquer Peel in What's the slowest car you've owned?   
    We did a fair few miles in a Fowler T3B roller. Full out and on good coal you could keep up a decent walking pace. Did 36 miles in it once. Averaged 3mph for the day.
     
    Slowest "car" I have driven was a 55 plate diesel Megavan which was in poor health. A genuinely terrifying thing to drive in busy town traffic.
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    JimH reacted to cort16 in Father In Law's Facebook bargains and what he 'barried' next!   
    I think I might know why the airbag light is on
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    JimH got a reaction from Manbearpig in ebay 'BARGAINS'   
    I don't think we've had this one yet. It's another from the dealer in all things thoroughbred Emergency Accountants. This time the unique appreciating asset is perhaps the most desperate use of the GTi badge ever. Not for this lad the backdrop of water features in the grounds or the stone built stable blocks. No, the cars speak for themselves and can shout through the palisade fence and weeds.
     

     
     
    To be fair to the lad he only wants a grand for this cast iron investment opportunity. I do wonder what is going to happen to the global economy over the next decade that is going to make a thirty year old estate worth 25K. Perhaps he thinks we are in for a bout of hyper inflation.
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