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My good friend has found a pile of 752s in his garage 👌 what a hero 😁

Impressive levels of retro car geekery right there!

Should be a DC751 for a CD (DC752 was actually a cheaper version)

June 1986 brochure

The Carlton came with a new rear bumper.
 
And new it is!
 

Thankfully it’s the right one too. Can’t believe how easy it was to change. One bracket bolt seized up but I was able to get the grips on the back and relieve it of duty. 
 
I cleaned up the paint behind 

only two nuts hold this on! Imagine if this was a 2010 insignia, you’d have to set fire to it to get the rear bumper off! 
 
plenty of copper jizz on the studs
 

 
and there we have it. 👌

That looks lovely.

My good friend, we shall call him “the Stig” has fitted some pin striping for me! The OCD gods are happy now! 
 

 

 
hopefully going to fit the rear bumper on Saturday. Or at least some time this week. VBOA next weekend. 

Back from body shop tonight.
pin striping didn’t get fitted. I know a guy for that though 😉
 
front splitter is actually wrong. It’s a mk2 cavvy splitter but he’s made it fit. It’ll do for now. But the front end is looking much better now

 
just isn’t quite long enough

 
sexy


rear quarter didn’t need cutting out. He was able to grind it back, treat the rust and paint over. 

 
needs a damn good clean and polish now.

Looks fantastic!👍
I don’t even think that splitter being for a Cav is all that noticeable. I’d probably not have noticed if you hadn’t mentioned it.

Looks brilliant, as for the “splitter”, it’s fine and looks great. That trim was notorious for coming adrift. Dad’s 83 Carlton was the same. The transport department bolted it back on with brass bolts and said “if it comes off again, we’ll scrap the car”!

Time to drop the Carlton off for some titavation. 
 

Have spoken to my body shop man. Going to take it over to him on Monday so he can have a look at what I need doing. Should have it done for next month hopefully. 
 
going to have this addressed too. 
 
 

Something arrived in the post. 
 
Nearly a game of pass the parcel….
 
Plan is now, to have the front valence repaired and painted. Then fit the lower trim. I really want to fit it now…….. but I might hold on yet.

Norton Autoextravaganza 
 
 

Captains log. Star date 180523. We had a fuel leak yesterday. I didn’t fully tighten up the tank sender bolts because I feared snapping them off was imminent. Nipping them up a bit more cured that problem. Along with a coolant leak from the main elbow to water pump, again, tightened the hose clamp up a bit. 
 
First meet of this year done. Pre 2000s daily driver meet. The caddy has a 6.5 v8 turbo diesel as fitted to Humvees that me and a mate shoe horned in one day 👌
 
 

Parts. And rot. Sadly it is easier to buy a good one.

Went for £500.

Yay! I have fuel again! 
 
 

On car and classic there is a V reg Royale saloon being auctioned. Been off the road since 1995. Bidding is up to £300.
It's identical to the one I had.

New sender on its way. £100. Not cheap, but also not expensive. And found by a lad in Liverpool who has 6 months ago cleared an old Vauxhall dealer parts department. 
 
im going to look into getting the tank cleaned and rust proofed soon. Anywhere still do that? 

Today the Carlton visited Vauxhall   HQ leek devision. 
 
 

At times like this, always the answer. Fuck what GPs  say

It’s not correct, as the one that’s on it is bolt on, the one wrapped up in paper is twist on and has different size feed hole. Shame. But it’s no big drama. Once the fuel has gone down a bit with useage I’ll pull the old one out. I recon there is corrosion or jelly on the track that supplies variable resistance. It may just want cleaning. 

There was the usual sludge but nothing to break sweat about. Definitely the original gasket I recon. The small one didn’t break, so I left it well alone and put the new filter on. Seams happy! 
 

On its way this aft pal

Straight outta the 80s. 
 
Keep forgetting I have a 2015 Allroad as a daily, I’d quite happily send the Carlton into daily service but as I’m moving all my tools and equipment outta my sheds I am going to give it a rest for a few days.