R1152
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Tough call on some of those - especially the Fox, of which I avidly followed the revival of when you got it. Selling the Sana for spares might be the best option: there's a LOT of electrical work needed on that car, it appears to have been butchered in so many other ways too. You'll have enough 'oddness' to play with in the shape of the Oltcit and the remainder of the fleet whilst giving yourself some finances and perhaps room in the unit for storage pending a future house move?
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Sadly, only in negative earth but if you have an older car with clear lenses over the combined indicator/sidelight: https://www.bettercarlighting.co.uk/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=358 And for semaphores: https://www.bettercarlighting.co.uk/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=528
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I remember retrofitting hazard lights to my Renault 16 - it was a case of buy the switch from the dealer and then alter the car's wiring to match the diagram in the Haynes manual. I'm surprised Model 70s didn't get them later in life.
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No, those are its tears at being left to rot in an English field.
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It does, doesn't it? EV mod, or different engine/gearbox? Pickup?
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Ah, welcome to the world of unwanted "restraint system" lights. My E60's just done that... Scanned it with Carsoft 12: "yes, there's an error in the module". Scan for codes. "What error?" I now have the 5-DVD set of BMW's official* software and I shall put it on a laptop, to see if I can really pin it down. What it isn't is the passenger seat mat, as is widely suspected - that reads and behaves as it should.
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I'd pay to see that.
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Yugo as art:
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And I always thought the worst car in history was the KdF-Wagen...
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What? I thought I'd clicked the "share" link. Sorry about that... try this: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/10/business/yugo-cars.html?smid=url-share
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Lovely, but "new money". I saw another on the A1 heading south on Friday: to me this is the last 'proper' Rolls-Royce/Bentley. It also has the preferable (for me, anyway) single headlights.
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Seeing this made me think of Hubnut and Aging Wheels... They Love the Car That People Love to Hate https://nyti.ms/2TkdITB
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Sad to say, but that's a good few days car hire.
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Lurvely... but yet somehow they don't have the visual appeal of a Mk. IV Zodiac, do they? The last one of these cars I saw 'in the metal' was a ropey black Viscount in Beckenham in the 90s.
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spotted In Deutschland auf den Mülltonnen gefunden. A spotted thread
R1152 replied to dozeydustman's topic in AutoShite
Errrr... I never open my downstairs curtains. Ever. Nor do one or two of my neighbours. -
The Thames-based one was available as a Corgi toy (cat. no. 474) with a hand-cranked chime built in.
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As you still seem to be able to find them, I vote Renault SuperCinq. Low mileage, cared for examples seem to turn up a lot. But also - Micras. Two a penny!
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A plastic inlet manifold is normal these days. It keeps the inlet charge of air cooler as it doesn't conduct heat from the cylinder head- my old E34 BM had such back in 1994. Yet once upon a time, we had summer/winter settings on air filters to warm the incoming air. I believe modern Minis have the same arrangement. I'd like some of that rain on "the drier side of the country", as the LNER used to call it.
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Bet that's interesting from a copyright viewpoint.
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If I was going to recommend something from the BMW stable (which I'm not), I'd just say "something with the M54 engine in it, as long as the water pump's been changed". My heap - at 294,000 miles and counting - is still a lovely, wafty barge, doesn't have uncomfortable seats, still has functioning aircon and will return 37+ mpg on my commute (mostly dual carriageway). I'd just like to get to the bottom of the "restraint systems failure" - and no, it's not the passenger seat mat.
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Considering they seem to be two M20s stuck together - I understand there's an ECU for each bank of cylinders. E32 750i in Calypso Red - that'd do me...
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Unless they're a 750i.
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The recording name in the media list says "Scarborough in 1970s" - at the end of the programme it says "Scarborough in 1960 - 70s". There's a Mk. 1 Granada in view as well as the FE Victor so it must be *at least* 1973, I'd say. It's part of TPTV's "Glimpses" series, and the film was made by a member of the Institute of Amateur Cinematographers. What caught my eye was the shot of the OSR of a Victor FB estate, clearly missing the rear light lens! I'll try and get you a better screengrab than the one you posted up: there's an earlier shot where the Model 70 isn't obscured by the Victor,
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Errr.... what the fuck does 'yeet' mean?
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Reading through the last few posts, there seems to be a consensus emerging - the need for a reliable Seabrook family car that is in no way, shape or form part of the HubNut fleet and perhaps not subject to Ian getting bored with it after six weeks! Like @egg, for me "peak HubNut" was TWC and Foxanne and I'd drop everything and watch them but I appreciate that was at a very different time in Ian's life. I absolutely loved the videos from NZ and Aus, but that was as much "armchair travel" for me. I've watched a Doug DeMuro video and... nah. Not my cup of tea. I did think of @dollywobblerand @LightBulbFun earlier whilst watching something* on Talking Pictures TV I'm transferring to DVD for a mate (he can't receive it where he lives) and spotting a Model 70 parked up! *"Scarborough in the 1970s" - it's right behind a brown Victor FE.
