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  1. Very sad to hear this,he obviously meant a lot to you.Our pets are always there for us,loyal and unjudgemental.Hang on in there,it will get better for you in time.We lost one of our dogs last year.Even though he was very old and it was expected ,it was horrible,desolate time.We still miss him and even though we've since given another rescue dog a home he'll never be replaced in our hearts.We comfort ourselves by believing we gave him his best life while we had him and hope you'll feel the same.Thinking of you.
  2. Didn't Fords of that era have some sort of patent self adjusting clutch mechanism? ISTR the first to use it was the Mk 3 Escort.
  3. Noooooooooo!You need something Japanese!Run forever,they will!
  4. The oldest are going to be around 19 years old now.Often think us ASers are trapped in an automotive timewarp.On another thread, someone just described a 56 reg Vivaro as modern!Think small cars have a better survival rate because of the owner profile.They're more likely to be bought by the elderly and used sparingly.Being little, there's more chance of them being kept undercover as well.Always surprises me what old cars are still in use though.The old stuff usually comes out on nice days when the morning school run has finished and tucked away again before the afternoon one starts.A trip to the Post Office followed by a look round a Garden Centre!
  5. 10% off at Halfords and Kwik Fit.£500 towards the deposit on a new Hyundai.....terms and conditions apply!
  6. That's not a Northern euphemism for an unseemly sexual practice is it?"I caught t'dirty bugger putting his bins out early yesterday.Didn't think I'd seem him,he didn't.I'd have likes of him castrated ,I would, that'd stop 'em!"Apologies to Mrs Grady,Old Lady,in the Viz.
  7. That's obviously a cover sill that's been stuck on over the rust at some point.All doable though.Probably cost a fortune for someone to do it,but DIY, it's "only metal "as Steve Harley might say.And gas and grinding discs and wire and ........!
  8. Actual welding is very easy to do.It's getting the metal there to stick together that's the difficult bit!The better the preparation,the easier the welding.Be a pity for it to die,though.Harks back to a time when car makers had saloon mania and had to make booted versions of everything.Sad too, to see cars rusting away in gardens waiting to be "done up and worth a lot of money".
  9. Got two daughters in Dubai.Shall I get them to give it a poke for you!
  10. Saw a very tidy red D reg low spec hatch yesterday being driven quite vigorously in Leicester.
  11. Didn't Six cylinder have something to do with them in the dark and distant past?Or am I dreaming it?
  12. Motorist Discount Centres,bloody hell, there's a blast from the past!Remember Emergency Spares as well.
  13. But changing them was a Saturday morning job and the Asian run motor spares shops in the shopping parades kept them on the shelf!
  14. Anyone who cuts the roof off an original VW Beetle and replaces it with a pop up tent should have something similar done to themselves by way of punishment.A proper factory convertible is a lovely, properly engineered thing though.
  15. One of my son's a Special Needs teacher.A few years back,one of his pupils was obsessed with the early Galaxies, particularly the one driven into the river by Richard Hillman in Coronation Street.He wrote a eulogy to one as part of a lesson, describing it as a "real man's car".They don't seem to have survived very well compared to the equivalent Sharans and Alambramhas.There was a very late one on our road until fairly recently but guess it rusted away.Does the 2 litre use a Ford engine or a VW unit?Think the 2.3 was a Ford one though.
  16. Genuinely hope everything works out for you.I always enjoy your postings.As I've mentioned before,your Lanchester is responsible for my discovering the delights of Autoshite,and the rest is history,as they say.Good luck, fella.
  17. What's the best newspaper these days for filling rust holes in sills?
  18. Would have thought a column change would make a bench seat and three abreast seating possible.With seatbelt regulations, it'd become redundant.Be harder too,to engineer forLHD and RHD. Remember right hand gear levers as well?And hand brakes.
  19. Son had a G reg 1.6 Belmont in that red,back around the turn of the century.That got stolen from outside his girlfriends house.Soon found it though.Old boy had owned it from new.Low miles.Massive pile of service history.He was going to New Zealand to be near his son.Had asked at Vauxhall dealer how much they'd give him for it.Huge figure quoted.Day he's leaving,takes it down to cash it in.Tell him that price is only if he buys a new one and that they don't really want it!.Takes it home,sticks it back in the garage, leaving the solicitor he'd charged with selling the house to deal with it,which was where we came in.Despite all the history the timing belt broke which was an easy fix.
  20. They'd probably be the best ones to try to keep running!Assuming any still exist.
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