Nibbler

Since 2019.

96 kw 2,2 litre.

I’m home!

K Jetronic and Dyslexic Viking has a slightly older relative.

No correct guesses so far! I’m on my way home right now. Time for petrol in Nybro.

Think China and a country that doesn’t exist anymore. First I drove east and picked up a trailer.

Thumbs up👍 This is one of my favourite threads, keep up the good work!

I can’t remember the caught fire part. But it probably backfired quite badly and set itself on fire that way 😀 But I do remember trying to adjust the valves... damn that camshaft looked bad! Like someone with an angle grinder had gone apeshit on it.

Sometimes you find some really heavy shit in the forest!

Car from the past: Ford Capri 2,0 GL -77. Bought this Mk2 really, really cheap! Knackered Pinto, quite rusty and with a release bearing that could wake the dead. On the good side it was unmolested and with good interior. Abused it for a month until the cambelt decided it no longer could tolerate the abuse. After that the top speed was 60 km/h and when it finally died a couple of hundred meter from my parents place I just let it roll down the hill to their house. I entered my parents garden at speed! But I hit the clutch pedal instead of the brake pedal and went straight into my dads garage doors...

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Nope, but if you look closely to the left, you see a crappy American camper from the eighties. Didn’t buy that either, but it was nice.

I picked up a trunk, chest or coffin or whatever it’s called in English . Not the kind you lay in when you are 6 feet under.

After a bit of tinkering with the gear linkage I found reverse again. My theory is that when parked on uneven ground and the car flexing a bit the gear linkage was unable to move into reverse. After I adjusted the linkage today the gearbox is bloody perfect. I was so happy, so I started cleaning (see before picture) the garage were the Capri is parked and took the T3 to the shite capital of Sweden: Fågelfors! Worthy of a photo thread!

Wow! Fantastic find!

This Capri Mk.1 -69 was just a couple of hundred meters from the Transit. I actually had a look at this Capri back in 1997 when it was up for sale. But it was already then too far gone. It was a 1600 XL or something similar from the beginning. But when i drove it, it had an 2,3 V6 from a Granada or Capri Mk.2 and a 5-speed gearbox. It was horrible to drive, brake servo was shoot and the throttle was sticking. My earliest memories of this car are from 1991 when it was a really good looking RS lookalike, after that it went downhill... The car is now gone and it´s whereabouts are unknown.

Changed the clutch slave cylinder today on the VW Transporter. A little bit fiddly but it went okay. Except the part when I got stuck under the car and had a bit of a panic attack... Confident I had a working clutch I tried to drive to the recycling station. I got as far as the picture shows, then I lost reverse gear and it started to rain...

At an abandoned sawmill i found this Volvo F88 and a hot bulb engine.

Oh nice! Back in 2016 there was another classic Ford just a couple of hundred meters away. It’s gone now, so that guy missed it. More about that later.

It was bloody excellent. Most of it anyway.

Then I went to a cheese festival. The Datsun and the Milligans Mill are bloody great. I usually don’t buy as bad stuff as the Sterling and the other small Matchbox cars, but they were sooooo cheap I couldn’t resist.

This weekend was quite good! I bought more stuff than during the whole summer. First I visited a charity shop i use to frequent.

Both pictures taken at an abandoned farm. Volvo BM and a plastic top, possibly from a Toyota Land Cruiser???

A late Ford Model T.