M'coli

The end of a media studies year at a basic college for juvenile reprobates...aged 19...armed with a Canon A1...probably on auto...wandering the streets of Edinburgh looking at mainly flash new shite...
 
Nxt door neighbors with the gallery nxt door let me borrow their scanner..these having been sitting in my mothers cupboard since day yonks..

 

 

 

 

So thats Edinburgh..next...

This is the most expensive thing I've ever bought. Delivery hopefully this week, a few sleepless nights expected until then...
 

That definitely made me grin!

The one in your photo is a Mk3 Cortina Crayford Convertible VL. The one one ebay is a Mk1 Granada but in an unusual 2dr style which i think is probably a German 'Consul' with Granada badges. I 'think' the only Mk 1 2dr Granada was the coupe.

The Council Estate has just been granted a clean bill of health for another 12 months

Today, at the scrapyard.
"Yeah, I mostly need this stuff for my Princess"
"So what do you normally drive then?"
"My Princess."
"You're brave."

Got my new garage! I'm really pleased with it, it's a decent size, has a brand new door and the whole block has recently been re-roofed as well. I went down there this morning and it was bone dry in there, even after the rain last night. Unsurprisingly, it swallows my baby Austin easily.
 

 
Also, I have booked a self-drive car transporter for an epic* tat collection mission to the South Coast next week!

Took the Cavalier for MOT today, joking that the test would take 1 hour but the write-out of the fail sheet would take longer - considering it was pushed into front-line duty during the worst of the winter weather tramping up and down the country to deal with family matters that arose in January and continued on for some time as well as communting 38 miles a day, icluding besting an Audi TT in 4-5 inch deep snow at half-6 in the morning, I expected it to be a steel doily underneath.  I know it has a rotten sill - indeed the gaffer tape has kept the rain and salt out of it since January, but I was expecting lots wrong including front brake imbalance (it scraped through last year but has had new pads & discs )with it despite it feeling great to drive after the 205 (other than it's far slower in a straight line), but otherwise...
 
O Hai Hillman Imp weldr part bak pleez K thx bai...!

Took the Cavalier for MOT today, joking that the test would take 1 hour but the write-out of the fail sheet would take longer - considering it was pushed into front-line duty during the worst of the winter weather tramping up and down the country to deal with family matters that arose in January and continued on for some time as well as communting 38 miles a day, icluding besting an Audi TT in 4-5 inch deep snow at half-6 in the morning, I expected it to be a steel doily underneath.  I know it has a rotten sill - indeed the gaffer tape has kept the rain and salt out of it since January, but I was expecting lots wrong including front brake imbalance (it scraped through last year but has had new pads & discs )with it despite it feeling great to drive after the 205 (other than it's far slower in a straight line), but otherwise...
 
O Hai Hillman Imp weldr part bak pleez K thx bai...!

Took the Cavalier for MOT today, joking that the test would take 1 hour but the write-out of the fail sheet would take longer - considering it was pushed into front-line duty during the worst of the winter weather tramping up and down the country to deal with family matters that arose in January and continued on for some time as well as communting 38 miles a day, icluding besting an Audi TT in 4-5 inch deep snow at half-6 in the morning, I expected it to be a steel doily underneath.  I know it has a rotten sill - indeed the gaffer tape has kept the rain and salt out of it since January, but I was expecting lots wrong including front brake imbalance (it scraped through last year but has had new pads & discs )with it despite it feeling great to drive after the 205 (other than it's far slower in a straight line), but otherwise...
 
O Hai Hillman Imp weldr part bak pleez K thx bai...!

Took the Cavalier for MOT today, joking that the test would take 1 hour but the write-out of the fail sheet would take longer - considering it was pushed into front-line duty during the worst of the winter weather tramping up and down the country to deal with family matters that arose in January and continued on for some time as well as communting 38 miles a day, icluding besting an Audi TT in 4-5 inch deep snow at half-6 in the morning, I expected it to be a steel doily underneath.  I know it has a rotten sill - indeed the gaffer tape has kept the rain and salt out of it since January, but I was expecting lots wrong including front brake imbalance (it scraped through last year but has had new pads & discs )with it despite it feeling great to drive after the 205 (other than it's far slower in a straight line), but otherwise...
 
O Hai Hillman Imp weldr part bak pleez K thx bai...!

Try a double dunt of the glowplugs first.

How much do you want for the telly?

From YPLAC.com

I have contacted said breakers yard and a plan has been hatched. The spheres are available and price reasonably. I'll go over and see what else I can blag off it too, turn it into a day out with Dad's car and trailer.

Superb, someone else whose opinion of the Beatles is similar to mine - it seems to me that in many people's opinion it's almost an offence to mention that you dislike/hate/despise them, as if it's an omerta.

Those Galue things are ace. As if designed by a Galue sniffer.

Oh cock, sorry, that's a repost, I should have guessed! I'm not going to delete it though as it's one fine looking automobile.

I am in the middle of a mojo drought where it comes to old cars. Today it wasn't raining and it wasn't windy, yet I looked outside and considered doing a bit to the Lancia and despite it now not having a vast amount left to go, I just really couldn't sum up enough energy to go out and do something productive.

And John Lennon was actually quite an arsehole, despite how many people think he was great, music aside.

Superb, someone else whose opinion of the Beatles is similar to mine - it seems to me that in many people's opinion it's almost an offence to mention that you dislike/hate/despise them, as if it's an omerta.

Saw the new neighbour today for the first time. He swung a tatty pea green P5 into his drive,so he must be a reasonable chap.