morris_ital_lover

The storys of my cars are almost the same, only with different persons...
 
Car 1: Mitsubishi Pajero 2,5 TD DL Wagon
 

 
It was bought new by an elderly man in 1987, who lived in Vienna (not much salt, short winters), had it garaged all of the time and he had it rustproofed too. After he died in 2005, his son kept it in storage until 2012, when he sold it cheap to a dubious used-car-dealer who serviced it and drove it for one winter. He then realised what fantastic, almost rustfree example with only 112.000 genuine kilometres on it he got there and put it on sale for a lot more what he paid for it. I found it by coincidence offered for sale on a big Austrian used-car-site and went to look at it. Not because I wanted to buy it, but because I wanted to look if it was the usual badly welded together exemplar with thick layers of underbody-"protection" to hide the rust. But I was so surprised by it´s almost unmarked condition, I had to buy it. It was expensive and he earned a lot of money with it, but now I got one of the best original Pajeros surviving in Austria. Before I looked at it, a hunter went to see it but thankfully he did not buy it because it was too expensive for him. I bet it would have ended up like all the other ones then. I´m not driving it during winter, have it garaged all the time and I plan to keep it forever!
 
Car 2: Subaru Leone 1.8 GL Turismo Full-Time-AWD
 

 
An old lady bought it new in 1986 to use it as here car. She always garaged it and drove it only 120.000km until 2004, when she died. It was bought back by the dealer she bought it from who put it in a shed with two other 3-door-coupes (called Turismo) he had. He soon decided to sell them on and so a friend of mine (Subaru-mechanic) bought them. He sold the other two and kept this one to modify it like an early WRX. He wanted it to have a bonnet-scoop, a 2-litre-WRX-Turbo-engine and so on, but thankfully he lost his mojo and kept it stored dry until 2011. The only modification it still has is the Full-Time-AWD-transmission with lockable centre-diff. It had FWD with part-time-4WD as standard. In summer 2011 I asked him what he wants to do with it and he told me he will send it to the scrappy. I told him to restore it for me as I owned two other Leone before and grew up with this type of car. So since november 2011, he is restoring it for me, it should be finished in April 2014. I don´t know how long I will keep it, let´s wait and see.
 
I would say I saved both of my cars! One from a hard life hunting and one from the scrappy. Feels good!
 
Lukas

Yesterday my dad fitted a few speedo cable on the Civic for me so today I decided to make the most of a dry afternoon and took the old girl for a drive, I do enjoy driving the car, it's so easy to drive for a 40 year old car and it's very peppy, easily keeping up with the modern traffic.
 
I took a few photos whilst I was out in some of the surrounding villages.
 

 
This old bus is a cafe of some kind, I've past it a number of times on the A14 but never stopped there before.
 

 

 
I found this village garage too still complete with it's old pumps, they had old Duckhams signs up too.
 

 

 
I ended up at a old boarded up water works nearby, I've taken a few photos of my cars here as it's quiet and it's a interesting background i think.

Indeed, pencils are useless in space because the fine graphite particles that come off when you're writing and turn the electrics all "Lotusy"

I thought some of you might like to see the new toy, on its inaugural outing,
 

 
A nice old Fiat  Strada, right?  But didn't they come with round headlights?
 

 
Perhaps it isn't a Strada after all?
 

 
Does this help?
 

 
What's that badge on the Steering wheel?
 

 
Yup its the fabled Seat Ronda- the Spanish take on the ol 'Fiat clunker. 
 
One French owner from new, now deceased, my son is giving it a gentle re-commission and loosen up.
 
I find it suprising how much is actually different -seems they were required to change parts ot avoid litigation from Fiat. A lot doesn't make a great deal of sense.
 
Hope you find the pic's interesting .
S'cuse the big wheels- we've had to 'modernise' it a little to persuade the youngsters to drive it though snagging. Wasn't going to get touched otherwise!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Making me grin is the sight of former shitests coming back again, It's a sign that the split board was the right decision.

Look at this highly crafted mode of transport plucked from the UK's fine engineering heritage.
 

 
 
 
I imagine it'll look something like this from the drivers seat.
 

 
 
 
 
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MINI-TRICYCLE-UNIQUE-PROPERLY-ROAD-REGISTERED-CURRENT-V5C-/221324219533?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item3387f3948d

My OH has a 2011 Golf TDi 150. The poor woman is now convinced (by me) that when the car is 3 years and 1 day old it will go kaboom like a dying star. I have advised her to buy an old Rover, which at least I'll be able to fix if it goes wrong. She has advised me to fuck off.

Indeed, pencils are useless in space because the fine graphite particles that come off when you're writing and turn the electrics all "Lotusy"

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vauxhall-Opel-Cavalier-/171073075181
 
 
Dunno! you tell me pal
 
 
Safe to say it isn't. Furthermore you are a massive fanny.

Yeah, I got that too. Seems to be a fairly major change in the way paypal works, yet again siding even more with the buyer and putting me off selling the piles of shit I have in the garage EVEN MORE.

Paint by Vulgalour.  I guess it's called comet because it'll produces an excessive vapour trail before destroying itself in a massive fire ball.
A definite divorce enducer.
 

 
http://www.swapz.co.uk/swapz/4129752/1971_MK1_TRANSIT_CAMPERVAN/

Got called to my local car sales place today to do a PC Repair.
 
Looky what was hiding in the showroom.....
 
 
 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
Sent from my Nokia 3310 using the force.

I bet fifty quid if I asked my missus to name ten 'home comforts' they wouldn't include: rust stained door step/arches, formica cabinets, a second hand portable bog, nor cushions fashioned from Bert and Ernie's jumpers
 

 
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/A-Bedford-CF-Dormobile-Landcrusier-Coachbuilt-and-Packed-with-Home-Comforts-/281212421361?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item41799104f1
 
'minor historic rust'
 
I've got a minor historic scar right between my bollocks. It dates from the time I bought a Bedford CF with the annual holiday fund and hadn't consulted the domestic manager first.

Update:
 

 
Actually thought this was quite nice, slightly modded but not Mongified
 

 
Just as I took out my Phone to take a picture the owner got out and took one too   
 

 
Domestic Appliance Shite, it belongs to an elderly neighbor who has had it since the mid 90s. Still going strong too
 

 
Apologies for the ultra shiny Picture, the girlfriend got this one and I was delighted
 

 
I used to see these everywhere, rare sight now sadly
 

 
Rather recent old style Mini
 

 
Beetle on neat Whitewalls
 

 
The girlfriend got this pic, I couldn't believe my eyes, Stunner!!

I decided to ditch the SCOOTER OF DESPAIR this morning in favour of foot power. I'm quite glad I did, as I spotted a couple of lovelies* that I had ridden past for the last few days and not seen. This was probably due to everything being a blur whilst racing around flat-out at a break-neck 27.5mph.
This morning has also served to highlight that my slightly obscure car knowledge is not as comprehensive as I thought. So I could do with a bit of help on the first two.
 
 
I'm almost entirely completely kind of partially utterly certain this is a Fiat 1100 TV.
Or a standard 1100 with the TV centre light.
Or something else.

 
It's bloody lovely, whatever the hell it is.
 

 
 
 
 
Modern shite usually doesn't give me a trouser-tickle, but this thing really did it for me.
Not a clue what it is though.
The badge looks a bit like a cross between Mitsubishi and Autobianchi. I'm sure it's going to be something really obvious, to make me look (even more of) a fool.
I couldn't get any closer due to a large fence and my lack of gymnastic skills.

 

 
 
 
 
Actually, it's not just the first two I'm struggling with, now I look at the photos.
Nissan Laurel/Maxima/Cedric/summat else?

 
 
 
 
Oh god, I've talked myself out of this being a Mk2 Cavalier now.
I'll hand in my Autoshite membership on the way out.

 
 
 
 
Not a-bloody-nother one.
It's American. I know nothing about Americans.

 
I've changed my mind. I know all of the above motors but I'm just altering this to the Bucket Quiz thread.
I know them all.
Every last one.
Honest, I do.
 
 
 
YES. Get in. Sunny FTW.

 
Complete with furry tiger-skin seat covers.
1980's Huddersfield just called. They'd like their taxi back.
 

 
 
So, in summary, I KNOW NOWT.

That's me done for the night. If you want any more I'll lob some more up tomorrow.

I've seen similar signs at Liverpool docks...
 

 
...and by the Thames....
 

Oh dear I have just won this. I really must stop bidding on rough old renaults. Anyone want to buy a scruffy but taxed and tested espace quadra

What in gods name would possess someone to put this on their ebay profile page, other than a mindblowing amount of drugs?

It's not really the glue that fails, the headlining is made up of the nice fabric facing bonded to a thin layer of foam bonded to a wispy cloth backing like really cheap knicker material and it's the foam which degrades over time turning into a nasty unpleasant mess. I think valeting might speed this up, I've had a couple of notorious offenders, a Saab and a Rangy that were / are still fine after 20 years and had never passed through the hands of dealers. Re=glueing will never work because of the skanky foam mess, you might as well try to bond slugs together with blutac.

From Colt Shitpeas/Barry Seaver's recent collection thread. http://autoshite.com/topic/15201-i-am-inxs-collection-not-wanking-in-cupboard/