Minimad5

Knew I recalled that garage name 🙈, when the Late Brake Show popped up on my YouTube watch list, I was like 'WHY have I heard of this before'
Blooming hell man, awesome stuff.

Knew I recalled that garage name 🙈, when the Late Brake Show popped up on my YouTube watch list, I was like 'WHY have I heard of this before'
Blooming hell man, awesome stuff.

Now at Stafford. Got off at platform 5 and planned ahead to go onto platform 3. Stood at platform 3 ... "Liverpool Lime Street is now on platform 5".
Got to love platform planning. I imagine it's an absolute nightmare if you're not a native English speaker. 
No more first class so got to slum it from now on. 

 
Checkout this old BT payphone. Haven't seen this branding for years!



 
If any pictures are stereotypical British transport infrastructure!

XC first class is alright to be fair, take advantage of the free drinks and snacks.

Its being dropped off at the weekend.
I found a pic of when it first arrived on uk shores about a year or so ago.
So it turns out they added sporty tat to it after it arrived in the uk to emphasise the heritage / boy racer/ motorsport aspect that makes the 2dr models that bit more expensive… make it look a bit more like@egg ‘s old one in original guise….

 

Im unsure- keep the tat or go original? part of me likes the late 80s chav vibe as @Burnside mentioned

I know a bloke who bought a four door old Ford that was supposed to be a good ‘un. 
Best of luck!

I've still got two full rhd dashes left if you want to convert it,   I bought 5 as done a few now,  
They're very easy to convert and the mk1 is  easier again. 

Growing up there was one of these down my street. a 1.3 GL 4 door. Aged 10 you could keep your ferraris etc, what i really wanted was one of these. I absolutely loved them.
Back then they were cheap first cars (around 1990) couple of hundred quid and scrap it when the mot was up. That is assuming it hadnt dissolved already, or been crashed.
Then a strange thing happened. They vanished overnight and then slowly they started getting expensive. By the time i started driving they were not mega expensive, but just hard to find.
My route to a mk2 escort was avoid 2 door (££££££) avoid uk RHD (££££££ plus most heavily welded or rotten)
So here we have a solid LHD import 1.3GL which is being delivered next week…

 



 

 

 

 

Got to say i’m really glad @Weird Car bought it as having younger people prepared to get stuck in with old cars is fantastic. And this isnt, say, an allegro, its a rolls royce silver shad! Looking forward to fun road trip / general updates!
For me this is what enjoying older cars is all about, id happily put a flamethrower to all carcoon / dehumidified air chambers. Driving is living imo.

If they reveal themselves they could potentially get their face smashed in.

P38 still going well, Quite a relaxed drive- not fast but it makes you relax and waft. It came with a George Michael cd in the player. Didnt he crash one into some parked cars at some point?
Anyway I decided to slap a plate I had on it to add to the old money vibe….

Reminds me of an ex of mine.

So this is what Rimmer Bros looks like behind the scenes.

P38 news
The section of p38 carpet/ moulded foam underlay that was hacked out during its tow truck conversion has been sourced and dispatched from a suitable supplier, and they sent me this in lieu of a tracking note 💪

I like the brown cloth in P38's - in fact all the cloth interiors are really comfy and in some ways nicer than leather. You can always keep an eye out for one. There's a good FB group which is worth joining if you haven't already. @Cooper1 on here must be a world expert by now too 😉
Only leather interior I really like is the 70s World of Leather caramac brown one. Gorgeous.

Me too… 
This will be the scenario when it occurs! 

I bought a new car.


It's nice but also broken, because Jaguar.
 
New engine required. 
 
Phil

Rammed full of shitè. To think we got moaned at, for having 3 cars outside.
Certainly need a unit / working space again, no good laying on gravel in the pissing rain

@Minimad5 from where our former unit was.

How much do you folk earn, I'm over here with a piss orange bucket, second hand jetwash and soggy sponge 😅
Worked well on the Rover mind, before:

After:

Would a D.A work on this and revive the paint ? .. or would it kill it and make me shout 'FAWK'

Astounded that we've had no grumps now for almost 48hrs.
Allow me to contribute that I ordered up a custom-fit blind, which arrived two weeks ago. On fitting it, the mechanism appeared to be jammed - and after much head-scratching, on closer inspection I appeared to have found the issue...

Uh-huh.

Uh-uh.
Company were very apologetic, agreed to put a replacement set of left-hand end caps in the post for me.
Nearly two weeks on, no end caps. But that's maybe not surprising, as we've had no Royal Mail deliveries for the past fortnight either...
Seems that management at our local sorting office has managed to alienate their posties to the extent that there aren't any left working there now.

I am leaving soon to hopefully buy one of my dream cars. Updates will follow.
Car was bought on page 2.

This nifty chap turned up (old one pictured)

So we've had new plugs, new coils (x2 - Still awaiting others to be in stock) , new injector and a new Airbag plug.
Checked everything was plugged in before refitting the inlet manifold, broke open the new gaskets, torqued down to spec, and ...
It fired straight into life 🥳, so decided to treat it to a new air filter, as I wasn't too sure when the last service was (Juley ?)


A quick trip around the block, and I could still hear a air leak - Can't be manifold as all gaskets are new here, but peaking beneath the throttle body, I found this

Rang up Peugeot/ Citroen dealer, and they basically said 'LOL NO', so unfortunately had to sleeve it, with some pipe. Refitted and no more unmetered air. The idle seemed to be much smoother now too.
So the next few days I put some miles on it, as I wanted to make sure all this work (and more) was worth it.

267 miles later, I can confirm it's a good car.
So with that in mind, it got MORE NEW STUFF

New brakes all round - discs, pads and shoes.
 

'Ooft, must eat juice being a V6'

The autobox seems to change up early, meaning you're never stressing the engine, it just wafts, BUT press the sport button and its a different version of events, I can see why they chose a V6 in the mental Clios.
A few weeks (month ?) Of wafting around in this, and I won't lie it is THE most comfortable car I've owned, I even lent it to a friend, and even he said 'this floats along similar to my old Bentley, just needs less aggressive tyres to be silent' , genuinely not making that up !!! .
Anyway non of this work would have been worth it, if it couldn't pass a MOT

MOT WHILE YOU WAIT. 🙈 These sort of places never normally end well, but:

Yep, advisory free PASS.

Obviously I've glossed over parts, and made this appear to be a simple 'Throw on some new bits and MOT'
But some diagnostic work and time has gone into this, for instance the vacuum leaks, wasn't a simple case of 'Yeah this pipe', the drivers seat repair and fettling of door locks. 
So now I'm at a loss, its a fully working car that just does what it needs to do, in comfort and relatively reasonable MPG (even the blooming Aircon works), but it's just not me 🤷‍♂️
If anyone wants to literally give me what it owes me, I'll happily try dig out reciepts etc for proof .... but it's open to be purchased.