Skizzer

39 minutes ago, scaryoldcortina said:

Was staring at this print in a hospital when I realised there's a car in the middle of the picture I have no clue about. It's the LHD thing between the consul and the Daimler bus.

It’s an Opel Rekord P2.  Pretty cars.

Monza was the coupé, Senator the saloon. Royale was both shapes.

3 hours ago, Remspoor said:

So far from the Channel 205 UK there are 3 videos about his imported Peugeot Hoggar pickup.

First one collection day.

https://youtu.be/RZe11lIfm4o

 I keep getting YT links that will not allow the video to be embedded. I hope it is YT not the fourm.

That’s a user setting on the video - you can choose whether or not to allow embedding.

He may have turned it off inadvertently  — I’ll drop him a message.

2 hours ago, AnthonyG said:

 

Re the Royale, a recent purchase of several 70s Autocar mags included one with a road test of the first Senator, and from this I discovered they had different engines!  Another ‘I never knew that’ factoid. The Royale had a 2.5 whilst the Senator had a 3.0.  

54 minutes ago, hairnet said:

club badge needs to be returned

even peeps with basic knowledge know this

@Skizzer told me

*runs

The Royale had a 2.8 — the facelift ones had a choice of 2.5 or 3.0, by which time they were all Vauxhall Senators and the Royale badge was reserved for a burger with cheese.

The 3.0E Opel probably was worth the extra, tbh, but to me the Royale was better looking with its chunky bumper overriders and neater rear end treatment (fnarr).  The facelift ones are even more handsome of course.

Have a couple of bonus pics of my Royale.

16 hours ago, hairnet said:

 

now im gonna get beat up by @Skizzer for this next bit

i approached the black car and im thinking oh bitter

i walk along the side and im not sure

get to the back and realise its a daytona

 

 

 

 

 

 

My dear Herr Hairnet, I would never dream of trying to beat you up, and it does look quite a lot like a Bitter CD.

I might just gently point out that it’s not a Daytona either — that’s a 365 GTC/4  A shiter’s Ferrari if ever there was one.

Thanks for all the pics!

15 hours ago, ETCHY said:

Oh wow didn't know he was on here.

I am…I used to be on here a lot but, well, times change.  I still pop by from time to time to see what’s happening with my various old AS friends.

Thanks for your kind words! I’m glad you liked the videos, they seem to be a rather niche taste for some reason but the regular viewers are a friendly bunch and the chat in the comments usually has a good vibe.

It was great to see this at the NEC in all its, er, glory. You were busy when I stopped by but I had a good chat with your mate.   Looking forward to following your progress.

I do hope my Royale doesn’t look like this underneath. I don’t think it does, but it too has had some work done in the past so it might have its own “sorry” written under there somewhere.

Awesome spottage. I’m still grinning at both of them — but especially the Granada.

On 26/02/2024 at 15:40, wuvvum said:

I seem to recall that @Skizzer has or had a Dedra.

You’re right, I did.

I found it in a barn in 2011; @Dermist owns it now and has almost finished  restoring it.

Safety Devices are the kings of roll cages. They don’t list the 600 (or its Accord sister) for an off the shelf kit, but they do bespoke as well so may be worth a call?

I dare say there are cheaper options, mind.

Might also be worth DMing Richard Brunning on Twitter, he’s bound to know someone who does cages well.

Woaft.

That was one of my favourites  from the Restoration Show last year — a still from the video here:

Will follow with interest. My Royale is developing a few bubbles here and there from past repairs.

I’m not thinking about them.

21 hours ago, hairnet said:

@Skizzer

ROADTEST!!!!

Wooomf, superb purchase. A 2000ie HPE is my ideal Beta. Would.

8 hours ago, catsinthewelder said:

Go for it, just check with @Skizzer as he did the artwork.

Thanks Cats.

PM duly responded, I just need to try and dig out a suitable quality artwork file.  I believe whoever did the original mugs may have done some tweaking.

My only request would be that if there’s a profit being made, it should go to the forum running costs fund 😊

Love that sound! ❤️

On 24/10/2023 at 08:55, meshking said:

Agreed. @Skizzer has been rather jealous about the panel availability here compared to his fine collection.  It does mean my panel creation skills are not being refined though. 

That said, I'm carefully not looking at the a post repairs just yet. 

I'm just jealous full stop.  Excellent work and such rapid progress!

23 hours ago, hairnet said:

grand thrift auto dissing modern heroes latest video

@Skizzer bad man 

or will we be seeing martin wearing one of @Kiltox shirts

 

Ha! I would never say anything bad about Dr @Kiltox’s videos or even his shirts — I merely pointed out that I’d mistaken his actual cat’s actual arse for a BMW iX, which could happen to anybody.

Just been catching up on this - hats off, lots of cracking work going on here. Great stuff.

On 2/23/2023 at 10:08 PM, hairnet said:

@Skizzer

video

stat

diolch

Sorry 😬

On 12/21/2022 at 1:56 PM, BorniteIdentity said:

Sad news to report.  My beloved friend Emma, of the eponymous Sierra, left us yesterday. 

Just seen your post about Emma. So sorry to hear this Daniel - I only met her that once when we bought the Sierra, but she was completely charming and obviously a top mate for going along with our mad escapade.

Hope you’re doing ok man.

It was great to catch up with @Six-cylinder, @quicksilver, @Slowsilver and @Zelandeth - and there were some cracking cars.

I was also beyond excited to meet Harris Mann. I’m a big fan and he’s a lovely bloke, we had a really good chat. Absolute privilege.

I have one (which currently lives with @RobT) but it’s not for sale. As seen here at FOTU.

Do you ever sell any of the parts or do you just collect them? In fact, are you the bloke we met and chatted to?

3 minutes ago, captain_70s said:

There were a billion AS members in attendance and the only ones I spoke to where the ones that live within 30 miles of me because I R DENSE.

Same. There was a whole load of people I ‘know’ from here and/or Twitter - including yourself - who I either didn’t see or walked straight past because we don’t know what each other looks like. What a world it is.

Nice cars though.

On 7/31/2022 at 10:07 PM, Spottedlaurel said:

 

 

Woah, hang on, is that your Laurel @Spottedlaurel? I knew I recognised it but wasn’t sure where from - I’d have loved to have said hello but you were elsewhere at the time, and I suppose it would have been a weird “do we know each other?” conversation. 
 

Gorgeous car. Those seats…mmm.

36 minutes ago, RoadworkUK said:

My Rover 825Si still exists.

First bit of news is that we've finally moved home, and there's now space for THE ENTIRE FLEET to coexist in one place. Garage needs all its innard spitting out, but then the Rover will go in there, the Audi in front of it and my varying work daily in front of that — and the 306 in front of that. And space for a 'guest' in the bay at the start of the drive.

Rover somehow suits a block-paved drive outside a 1979  house rather well.

Having taken the 306 to the Festival of the Unexceptional last year, it was the Rover's turn in 2022, and with every possibility of vast crowds forming around what would understandably be the very star of the show, and no doubt the absolute highlight of every onlooker's lives so far, I thought it should have a wash.

Excitingly, I've recently acquired a snow foam nozzle for my olde Karcher, and I've been snowfoaming everything in sight with gay abandon. So I pointed it at the Rover.

After much delicate scrubbing it looked... well...

...... more or less exactly the same.

So, I thought, time to break out the big guns. I used a clay bar. And then I polished it.

And then I waxed it.

So carried away was I that I even had a go at cleaning the engine a bit.

Then I realised how much fun that wasn't, and stopped.

Next job on the agenda was to make the stereo a bit more listenable. Upthread are my exploits vis-a-vis replacing the rear speakers, and now it was time for the fronts. 

And this time, rather than using drivers purloined from a pair of old Mission floor-standing hifi speakers, I actually got some that were designed for use in a car. 13.5cm FLI items, as endorsed by one @ThePollittoccasionally of this parish.

Out with the old:

In with the new:

Nobody need ever know.

End result? Pretty bloody good, to be honest.

Fitting was ever so slightly a pain in the arse, thanks to the new drivers having to be nibbled a bit to fit into the plastic frame thing that holds them at an angle, but they went in in the end. I elected not to bother with the supplied crossovers and tweeters, prefering to trust that the originals would do the job alreet, and they seem to thus far.

So that's good. Next I went to some tyre people for another nice pair of Falkens and some alignment to see if I can get them to not wear out rather too quickly on the inner edges.

I also requested an A/C regas, and they tried, but alas the Rover failed a Leak Test. Apparently pumping poisonous gas into something that it'll immediately leak out of is disapproved of these days. So I suspect I'll need to pay somebody some money to make it not fucked any more.

Dash lighting still works, though:

Anyway. FoTU was attended; I parked between a very nice (albeit gently shonky) Mk3 Granada and a near-mint Mk2 Astra GTE, where it was largely ignored. Instead, everybody who recognised me excitedly asked whether I was up in the 306.

Was a pleasure to show @Skizzeraround, though, and anybody else who chanced upon it, a big shaaaat ahhhht to you, too.

After that, it wafted me the 120 miles back to Mistley comfortably and relatively economically, like a car. Which it is.

Can confirm that the Rover looks, smells and indeed tastes DELICIOUS.

Great to meet you and Mrs RoadworkUK in person!

On 2/14/2022 at 12:11 AM, Austat said:

Be like @Skizzer except with a bit more ompft under the bonnet and a bit more beige: 

An early one too being on a K plate.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/294810179972?hash=item44a40e5984:g:lFAAAOSwvg9iB91f

You don’t get many opportunities to be more beige than me. This is definitely one of them though. Has someone bought it yet?