Six-cylinder

What I have been bumped again, somebody else who prioritises his mother over me!

This is how to scare a man who has just bought a MK1 Discovery sight unseen!

Not in stylish cars like this! A mum would have gone in a Metro!

I had a few errands to run today, which car? Range Rover - hard to park Astra - uses too little diesel Morris 1300 - heater not working 480 - The desire is there to drive it. Also the heater works well and it is good to check that it starts every time as it has just had a second new starter fitted.

I would fit a turbo V-Tec Honda engine in it, but Mrs6C had pointed out I only have a pea shooter exhaust!

Milton Keyes Classic breakfast meeting today with 10° C and sunshine was a popular event. @Andyrew came in his VP1300 and Colin was supposed to bring his VP1300 but it would not start so he brought along his Mini van.

Does this mean you have bought a yellow K11?

Today's car stuff started with my friend Colin from the Milton Keynes Classic group having a drive of the Morris 1300. Colin has a VP1300 and noticed the occasional and sudden misfire of my Morris so we had a look around including lifting the distributor cap, but could see nothing. A stab in the dark saw us fit a new coil and Colin took it out again. BINGO no more misfire! The reason Colin had come round was to restart the Opel Manta project by getting the wheels painted ready to fit. Trouble is when you do it properly it takes time and all we manged before he needed to go home was two inners.

I got the 480 back today and it now starts on demarnd, the new replacement starter I had fitted was duff.

My Sigma failed its MOT on lack of sharp cut off on dip beam. Glass lens, just a bit brownish on the flat area of the reflectors. I had to replace them and on that car they had to come from Australia.

Today turned into another car day! @Andyrew came to see me and said is there anything I can help you with! Yes and Yes my Renault 4 and Seicento won't start. The Renault 4 turned out to be the throttle return spring had become disconnected so it was wide open with max air flow while I was trying to start it cold. When the spring was hooked up it started straight away. The base plate for the air filter bolts had pulled it out of the carburettor so we managed to recut threads in one, glue one in and wedged a piece of cable tie in the third to screw against. It now doesn't wobble. Then the wipers started working again but slowly and needed some help. Andy turned his attention to the Seicento, it seemed like a flat battery but Andy’s knowledge shone through and he said seized alternator and sure enough that is the problem. We then took the Gamma and Renault to storage and got out the Astra and my Morris 1300. Andy lowered his standards to drive the Morris having arrived in a Vanden Plas!

Today was the annual Lancia Gamma Italian lunch. 7 Gamma's made it this year. Ours coughed and spluttered at times but made it there and back. There were 5 coupes and 2 Saloons, I bought the Berlina (Saloon) rather than the coupe because I like the shape better, what do others think?

Yesterday was MK Modern Classics meet, first one for a while. A bit down on numbers but what a range of cars and my Sigma found a Delica friend. @Prince_of_darkness91 bought his R8 convertible. Did I mention breakfast bap with egg, bacon, sausage and a coffee for £5!

Sunday is the annual Lancia Gamma consortium lunch and I am booked to go. It is nice to get as many Gamma's gathered together so today @Slowsilverhelped me get my Gamma out of storage. It started well enough on its own battery. We ran it up to temperature andstopped it to check the oil and water, after that it was difficult to start and ran poorly, misfiring. I drove it home from storage but it was not happy. I took the cap/rotor arm off but they looked good. At that point it was getting dark and Slowsilver wanted to go home for his tea so I am not sure if it is useable or not.

No that was the driver doing Autoshite meeting in Scotland. I was embarrassed and got a lift so I didn't turn up in a young Range Rover, now it much more broken and autoshite.

It only ever had 3 years and then you had to pay £1,000+ a year. I had such bad experience with selling and local Land Rover dealers I abandoned the idea of main dealer servicing it and paying for the extended warranty. I have now found a Land Rover Specialist in Milton Keynes who seem good.

It was pretty good until it was 7 years old, then...........

All done with new MOT

Todays Transport.

Is a Renault 4 GTL an estate car? Do we have 4 or 5 estate cars on the drive this morning.

Today was a failure then a success! . I needed to change the n-s headlight on the Range Rover, turns out you need to take the bumper off, to get the bumper off you need to remove the front sections of both wheel arch liners. That was too much getting under the car for me. . The Carlton Estate has turned over but not started even after several attempts on different days. Today IanBMW came over to see what was wrong, it started first time. The strange thing was before we even put the key in Ian said I am sure it will start fine!

Panic over. I have now received an email to confirm I am one of the 350 in the Mitsubishi Sigma at Rustival.

It looks like I failed to get booked into Rustival. Last Friday 12 Jan I booked an annual ticket with Gaydon. As soon as I booked I clicked on the link for Rustival and thought I had booked in the Mitsubishi Sigma but have never received any conformation. I have got my annual entry email pass, but not Rustival. I have messaged Rustival but have never received a reply. . I don’t fancy general parking because that can be quite a walk.

How about this pair both designed by Pininfarina.

I had got to the point where I was thinking I was ready to sell my MGB GT last year. Then I drove mine a couple of times and deceided I enjoyed it even if I didn't use it much. I have had mine 12 years now and while I need to sell some cars because I was 4 up at the end of last year, the MGB GT stays.