DavidB

It looks like a Jumbuck - I read the Wira is identical to the 80's/90's Lancer. It looks good in white.

I was angle grinding something in my dad's garage in about 2014. The angle grinder bounced off the thing I was grinding, leapt from my hands and attached itself to the side of the hoody I was wearing. It only stopped spinning because it managed to spin my loose hoody into a tight fitting version. I pulled the plug and unspan it to reveal a big hole in my hoody and tshirt. This took months to heal. It looked like a fanny.

PMSL 😂😂😂😂

It was about a football team where the coach Jossy had elephantiasis of the testicles if I remember correctly?

I had a Z31 300ZX which was nice to drive and really good looking, but offset by these horrendous wheels that came with it:

Not so much a 'bargain'*, but the absolute worst photo I've seen on Facebook Marketplace, and that's saying something: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/807165763599777

I used to read this in the 00's, it was really in the spirit of Autoshite, I remember someone doing the cheapest possible campervan conversion with a Sherpa. Retro Cars was good before it changed format to a hipper 'slammed to the deck wide wheels wit matt black paint' version.

I’ll never forget the time in 2002 when I had run out of petrol going to take my girlfriend to work (in a doughnut factory). I got a fuel can and jumped in my dads green Proton MPi and headed to the petrol station. Retrieving the fuel can from the boot, the boot lid promptly came back down again thanks to knackered boot struts with the latch coming to a stop right on the back of the skull, resulting in a lot of pain/ blood/swearing. I got round to filling my petrol can, i checked my wound but managed to rub petrol into it resulting in more unnecessary pain. I finally got round to my girlfriends, and to top it off I walked dog poo into her parents hallway carpet! Ugh, what a night. Regale me with all your car injury hijinx.

Lashings of delicious whipped cream. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/125430610712

New engine/block time for the SJ. Have taken it out twice since I did all this, and it's pumping out greyish/blueish smoke from startup, and even more when under load. I put oil in the cylinders before I put the head back on, and #1 lost most in a couple of days, with #2 coming in a slow second but the other two were OK. The options are buying a new block (there is a new one on ebay for £30 odd quid, but 'history unknown'), a complete new working engine, or just rebuilding this block with new rings and bearings etc. I think with everything else fixed, it worked out what could fail next that hasn't yet and went with the only one thing that I didn't bother changing on the entire car. It's not such a bad job to do on these, but I really wish it would stop messing about. I've been driving the Alto as my main car, and apart from a crunchy first and second gear when the fluids are cold, it's a really nice car to drive.

I think it would be unlikely but amusing if somebody was selling a car for a highly inflated price they wanted on the grounds it will be worth an added 25% in "a few years", would it be fair to arrive with a lawyer to buy the car for the price he is asking with a contract all legally written up whereas the seller would be required to buy back the car (in exact same condition) at his estimated valuation in a few years? 😁

Anytime is ...

FD has the best, comfiest interior, I love FBs though, never had a chance to own one

My RX7

Whatever happened to this, did you get any further? Looking at this photo, it looks like the chassis had been shortened by a few feet, which would look quite nice! I found that photo of the one I saw in Thailand - I was sure it was a Cabstar but I think it's an Isuzu Elf, it's amazingly knackered though.

Built the engine back up and a quick drive home turned into a backfiring extravanza that had neighbour's curtains twitching and pedestrians ducking for cover. I got sick of the engine being a fool, so when someone told me the 16v EFi engine from a 2000's Suzuki Alto fitted, I searched Facebook Marketplace for an example, and I found an Alto in Manchester with a slipping clutch, so off I went to get it. It was drivable, but there was an undisclosed knocking from the front, which turned out to be a cracked mount which had the wheel moving freely forwards and backwards, and I had 40 miles to drive home. Also had an engine light on, which turned out to be the lambda sensor. Engine was quiet and nippy and couldn't wait to ditch the carb/choke combo. So the next day took the engine out of the Alto and the SJ, and got to work figuring out what I would need to get it all together. I intended to just use the ECU and everything. It was OBD2 but didn't have anything like wheel sensors etc to work. Everything mounted perfectly, but there was 1mm of space between the end of the head's dizzy unit and the bulkhead, even with the gearbox spaced on it's mount 1cm, it wasn't going to make it any better and when I saw the RWD oil pickup pipe from the SJ protruded into the crankshaft and the sump overhung the block a bit, I just got the willies and reversed my decision and removed everything. Also - bonnet wouldn't close! The thought of cutting a hole in it for a bulge finalised it for me. I concentrated back on my F10A and found one of the retaining bolts on top of the valve had come loose and the clearance was about 20mm. I rebuilt everything, put the engine back into the Alto with a brand new clutch and subframe mount. Most of the oil and gearbox fluid ended up on the floor, so I can't start anything until I get some of that stuff! I spent a few days doing this, but I got two good* working** cars out of it in the end.

Yeah, it just felt so solid and planted (and comfy) to drive, they looked nice as well I thought. I found some old photos, and forgot how rusty it was, the underside wasn't affected weirdly. Not sure what I was going to do with it. I would definitely have another one of these, but they haven't been cheap for years now.

£11K bought this pristine unrestored MG Metro Turbo, from a £7000 starting bid. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/325182801303 There’s a project here for £5,500 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/394108831571 I had a Metro GTi with a 1.4 16v K-Series (it cost me £100 in 2010) and it was such a good car.

I'm the seller, the other place it was for sale was on here, it never sold here because it wasn't sub £200. Have never pulled an auction. There was a reserve which it surpassed by about £1500.

Yes, would love that. But it's easier to just let people bid instead of standing there waiting for someone to not turn up on your lunch break and do the 'what's your best price, it's got faults' (experience).

Common ebay terminology - selling car, won't take buy it nows or lowest price, but car is for sale elsewhere, and I 'reserve the right to remove etc etc' Buyer refuses to acknowledge 'not asking buy it now' because of a technicality, with his 'hang on ...', oh no you caught me out. Oh no, it turns out he's an enthusiast. I would rather deal with skint council estate types than enthusiasts.

I’ve been driving this fine since I got it mot’d with a few problems. Recently I was scootling along and noticed a sound that was like a knocking, kind of like pinking. The engine gradually got slower and more smoke out of the exhaust until it could not be driven any further. I did a full diagnosis on it and found very little compression on pistons 1 & 2 - checked valve clearances, spark etc prior. Pulling leads off 1 & 2 plugs made no difference. Oil was spitting out of the plug bores as well when cranking the engine on the starter. It was definitely burning oil in the cylinder, and I think either the rings, valves and head gasket had gone. It’s barely done 1000 miles since rebuild so something was obviously wrong. A few weeks later I spent about five minutes taking the head off and the problem seemed obvious: There was a massive hole between 1 & 2, but not letting any oil or coolant in. Pistons are heavily coked up, you can feel a good 1mm of carbon in the crown of pistons 3 & 4, and obviously 1 & 2 are too oily. The valves look ok but I think I’ll change them for new ones and reseat them and also change the piston rings. Is there any other way if oil getting apart from blowing past the rings? Carb and timing might be wrong, but I’m guessing over-fuelling and or oil has caused the weak point between cylinders to become way too hot.