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I can't help but think it's about time we learn to live with the environment and not adapt it to our needs. I studied civil engineering, so know enough about how to modify the environment to our needs, but really don't think we are able to win in the long run.
 
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Well, this has been an eventful last couple of days! Out of the 3 vehicles we currently have on the road, the only one fully working is the van. Despite the fact it's done 60k miles more than the other two put together! First her MINI ('04) snapped the handbrake cable, and then we set off for Sheffield yesterday in the Kangoo, in terrible weather. 10 miles down the road and there's a bang from the rear, followed by a grating sound and a pulsing brake pedal. My guess is one of the shoes has broken up inside the drum.
 
So we limped back home and transferred everything to the van. Turned out that was probably a wise move, given the flooding we came across!
 

 
(NB. I wasn't filming - I'd have done it in landscape...)
 
Everything went smoothly once we were out of Wales, and even managed 26 mpg Also, the OE temperature sender I fitted is making the needle sit in the middle of the gauge rather than 3/4 towards hot. 400 miles on the new head and all seems well.

I can't help but think it's about time we learn to live with the environment and not adapt it to our needs. I studied civil engineering, so know enough about how to modify the environment to our needs, but really don't think we are able to win in the long run.
 
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I think you'd need full bulkhead, with toeboard and shelf. It's not beyond the impossible, but if you're going that far may as well rebuild the existing shell. That area is about the most complicated on the shell.
 
Sadly the days of good bodies with knackered chassis are long gone. If it were my 3k, and I genuinely had no other use for it (including pension and savings) I'd be investing in some kit and be trying my hand at the work on the dyane first. Then, assuming it all went well, I'd embark on the 2cv.
 
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Just ace...
 

 
 
I'll just casually leave this up on the verge...
 

 
Knock me down with a feather
 

 
Where you been, I ordered that pizza in 1969
 

 
Simply Lovely
 

 
Built too late to get in but bloody lovely all the same
 

 
 
Arrived too late to get in - its what pavements are for...
 

 
I could have taken loads more but so many people to talk to, so many cars to see. So I'll just leave you with this little honey...
 
 

 
 
FIN

siku are better but i would really like a weise or wiking one

My son has reached an age that I can introduce him to sensible scale cars. First off, is to nurture his tractor interest with Britain's models.
 

 
I *might* let him have a go
 
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First purchase
 
DSC_6847 by srblythe, on Flickr
 
Then these
 
Tata Loadbeta tdi by srblythe, on Flickr
 
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DSC_8067 by srblythe, on Flickr
 
Lada Riva 1200 by srblythe, on Flickr
 
DSC_8452 by srblythe, on Flickr
 
Fiat Panda colour by srblythe, on Flickr
 
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DSC_3258 by srblythe, on Flickr
 
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DSC_5179-1 by srblythe, on Flickr
 
Only room for one by srblythe, on Flickr
 
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DSC_5991 by srblythe, on Flickr
 
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DSC_6156 by srblythe, on Flickr
 
DSC_6162 by srblythe, on Flickr
 
DSC_7311 by srblythe, on Flickr
 
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And this 305 should be the last purchase this year
 
Fresh by srblythe, on Flickr
 
 
 
 

The cowboy is Mrs Cyl father, he does not have cowboy fantasies just thought the hat would be useful when spending the day in a sunny field.
 
He has had an interesting selection of cars though his life including a new Honda Z and then a fine selection of bangernomic including several Volvo 340/360s, old Fiat pandas, Volvo 740s, Citroen ZXs and now has a Citroen Berlingo.
 
I have now looked at all the photos from the party but can't find any more of the BX.
 
At the party I had a DS but a blue one not the white one I have now.

Not good around town, genuine 10 - 15mpg.
100% pleased to bits with it, its all I expected and wanted it to be but the interior plastics are unforgivably shite, and the doors have a long metallic clang when you close them. Was expecting a bit more refinement from a £32k car.

My son has reached an age that I can introduce him to sensible scale cars. First off, is to nurture his tractor interest with Britain's models.
 

 
I *might* let him have a go
 
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My son has reached an age that I can introduce him to sensible scale cars. First off, is to nurture his tractor interest with Britain's models.
 

 
I *might* let him have a go
 
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Yay. It worked. I am like an I.T professional.
 
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My son has reached an age that I can introduce him to sensible scale cars. First off, is to nurture his tractor interest with Britain's models.
 

 
I *might* let him have a go
 
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I confess I am a Citroen addict! But not many know I have a BX!
The car is a 1992 BX GTi 8v quite a plain car in Venetian red with plastic wheel covers. The car was pre register by Citroen UK 28th September 1992 and in January 1993 with just 13 miles was sold to the Aylesbury Citroen dealer as part of a batch of 6 Citroen management cars for the dealer used car Dept. At the time it was difficult to sell GTi’s, in the middle of the GTi insurance scare so it was forced upon the dealer to get the other cars they wanted.
 
At the time my farther was running a 1988 BX GTi and as I used to work for the dealer, my old boss who I had remained friends with phoned me to ask if my farther would be interested in the 13 mile GTi for £8,050 cost price (list at the time £13,000). My farther declined saying he would not be ready to buy another car for a year or so. The next time I spoke to my farther he had the car and said he had thought about it and realized what a good deal it was! He keep the 1988 GTi as well and sold the other Citroen he had.
 
Unfortunately my farther passed on a couple of years latter and my mother kept the 1992 BX GTi and sold the 1988 one. My mother then used it for the small annual mileage she did taking it up to 46,000 miles. In 2008 my mother gave up driving and the car sat in her garage, it is now clear my mother is not going to drive again so the car was given to me last year. The car is very safe in a dry garage but does now need putting back on the road before it deteriorates.
 
This is the only picture I have at the moment taken at a family summer party in 2007.

Martin Lewis says that you can get 1.55% easy access or 2.55% fixed in a top Cash ISA.
 
or there's this, and enough change to buy some MIG wire:
 

Got a new bumper for my 2cv.
 

 
It's in primer at the moment, can't decide whether to paint it in cellulose grey, Rustoleum black or get it powder coated.
 
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Happy Christmas Eve you lot, I hope it's a quiet and enjoyable week ahead for you and the families.
 
I've just made what is hopefully my last purchase of 2015 after a pretty colourful year of shite beginning with a French registered 306 that somehow ended up at my local auction house as a main dealer trade in.
 

 
1/4 mil km on the clock, Paris spec bodywork and poverty spec everywhere else. Naturally I had to have it. The heater matrix has since shat out everything into the passenger footwell and the bastard certainly won't be seeing Toulouse again.
 
Thankfully the year is ending on a better note, or maybe it's just an even bigger opportunity for complete disaster.
 

 
I first spotted this Grand Espace about 5/6 years ago. And anyone who knows my particular perversions will know the mess left when I first did see it....
 

 
An Espace that means business. The first and only of its kind that I've ever come across in NI. Add to that the perfect spec otherwise, black heated leather, panoramic roof and a colour that blends suitably in to the background. It's pretty much exactly how I'd have ordered one from the factory.
 
Anyway, I saw it a few times and left some notes on the windscreen, no response. That was until the start of this year when a guy not much older that me called to say it had been his parents from new and he had inherited it when they replaced it with a Murano.
 
He seemed pretty miffed that anyone would want it but explained that he is a cameraman for a local TV station and the Espace does a great job as a van, he therefore wouldn't be replacing it anytime soon but will keep my number.
 
I then got a call last week to say the Espace has to go as he has a job in Boston and will most likely be leaving at the end of January. The Espace had suffered a broken front spring and the drivers wing mirror has been knocked off so he isn't driving it at the moment.
 
He said the car was at his garage and they've quoted £1k for everything it needs, he'd therefore want £2k in total.
 
I expressed much interest at getting it how it is and not lining that particularly garages pocket. We were down to £1k. He then asked if I had anything roadworthy that we could perhaps do a deal on for him to take and be able to drive until he leaves. Luckily I had just picked up this Mégane.
 

 
.... Which he came yesterday and was over the moon to do a straight swap for. The Meg cost me £260.
 
Result - I have a massive gap in the Renault collection filled with a very shite Espace.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
The bodywork leaves a lot to be desired but to be honest I think it adds to the OMGVEEEEEEEEEE6 surprise that the car is all about.
 
The heart monitor warning light is in relation to a VIAS control solenoid valve - apparently a common and minor issue with this Nissan engine. Doesn't put the car into limp mode so it still moves stupidly quick.
 
A spring is £60, I need to find a silver drivers side mirror with blue tinted glass and electric folding operation. The fan belt is. Bit squeaky on start up so will get that looked at along with a full service.
 
I can just see it towing all sorts of shite throughout 2016 averaging 9mpg as it does so!
 
So come on, first and last purchases of 2016, if there's no pics it didn't happen.

Get another one, place it facing down, paint the cross section in red and paint the verticals in white.
Pretend your car is a vampire.

Got a new bumper for my 2cv.
 

 
It's in primer at the moment, can't decide whether to paint it in cellulose grey, Rustoleum black or get it powder coated.
 
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and i aint ever, ever seen one of these before.

now i like bedfords, especially the the old TK's

not only is it a miniature wagon but look at what hiding behind those diddy wheels.

cool.

Got a new bumper for my 2cv.
 

 
It's in primer at the moment, can't decide whether to paint it in cellulose grey, Rustoleum black or get it powder coated.
 
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Got a new bumper for my 2cv.
 

 
It's in primer at the moment, can't decide whether to paint it in cellulose grey, Rustoleum black or get it powder coated.
 
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Most definitely better looking with rectangular headlights.
 

Ah ha, that makes sense. I'd be interested in your experience with plastidip if you go that route.
 
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