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I saw a cycling argument on facebook, and the comment being repeated ad infinitum was "They don't pay no road tax, so stuff 'em".
 
As such, I'd like to relegate anyone driving a low-powered diesel car purely for the purposes of paying zero road tax, to driving in the gutter.

Yes, until they had that terrible fire.

This was posted on the Shitpeas OMGRAFFLE page, but think it deserves to be here too.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBfiyZzhIfM&feature=youtu.be

 
Incidentally, know of Darren through my mate Ed, always helpful and a bit of a Guru on the 306 d-turbo forum. He's a proper Cornish buoy.
 
This is his video of an XUD with supercharger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjBiZhBqaeI

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C623525
 

http://www.gumtree.com/p/honda/rare-find-1985-honda-civic-1.3-at-automatic-transmission-px-welcome-/1120235728
 

Is my birthday today, the plainly fantastic Mrs_Lobster got me a picture of my mota...
 

 
I came across the guy who did it last year at La Vie En Bleu and spent a load of time admiring the pics he was selling. In the end I came away with a couple of his postcards - R5 and R16 which have been sat on my desk for the last twelve months. Unbeknown to me, she contacted him and asked if he'd do a nice big pic of my van and its absolutely superb.
 
Well chuffed indeed.

Lovely looking Hi-Ace http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/STUNNING-CLASSIC-1981-TOYOTA-HI-ACE-DEVON-CONVERSION-1-OWNER-73-500-MILES-/181767340178?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2a522d8092
 
Never realised they were so big inside!
 

Lovely looking Hi-Ace http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/STUNNING-CLASSIC-1981-TOYOTA-HI-ACE-DEVON-CONVERSION-1-OWNER-73-500-MILES-/181767340178?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2a522d8092
 
Never realised they were so big inside!
 

Lovely looking Hi-Ace http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/STUNNING-CLASSIC-1981-TOYOTA-HI-ACE-DEVON-CONVERSION-1-OWNER-73-500-MILES-/181767340178?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2a522d8092
 
Never realised they were so big inside!
 

Lovely looking Hi-Ace http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/STUNNING-CLASSIC-1981-TOYOTA-HI-ACE-DEVON-CONVERSION-1-OWNER-73-500-MILES-/181767340178?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2a522d8092
 
Never realised they were so big inside!
 

I can safely say that I don't know what all the BMW model codes refer to, and I'm actually quite happy with that. It's a bit like when I mention to my colleagues at work that I have never watched star wars.

Lovely looking Hi-Ace http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/STUNNING-CLASSIC-1981-TOYOTA-HI-ACE-DEVON-CONVERSION-1-OWNER-73-500-MILES-/181767340178?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2a522d8092
 
Never realised they were so big inside!
 

Lovely looking Hi-Ace http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/STUNNING-CLASSIC-1981-TOYOTA-HI-ACE-DEVON-CONVERSION-1-OWNER-73-500-MILES-/181767340178?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2a522d8092
 
Never realised they were so big inside!
 

Allegro's mama in fibreglass pants?
Was Harris Mann working for Ogle at that time?
Are my eyes forcing me to see Austin Allegros everywhere?
 
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OGLE-SX1000-Austin-Morris-Cooper-BMC-Mini-MK1-FIA-Classic-Car-/181769497800?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2a524e6cc8

I can safely say that I don't know what all the BMW model codes refer to, and I'm actually quite happy with that. It's a bit like when I mention to my colleagues at work that I have never watched star wars.

I think it's the right result, It's just a shame that i couldn't make some decent money on it! I know it's going to be cared for and will give him a hobby, My reserve was £4750 but i have a feeling it would have been over £5000...
 
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1966-Ford-Cortina-1500-Super-Mk1-26000-miles-from-new-/131532096250?ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT 
 
As for wish list, well... the reason for the sale is that Mrs Trigger is now pregnant, after 9 years of trying and 4 failed IVF treatments, we wasn't even trying! So i needed to downsize some cars, I've agreed on a Sierra which I'm still waiting for but that's only £'s.

So I'm back.  I'll reply to the notes I've got waiting and we will draw a line under the whole For Sale thread debacle.  In fact, any references to that particular thread shall be pointedly ignored by me.
 
When it was suggested I 'close the garage door' stepping away from Autoshite - and a host of other car forums I'm on - turned out to be my equivalent of that and it was a very good thing I did it too.  While I've been MIA I decided to focus on anything but cars, knuckled down with work and just did selfish silly little things to make me happy.  It has done me a lot of good.
 
Thank you to those of you that are patient with me and understanding, and for those of you that reached out to check I was okay.  Some of you know what it's like to have noise prattling away in your head and driving you to do irrational things, some of you never will and really should be grateful for that.
 
For now, I'm using the Xantia and working on the Renault and Princess when the mood takes me.  I won't be offering updates on the work I've done until I'm comfortable doing that.  It's just going to take a bit of time for me to get from here to there and I'm not pushing it.

Just finished cleaning the car for my grid position at goodwood tomorrow. Took some new photos for the insurance valuation as it looked good.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VOLVO-ESTATE-245DL-CLASSIC-CAR-GREEN-1-OWNER-1978-RUNS-NEEDS-TLC/161715563010
 

Hows it going muthafokkerz
 
I got the headlining sorted in the end. I went with the fibreglas idea which worked pretty well. I bought 500ml of cheap resin off the bay and a sheet of glass matting, fairly tightly woven.
 
I laid the headlining out on a big piece of plywood and put on a couple of layers of mat. Stippled loads of resin on, and rolled out the air bubbles as best I could with a roller. Did the same on both sides - although originally I didnt want any fibreglass on the 'visible' side I decided it was worth it for the rediced risk of busting it again during refitting.
 

 
That actually worked surprisingly well and gave it plenty of strength back in its fragile bits.
 

 
I brushed the rest of it with thinned-down PVA glue as well:
 

 
Don't know if that did any good or not but can't have done any harm.
 
Once it had had a couple of days to dry out properly I brought it in the house for stage 2:
 

 
bought a big piece of the pukka black headlining fabric off eBay for about £25. Spent another tenner on a couple of cans of 'trim-fix' glue and employed textiles expert Mrs Crab to help me make a neat job of it.
 

 
Looking good so far - I had been worried it might wrinke up on the curves round the 'bubble' for the rear passengers heads but we got it nice and tight and avoided any mess. Difficult to see the fibreglass repairs too, but theyre not completely invisible admittedly.
 

 
we trimmed a good 2" margin round the outside of the board and folded the fabric over and taped and glued it on the back to make a neat job, no pics of that though.
 
That was amazingly successful so, while on a roll we went up the garage and reinstalled it straight away:
 

 

 
To my surprise it went in farily easily, couple of hours and it was all done including cutting out and trimming the hole for the sunroof
 

 
Excuse the shitty phone pics, I forgot my camera
 
Anyway its all done and refitted and I have to say, looks the flippin bollocks!!!
 

 

 
This was probably the trickiest job left to do so i am super chuffed its done and has turned out so well. Cost about £50 in materials and a quite a lot of hours fannying about but I am well happy with the results. This thing should be hitting the road imminently!!

There's no call for this sort of barbarity when faced with a slightly worn transmission. With horrendous back axle whine from my wife's A35 I quickly effected a properly engineered solution rather than resort to fitting a radio.

I can safely say that I don't know what all the BMW model codes refer to, and I'm actually quite happy with that. It's a bit like when I mention to my colleagues at work that I have never watched star wars.

I can safely say that I don't know what all the BMW model codes refer to, and I'm actually quite happy with that. It's a bit like when I mention to my colleagues at work that I have never watched star wars.

I can safely say that I don't know what all the BMW model codes refer to, and I'm actually quite happy with that. It's a bit like when I mention to my colleagues at work that I have never watched star wars.