DodgyBastard

Nice leisurely drive around Lochearn this afternoon.

I raffled off a few cars recently, 306 sold out instantly at £20 a go followed by the 205 at the same money. I swapped the Simson Star for a ropey Impreza. I raffled that off too at £20 a go, it made just under £1k in ticket sales so I just gave whatever numbers were left to random people and Ged had the misfortune of winning a car he never bought any tickets for. I went for a run up by Crieff for a monthly MZ meet. Bumped into a couple of bike snobs (not part of the MZ group) who said my bike was ancient and I needed to wash it. I very much wanted to tell them to piss off. Also bumped into someone who attended one of our retro car meets who recognised me and came over for a chat. He was on his bike today but turned up to the meet in this last time and said he'd probably come along on the 28th, nice to have the odd bit of shiny shite on show.

Another shite in the park coming at the end of the month.

Yeah ok.

I know I shouldn't have given the extra compensation but the guy was hassling me relentlessly and I just wanted to get him off my back. I know he was trying all of the tactics to get me to sell it but him having my address and being adamant that he was on his way with his dad and uncle and being reluctant to give me his details to return the deposit I thought a generous amount of compensation might shut him the fuck up.

Eddy the mongtard is back.

Today it was my turn to inconvenience someone. Someone saw a photo of the blue Simson I picked up on Tuesday and decided they had to have it. I really didn't want to sell it but the guy just kept chipping away at me until I gave in and agreed a price. He insisted on sending a deposit and sent £100. I took the bike out earlier and decided I'd made a mistake agreeing to sell it so messaged the buyer to apologise and say I'd changed my mind. He gave me a load of grief over the phone saying he was on his way (even though he wasn't due to leave until 1.5 hours later) He said he'd taken out a loan and had already insured it. He kept phoning me from his mobile and a landline and messaging saying he'd left a deposit and I couldn't go back on it, the bike was his etc. He wouldn't give me the details to return the deposit to so I offered £200 compensation for the inconvenience which he agreed to then hounded me to send it. I transferred it and instantly received a call from the RBS fraud department saying his account had been flagged for being involved in fraudulent activity and had to go through a bunch of bullshit in order to approve the transaction. It would have been less stressful just selling him the bloody thing. I know the disappointment of sending a deposit for something and the seller then selling it to someone else. In my case I just asked for my deposit to be returned without causing any drama but this guy has been harassing me over the last couple of days, hassling me to sell him the bike then becoming aggressive when I'd changed my mind. I thought it was best just to be honest but maybe it would have been easier to lie and make up some excuse like sorry mate it's been nicked or something along those lines.

Is there such a thing as too many bikes?

It would be fun to make a gta 1 style video with the drone.

I ran out of welding wire last night, the 15kg reel of 0.8mm lasted forever or at least a few years. I found a 5kg reel of 0.6mm I must have bought a while ago but it's too thin to feed through the rollers on my machine, if anyone local shiters have any use for it let me know, free to collect.

Wishful thinking it's the crusty part of the chassis next to where the shock mounts that was easy to access and I've just welded up. Looking at it last night I think it might be the bit behind the rear bumper which looks like a pain in the arse to access.

I had a day off work today and with nothing better to do I got stuck into welding the LDV. rust cut out, inner sills patched up followed by the outer sills and runner for the sliding door. Also patched up the front bumper mount as it was hanging off. Only one bit of welding left to do from the mot failure and I'm not sure which part needs done, it says suspension components near side rear cross member but can't find any significant rot.

Not even selling anything when I get this message to my retroshite Facebook page. Aye mate, just come and take all my cars away for fuck all.

Impressive work on the mini pickup, the owner is a welder at my work

Certainly an eclectic mix of shite in attendance. I didn't get to stand around talking shite as much as I'd have liked to, between directing traffic and taking photos I didn't have a lot of time for anything else. People seemed to be enjoying the meet which is what's important.

What a fantastic shirt!

Ah cool, I'd been looking for wheels for my Corolla estate and with nothing suitable coming up for sale I was kicking myself for selling those gold numbers! Next meet is on tomorrow, I know it's a fair trek for you but you're always welcome to come down and play with whatever I have lying around.

What happened to the gold wheels on the Mazda?

Apologies, I haven't had much for sale lately.

Ged's 305 passed the retest yesterday but broke down a few hours later when the engine consumed its own oil through the air intake... Shit luck, most likely needs another engine. In other news I swapped the unsaleable A3 for a phase 1 306 XRD. Nice enough car, drives fine. Seller failed to mention that the key for the ignition doesn't unlock the doors and there's only 1 key. Ordered a lock set off ebay so not the end of the world. Should hopefully be easier to flog than the Audi although it is quite a nice car so might keep it for a week or two.

Ged has been working on his 305 a lot recently in a bid to get it motd for the car meet this Sunday. I dread to think how much time and money he's sunk into it. From replacing all of the braking components, discs, drums, lines to 3D printing moulds to make home made subframe bushes from polyurethane and everything in between. Unfortunately it didn't achieve a clean pass, the interior mirror fell of during the test and the horn stopped working. A couple of holes in the boot floor turned into massive holes after cleaning it back to fresh metal. Colour match is phenomenal with a can of Ford burgundy red.

Made some signs out of some old shelves welded to brake discs for the meet.

When I sold the Cortina the buyer sent a £50 deposit via bank transfer. When he turned up to buy the car he brought £4500 in cash. I would have much preferred a bank transfer and can't understand why you would travel the length of the country carrying that amount of cash.