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I've never worked out how people can afford to lease a car,maybe everyone is on way more money than me I don't know.

Ignoring the flippers and the dealers,the market is tanking at the moment,so just keep an eye out for what your looking for,it's all dropping.

I have wares book,it does make for engaging reading.I currently have a 2000 Yaris verso,which is about as reliable as you can get generally,but a part of me is increasingly looking at getting a minor again, especially now I have had some welding practice (x plate transit at work,very rotten,see if you can get it through a test!) 

Can I have one please as I actually have a car to put it in!

Classic market is tanking at the moment,so if you do want something,get something you like rather than something that might be a 'safe investment' least that way if it does drop in value you still have something you like

Yes I thought I recognised it,your Sunbeam lives about 10 miles from me

Only going by what Stuart had written in one of his register pages,may be wrong of course.I know that the chap my grandad worked with just signed a form to say a car had been scrapped and drove it home to use as sheds in his garden.

It was required as proof of destruction for the official repairers to give the dhss the chassis plate,obviously many did this but didn't scrap the cars,much later on they got wise to this and the cars were taken to head office for crushing instead.

30 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

Yeah thats something I have wondered about as well  (thought I even spoke with stuart about it in the past, but checking the message logs I cant find anything although im almost positive I did talk/ask about it at one point!)

ah interesting  

I wonder who made Barrett Minor body shells for W&F Barret when they introduced the Minor in 1956....

(since thats before hamblin did fibreglass right?)

Hamblin were coach builders so most likely built them as well.

Bonds were converted to hand controls and I believe an early mk A or B survives with the hand controls still present.

Laurie left the Minicar project soon after the MKA and though retained as a consultant didn't have too much input afterwards and Sharps were doing rather well selling them to the general public

This is fascinating,partly as I now live five miles from Sherborne! My grandad used to work on Barretts when he was a repairer in the 60s.

Coming home from work Friday,got out and heard a hissing noise,sounded like a radiator leak..no,sodding wood screw in my front tyre and I had already booked in to have a set of four fitted on Thursday....did a trail and found a set of nearly new winter tyres on rims for £50 not too far away,so fitted those and will get the original set changed in the week,least they won't have to take the wheels off!

I always used falkens on my pigs,and have just ordered a set to be fitted to my Yaris verso as I always rated them.

My mz got given a Boris mot as.it ran out in July,just booked it in for next weds as I didn't fancy having to do it in early January!

Try extending the tailpipe to exit a bit further out past the valance,a lot of the noise is caused by sound booming under the boot floor.or a curved trim piece.original two piece systems with the round silencer are very farty,around 95-96 a one piece system with oval silencer and curved tailpiece was fitted which is much quieter.heatervalve is indeed just held in place inline with the hose,usually by the dizzy to make getting to number two plug really awkward. yes that is the right heater.james.at CHG has just had the heater to body grommets re made and also the heater trunking from the oe supplier should you need bits.

Given my verso has four part worns of various decrepitude including one Chinese winter tyre I've booked it in to have four Falkens fitted next week at a local independent garage,seem to have good reviews and I know roughly where it is so that's as good as I can hope for! £173 fitted for all four which I thought was fair.

He did however design the three most successful British cars ever built (I don't include foreign owned manufacturers before anyone starts) 

he got it right with the Minor mind you,everything that followed had more ego attached.

Not the first time the bubblecar museum has sold cars off,last time pissed a lot of people off as some of the cars had been donated or were on loan.the owners are the most miserable rude people I've ever met.

I found a twin!

The synthetic resin enamel does dry a bit quick,I used a lot of it over the last few years on motorcycles. My dad had some craftmaster coach paint which I used on a few projects and it is simply the best brush paint I have ever used,it is more expensive than what you would be used to paying but I would hundred percent recommend trying some if you want a satisfying painting experience.oh,and you have turned a car I hated into one k like,so top marks!

The number of vehicles provided under the invalid vehicle scheme at the end of each of the last five years was as follows:

Main reason they were.withdrawn eventually is due to cost,it was still costing several million a year to keep the scheme running even into the late nineties,as was brought up in the house of commons,why are we spending three million a year in maintaining a fleet of cars that were meant to have been withdrawn in 1981?

Definitely regal doors modified with a recess for the handle on the town car.

Here's a bonus colour shot of a tippen and Harper

My grump.. after successfully changing engine oil,filter,air filter and gearbox oil on my Yaris verso,this morning on attempting to replace a snapped off undertray stud,I drilled straight through the rad.:-(

3 minutes ago, TheDoctor said:

I think if there is doubt in your mind at all, it is the right thing to do to walk away. It's been a while since I've actually viewed a car before buying, but I'd rather walk away and wonder what if? than buy it and be kicking myself for ignoring my instincts. 

 

If its.not a yes it's a no.