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Anything to look for on a 2001 Saab 93 2.0 turbo petrol, manual? I'm pretty sure they have the same shitty slave-cylinder-in-gearbox as the Vectra, but owt else to worry about? Thank you in advance, etc.

is there any autoshite meets in ireland ?

I am off to Leeds on Tuesday in Chunderbird 2, I shall be collecting a set of Saxo suspension & wheels. If anyone has anything that needs transporting along the A16/ M180/ M18/ M62 route to or from, please let me know!

I am embarking on a tat collection trip this very a.m. It concerns a well known shiter, and a potentially decent example of some well known MODERATE LEVEL SHITE. If the interweb plays ball, I shall supply a tale of mildly interesting roadtrippery.

I have been designing a diagnostics tool for MGs and Rovers for a couple of years and I am finally launching it on Kickstarter within the next few days. I have already submitted it to them but it is stuck in their moderation queue. There are more details here http://www.pscan.eu Rob Bell from the MGF Register is organising a demo day in North London / Hertfordshire area and anyone is welcome to come along. Details are here http://www.mgfregister.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=17645

Wednesday night: Buy jolly snazzy 307. Very tidy 1.6 pezoleum manual, working aircon etc But meh, etc. Got home, fired up my spare social media account and logged onto a page I'm banned from. What's that, an interesting car for sale with no price or any really worthwhile details. But sometimes you only need three things: What car it is, any MOT and a price. Got it all except price, frantic messaging and having to go to bed with no reply. Early up this morning, message has been read, reply sent. Could have been one of two things due to the year of car, bonus is it being the right one of two. More messaging, went to view tonight, spent 30 odd minutes getting it in and out of garage and jump starting, then it fired into life when working leads were attached. Good chat to the vendor, what a nice bloke. It was his dad's who sadly passed away recently. Anyhow, chatted money and I wasn't going to say no, they'd had one offer and a queue of people trying to view it. TL:DR later, here's the money shots. .. Collection next few days, it's a 1.8GLi manual. Wheel arches as you'd expect.

Who is up for buying some parts for shite he doesn't own?

Shitefest 2016 has been discussed in with the Visit to Chinnor and Princess Risborough Railway thread but I thought it was time for it to have its own thread as the railway visit is not compulsory to Shitefest. Date is Friday 24th to Sunday 26th June 2016 (Camping in our field the week before or after is possible just pm me.) If you want to know where we are it is Buckingham, Buckinghamshire 10 miles west of Milton Keynes, because this Forum is open to everybody on the internet to read I will not post the address but will send it out to AS members by PM who put themselves on the attendance list. Camping Facilities - a flat field. There is mains water but the tap is 100 meters away from the camp area so you will need your own water container. Toilet - I will hire a plastic box and ask for donations. There is an organic matter composting bin on site. We can take cans, plastic bottles and glass bottles back to our home recycling bin. General rubbish, there is no rubbish collection from the field and no room in our home bin so you need to collect rubbish and somebody can help me with a tip run. Fires are banned on the site except Arthur Foxhake patent Travel Log Burner. The nearest pub is 1.5 miles away so we are hoping for good weather so we can stay on site to eat and drink, we plan to erect our 3m x 6m party shelter so there is somewhere to go if it does rain. Off site Buckingham and Winslow are a short drive away with super markets, fish & chips, India, Chinese and kebabs. Milton Keynes is 10 miles and you can eat from any country in the world plus cinema, ski and snowboard zone, rock climbing, casino etc if it really is wet. On site amusement Binhoker668 made this suggestion “Would be very cool to have a non mot-ed snotter there too, and an mot booked locally for Monday. A weekend-group-resto job on the Poo Disastra would be class†I volunteered our 1963 Herald 1200cc or 1968 Spitfire fitted with a 2.5 Ltr engine, that I think stand a reasonable chance of passing an MOT with a weekends fettling! Of coarse if you fettle any of my cars I will be more than happy to pay for any parts and the MOT test. I also have a fair number of Triumph spares that may be useful. The Herald could do with a repaint as it has been brush painted for some time and used to look respectable in 2007. Also we have two working dumpers, a 1972 horticultural truck that could do with starting and a drive round.

Would there be any interest in a meet next weekend, perhaps Sunday lunchtime?

Going to this with a few of the PT Cruisers lot any Shiters fancy a day of old cars and commercials and pig eating??? http://www.haselburymill.co.uk/events

This is where I plan to be New Years day Probably with the Citroen CX if all goes to plan. http://www.vintagestony.co.uk/

Brackley Classics in the Plazza was held this morning, mildly moist but still 40/50 cars! Mine was the only Citroen CX present.

As Alex_Bucket said; So it's about time we had this thread to keep such things together, not spread about between various other topics where they could be missed. If you're attending, or live near someone who is, feel free to add any offered items, offers to shift stuff, wanteds, and so on. For example, we still have this wrapped up MGF bumper, which needs to go in Jon_Dugong's direction. It's been knocking around here for about a year now... That's me un-burying the Samara the night it awoke from its hibernation. Also, some/any/all parts from this ex-Chompy 216 are available free to an Autoshiter, though if a part is a ball-ache to get off, you can pay me in beer. (Come and get the whole thing if you want it (BD23), I don't fancy dragging it to Buckinghamshire.) I'm sure I've loads of other tat to be rid of too, I'll list it here as I trip over it. Add yours below! And shout up if you want owt...

This is an all Citroen event, the UK one in 2012 was very good. I was planing to go to the 2016 event in Holland, the only tickets for sale at the moment are event tickets = 4 days , 1 car, 2 people but they are €120. This is without camping which is another €25. I am not sure I want to pay this much to enter a car show, is it me just being mean and out of touch with what things cost? http://icccr2016.com/new/

Roll up roll up roll up, Play Pug Bingoshite (TM) Same rules as usual, no cheating and you could win the fabulous prize of a Soviet wind up pocket watch especially purchased from the high class jeweller selling on the beach last week. . Here is your bingo card so eyes down for a FULL HOUSE wins and remember only Pugs 205/309 unless Mr Renner buts in.

Is there any appetite for a general spannering session over Christmas in the South of Hampshire? This was discussed briefly a little while back when Wolf was despairing about the chasm between the current state of his Megane floppytop and an MOT pass, and I have myriad odd jobs which need doing on the Almera which would occupy an afternoon of my time but would be more pleasant with friendly company. Not sure about others, but I'm off work from Crimble Eve until the 4th and am mobile, is anyone else interested? Doobietoo and I discussed this at the auction tonight but would be good to gauge other interest in this debacle before anything concrete gets planned. So, any interest? Tools and ramps and bacon and rolls can be supplied by myself, but I'm short on space so can anyone host this extravaganza of village fete proportions?

Thoroughly recommend this. A massive broad collection of everything from supercars to daily rides held together with gaffer tape. Also Brooklands is a lovely place to spend the day. £11 from 10am. http://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/index.php?/events/details/new-years-day/ Last year there were about 1200 old, amazing, shite and interesting cars. The year before still worth going even in appalling weather. Last year: http://autoshite.com/topic/14237-chod-bothering-swiss-style/?p=684439 The year before: http://autoshite.com/topic/14237-chod-bothering-swiss-style/?p=503313 Weather is looking good for tomorrow. Hope to see some of you there.

Never been but it sounds like my kinda day out, anyone else in W. Yorks/surrounding areas fancy it? Flyer here. Website here.

I'm already girding up my loins for the first BL chodfest of the year. Is anyone else planning on going? Would be good to see the Barrett-Cox Allegro make an appearance, assuming it isn't broken. There's also bus and plane shite there for added variety, as well as the museum of course. http://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/index.php?/events/details/austin-morris-day1/ I think Angrydicky is going, so we'll be there in our beige beauties as usual.

Anyone darn sarf up for a meet up? Eddyramrod and myself are meeting up at Micks Monster burgers on Portsdown hill (B2177 overlooking Portsmouth City) on Thursday 11th Feb at about 12:00 mid day, since he's down here visiting family. Anyone else that fancies jumping in for a bit of burger van food and getting some old heaps together is welcome to come along too. Should be a good afternoon.

So this morning I was on my way over to Malham on the back roads, and I hit a puddle coming into a little village. The water sprayed up and onto the windscreen and immediately froze. Wipers didn't make much difference so I thought I would wait till I got through to the other side of the village, and find a place with a nice bit of bright sunshine to get out and scrape the ice off. Just the other side of the village whilst squinting through the thin layer of ice I saw a Police cone out in the middle of the road, and drove round it. My immediate thought was that some drunk playing silly-buggers had dumped it there overnight. Next thing I remember was waking up with my head out of the front of the car, my chest on the steering wheel and the front of the roof pushing down into my shoulders. I recon I hit the tree around 25mph, and trees don't tend to move when they are this big. I was propperly confused and shaken, I had lost my glasses and was covered in glass, in my hair, in my clothes, blood streaming from my hand and blood in my hair. I was badly winded, had really bad pains accross my chest and down the top of my back from my head, and it took a while to calm down. I was more or less pinned between the steering wheel and the top of the windscreen surround, and I had no idea what had happened until I scrambled out of the windscreen and had a look backwards.... Fortunately a local farm with horses invited me into a barn for a brew and a sit down. I called the parents out with a chainsaw and the RAV 4 and after a while when I was still breathless and in pain down my neck I called an ambulance. The parents arrived, followed by the Police and eventually by an ambulance. The Ambulance guys checked me out and told me that even though I didn't have any bones out of place I should probably get to hospital ASAP. Dad said that I had chickend out halfway through, I got the most important bits through, myself and the engine, and if I had been going faster i would have made it out the other side! The police man had some arkward questions and at first was very hostile but the family from the farm stood up for me; and when Plod realised that Dad had brought a chainsaw to clear the tree with he was much more laid back. All he wanted was for the tree to be cleared and the car moved, so another farmer came with a telehandler and lifted the tree off the car - we towed it clear with the RAV. When we realised that the car still ran and drove fine, I drove it home steadily in convoy between the parents cars, with my head sticking out through the sunroof and my chin resting on the sunroof seal. Luckily the cops had gone and didn't see me drive off! I had some funny looks off cyclists and other motorists! This picture showed how I drove home, with my head out the sunroof. You know it is a decent crash when you have to climb out of an oraface other than the door. I had some breakfast and a brew and Mum took me doown to the hospital, they put me on a spine board and did a few x-rays, and glued a whole in my scalp. Unfortunately my favorite Top Barks Dog Training hat took the full force of the windscreen and was sacrificed for my safety, otherwise I would have probably lost significant clums of hair. So now to the important bit, and this is where YOU come in... I'm looking for a cheap replacement. Has to be- Below £500MoT'd, for at least a few monthsTurbo DieselVeg-oil friendlyOlder than 20 years - (classic insurance)TowballManualI would like it to be- preferably small hatchback, or a large off road 4x4PSA and would be a massive bonus, especially 205/309 or citro-batic.Fast / fun to driveGood lookingI am going away backpacking the world at some point in the next 12 months, so it doesn't matter if it is dog rotten and a throw away car, its not permanent. I await your suggestions! Thanks in advance.

Hi chaps I'm looking to run a five car test in the next couple of weeks and am looking for cars for the shoot. If you have, and we use, we'll pay expenses, I'll buy you lunch, and let you have the pics. The cars we're looking for are: Audi 100 (C3) Alfa Romeo 164 Renault 25 Rover 800 Sterling (XX) Vauxhall Senator. If you can help, drop me a line here by PM or email [email protected] Thanks in advance

A visit to Chinnor and Princess Risborough Railway is easy to arrange. • A few of us could go on spec with normal admission. • We could pre book as a discount party of 8 or more, or for better discounts 15+. • We could take over the whole railway for the day. Dogs and children welcome http://www.chinnorrailway.co.uk/article.php/2/visit-the-railway

As the Midlands Massive are having a trip to Cannock Auctions (Home of the DETHBURGAH) tomorrow 5/1/15, and I'm too skint to go, anybody fancy the Enfield BCA sale instead? 620-640 Great cambridge Road, Enfield EN1 3RL Start time 9.30am, so I'll be leaving sunny* Grays 8.15-8.30, quick blat round the M25, should be there in time. I don't really want to be a billy-no-mates..... Parky? PBK? Anybody? You'll get to spend a couple of hours with my handsome* self, what moar could you want?

Just spied this http://www.hjpugh.com/new.html No details of a catalogue or what will be on offer. Seems an odd time to do an auction, I thought everyone is usually skint until February once Xmas shite gets in the way.