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https://www.enfieldfestivals.co.uk/whats-on/new-year-autojumble-whitewebbs-museum-of-transport/ I need a bit of time to myself so I’ll probably be going to this tomorrow. Anyone been before? Worth going? -
Hello chaps and chapesses. I have been tasked to collect a Xantia from Folkestone and drive it further south on its journey to Scotland. Trust me, this does make sense. Anyone about for a short-notice meet? I was thinking about stopping for a mooch about in Canterbury on the way back (I used to live there and always enjoy visiting the place) but the usual caff on the A249 could be a possible too.
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Event Lake & Dales Historic Vehicle Show - Grange Over Sands.
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today the memsahib and i went over to Grange Over Sands, near Morecambe with the Metro. a round trip of 240 miles, bur we did get ti see EddyRamrod, and the Caddie. As i cannot be bothered with any interesting captions and the like, here is a picture dump of the photos i took today, enjoy!! there was amny other cars and bikes on show, and the weather, while dull was at least dry!! which in England in the summer is something.... Marvin covered the 240 mile round trip without incident, good old Marvin, we think that the car was returning around 52mpg, which at 60 odd miles anour over the pennines was i think good doing! we had a really great day out, and it was fab to see Eddy again.... we will deffo be going again!
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My plan for tonight is to visit the Kineton show for the first time, I am taking my GS and Mrs Cyl is meeting me after her work and has taken the MK1 MX5 for the event. This is close to Gaydon for more idea on location, postcode in this link. http://kinetonssc.org.uk/images/Classic_Cars/Cars20160804.jpg -
Is anyone heading up to the classic auction at Errol on Saturday? The Samara of many shiters has been entered along with Nisfans Cavalier of much beige. Lada Samara 1.5 GL by srblythe, on Flickr DSC_0189 by srblythe, on Flickr Whether anyone buys them who knows? Last time I was up, we had a club stand type of thing but the amount of people I watched poking at my car kinda put me off doing that again so this time we'll just be parking in the car park. There's some decent cars up for sale but most of them will probably be out of my price range. DSC_0226 by srblythe, on Flickr DSC_0274 by srblythe, on Flickr DSC_0269 by srblythe, on Flickr DSC_0264 by srblythe, on Flickr DSC_0245 by srblythe, on Flickr DSC_0234 by srblythe, on Flickr There's loads more to look at going by the auction catalogue. http://www6.amstock.co.uk/morrisleslie/SaleStock.aspx?Sale=1910
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I was all set to head to the VSCC Welsh Trials on Sunday, but then I remembered that there's a big bash at Wythall to mark 30 years since WMPTE was formed (the West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive I think?). So, I think I'm going to have to get all bus geeky instead. Here's the timetable and a list of buses taking part. http://www.wythall.org.uk/octoberbuses.pdf It's all quite excited to a humble Brummie such as myself. I've not even seen an Ailsa for years, let alone heard one! Certainly haven't ridden on one since about 1984. Anyone else fancy it? I'd be aiming to pay £6 admission and then make full use of the free bus journeys - though I imagine donation buckets will be placed in strategic places.
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In the general scheme of things, collecting a car that's stood for 6 months, struggled to start a few days ago, was even worse tonight, has a shagged battery in rush hour traffic on a horrible road with a nightmare set of temp traffic lights and with no dashboard illumination probably wasn't a good idea. But, WHATEVS. Driving home still a blast. Just like my old SRi one it pulled really really well and wanted to torque steer in 2nd/3rd if you gunned it. Handling as wooden as they always were, ditto the stalks and general feel inside. Old iPhone used to light the speedo up, smoked an Audi Q3 (or whatever those junior 4x4 things are) off at the lights in some style, and made it home. When I had one of these back in the day my favourite tune was Snap's Rhythm Is A Dancer. Played it non-stop including down the two way radio in my ATS van to annoy everyone. Rolled up round the back before, fiddled with the radio and guess what it played on the first station it could find? Only that song. It must be fate. Pictures of horrifically badly 'repaired' rear arches, the spares and other things in the next bit of daylight I get to see at home. Meanwhile, I'll leave you with this: Parasites by the dashboard light (mileage genuine I think)
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Anyone up for this? 10am-4pm circuit location is KY12 9TF Car and first driver £66 Additional drivers £36 Full details here: http://www.knockhill.com/trackdays/hot-hatch-car-trackday-dec4 I'm planning to take the Megane likely with my brother and potentially one other driver. We were all in the one session at the last meeting, had a great time despite the fog cancelling it half way through. Always a good spread of cars and abilities and you can hire helmets at the circuit.
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I am taking the Cadillac and Mrs 6C is meeting me there with the Sovereign S2. http://kinetonssc.org.uk/index.php/social/classic-car-and-bike-rallies
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Very local to us is an end of season all Citroens welcome Rally. I will be there both days and Friday evening if the weather is good.
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Field of Dreams Open Day - anybody free on 17/18 September? After a great time last weekend, I am thinking of playing cars in our field again, but this time I thought I would plan ahead a bit and give some warning. You will understand that after the Shitefest mud-plugging, it will have to be weather dependent. I am thinking of the weekend of 17/18 September, with 24/25 September as reserve. Things to do… • Help us fix and polish our cars • Bring your own car to fix or polish • Give helpful advice on how it should be done • Give unhelpful advice on how it should be done • Chat with fellow AS folk • Just come and say Hi • Bring your family to picnic in our orchard • Camper are welcome, in a tent or caravan • Anything that is legal, decent and honest is fine with us! Games to play… • Dismantle the black Range Rover • Make the Herald 1200 run • Make the Herald 13/60 run • Make the Spitfire 6 run • Get Tiddly Truck mobile • Diagnose the trailer stub axle wiggle • Move heap of spoil (may involve digger and dumpers) • Flatten ruts from Shitefest 2016 (more digger stuff) • Assess the LNA for MOT stuff • Antifreeze the Rover 114 GSi • Prepare Mrs Cyl’s Alfa Giulietta so it can be loaded on a trailer (winter paint project in our home garage) • Check antifreeze of the cars on the farm • Replace drive link and test the Allen Scythe (the dangerous mower!) I am expecting the main hay field to be cut by then, so there will be more room for football, cricket, Frisbee throwing, rounders etc There will be a loo tent and we’ll provide a gas stove, kettle and fixings for tea, coffee and squash. Mrs Cyl will donate more cider to the cause! Anybody free 17/18 September All weather dependent EXTRA! Mrs Cyl says her orchard group is running a Traditional Cider Making course on Saturday 17th, in the next village. If anyone is interested in joining in, it’s £45 per person and includes lunch and cider tasting. You learn about the theory and practice of cider-making and also about different styles of cider apple and how to blend them to get the taste you want. Then you prepare, mill and press apples for juice to take home and finish off into proper cider of your preferred type. If you are interested, let me know and Mrs Cyl will provide more information.
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Kerry and i decided to brave going to Ripon Race Course today all in the quest of seeing some cars. since most of Friday and Saturday's weather was, shall we say wet to say the least we were taking a risk, afterall what state would the field be in after a couple of days near continuous rain? well we need not have bothered, come sunday morning, we loaded up the mini, and off we went.,though the batteries in the camera packed up, cos Mongo here had forgotten to charge them up, and this afternoon the rain started up again, many things were seen and more importantly, we had a good run out with the mini. which was nice. here are the pictures of stuff witnessed, and in some cases seriously lusted after. again no "commentary" just enjoy these......
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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.
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With a decent weather forecast for the next few days I am thinking that I might spend the weekend playing with my own toys at our small holding rather than going to a show. Anybody want to join me, bring your own car to fix/polish, fix mine, play with my toys get something going such as the dumpers, JCB, horticultural truck, Triumph herald/ Spitfire. Just come and say Hi Just give unhelpful advice on how it should be done Bring your family to picnic in our orchard Anything that is legal, decent and honest is fine with me. Those who went to Shitefest 2016 will know what is on offer but hopefully without mud this time! So yes you can camp, only facility is mains water on site and maybe I will have to bring our boat Thetford toilet if we have campers. We do have a toilet tent somewhere. I know very short notice but I have only just thought about it. Anybody who did not attend Shitefest 2016 will need to pm me for the address as I don’t want to publish it on a public forum. If you enter Buckingham to check for location you will not be far away.
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Has anybody been to the Cowley Classic car show? I enjoyed last Sundays BMC stuff so much I would like another BL show, is there much Cowley built stuff there? What is it like, I am thinking about it and taking my 1998 Rover 114 SLI but is that too young? http://www.cowleyclassiccarshow.org.uk/
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RobT has kindly brought back my new* Mondeo wheels from shitefest, and I'm going to drive up to meet him in lovely Sidcup on Sunday 24th July - aiming to handover around 11am. Agreed to meet at Sidcup Place (Brewers Fayre pub) that generally has a reasonable amount of parking, and not far off the A20. Any Kent/London/Essex shitters want to turn it into a bit of a mini-meet? Its probably not big enough to accommodate a fleet - but if half dozen turn up and buy a tonic water from the pub sure it will be fine
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Due to the forum experiencing some minor glitches lately, I take the liberty to open another thread for this. A classic car show will ensue in Stockport on Bank Holiday Monday 29th August 2016. It is all for a good cause, hence I expect a shite avalanche in attendence! For more information, please visit this delightfully 1990s website: http://www.wccr.org.uk/ And if you really don't want to go there, here is the official* map that will aid you in never finding it: Note to the members of the Northern Powerhouse® and the Granadaland Greenhouse Gassers©: Participation is voluntary, but not optional! -
Usual script folks Gates at 9.30, racing starts at 10am cost is £10 to get in, £15 to race your car all day Venue is Crail Raceway Crail Airfield Balcomie Road Crail Scotland KY10 3XL We'll likely due the usual roll stop at Old Inns Services on the m80 at 8.15amish Also we shall have the inaugural round of the Small NA Diesel Hatchback Cup All welcome as long as your car is small, diseasal and hatchbackery, with nae turbo! currently entered: Chaseracer FPB7 Reb Lacquer Peel FOAD? CMS206 johnk Davidfowler Come and see who is the quickest:)
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Hi all I placed a a cheeky bid on a Red Alfa 156 this morning, pretty local so collection fred to follow. We have had two of these before and I adored bith of them both, but were sold when I got given a bloody company car This one's got original Fabric Recaro seats, 2.0 twinspark, manual box, it runs and its Alfa red, whats not to like*. As an added bonus, seems pretty solid underneath too, bargainous at £185. Actually excited. *Cept it needs and alternator and top arms replacing (as per).... The plan is to get it roadworthy and potter about in it at weekends as I fortunately dont have to use it for work Collecting on Monday if I can russle up a car trailer....balls
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It's been a while but Scotoshite along with our chase racing delegate at The MIDLANDS MASSIV have agreed a trip to the auctions is in order so we have booked up for Friday October 14th in order to attend the auctions in the morning of the 15th. When I say we, I mean me and cms206 have booked. rml2345 may do it in a day, again, and 320Touring may also attend in some fashion. All welcome as usual.
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Let's kick this one off with a new* Bottom Trumps style thing. What do we have here, then? An ex-Post Office, pigeon shit welded Corsa Combo van with a 1.7 diesel engine. Special features, fixes and results: FEATURE: The driver's seat has less stuffing than a freshly steam-rollered anorexic ant. FIX: shoved a rag into it. RESULT: lumpy arse, but more comfortable than listing to one side FEATURE: Front tyre keeps going flat. FIX: Stirrup type bicycle pump lobbed in the back. RESULT: Saved me a fortune in 50p air pumps at petrol stations. FEATURE: Lost 1st, 3rd and reverse gears in town during rush hour. FIX: Cable tied gear linkage back on when I got home. RESULT: Completely forgotten about 'til now, saved me £18 on some fancy part. FEATURE: Yellow 'golden showers' light comes on on the dashboard after a few miles. FIX: Nothing. RESULT: Pretend it's not there. FEATURE: Two different door mirrors, one possibly off a Leyland Daf lorry. FIX: Ignore. RESULT: Someone else has used self tappers to hold the driver's one in place. Flaps in wind. Pretend it's not happening. FEATURE: Hilarious pigeon shit welding in myriad places. FIX: Ignore. RESULT: Pretend not to see hole in floor behind seats. Special features: Able to swallow most of broken up kitchen from a house. Surprisingly agile off the line. Everybody gives you a very wide berth when you drive it. I took the CD player out to replace it with another one, realised even that was beyond me, now I have no music. Listen to squeaks and rattles not fun. It's actually ok to drive, not setting the world alight ok, but just ok. If you're daft enough to want a van to blezz about it thinking you're cool, then this isn't the one, but it's just not as hateful as it could be. It doesn't quite carry that load area squeaking off in the same way as empty old Tranny would, and the engine (thanks I suspect to stupid emissions things) sounds a bit strangled, but all modern diesels seem that way to me. Not sure anyone would be insane enough to have one as their only wheels, you'd want something less ancient smelly Vauxhall van than this, I'm sure. Would I recommend a shitty diesel Vauxhall that's part of the Corsa family to other people, though? Yes, yes I would. It holds a reasonable cargo, most things seem to work and aside from perhaps a an older Berlingo with an XUD, it's probably one of the better small old vans. Not a hard mantle to have, considering some absolute world class shit like Escorts etc to compare it to. I'm giving it a 7.5/10, a newer, better example would be ideal, but I like the fact it's awful and it 'does the van thing' perfectly well. (Calibra one later)
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Ok, it's a long way off but here you are anyway.
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Given that many of us are traveling to Shitefest from all over, I thought that having a meeting a Gaydon on Friday would be worth the trip https://www.britishmotormuseum.co.uk/ before heading to the Shitefest location 35 miles away. I was planning on being there at about 12:00 but suggest that people turn up whenever, then we convoy to shitefest at about 4:30ish The food at Gaydon was pretty good last time I went if you are not packing yourself Gaydon is near junction 12 of the M40 but.... WARNING: junction 12 of the M40 is not currently usable during the day from the north get off at junction 14 and follow the A452 and B4100 south from the south get off at junction 11 and follow the B4100 north from Banbury Route to Shitefest from Gaydon then runs: South on the B4100 to Banbury East on the A422 to Brackley South on the A43 then East on the A421 to Buckingham Then onto the secret location of Shitefest it is about 35 miles and should take about an hour plus Friday afternoon rush hour bollocks -
It's less than a month until the second-greatest chod gathering of this summer, Hagerty's Festival of the Unexceptional. Saturday 23rd July, Whittlebury Park Golf Club. Who's going? The Base should be there https://www.hagertyinsurance.co.uk/articles-and-resources/events/festival-of-the-unexceptional#
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Because of the wet ground we never got to play with most of my toys, I borrowed the discovery to tow start both dumpers but the ground was just too wet. I also was hoping we would get a couple of Triumphs running, get our horticultural truck going and then there was always the tractor to play with. Anyway what I am thinking is if there is any interest we could have a small gathering latter in the summer when the ground has dried out to fix/play with the toys or bring your own project to fettle, what do you think?
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