Does anyone want encyclopaedia shite?

[Des]

These have been sat in a car I parked up 10 or 15 years ago, brought the car home today but left these lovelies in the lock up.

 

 

Quite old, noticed one of a few yearbooks dated 1963 so will be of that era, I don't need them as my missus knows everything, located in North Watford near A41 between M25 J19 and M1 J5, could be useful as axle stands, load up the boot of your RWD for traction in the snow or build an effigy of an early Proton.

[ashmicro]

Those look like kosher Britannica, Des. I have a full, earlier set from the late 50's and I've been told they're worth money.

[catsinthewelder]

Not after the books but you've had a car parked up for 10-15 years? We need to know more

[Ross_K]

Those look like kosher Britannica, Des. I have a full, earlier set from the late 50's and I've been told they're worth money.

 

They're worth absolutely nothing, except maybe for sentimental value. Charity shops wouldn't even take them off you and they'll take any old shit.

 

Crazy to think that our parents blew thousands of quid on them. And then they had to buy a book of updates every year...

[Cavcraft]

Actually some of them are worth money. There was a geezer on R2 talking about these not so long back and certain editions are worth a bit of coin apparantly.

[STUNO]

Forget the bloody books, most of us can't read anyway. put up some pics of the CAR

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

They're worth absolutely nothing, except maybe for sentimental value. Charity shops wouldn't even take them off you and they'll take any old shit.

 

Crazy to think that our parents blew thousands of quid on them. And then they had to buy a book of updates every year...

 

My generation is the same except instead of encyclopaedias it's Friends on VHS.

[retrogeezer]

LOL!!

 

Fortunately we didn't buy any Friends videos but I do remember my sis in law buying them at something like £10 for 1 video with about 4 episodes on! We bought the full dvd box set about 2 years ago for £20 and now it is on Comedy Central (?) in HD and a far better picture than the doovdes..

[HillmanImp]

24 volumes from 1929 were worth £53 to the buying public on ebay.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-encyclopaedia-Britannica-24-Volumes-1929-14th-Edition-/180843995475

[Des]

I think most icicle paedos are plentiful and worthless, except maybe sets that were always rare, from austere periods, so that would be 100 years ago, immediate post war and now. Just as well I don't want anything for them, but if it comes to it, before binning them I'll pull out any interesting pics to never get around to framing / hanging, and I had an idea to buzz off the spines to cover the door of a bookcase proportioned cabinet I'd knock up, only it wouldn't be a bookcase but a secret stealth hiding place for precious things and grumble.

 

Catsinthewelder, the car's a big manky old Austin that was my daily some years ago, from examining the rubbish still in the dash, paperwork and and fag packs with no warning of nobbling my chance of falling pregnant, I deduce I parked it up in 1999, prior to this it did a few years of only coming out for an mot, all the while there's been a big can of paint going hard waiting for me to pull my finger out. I feel a plum for letting this happen, time runs away, although the previous keeper did the same as me from 1974 to 1994 so I'm not the worst offender. Last Sunday I listed a vanload of spare running gear for the bozo on my brothers ebay account, don't think I'll ever need it and want my van back, then I later had a 'moment' and added the car to the listing, thinking I should get shot of everything. Then later still I had another moment and insured it, cheapest quote was from Cherished, I've since found an old policy from them in the car, they charged me £5.23 more in 1995, OMG WIPLISH CLAEMZ KULCHER!!!

 

This cost £1.70.

 

Took the bugger to a free if you fail outfit yesterday and it only went and passed, £40 bargainz, so just have to pull the ebay listing, ignore common sense and the fact that as I haven't got around to getting fresh paint on it in the last 2 decades it's hardly going to happen now, just have to be content with omg seriouz ratlook to da extreme blud, albeit genuine decay that a dubber twat would give his knackers for.

 

Meet Bozo.

[eddyramrod]

After all that story, I do wish I could see those pics!

[Angrydicky]

That is one fantastic looking motor Des. I hope you have many years of happy trundling around ahead of you

[Des]

Eddy if you look at ebay 130667408627 there are pics, although I'm trying to pull the listing it's not happening, also tried adding 'no longer for sale you iz bidding on wheelnutz' but to no avail, gonna be trouble here. Still, should make a nice change for an ebay seller to be a total timewaster mongtard.

[eddyramrod]

OK thanks Des, found it! What a beauty, you iz Sid Jamez! Also found a message saying the car isn't for sale, so it looks like that worked too.

[Pete-M]

That cab is excellent.

 

There's an "as new" '40s or '50s cab near where I work. I'll have to try and grab some pics of it.

[catsinthewelder]

That is a beaut

 

Glad to hear you're keeping her

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Damn that's a nice car. I'd love a patina'd pre-war car to smoke about in.

[Des]

Scored a nice free taxdisc today, went for a little drive around while the roads are quiet before payday and it struck me how at home I felt driving the thing, didn't have to think about where indicator or handbrake are, or forget I'm driving a manual, even remembered to double declutch without needing the crunchy reminder. Then I parked it up and had a good once over, there's a nice thick layer of dust all over, but it's pretty obvious the general condition has deteriorated. Back in the madforit '90s the paintwork was crazed, flaky and microblistering, its been in a dry lockup although this can't have spared it nightly condensation and now there's a lot of surface rust. I used to go over it with black boot polish, this hid the defects well and preserved it, not sure it would make much difference now, this is the roof.

 

 

And the bonnet.

 

 

So a decade ago it needed paintstripping, a light rubbing of a DA to remove spots of rust, a flash of etch, a deluge of filler primer and some shiny black. Now it needs the paint removing with the emasculted sploodge that now passes for stripper, some serious rubbing down and treating the rust that's now pretty well established, I've barely half the energy I had and there's 4 other cars waiting for paint.

More urgently, it needs front and rear screen rubbers replacing, they've shriveled into nothing, the thing will be destroyed if it rains, the lock up is too far away for practicable daily use, I can see the poor thing deteriorating greatly if I keep it, this is depressing, I'm going to have to move it on if I don't get some serious work done this summer.

I'm wondering if I should wash it with a stiff yardbrush, and / or a handful of plastic scourers to remove as much flaky paint as I can, then brush Vactan all over, the stuff works, stops rust on its own better than any paint I've ever tried, and turns black. Could end up a sticky mess and I can't see it being pretty, maybe DA then Vactan then roller slow drying coach paint, might just level out and after a few weeks in the sun flat and polish it.

 

on a more cheerful note, I wound up the clock last week and it's still keeping time, fuel, amp and oil gauges behaving as well, amazingly the only problem was the no. plate lamp needed its bulb wriggling, the stereo I 'fitted' still works although it chewed the acidhouse tape that was left in, 'Superfly guy gonna get you higgflurrrrbbbth'.

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Some welding I did in the '90s, all 4 sills, inners as well, I think I also did at least one inner rear arch.

 

 

And I'd forgotten how quaint the little foldy down extra seats are.

 

 

Punters view, this is a good place to be, all the calming brown I could wish for, the black window surrounds were brown originally, this needs to be remedied.

 

 

I want that as a room in my house, I would call it my study, I would spend many hours there isolated from the world calmly reading, smoking a pipe and sipping whiskey, the only disruption being an occasional lifting of my feet to allow the missus brief access with this.

 

 

She's also allowed in to give me a nosh.

[RoadworkUK]

That, sir, is extremely excellent. You have the best stereo Ive ever seen in a car. Please find the time to do whatever shambolic "restoration" it needs to keep it alive; but do what you can to retain that patina. Glorious.

[ashmicro]

That is just fantastic. Coach paint FTW.