Renown replacement , photo now uploaded!

[Rocket88]

After the debacle with our local DVLA refusing to register the Renown, I did a deal with a 1953 Riley RME, that had been converted to a two seater sports special. Because it retained all of the original running gear [apart from an alternator] they've agreed to register it. It went in for it's inspection yesterday, and only failed on 3 fairly minor points, which will be sorted this weekend.

1] Out of balance rear brakes

2] Small exhaust leak

3] Bottom of steering column a bit close to wiring loom.

Anyway, I'm sure you good people would like an eyefull of said motoring wonderfullness, which brings me to the photo upload question. If I have a photo stored, as say riley6 on my PC, what tags do I need to put at each end to upload it onto here [if this is possible!]

[Junkman]

You will need to upload it to an online photo sharing site first, like Photobucket, Flickr, or similar.

[Rocket88]

Fair enough, I'll give it a go.

[Spiny Norman]

Everyone will have their own favourites, I've always found Photofukkit to be a bit of a faff.

 

http://imgur.com/ is good, you don't need to open any account, just upload or drag & drop from a folder.

You can either upload from your PC or the web, click on the 'large thumbnail' link at the bottom of the links section and use the BBCode links, you get a nice forum-friendly 640x480 sized pic.

[michiel]

Sounds promising colc, get those pics up!

[Rocket88]

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/202/riley6.jpg/

 

Photo of the new beast.................Once it's finally passed, might look at fitting a door or two, and maybe re-designing the rear bodywork, as it's not too pretty. Riley twincam is a sweet engine, but the manual advance / retard is a bit of a pain.

[M'coli]

 

Photo of the new beast.................Once it's finally passed, might look at fitting a door or two, and maybe re-designing the rear bodywork, as it's not too pretty. Riley twincam is a sweet engine, but the manual advance / retard is a bit of a pain.

FTFY

[dollywobbler]

Looks quite a jolly thing. Can an automatic advance/retard dizzy be fitted? Pretty sure the last RM I drove didn't have any manual timing adjustment (was a late RME).

[Rocket88]

Looks quite a jolly thing. Can an automatic advance/retard dizzy be fitted? Pretty sure the last RM I drove didn't have any manual timing adjustment (was a late RME).

 

 

I'm doing some research at the moment.........

[Junkman]

I love manual advance/retard. Nothing nicer than switching off the ignition on a long down slope overrun, then retarding the ignition all the way and switching the ignition back on...

Especially rewarding when there are lots of people around.

[dollywobbler]

I love manual advance/retard. Nothing nicer than switching off the ignition on a long down slope overrun, then retarding the ignition all the way and switching the ignition back on...

Especially rewarding when there are lots of people around.

 

I find most cars give a generous bang without needing to retard the ignition... (my 2CV started doing it on the way back from Switzerland after the ignition kept cutting out on corners. That was exciting!).

[michiel]

That looks like a fun machine (until it starts raining)!

[Rocket88]

It's a bit agricultural in places..the front wings are fixed, and don't turn with the wheels, but unlike some other "specials", it drives / steers really well, although a tad bouncy at the rear, mainly due to the taxi spec tyres, which have virtually no give in the sidewalls. Would look nice on painted wires, but .....££££££££££