Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[LightBulbFun]

hey its Page 493 now! 

 

Chod speed with the TF!  

[hairnet]

wtf 

and

wtf

def look at meeeee look at meeeeeeee

oh and @AnthonyG 0 six cyl 1

 

[Mrs6C]

Thanks for your hospitality @wuvvum and for the tour of your lovely car collection. That Volvo is magnificent!

 

[wuvvum]

Pleasure!  It was good to give the Volvo a run out, it'd been a while.  Thanks for lunch!

[Six-cylinder]

The MG TF drove faultlessly home so I went to a Classic car gathering in the evening.

[hairnet]

3 hours ago, Mrs6C said:

Thanks for your hospitality @wuvvum and for the tour of your lovely car collection. That Volvo is magnificent!

 

oh no

person that pervs volvos

pervs volvo

[mat_the_cat]

It's a bit late, but here are a few photos from a recent FoD visit. The early morning sunlight catching the dumper in its warm glow...

And the Bedford recovery truck:

I noticed that the bed seems to be sagging a bit where the side beam has been cut away to slide the ramps in:

[Six-cylinder]

I woke up this morning to find a sunshine colour MG TF on the drive, so yesterday wasn't a dream!

Non car stuff this morning so I used the TF to enjoy driving to my errands.

This afternoon was more work for @Slowsilver as it was time to put some more cars into strorage. Then time to get the MG Metro out of storage ready for the BL day at Milton Keynes Museum Sunday.

Also on Sunday after 4:30pm is a general car gathering at the Barn Beefeater in Milton Keynes, I plan to take the Metro to after the BL show is finished.

[Six-cylinder]

Live FoD action this morning. 

[hairnet]

Beefeater

Yeah not for the cars tho

[Six-cylinder]

Now looking so clean thanks to @beko1987

[beko1987]

That was filthy! It's no longer grey

Somewhere Chris has a 50/50 shot of the bonnet

[Six-cylinder]

5 hours ago, beko1987 said:

That was filthy! It's no longer grey

Somewhere Chris has a 50/50 shot of the bonnet

Half cleaned bonnet does not really show up, but what a difference the jet wash made.

[Six-cylinder]

The result of all @beko1987efforts were several years of sitting are now cleaned off.

The lack of grill is because it is broken so I need a new one.

Headlights are the delay to getting it an MOT after all the effort @Talbot put into doing work to get it ready for the MOT.

[Six-cylinder]

The Mercedes 200TE felt a bit 2nd class as it got a bath using the second-hand soap water, still better than not getting a wash!

[beko1987]

The Merc looked like a different car afterwards! 

Mitsi needs a good machine polish when it's on the road and on the driveway though, the paint is very chalky. But pretty mint otherwise

[richardmorris]

5 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

The Merc looked like a different car afterwards! 

Mitsi needs a good machine polish when it's on the road and on the driveway though, the paint is very chalky. But pretty mint otherwise

White and red in particular seem to go chalky. Lack of lacquer?

[Six-cylinder]

The Metro also got a wash. Its the one that's is going to a show tomorrow so should have had most effort, but got the least. I do like washing small cars!

[beko1987]

22 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

White and red in particular seem to go chalky. Lack of lacquer?

I think it's there somewhere, the unseasonal warm sunny weather didn't help, most of the products baked on unless I worked in really small areas/switched to my stuff rather than the chalky meguiars. 

Be a quicker wash job next time though, so all isn't lost

[SiC]

11 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

The Metro also got a wash. Its the one that's is going to a show tomorrow so should have had most effort, but got the least. I do like washing small cars!

A nice pair of metros there!

Glad the yellow one got saved and stayed on here. If anything, it makes it closer for others on here to buy it if it ever goes up for sale 😉

Presumably its going to have a quick visit to @Andyrew and his sparkly stick?

[Six-cylinder]

21 minutes ago, SiC said:

A nice pair of metros there!

Glad the yellow one got saved and stayed on here. If anything, it makes it closer for others on here to buy it if it ever goes up for sale 😉

Presumably its going to have a quick visit to @Andyrew and his sparkly stick?

I would love Andyrew to have a look at it and see what he thinks.

[Six-cylinder]

@Zelandethrepossessed his Rover 110 today as I had not made my payments!

Well not quite like that, he is going to take to Milton Keynes Museum tomorrow and I was already taking the Metro.

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, richardmorris said:

White and red in particular seem to go chalky. Lack of lacquer?

Mitsu looks well shiny after the clean though, maybe more about paint, or application, quality?

[Six-cylinder]

BL Day was a big success, I have never seen so many rubbish cars in one place!

 

[Six-cylinder]

The second Milton Keynes show of Sunday had a very different flavour and had a lot of fast Fords and similar. Different but also enjoyable and worth going even in a Metro.

[hairnet]

that thing would give the frods a run in the corners at least

[horriblemercedes]

On 9/21/2023 at 5:01 PM, LightBulbFun said:

hey its Page 493 now! 

 

Chod speed with the TF!  

At first glance, that appears to be someone drinking a bottle of piss

[Craig the Princess]

7 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

BL Day was a big success, I have never seen so many rubbish cars in one place!

 

Very good to catch up again.  I really enjoy that for show.

[Six-cylinder]

16 minutes ago, Craig the Princess said:

Very good to catch up again.  I really enjoy that for show.

Yes indeed.

I wish I had taken @Andyrew Allegro I have in my possession and found somebody to drive the Metro for me. 

[richardmorris]

3 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Yes indeed.

I wish I had taken @Andyrew Allegro I have in my possession and found somebody to drive the Metro for me. 

Would have been happy to assist.