Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - a Workshop Day Today

[camryv6]

12 hours ago, hairnet said:

jelus beardy coont ya

you wouldnt be let have a fun machine

they dont run veg

Ran that through google translate and it came back with this

jules beardy count ya
you wouldn't be let have a fun machine
they dont run veg

Hope that helps everyone ?

[Six-cylinder]

I am looking for shitley help.

Loserone has kindly collected our replacement front tyre and inner tub for our JCB and we now need it to roll South!

Loserone is in the Bishops Auckland and I am Buckingham. Anywhere closer to me would be a great help and then I can fetch it more easily. If you are passing by but don't want to divert I could meet you on M40 services J10, but another services would be fine or M1 services 15A or another services.

It is about 850mm in diameter and is the tyre and tube only not the wheel. The picture is it in Loserones Peugeot 406 estate, which can be purchased separately!

[beko1987]

If you've not sorted it by the end of lockdown I've got a trip to York to do. Doesn't look like a huge diversion...

[Zelandeth]

Likewise if anyone is travelling down the M1 and doesn't have time to divert to Buckingham, I'm in central Milton Keynes, so five minutes from J14, I'd happily take it the last few miles if dropping it here helped.

[richardmorris]

Sorry can’t really help unless someone is going to be passing Surrey  rather than TFOD. Glad you’ve sourced a tyre. 

[worldofceri]

@Six-cylinder

I’m going up to Newcastle later this week. Shouldn’t be a problem to divert through Bishops Auckland.

Not sure when I’ll be passing the FOD but I would think I’ll be able to swing by some time and chuck it over the hedge. 

[Six-cylinder]

9 minutes ago, worldofceri said:

@Six-cylinder

I’m going up to Newcastle later this week. Shouldn’t be a problem to divert through Bishops Auckland.

Not sure when I’ll be passing the FOD but I would think I’ll be able to swing by some time and chuck it over the hedge. 

Thanks that would be great. Can you PM @loserone  to liaise with him about pick up please.

Even if I have to collect it from your place that is halfway.

[loserone]

I've just pinged Ceri with the current location 👍

[loserone]

... might need to get it closer to civilization 🤣

[beko1987]

1 hour ago, worldofceri said:

@Six-cylinder

I’m going up to Newcastle later this week. Shouldn’t be a problem to divert through Bishops Auckland.

Not sure when I’ll be passing the FOD but I would think I’ll be able to swing by some time and chuck it on the jcb for you 

Ftfy

[Talbot]

5 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

I am looking for shitley help. Bishops Auckland to Buckingham.

Unbefuckingleaveable.

You might be in just as much luck as Vulgalour was a few weeks back.  I have to do another run the length of the country both up and back this coming week.

PM me the pick up address please, and I'll look to see how easy the diversion is.  I know where FOD is, so drop-off is well known!

[loserone]

PM sent.  It is at least a nice drive!

[beko1987]

Plus you could literally bounce it over the gate and job jobbed! Wouldn't even need to turn the car off

[Talbot]

2 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Plus you could nip in to the field and do a few powerslides, flicking the wheel out of the boot at just the right moment.  Wouldn't even need to turn the car off.

EFA

[beko1987]

50 minutes ago, Talbot said:

EFA

Its Chris doing that to the jcb that threw the tyre... 

[Six-cylinder]

16 hours ago, beko1987 said:

Its Chris doing that to the jcb that threw the tyre... 

No, it happened when I was dancing!

[richardmorris]

49 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

No, it happened when I was dancing!

I think this needs to be seen at FOD!

[wuvvum]

It's funny to think that once upon a time JCB 3Cs were shiny and new.

[Six-cylinder]

8 hours ago, wuvvum said:

It's funny to think that once upon a time JCB 3Cs were shiny and new.

What are you saying about my machine!

It arrived the same as a new machine.

[beko1987]

I bet that new ones gone wrong already in a scary expensive electrical way a few times though... 

[Six-cylinder]

7 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

I bet that new ones gone wrong already in a scary expensive electrical way a few times though... 

That Fastrac is no longer new, delivery was January 2008.

[bobdisk]

My trailer, a Brian James C4 Blue was stolen from our works car park in Sunbury-on-Thames. We saw it being taken on our CCTV at 18:30, Friday 13 (!) November, by a white Ford Transit, with an odd "tray" type roof rack covering the whole roof. I will post a video of the cctv when I get a copy of it.

It is this trailer I purchased in February this year;

mathewsons.co.uk/auctions/auction-dates/vehicles/13128-new-entry-brian-james-c4-trailer

[Mrs6C]

On 15/11/2020 at 14:46, Six-cylinder said:

No, it happened when I was dancing!

They don't call them earthmovers for nothing...

[wuvvum]

11 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

What are you saying about my machine!

It arrived the same as a new machine.

I can't say I'd fancy negotiating FOD Lane in a bloody great artic like that.  Especially the junction with the main road.

[Yoss]

My Club Triumph mag arrived today and I was slightly surprised to see this. 

Each issue has a club history page. They pick a random year, the top of the page is Club events from that year but the little bit at the bottom is general car events. So of all the cars introduced in 1980 they chose to feature this. I'd say that's a fair write up. 

Talbot Tagora gets a mention too. 

[richardmorris]

2 hours ago, bobdisk said:

My trailer, a Brian James C4 Blue was stolen from our works car park in Sunbury-on-Thames. We saw it being taken on our CCTV at 18:30, Friday 13 (!) November, by a white Ford Transit, with an odd "tray" type roof rack covering the whole roof. I will post a video of the cctv when I get a copy of it.

It is this trailer I purchased in February this year;

mathewsons.co.uk/auctions/auction-dates/vehicles/13128-new-entry-brian-james-c4-trailer

POst it on the main news etc forums, some ( weird) people may not read @Six-cylinder’s thread.

[Six-cylinder]

14 minutes ago, Yoss said:

My Club Triumph mag arrived today and I was slightly surprised to see this. 

Each issue has a club history page. They pick a random year, the top of the page is Club events from that year but the little bit at the bottom is general car events. So of all the cars introduced in 1980 they chose to feature this. I'd say that's a fair write up. 

Talbot Tagora gets a mention too. 

There was also a 2.0 Ltr Carb engine 115 bhp, that I have. (no EFi or Supercharger in UK)

[Yoss]

Ah well, it's a Triumph magazine after all, you can't expect them to know all the intricacies of fairly obscure (to some people) Lancia. 

[bobdisk]

8 hours ago, richardmorris said:

POst it on the main news etc forums, some ( weird) people may not read @Six-cylinder’s thread.

Its here as well;

https://dafcars.proboards.com/thread/3799/trailer-stolen

https://essexdafs.proboards.com/thread/974/trailer-stolen

https://forum.retro-rides.org/thread/216512/trailer-stolen

 

[Six-cylinder]

I have had a busy day shifting cars into some new indoor storage I have on a temporary basis.

Today I have driven:

CLK Conv

Visa Cab

E36 323i

Somebody else’s classic Range Rover

Then my friend needed to store his Fiat van temporally, yes the one @Christine brokered for us on the Forum. The clutch now works great but it is still short of synchromesh on most gears. My friend Derek has just had a new knee and can’t drive a manual so I had the pleasure of driving it 10 miles.

I will send a packet of smarties to the person who can guess what is under the blue cover next to the Range Rover?