Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - a Workshop Day Today

[hairnet]

Next update better include Alfa

[Six-cylinder]

Next update better include Alfa

You haven't even got it out yet to the front of the queue yet!

[quicksilver]

Hooray, the Oltcit is out of hiding! Would love to have a good nose around that as I've never seen one in the flesh before. It messes with my head - it's obviously a Citroen yet doesn't look like any familiar model.

[richardmorris]

I saw one at a 2cv meeting in France years ago, but can't recall it being very different inside to the normal visa. If any visa is normal indeed.

[Six-cylinder]

Hooray, the Oltcit is out of hiding! Would love to have a good nose around that as I've never seen one in the flesh before. It messes with my head - it's obviously a Citroen yet doesn't look like any familiar model.

It won't charge and the Auto electrician thinks it is the alternator so has taken it away to see what can be done with it. It is a Romanian alternator, looks similar to a Ducelier but who knows.

[Six-cylinder]

Sovereign S2 had it dash put together today with the new hazard switch so the indicator warning lights on the dash work again.

[Six-cylinder]

I saw one at a 2cv meeting in France years ago, but can't recall it being very different inside to the normal visa. If any visa is normal indeed.

Oltcit may follow the early Visa dash theme but the detail was completely different. Also the Visa got "normal" dashs in 1985!

[dollywobbler]

What I love is that the Oltcit is what the Visa should have been. According to Citroen anyway. Hoorah to whoever, when told to make a more sensible car, shipped the designs off to Romania.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

'Twas ever thus WobblyOne. Would the Fiat 124/125 have crucified (or at least seriously challenged) the Escort in the seventies in stripped down/cheapened Lada-Polski form?

[Six-cylinder]

Today Quicksilver and dad helped me get our 1 ton Bonser horticulture truck working.

 

Previously they had fixed the clutch cable amongst other things, today was refit the repaired magneto and then we found the fuel system was gummed up.

 

Quicksilver also tried out our new garden tractor.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

who's handy with potato shop ?

[HMC]

^Brilliant. I must say the quicksilver maxi does look fantastic in the pics, and the brochure vibe is reinforced by the -DU oft used for press office cars reg.

 

All thats missing is someone hitching up a glider in the background wearing a safari suit and its a Leyland cars 1978 brochure in the making!

[Six-cylinder]

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[Six-cylinder]

Inspired by the pride of Longbridge Thread I decided to retrieve my Rover 75 from the neighbours drive where it had been invited to park.

 

I think it was early January I put it there and it still had enough power in the battery to operate the central locking but not start it. With a jumpack connected it started immediately and I moved it home. It is now on charge and once the rush hour traffic subsided tonight I will take it for a run.

[quicksilver]

That was a most enjoyable day and it was great to finally be able to drive the tiddly truck, even if everything is a bit worn out and vague to say the least. That shot of tiddly truck and the Maxi has to be calendar worthy and I love the photoshopped advert. 'It goes with a way of life' indeed.

 

As a reward we got to end the day fondling the Oltcit. Strange little car with a fascinating story and I never thought I'd be able to get up close and personal with something so rare. Fingers crossed it'll be back on the road soon.

[Six-cylinder]

That was a most enjoyable day and it was great to finally be able to drive the tiddly truck, even if everything is a bit worn out and vague to say the least. That shot of tiddly truck and the Maxi has to be calendar worthy and I love the photoshopped advert. 'It goes with a way of life' indeed.

 

As a reward we got to end the day fondling the Oltcit. Strange little car with a fascinating story and I never thought I'd be able to get up close and personal with something so rare. Fingers crossed it'll be back on the road soon.

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The Oltcit is an unusual car, it seems familiar yet isn't. I have not heard anything from the Auto electrician about how he has got on with the alternator.

[Six-cylinder]

I have just had lovely run out with the 75.

[richardmorris]

I've only just realised it's on an H reg. I had no idea they were still being made in 1990!

[quicksilver]

I've only just realised it's on an H reg. I had no idea they were still being made in 1990!

They carried on making them until 1996 apparently. Not bad for an early seventies design!

[Six-cylinder]

I've only just realised it's on an H reg. I had no idea they were still being made in 1990!

It went on to 1995. After 1994, it was sold under the Rodae brand.

[Six-cylinder]

Starting a new game!

 

This 1992 BX GTi has always been in the family and now my mother has given up driving I have taken it on and it needs to be moved. A friend helped me today and we made a start by checking it was not seized and we got it to run on easy start but it would not pick up on petrol. I guess I should have know better the petrol is 9 1/2 years old! Trouble is there is over half a tank so we will have to go back with cans pipes and a pump etc.

[Noel Tidybeard]

cant you fill it with tescos 99 ron to juice it up?

[AMC Rebel]

I've only just realised it's on an H reg. I had no idea they were still being made in 1990!

 

I had a G reg and an H - The H was a BX 19 Gti 4x4

 

Doh! - crossed wires

[Six-cylinder]

I had a G reg and an H - The H was a BX 19 Gti 4x4

 

Doh! - crossed wires

The BX GTi was a preregistered by Citroen UK in September 1992 so is K reg. My father bought it in January 1993 with just 13 miles from the Citroen dealer in Aylesbury.

[Six-cylinder]

cant you fill it with tescos 99 ron to juice it up?

My friend thinks we could do that, but I think we need to take out all that is easy to get to. That way we are giving it the best possible chance to run well and get an MOT on emissions?

[holbeck]

My friend thinks we could do that, but I think we need to take out all that is easy to get to. That way we are giving it the best possible chance to run well and get an MOT on emissions?

 

My two pence worth, Get as much out as poss. I think you're right about getting an MOT being more difficult with half a tank of stale petrol, even if it's diluted.

 

On my Rancho, I just bought a rubber bulb and a length on fuel hose and pumped the couple of gallons that were in the tank out into cans.

[Bear]

Try it in two-stroke things?

[Jifflemon]

Aside from a big fire, how can you dispose of old fuel? I have a couple of cans of it that I want shot of and our local tip won't take it.

 

Mix in with old engine oil which they're happy to accept?

[beko1987]

Buy an xud car?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

empty it into a nearby canal, that's what I do