Six-cylinder Posted November 20, 2020 Author Share Posted November 20, 2020 All great guesses so far! Time for a clue, it's not one of ours. A bonus clue is that it is silver! Mrs6C 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitsisigma01 Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 Looking at the height and rake of what might be a windscreen I think you've gone nuts and got a Gwiz with two yamaha R1 engines Before you sprayed it silver.... Mrs6C and Christine 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitsisigma01 Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 richardmorris and Mrs6C 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 Renault Alpine? loserone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs6C Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 4 hours ago, Zelandeth said: That brickwork on those arches looks great, not often you see that sort of detailing on new builds! When completed, the idea is that it will look like the farmstead, its barn and cow yard have been there since the 1830s, with some 'modern' additions added in the 1880s like the iron-framed, tin-roofed 'Dutch' haybarn! Coprolalia, richardmorris, dollywobbler and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loserone Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 504 cabriolet with a stuck roof? Mrs6C 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted November 20, 2020 Author Share Posted November 20, 2020 I have been at the extra storage this morning and grabbed another shot, I hope this helps. I whipped the cover off and took a photo to reveal tonight. Mrs6C and Coprolalia 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floatylight Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 E-Type? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitsisigma01 Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 I know what you really want is my Sigma.... Is it a... TooManyPeopleMovers and Mrs6C 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted November 20, 2020 Author Share Posted November 20, 2020 20 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said: I know what you really want is my Sigma.... Is it a... Yes I do like Sigma's. Renault is a good guess, but no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 54 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said: I have been at the extra storage this morning and grabbed another shot, I hope this helps. I whipped the cover off and took a photo to reveal tonight. The nose of that looks a bit Porsche 924-ish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said: I have been at the extra storage this morning and grabbed another shot, I hope this helps. I whipped the cover off and took a photo to reveal tonight. @barrett's Heron with some glass missing? Mrs6C 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talbot Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 20 hours ago, beko1987 said: Your talking about the man who boasted during a sales pitch of getting a 2.0hdi to only do 20mpg... I did? How on earth did I make such an outlandish claim?! Also, the tyre is now slightly too far south (overshot somewhat). loserone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted November 20, 2020 Author Share Posted November 20, 2020 3 minutes ago, Talbot said: I did? How on earth did I make such an outlandish claim?! Also, the tyre is now slightly too far south (overshot somewhat). What, you were going so fast you couldn't stop! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs6C Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 16 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said: What, you were going so fast you couldn't stop! I hope it didn't land in the Thames! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitsisigma01 Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 2 hours ago, Six-cylinder said: 2 hours ago, mitsisigma01 said: I know what you really want is my Sigma.... Is it a... Expand Yes I do like Sigma's. Will it fit in one of your barns🤔 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 last guess... corvette c5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted November 20, 2020 Author Share Posted November 20, 2020 Another clue, a rear covered photo. Mrs6C 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 I was going to say Nova kit car, but with the new shot I reckon Lotus Elan M100? Six-cylinder, Mrs6C and barefoot 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted November 20, 2020 Author Share Posted November 20, 2020 22 minutes ago, dollywobbler said: I was going to say Nova kit car, but with the new shot I reckon Lotus Elan M100? Yes Lotus Elan M100. When I glanced back at it with its cover on it looked so unidentifiable I thought even an Autoshiter will not get that! And yes I will send Smarties. My friend Derek's car. It has developed a misfire which has been diagnosed as an injector that are very difficult to reach. LightBulbFun, RobT, richardmorris and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 1 hour ago, Mrs6C said: I hope it didn't land in the Thames! I was gonna say, ill let you know when it rolls by my window (which would be very impressive given im 3 stories up! although I am by a main road thats a nice long straight so we have the odd speeding boy racer type go past every now and then so I guess it could get fired at my window after it smashes into one them!) Mrs6C 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted November 20, 2020 Author Share Posted November 20, 2020 12 hours ago, Zelandeth said: Good good. Hope she continues to behave. As I said at the time I dropped the car back off, drives absolutely lovely aside from that miss. Dam, Trevi misfire is back. egg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandeth Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 Dammit. Though to be fair, she does need at the least a set of carb gaskets (or at least something better than decomposed newspaper which is what what's in there currently looks like) - and it's entirely possible the idle mixture is miles off given I couldn't seem to get it to behave...but I hadn't even thought about the ignition system. I reckon it may well have ended up way too rich as it was behaving like the car was running lean. Which given I had similar symptoms behaving like fuel starvation presented by my last Saab when I had issues with the rotor arm *should* have rang alarm bells for me when I couldn't trim it out with the mixture screw. I just got hung up on that bloody metering solenoid. I reckon once the weather improves in the spring I need a Round 2 with that car. Especially now I know the ignition system is suspect...I do at least have the equipment to actually test both HT and LT systems and have a realtime trace of what they're doing displayed, so getting to the bottom of it shouldn't be *too* difficult. There's not a huge amount to the system (coil, ballast resistor (pretty sure I remember seeing one on the side of the coil), distributor, rotor, either hall effect or optical chopper, ignition amp, HT leads and plugs...that's about it) so once we can see what it's actually doing hopefully it shouldn't be hugely difficult to narrow it down. I'm assuming this uses electronic coil switching rather than having points with it being a fairly high performance car...if she's running points it's even easier as that eliminates the ignition amp as a possible cause. LightBulbFun and Mrs6C 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted November 20, 2020 Author Share Posted November 20, 2020 10 minutes ago, Zelandeth said: Dammit. Though to be fair, she does need at the least a set of carb gaskets (or at least something better than decomposed newspaper which is what what's in there currently looks like) - and it's entirely possible the idle mixture is miles off given I couldn't seem to get it to behave...but I hadn't even thought about the ignition system. I reckon it may well have ended up way too rich as it was behaving like the car was running lean. Which given I had similar symptoms behaving like fuel starvation presented by my last Saab when I had issues with the rotor arm *should* have rang alarm bells for me when I couldn't trim it out with the mixture screw. I just got hung up on that bloody metering solenoid. I reckon once the weather improves in the spring I need a Round 2 with that car. Especially now I know the ignition system is suspect...I do at least have the equipment to actually test both HT and LT systems and have a realtime trace of what they're doing displayed, so getting to the bottom of it shouldn't be *too* difficult. There's not a huge amount to the system (coil, ballast resistor (pretty sure I remember seeing one on the side of the coil), distributor, rotor, either hall effect or optical chopper, ignition amp, HT leads and plugs...that's about it) so once we can see what it's actually doing hopefully it shouldn't be hugely difficult to narrow it down. I'm assuming this uses electronic coil switching rather than having points with it being a fairly high performance car...if she's running points it's even easier as that eliminates the ignition amp as a possible cause. The ignition system now has new HT leads, cap and rotor. There is a clue in the photo of the cap why it would not start after the HT leads were changed. It starts easily now cold or hot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted November 20, 2020 Author Share Posted November 20, 2020 A new what car under the cover, I don't think this one is so difficult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talbot Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 3 hours ago, Six-cylinder said: What, you were going so fast you couldn't stop! All that additional momentum from carrying what felt like a metric tonne of rubber in the boot. For a 9x16 tyre, it's absolutely massive. 3 hours ago, Mrs6C said: I hope it didn't land in the Thames! No, but it got perilously close to the english channel (as a percentage of it's overall journey that is.) Mrs6C 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cord Fourteener Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 9 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said: A new what car under the cover, I don't think this one is so difficult. Some kind of E class? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cord Fourteener Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 Alternative suggestions could be Rover 600 or BMW 5 series E39. But I will stick with the Mercedes E class of the similar era, no idea what designation that is. Could also be the Coupé version on that platform I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitsisigma01 Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said: There is a clue in the photo of the cap why it would not start after the HT leads were changed. It starts easily now cold or hot. 1,4,3,2🙄 richardmorris and Six-cylinder 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 28 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said: A new what car under the cover, I don't think this one is so difficult. Your convertible merc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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