Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - Anybody going to The Stony Stratford Classic car meet tomorrow (Sunday)?

[Six-cylinder]

Anybody have any experience of this type of cheap tachometer that simply has a wire wraps round an HT lead?

I would like to know what the engine revs are on the Rolls Royce and this was cheap and looks simple to fit.

I may just use it to understand how hard I am revving it and then take it off again because it will look so out of place.

[High Jetter]

No, but they were a thing BITD. When I retire I want to move near you.

[richardmorris]

Look, snap!

[Six-cylinder]

16 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Look, snap!

Similar, but ours is a 5 door.

[Six-cylinder]

A small win today!

A local village Facebook group offered a pair of free Osram H4 Night Breakers bulbs and I was there.

Turns out they had been bought in error for a Volvo V70  and were no longer wanted. I had seen this V70 around the area for years but he had no time to talk cars with me.

[hairnet]

yeah right 

you were there for the kak

 

[Six-cylinder]

Another win this evening!

My Carlton Estate has been out of service because I could not open the drivers door from the outside or inside.

This evening @ianbmw came over and teased off the top of the door panel and managed to open the door. Instead of broken bits I was expecting he found the mechanism was seized. A good dose of WD40 and working the lock and door pull and it was free again. All greased and back together now.

[quicksilver]

On 24/02/2025 at 19:12, Six-cylinder said:

A small win today!

A local village Facebook group offered a pair of free Osram H4 Night Breakers bulbs and I was there.

Turns out they had been bought in error for a Volvo V70  and were no longer wanted. I had seen this V70 around the area for years but he had no time to talk cars with me.

I saw that V70 today. As you say it's been around here for years and the mileage is impressive - 360,000 at the last MOT! Looks like the business advertised on it closed down a decade ago but the wrap has never been removed.

[Six-cylinder]

Dry and Sunshine today, but very cold.

The Mazda 323 has a good heater to clear the frost and got to go to a local breakfast car meeting.

[Six-cylinder]

Anybody going to The Stony Stratford Classic car meet tomorrow (Sunday) where hundreds of old cars take over the town?

Normally a new Years Day event, this year it has been postponed due to wind and rain on the first day of 2025.

If you go, come and say Hi. I will be in the vintage section with my 1933 Rolls Royce 20/25.

This afternoon I got my car out of storage and it started ok after a bit of churning to get the fuel up. Now on my drive I am not looking forward to defrosting it without a heater tomorrow morning!

[Surface Rust]

17 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

 

This afternoon I got my car out of storage and it started ok after a bit of churning to get the fuel up. Now on my drive I am not looking forward to defrosting it without a heater tomorrow morning!

 

Can you chuck a sheet or blanket over it tonight? Should keep the worst off.

I'll be at Stony tomorrow in my decidedly not vintage but very patinated Saab 900 convertible.

[Six-cylinder]

4 minutes ago, Surface Rust said:

Can you chuck a sheet or blanket over it tonight? Should keep the worst off.

I'll be at Stony tomorrow in my decidedly not vintage but very patinated Saab 900 convertible.

Yes sheet is over the windscreen ready for tonight's temp plunge.

I bought a cheap 12v car heater, but can't remember where I put it.

[Zelandeth]

I'm intending to be there tomorrow.  Hoping it's less mobbed than it was at the last NYD show as you could barely walk around the place was so rammed.

[Six-cylinder]

15 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

I'm intending to be there tomorrow.  Hoping it's less mobbed than it was at the last NYD show as you could barely walk around the place was so rammed.

I plan to go early so I don't accidently park on a Amilcar in the crush!

[Zelandeth]

It was the Berkerleys I was worried about last year, they're so low as to be damned near invisible at the best of times!

[Six-cylinder]

1 minute ago, Zelandeth said:

It was the Berkerleys I was worried about last year, they're so low as to be damned near invisible at the best of times!

They just fit under my car!

[richardmorris]

Good luck. I hate crowds and am planning on going for a bike ride.

[hairnet]

youll have time to release the hounds first

ffs only saw this now - might have come to have a look but the train says no

bring ya camera

 

[Zelandeth]

Well I tried!  Arrived at 0845 and they were already turning people away!  So looks like it's going to be exactly as rammed if not more so than last time.

[Six-cylinder]

5 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Well I tried!  Arrived at 0845 and they were already turning people away!  So looks like it's going to be exactly as rammed if not more so than last time.

Thanks to @ianbmw at 08:45 in the Pre-war section he had a space for me near his Cherished Insurance gazebo.

It was very hard to take photos as there were so many people viewing the mind blowing display of Pre-war. I never got to the Classic cars.