Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

37,380 · January 11

We going to an MG Dinner this evening, trouble is it is dark, cold, misty and in London Ulez!

I have no Historic cars out of storage, but sometimes I really like my modernish Ulez compliant Range Rover. I have just been outside in -1˚ C to defrost the front and passenger side that were solid frosted ice. It started straight up against Land Rover Law in spite of having sat for 2 weeks. I scraped hard refrozen frost off the passenger side windows and moved to the windscreen only to find it was soft, the heated screen had come on and the wipers soon had it cleared.

I looked at the fuel gauge just over half, 335 miles range left, I won't have to stand out in the cold to fill it.

I am not looking forward to the drive, but as it would be bad form not to turn up, the Range Rover is my first choice tonight.

4,451 · January 11

We going to an MG Dinner this evening, trouble is it is dark, cold, misty and in London Ulez!
I have no Historic cars out of storage, but sometimes I really like my modernish Ulez compliant Range Rover. I have just been outside in -1˚ C to defrost the front and passenger side that were solid frosted ice. It started straight up against Land Rover Law in spite of having sat for 2 weeks. I scraped hard refrozen frost off the passenger side windows and moved to the windscreen only to find it was soft, the heated screen had come on and the wipers soon had it cleared.
I looked at the fuel gauge just over half, 335 miles range left, I won't have to stand out in the cold to fill it.
I am not looking forward to the drive, but as it would be bad form not to turn up the Range Rover is my first choice tonight.

#whatnodistresspurchase?

21,034 · January 11

12 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

We going to an MG Dinner this evening, trouble is it is dark, cold, misty and in London Ulez!

I have no Historic cars out of storage,

if you want to keep up appearances, your welcome to drop the Range Rover here in the dead end and borrow REV instead :mrgreen: (Although a fair number of the off the shelf mechanical bits are from the Triumph rather then MG parts bin...)

37,380 · January 11

8 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

if you want to keep up appearances, your welcome to drop the Range Rover here in the dead end and borrow REV instead (Although a fair number of the off the shelf mechanical bits are from the Triumph rather then MG parts bin...)

There are 2 of us!

Are you suggesting Mrs6C crouches down and hides from the law!

25,713 · January 11

33 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Are you suggesting Mrs6C crouches down and hides from the law!

No - you! Claire will be driving... 😀

62,118 · January 12

You may have seen this already but Steph off of idriveaclassic has done a video on a Rolls like yours.

26,690 · January 13

I remember my friend having me, him and his girlfriend in his smart for2 a few times...

His girlfriend was quite small (we were 18/19 then) so she could lay across the shelf bit I'm the back. Many trips to Maidenhead like that, 100% always the back way

37,380 · January 13

3 hours ago, beko1987 said:

I remember my friend having me, him and his girlfriend in his smart for2 a few times...

His girlfriend was quite small (we were 18/19 then) so she could lay across the shelf bit I'm the back. Many trips to Maidenhead like that, 100% always the back way

A long time ago a friend met me when I was very drunk and insisted he drove me that evening. Later we ended up as a party of 6, he had a Ford Escort Mk1 estate and can't remember why but we used my Triumph Vitesse 2.0 MK1 Saloon. We were young and flexible, 3 in the front and 3 in the back.

This is the only picture I have of my first Vitesse (second car), but unfortunately the film in the camera had not wound on correctly.

26,690 · January 13

Back when the rules were more relaxed I was pally with the lady who was in control of the pool cars, and managed to have use of a 2009 Honda Accord Estate (still want one now) for the weekend. This would have been 2010/11 ish. Ex company cars of people who leave end up as pool cars, which is where this came.from. Was also a broken volvo estate at the same time

I ended up with 5 people wanting a lift to high Wycombe so Greg went in the boot. Load cover down, then my front seat passenger found the built in sub the car had and we turned the bass and volume right up, as I slightly spiritedly drove the back roads to Wycombe 😂

When Eva or Charlie tell me they've done the same in several years I'm going to be angry and mortified aren't I 😂

62,118 · January 13

I'm sure I've told the story before of when a lad I knew when I was at school managed to get 12 people in a Citroën AX.

1,449 · January 16

@Six-cylinder this really should made publicly available!

37,380 · January 16

33 minutes ago, ianbmw said:

@Six-cylinder this really should made publicly available!

The plan was to punish you alone for the blue Carlton!

19,605 · January 16

56 minutes ago, ianbmw said:

@Six-cylinder this really should made publicly available!

omg calendar and theyre all corsas

ps tomato ewwwww ffs

1,449 · January 17

Every month will be a surprise for us all! I think @Six-cylinder has started off with his best car!

22,342 · January 18

On 16/01/2025 at 18:23, ianbmw said:

@Six-cylinder this really should made publicly available!

Someone has tippexed over Sentence

37,380 · January 19

Discovery body repairs have commenced.

19,605 · January 19

scrapper not open today?

23,767 · January 19

1 hour ago, hairnet said:

scrapper not open today?

That’s a funny way to talk about the field of dreams!

37,380 · January 22

Not a great day today!

The plan was to get my Gamma ready for Sunday's Gamma meeting. It needed starting since it was September when it was last run and moving in storage to the front. I would have taken it home but with wind and rain forecast for Thursday/Friday I decided I would have it all ready and collect it on my way to lunch. The plan was is check legal and levels including tyre pressures.

Trouble is it did not want to start. We flattened the jump pack and had to get a jump from @Slowsilver Mondeo. It started, but run rough misfiring. I got it fully warm but it still mis-fired.

It ran so badly I feel unable to take it the the Gamma Lunch Sunday.

19,605 · January 23

put lancia badge on mondeo theyll not notice

23,767 · January 23

23 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Not a great day today!

The plan was to get my Gamma ready for Sunday's Gamma meeting. It needed starting since it was September when it was last run and moving in storage to the front. I would have taken it home but with wind and rain forecast for Thursday/Friday I decided I would have it all ready and collect it on my way to lunch. The plan was is check legal and levels including tyre pressures.

Trouble is it did not want to start. We flattened the jump pack and had to get a jump from @Slowsilver Mondeo. It started, but run rough misfiring. I got it fully warm but it still mis-fired.

It ran so badly I feel unable to take it the the Gamma Lunch Sunday.

Points?

37,380 · January 23

7 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Points?

Factory electronic ignition.

37,380 · January 23

No car stuff today, but I have taken my RC boat to my friend John who fly’s RC aeroplanes for repair as it had stopped working.

He found I had forgot my boat has a 3^rd set of batteries, one hidden to power the in boat RC controls. The 4x AAs had leaked and ruined the battery holder. John jury rigged some of his batteries in place temporally and my boat works, rudder turns and propeller spins. John had volunteered to fit a spare battery holder he has but it turned out to be the wrong connector. John has kept the boat and is going to get a new connector and fit it for me.

John has also invited be to come and fly a RC plane in the spring at his club, which I am now looking forward to.

I was concerned about crashing somebody else’s RC plane but it turns out they have learner set ups with dual controllers so the instructor can take over if it all goes horribly wrong!

28,140 · January 29

Just thinking about the fun and games I had hunting a persistent misfire on the Trevi. I don't know how similar the systems between the two cars are, but it would be well worth checking to see if you've got the voltage that's expected being delivered to the coil. I eventually traced a large chunk of the running issue there to there being a high resistance connection somewhere which was resulting in a stupidly low voltage at the coil. I'd probably have been chasing that for far longer if I hadn't noticed that the miss got waaaaaay worse if you turned the heater blower on.

Seems unlikely that it's the same fault present on both cars but stranger things have happened, and I've learned never to overlook things for reasons like that!

37,380 · February 1

We got stuck in a traffic jam behind this Friday!

37,380 · February 1

Rolls Royce never sent a servant to wash it!

A great breakfast meeting with the MK Modern Classics group today, such a variety of cars.

37,380 · February 2

This may cause @MAF260 and I to be black balled for our outrageous decadent behaviour. Today we met up at Milton Keynes Classic club breakfast meet with Maf260's Bentley Super Sports and my Rolls Royce!

Turns out we are not all bad as neither of us has a heated steering wheel!🤣

23,767 · February 2

3 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

This may cause @MAF260 and I to be black balled for our outrageous decadent behaviour. Today we met up at Milton Keynes Classic club breakfast meet with Maf260's Bentley Super Sports and my Rolls Royce!

Turns out we are not all bad as neither of us has a heated steering wheel!🤣

You mean you don’t have a man to go out with a hot towel and warm the wheel for you? The faithful old retainer is slacking !

37,380 · February 2

14 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

You mean you don’t have a man to go out with a hot towel and warm the wheel for you? The faithful old retainer is slacking !

He is on strike for warmer weather!

@Slowsilver

21,034 · February 2

17 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

This may cause @MAF260 and I to be black balled for our outrageous decadent behaviour.

it just tickles me very much that you showed up to

On 01/02/2025 at 17:06, Six-cylinder said:

A great breakfast meeting with the MK Modern Classics group today, such a variety of cars.

with a ~92 year old car :mrgreen:

is this where you gate crash some sort of prestige concourse vintage car show with @Kiltox's Electric Citroen Ami? (after having rescued it from the skip behind the dealer that its probably been put in!)

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