Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - a Workshop Day Today

[Six-cylinder]

3 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

it does tickle me quite a bit that "almost empty" on your fuel gage (4 gallons) is almost a full tank on my car (4.5 Gallon tank)  

 

4 gals gives approx 56 miles!

[hairnet]

6 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

4 gals gives approx 56 miles!

🤣

i cant put 4 gallons in the bike (3.1) but at 75 mpg id collect you when you ran out if you needed a lift to padbury

 

[Six-cylinder]

3 hours ago, hairnet said:

🤣

i cant put 4 gallons in the bike (3.1) but at 75 mpg id collect you when you ran out if you needed a lift to padbury

 

The petrol garage in Padbury closed some years ago and we have the Esso sign in our garage.

[beko1987]

14 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

4 gals gives approx 56 miles!

Probably gives @LightBulbFunthe same milage but it's a weeks driving at tickover to him 🤣 Rather than a trip out of storage, to a car show, back home and back to storage. Wallop £80 please ⛽⛽

[hairnet]

On 23/12/2024 at 21:19, Mrs6C said:

Ah well, have a photo of the ZXmas sprout collection service instead...

Liked not for the sprouts obvs 

[hairnet]

Brackley

No this is as far as i got

Via lidl

(Looking at hong kong ferry now)

[wuvvum]

17 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

I'm slightly surprised that the temperature gauge is graduated in those Johnny Foreigner Celsius things.

[hairnet]

centigrade dave

you have to remember

empire

imperial

 

[Six-cylinder]

I made it there and back today.

[hairnet]

16 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

I made it there and back today.

1981 no?

 

[hairnet]

Persisting down and wind here

Expect it later ( till tomoorow eve)

[Six-cylinder]

I am disappointed Stony Stratford event tomorrow has been cancelled. I had geared myself up to go even if it was raining.

I had considered keeping the Rolls Royce out for the weekend but Saturday has already been cancelled due to the pub kitchen being worked on. That still leaves the Sunday Breakfast with the Milton Keynes Classic cars at the Giffard Park. trouble is the weather forecast is very cold and I fear the roads will be salted.

I took the decision to put the Rolls Royce away before the storm started and then the roads got salted.

[hairnet]

i think you should buy one of them suzuki scooters theyre doing the cracking deal on

 

[Six-cylinder]

It is 11am and I haven't bought any new cars this year!

[beko1987]

11 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

It is 11am and I haven't bought any new cars this year!

I'm sure the "we/i/Mrs6C agreed to buy this in 2022 and it's finally arrived" excuses will begin soon 🤣

[hairnet]

1 hour ago, beko1987 said:

I'm sure the "we/i/Mrs6C agreed to buy this in 2022 and it's finally arrived" excuses will begin soon 🤣

100%

[MAF260]

I was going to go to Stony for the first time today, so am also disappointed. I’m glad I checked timings last night and found out beforehand. I was going to take my Bentley out for a spin as it hasn’t been driven in weeks. Looks like it’ll stay mothballed for a while longer!

[hairnet]

5 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

It is 11am and I haven't bought any new cars this year! because i cant type with a cake in my face

 

[666jjp]

On 01/01/2025 at 11:03, Six-cylinder said:

It is 11am and I haven't bought any new cars this year!

how about an old car?

https://forum.retro-rides.org/thread/228209/1935-rolls-royce-limousine-bristol

[richardmorris]

It’s been a week now, how many new cars?

[Six-cylinder]

52 minutes ago, 666jjp said:

how about an old car?

https://forum.retro-rides.org/thread/228209/1935-rolls-royce-limousine-bristol

Looks nice, but mine is very similar to that and variety is my favourite cars!

10 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

It’s been a week now, how many new cars?

None purchased, but none sold either and before I buy I must sell!

I know I could sell my Morris 1300 to @SiC but I have only had it a year and really enjoyed it. Last year before winter came it was my go to car and I want that again this year.

[SiC]

On 07/01/2025 at 21:11, Six-cylinder said:

I know I could sell my Morris 1300 to @SiC but I have only had it a year and really enjoyed it. Last year before winter came it was my go to car and I want that again this year.

It actually works better for me (providing if you do eventually sell it 😅) that you still want to use it! A used car is more likely to be a reliable car.

I expressed an interest to @RobT when he was ready to sell that I'd like to buy it. Problem was, when he was ready to sell, I wasn't ready to buy! Was an agonising decision to not be able to say yes.

I know it's going to need some welding in the near future (I mean it's a 1100 after all and it's been used all year round by several owners) and I really couldn't commit to another vehicle that would be in the queue of stuff to be done. Trying to stay focused to get my Midget done as I really want that on the road this year and urgently want to get my Dolomite Sprint bodywork done as I've had that 5yrs with only one drive in it when I bought it!

Plus right now, I pulled this old bag out of storage and it would be the likely car I'd need to sell to not go over car quota - but I think it might be my go-to car over winter too! Top down motoring in a crisp cold day is fabulous. Fully electric roof that's quick makes it no hassle and no excuse either.

[Six-cylinder]

It is a bit quiet here at 11:30am, still minus 2ᵒ C so reading N Dentressangle Rover 2000 thread the subject of Alfa Romeo came up which set me thinking about our Alfas. We still have two, the Giulietta 2.0 and the 156 V6 SportsWagon,. The Giulietta is a project but not rotten and the 156 is MOTed, insured and taxed and should be back in a couple of weeks. I have also driven a fair number of others over the years.

My non-Autoshite friend Steve has had many including a Giulia, Alfetta and Giulietta at the same time and I got to drive them all. That Alfetta 1.8 was like a new car even though it was 20 years old, it was smooth, quiet and that 1.8 Twin Cam just sang. (the Giulietta 2.0 is now ours thanks to Mrs6C buying it because I wouldn’t!)

1976 Alfetta 1.6

1983 Giulietta 1.8

1997 164 24v Auto

1984 Giulietta 2.0

1978 Alfasud sprint

1998 156 2.0 manual Saloon

2001 156 V6 Sportswagon

2001 156 V6 Saloon

[beko1987]

My dad briefly had a 156 wagon in 2003/4ish. Always was nice, especially the interior. It had the lcd climate reading inside the rotating knobs 😍

It was at that time he started his business he had, and after a year or so could get a company car. The alfa had shat it's clutch so for the last 2 months of its life it sat on their drive, then as its last ever drive was traded in against the new company lease car under the fraction of its clutch it had left. Co car was a brand new (then) dame Edna saab 9-3. And that was the era we would see dream theater 3 or 4 times a tour all around the country so I remember that well. 

Sure a colleague many years ago had a 156 v6 too. Had that fantastic red leather interior. He left us and i think I heard he doesn't have it any more, which isn't surprising 😂

[Floatylight]

40 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

It is a bit quiet here at 11:30am, still minus 2ᵒ C so reading N Dentressangle Rover 2000 thread the subject of Alfa Romeo came up which set me thinking about our Alfas. We still have two, the Giulietta 2.0 and the 156 V6 SportsWagon,. The Giulietta is a project but not rotten and the 156 is MOTed, insured and taxed and should be back in a couple of weeks. I have also driven a fair number of others over the years.

My non-Autoshite friend Steve has had many including a Giulia, Alfetta and Giulietta at the same time and I got to drive them all. That Alfetta 1.8 was like a new car even though it was 20 years old, it was smooth, quiet and that 1.8 Twin Cam just sang. (the Giulietta 2.0 is now ours thanks to Mrs6C buying it because I wouldn’t!)

1976 Alfetta 1.6

1983 Giulietta 1.8

1997 164 24v Auto

1984 Giulietta 2.0

1978 Alfasud sprint

1998 156 2.0 manual Saloon

2001 156 V6 Sportswagon

2001 156 V6 Saloon

Didn't realise the 156 saloon had gone!

[Six-cylinder]

10 minutes ago, Floatylight said:

Didn't realise the 156 saloon had gone!

That went in 2022 an indirect victim of Covid. The reason I bought the saloon was Mrs6C and I used to argue who was driving the 156 V6 Sportswagon. She claimed to get out of the the end of our road at rush hour she needed its get up and go and should have priority use of it. I just liked driving it and then the black saloon came up for sale and that solved the problem, His and Hers 156s! As Covid eased our mileages did not go back up to previous levels and having two 156V6 did not have the same priority.

43 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Sure a colleague many years ago had a 156 v6 too. Had that fantastic red leather interior. He left us and i think I heard he doesn't have it any more, which isn't surprising 😂

I wanted to keep the black saloon with red leather and sell the silver Sportswagon with tan leather, but I was out voted.

[Six-cylinder]

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.

[chodweaver]

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?

[LightBulbFun]

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  (Although a fair number of the off the shelf mechanical bits are from the Triumph rather then MG parts bin...)

[Six-cylinder]

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!