Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[Six-cylinder]

2 hours ago, richardmorris said:

I’m at a loose end tomorrow if you want anything doing or moving at the field. Family niece is in quarantine so I can’t visit and the weather looks ok.

Mrs6C says on parade at 6am!

Not really, she wants to move a couple of cars and stuff in the yard because we are having the roof timbers delivered Monday and there is going to be a crane on site.  If you come to the house late morning that would be great. 

If anybody else fancies joining in they would be welcome.

 

[LightBulbFun]

3 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

4 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

its the Patio he is worried about being put under!

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She does not know how to dig with the JCB and I am quite large!

 I meant to say "its not the patio" Had a brain fart and missed out the "not"! 

(its not the first time thats happened either, normally I noticed and am able to stealthily edit it LOL, but typically I posted the comment and then went off to do something else! so only noticed just now!)

[Six-cylinder]

24 minutes ago, hairnet said:

Still lost - drinking tea now

We know where you are!

So what is the plan?

[hairnet]

Go to gig

Go home 

 

[Six-cylinder]

24 minutes ago, hairnet said:

Go to gig

Go home 

 

I will eat the cake then.

[richardmorris]

34 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Mrs6C says on parade at 6am!

Not really, she wants to move a couple of cars and stuff in the yard because we are having the roof timbers delivered Monday and there is going to be a crane on site.  If you come to the house late morning that would be great. 

If anybody else fancies joining in they would be welcome.

 

Ok she’s on. 11am? My first date all year!

[richardmorris]

11 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

I will eat the cake then.

You’re not fooling anyone pretending it’s a hardship.

[chaseracer]

13 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Ok she’s on. 11am? My first date all year!

Lightweight! 😉

[hairnet]

3 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

You’re not fooling anyone pretending it’s a hardship.

Meow

[richardmorris]

20 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

Lightweight! 😉

Busy year comparatively!

[chaseracer]

3 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Busy year comparatively!

Chemistry never sleeps...

[Zelandeth]

Depending how I'm feeling in the morning (and still being awake at 0313 and counting doesn't bode well) I may try to get along to that.

Obviously will have complete decision paralysis about what to take...Jag is the obvious choice as it will move on soon, but it will need fuel first and is filthy.  Merc is even more filthy and half full of junk for a recycling centre run in the week.  Van...well I don't get the impression it's the sort of vehicle there's huge interest in in that group.  Invacar...well it ain't modern is it?  I know nobody in the group well enough to know what's likely to be the best conversation starter.

Do feel I need to try to get to it though... I'm committed (overall national virus situation permitting) to attending a large event in February, so feel I need to start getting past my paranoia of being within half a mile of more than two people. 

 

[Mrs6C]

4 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Invacar...well it ain't modern is it?

It's the MK Classic Car group, rather than the Modern Classics group. The Invacar would go down a treat with either, though.

[Six-cylinder]

5 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Invacar...well it ain't modern is it?  I know nobody in the group well enough to know what's likely to be the best conversation starter.

The Silvers are planning to attend in their Mondeo.

As Mrs6C has said I have plonked, it is the Milton Keynes Classic Car Club not the Modern Classic group. I am still going to take the Seicento as it is my new toy, from a personal point I would love you to take the Invacar so we can photograph our small blue boxes together.

Yes, yes @LightBulbFunI have requested the presence of an Invacar!

 

[Crackers]

2 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Yes, yes @LightBulbFunI have requested the presence of an Invacar!

Is everything OK at home Chris, or do we need to send someone round?

[Noel Tidybeard]

3 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Yes, yes @LightBulbFunI have requested the presence of an Invacar!

 

smoll bloo Fiat clouding someones judgement? 🤣

[Crackers]

@Mrs6C - any interest? Just seen on Facey. 

[LightBulbFun]

4 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Yes, yes @LightBulbFunI have requested the presence of an Invacar!

You! of all people requesting the presence of an Invacar?!

do you know what you have done! 

[Zelandeth]

Do we know where that video clip was filmed? 

We've got enough of them on the road now across the country to recreate it if it's not been bulldozed by now surely!

[LightBulbFun]

19 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Do we know where that video clip was filmed? 

We've got enough of them on the road now across the country to recreate it if it's not been bulldozed by now surely!

I made the GIF from this video here  (Page 64 of my thread) im not entirely sure where it was shot geographically but im sure someone with better geography then me etc can figure it out!

On 04/08/2019 at 23:37, LightBulbFun said:

yay another new reg block to add to the ever growing list  

had a pleasant surprise that when I looked up BPU903L that It had survived until 2003! so I was able to pull a chassis number for the BPU-L block right away  saving me a lot of time since I did not have to go through the entire block to find one whos chassis number I can pull, but turns out that would not have really been a problem in this case as...

like AOO-L the BPU-L block is unusually short, at 35 cars I think in this case, (not quite the shortest block that honour goes to the VPG-S block from VPG243-269S), I think the block is from BPU900L to BPU934L (or BPU901L to BPU935L)

heres the video its from https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-invalid-carriage-1976-online

I have seen this video but that was in the early days of this thread, so I was double checking it just now, and happy I did  

(its interesting to note the guys concern about losing his adapted Mini and I never really thought about that but yeah I guess the adapted normal cars that where issued by the government would of been looked after by the invalid vehicle service like invacars where, so would've also been taken away from their users when the invalid vehicle service closed)

another GIF/scene id like to recreate as you say since we have more then enough Model 70's on the forum now! is this one

[Dick Cheeseburger]

1 minute ago, LightBulbFun said:

I made the GIF from this video here  (Page 64 of my thread) im not entirely sure where it was shot geographically but im sure someone with better geography then me etc can figure it out!

 

another GIF/scene id like to recreate as you say since we have more then enough Model 70's on the forum now! is this one

That needs to happen! 😅

[Six-cylinder]

Today’s trip out with the Milton Keynes Classic Car Club. Not as well attended as usual but it was cold and drizzling. Still worth the trip out and my first drive of the Seicento, light and spirited to drive I like it very much.

[Six-cylinder]

Today was another spontaneous FoD day as @richardmorris messaged to say he was available and we needed to move a couple of cars and other things to enable a lorry and crane on site tomorrow.

The Silvers @Slowsilver and @quicksilver also came round to increase the power and speed of the Toledo!

Well done guys thanks a lot.

[Six-cylinder]

So the bit @LightBulbFun has been waiting for @Zelandeth small blue box and my small blue box!

                 Seicento – Model 70

Length 3337mm – 3000mm, 337mm shorter

Width 1508mm – 1370mm, 138mm narrower

Height 1420mm - 1422mm, 2mm higher

Weight 730kg     - 413kg     , 455kg lighter

[LightBulbFun]

22 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

So the bit @LightBulbFun has been waiting for @Zelandeth small blue box and my small blue box!

                 Seicento – Model 70

Length 3337mm – 3000mm, 337mm shorter

Width 1508mm – 1370mm, 138mm narrower

Height 1420mm - 1422mm, 2mm higher

Weight 730kg     - 413kg     , 455kg lighter

and what about compared to @Mrs6C's small blue box? or does that not count because it only travels in time and relative dimensions in space and not on the road?

PS to be pedantic @Zelandeth's Model 70 is somewhere between 406Kg and 410Kg*, only later Model 70's Post March 1976 are 413Kg/414Kg, the extra weight on the later Model 70's is from chassis reinforcements to comply with EU Crash test standards of the time and the rollover protection bar

*I still dont actually know how Much a Model 70 Mark A weighs exactly! I think its 406Kg and it just got rounded to 410Kg when transferring from the imperial units on the Buff Logbook to the metric units on the new fangled V5 scheme

but I have never been able to verify it for sure (and then theres the Model 70 Mark B's from before March 1976, which have the chassis strengthening but lack the rollover bar so weigh somewhere between the 2, but are again just down as 410Kg on the V5!)

EDIT: I see the photos have been loaded in Lovely to see  

(I also like how in the orignial set of photos, of all the cars in the line up, everyone in shot is of course crowded round the Model 70 while Poor Zel probably explains for the 500th time no they are not banned from the road!)

[Mrs6C]

9 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Well done guys thanks a lot.

A huge thank you from me, too. We're all ready now for the barn roof frames to arrive tomorrow.

We had the best dressed Sunday work gang, too!

[richardmorris]

Thanks for offering a change of scene guys. Good to hear of the future plans for FOD too. The Christmas cactus survived the m25 thank you and the chilli is as mentioned still going.

[richardmorris]

Oh and you were correct Chris. Joey Boswell’s jag was a 240.

[Six-cylinder]

@richardmorris I am having a Fiat moment so here are ours two in one photo!

Yes mine is much smaller.

[Slowsilver]

Because it's further away?