Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - Not such a good day today!

[Noel Tidybeard]

isnt it strange how a small thing can make an visa look so different from another?

eg silver grill on the e reg compared to the twin

[Six-cylinder]

My mate has just bought a bright green pugnose Visa. Wonder if he'll be there this weekend. I won't be sadly.

Please tell him we are meeting up Saturday.

[dollywobbler]

Is this on John Deere's radar? He's pretty local to where the event is being held. If his red Pug is there with this green one and Mike's yellow one, then people's eyes really will melt!

[richardmorris]

New flavour for today, Visas I have put my E reg 17RD away and I have got out my Special Twin. Yes that is a downgrade from 60 bhp to 30 bhp! The plan is to take it to the Citroen National rally near Peterborough on Saturday to meet up with 2 other Visa Twins.

I'm there for the weekend ( B and B ing in the local pub).

[dollywobbler]

Alas. Mr Green Visa can't make it. He needs to sort the brakes and some other bits out.

[Six-cylinder]

I'm there for the weekend ( B and B ing in the local pub).

With 2CV?

[GoGently]

What time is your scheduled take off from Bucks on Saturday & can one string along & attempt to keep up ?

[GoGently]

Six Cylinder You little Visa Stalker You!

 

Whilst Perusing for a next frugal automatic comfy project, I I took pity on a Visa on EBay & put a bid of 335 to boost the little darlings chances of a decent & serious Citroeknight would surely respond & ride to her rescue! BUT ,WELL , BUT happened to check several days later.... Ah ! So honouring the bid set up an MOT & with a little mechanical nudge it passed! Don't know how given the ancient tyres.

Me & brother are always throwing the car nets out have been since in our twenties once got stopped by the Manchester police driving a Peugeot 304 saloon early one Saturday morning. The officer explained the reason he pulled us over was that it was unusual for two young men to be in an old mans car. Heck looking back, maybe he liked our wavy hair. At the moment we know off three old Fords & two 2CVs just waiting...... Below pics my brothers car being worked on one of my visits

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[Six-cylinder]

What time is your scheduled take off from Bucks on Saturday & can one string along & attempt to keep up ?

Yes, a twin will easily cruise at 65 mph, I am not sure what time yet as Mrs Cyl is coming, I will let you know by PM.

[egg]

another huge upvote for that wonderful GS. Superb work.

[Six-cylinder]

The picture GoGently has not show us!

[Six-cylinder]

Six Cylinder You little Visa Stalker You!

 

Whilst Perusing for a next frugal automatic comfy project, I I took pity on a Visa on EBay & put a bid of 335 to boost the little darlings chances of a decent & serious Citroeknight would surely respond & ride to her rescue! BUT ,WELL , BUT happened to check several days later.... Ah ! So honouring the bid set up an MOT & with a little mechanical nudge it passed!

I was watching it and trying not to buy every Visa out there, so I was very pleased when you did.

 

I am glad to hear it has MOTed without any real problems.

[Six-cylinder]

And now for something completely different!

 

What has 321bhp that I collected from MOT yesterday, yes my M3 Evo.

 

Not a lot needed but the front discs vibrated and were changed. They did not have a lot of wear and the garage say they are handed so the cooling fins draw air in and mine had been fitted to the wrong sides so no cooling was taking place and they overheated. I guess living close to all the roundabouts of Milton Keynes had done for them.

[Six-cylinder]

Just leaving for the Citroen National near Peterborough with GoGentley with Two Visas!

[Six-cylinder]

Good Day 5 x Visas, 2 x C15 and a luxury Motorhome!

[Six-cylinder]

My BMW E30 has been starring in a music video, Never mind "The 1975" it is my car! Warning a woman is involved, if you have not got time to see it all try from 7 mins and 10 secs.

 

[HMC]

Glad to see they opted for the wipe clean practicality of leather in the E30! Wasn't there a film due out with your 7 series in?

[Six-cylinder]

Glad to see they opted for the wipe clean practicality of leather in the E30! Wasn't there a film due out with your 7 series in?

Bone in the Throat was made using my 735i, it ran into financial difficulties and does not seem to have been put out on general release.

[HMC]

What was the experience like? I'd often wondered what's involved if a vehicle you own is set dressing or even driven by a character. At the moment I own nothing " period" or interesting, unless it was a period drama set on a rough estate in 2014

[Six-cylinder]

I have not been involved with filming because the supplying company, Dan's Action Vehicles has collected the cars from me and returned them. It is always last minute stuff and I had one car go out and returned unused.

 

My Vitesse was also used in a clothing ad for Long Tall Sally, but the couple of shots I found on their web site had some woman in a dress standing in front of my car!

 

Who would have thought anybody wanted a 1988 BMW 735i for film work.

[richardmorris]

With 2CV?

Belatedly yes.

 

Nice to say hello yesterday.

[Six-cylinder]

I use this thread as my own history of what I do with cars, so having lost some posts in the forum upgrade I felt the need to put them back in chronological order, as much for me as anybody else.

 

I think I may have been too ashamed of this first missing car outing and may have never posted it! Yes I have a 1996 BMW M3 Evo Convertible and yes I sat on a show field with the BMW Club. There we are I have said it out loud, I must be on the way to recovery.

 

321 bhp driven though a six speed manual gearbox with LSD to the rear wheels and no electronics, maybe I am not going to recover from such good fun!

[Six-cylinder]

Evening BBQ with my 2CV organized by Hagerty Insurance.

[Six-cylinder]

Pig roast at a Local allotment group again with my 2CV.

[Six-cylinder]

2CV Rally and my 2CV limped home with overheated brakes after 5 miles, so I took my Twin Pot Visa instead, there were plenty of red and white 2CV Dollys without me but only two Visas!

[Six-cylinder]

So the big and stupid news was I bought a Citroen LNA Inca, off the road for six years with a busted drive coupling from drop gears to gearbox and the engine loose in the boot. The paint is shot and there is no plan!

[Six-cylinder]

The Festival of the Unexceptional was another outing for my Visa Twin Pot.

[Six-cylinder]

The Citroen GS Rally was another breakdown when my GS refused to run, so I took my Visa Twin on and the 200 mile round trip.

 

A few days later following the non show of my GS at the G Rally I had been poking and prodding it and following some advice I got it running from a can. I used the can to drive it to a safe spot to to jack it and started looking at the fuel line. It did not take long to spot the problem, there is a slit where the pipe from the tank fits onto the fuel filter on the rear subframe. Putting my head inside a GS boot is not something I am comfortable with because I am a bit claustrophobic, but I buckled under and got the pipe changed.

 

The car now runs well but ideally the pipe forward from the filter also looks old and I would have changed the filter if I had one.

[Six-cylinder]

Three days at Silverstone Classic last weekend something for everybody. For me the BMW M3 again, so I can cope with more than the 30bhp of the Citroen Twins!

[Six-cylinder]

And today, a sad day as it was Mrs Cyl Uncle’s Funeral, but he was really into cars so to honor him we took the Maserati Bi turbo.

 

The Biturbo turned 60,000 miles while we were out, that is still only 1600 miles in our 3 years with it and 170 miles was today. I am not sure why we have done so few miles, I find it comfortable to drive it has been very reliable and temperament free, only thing is it seems to be sub 20 mpg.