Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - Progress with the Mini Mayfair, if a little slow.

[Floatylight]

The Carlton looks decent mingebag spec and what's after it?

[hairnet]

Omg

[hairnet]

43 minutes ago, Talbot said:

I'm getting the Bedford CF running, so I can drive about with a dog on a bit of string, smoking tabs and generally being rude to people, without anyone thinking this is out of the ordinary.

Either that, or drive it wearing a suit.  That'll confuse people.

Dag

[beko1987]

Holy shit! I'll get my cordless numatic charged up ready! 

We could recreate a class banger race with that lot... 

[Six-cylinder]

33 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Holy shit! I'll get my cordless numatic charged up ready! 

We could recreate a class banger race with that lot... 

This is going to need mains power and the generator!

And no.

[wuvvum]

Bloody hell!

[Floatylight]

I think@sutty2006 is the resident Manta botherer..

[Floatylight]

That Carlton looks a peach, clean MOT passes for years including the last one in 2017, only a bit of welding 10 years ago and less than 40k miles! 1.8 FTW!

[Snake Charmer]

Is one of the Manta's a GSi?

[hairnet]

the beige one - taxed worse

will dome be down to shag them all senseless

 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

What a haul. All that velour!

[HMC]

Goodness me that is quite a haul! Amazing. Absolutely amazing.

[ProgRocker]

1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

This is going to need mains power and the generator!

And no.

*squints*

Is that a Royale or Senator A on the right??? 

[Ghosty]

1 minute ago, ProgRocker said:

Is that a Royale or Senator A on the right??? 

aiui it's a Royale. 

[Andyrew]

1 hour ago, Floatylight said:

That Carlton looks a peach, clean MOT passes for years including the last one in 2017, only a bit of welding 10 years ago and less than 40k miles! 1.8 FTW!

 

The deceased was a nice bloke the previous owner to him is a right throbber tho

He is some bloke that owns mk4 astras, an mx5s and a wanky land rover. .  

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Andyrew]

1 hour ago, beko1987 said:

Holy shit! I'll get my cordless numatic charged up ready! 

We could recreate a class banger race with that lot... 

Your going to need the mousesucker3000 from vice grip garage i can 100% confirm. 

[beko1987]

13 minutes ago, Andyrew said:

Your going to need the mousesucker3000 from vice grip garage i can 100% confirm. 

I can bring my metal aquavac and many bags, although not sure how it'll run from the Generator, it can barely power a Henry at 3/4 speed? But the aquavac can suck up whatever shite it finds, it's hardcore like that!

Or I can brave the depths of the shed and find out something truly disposable... when it's full I'll drop it in a skip on the way home (involves it not raining for 5 minutes though so I can get the whole shed emptied to find it

 

[chaseracer]

Luton plates on the Royale...

[bobdisk]

Bluddy Hell, That Looks Interesting! 🤪 !

[Talbot]

11 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

I can bring my metal aquavac and many bags, although not sure how it'll run from the Generator, it can barely power a Henry at 3/4 speed? But the aquavac can suck up whatever shite it finds, it's hardcore like that!

I may have to look at bringing the 2kw inverter up then.  Run the generator to keep the batteries charged, but run the vac from the batteries through the inverter.  Much kinder on the motor windings.

[dean36014]

As a matter of interest is the CF going to be sold on?

[LightBulbFun]

2 hours ago, dean36014 said:

As a matter of interest is the CF going to be sold on?

I bloody well hope not!

its genuinely one of my favourite of the bunch  

plus its got a solid bed, so its perfect for transporting 3 wheelers *ahem*

 

although @Mrs6C you might want to keep @Six-cylinder away from it, especially if he starts brandishing an angle grinder as he was threatening to remove the centre portion of the ramp for

"weight saving reasons".....

[beko1987]

18 minutes ago, Talbot said:

I may have to look at bringing the 2kw inverter up then.  Run the generator to keep the batteries charged, but run the vac from the batteries through the inverter.  Much kinder on the motor windings.

Not sure I want to put my 48 hour old new toy through mouse poo, but I can bring some cleaners I don't really care about along to run off the generator if you have a bigger one? Chris's one tried but you can tell the motors are running slow!

I've got some Einhell cheap shitty things I picked up a few years ago that I've done nothing with, will get one/both working and if they burn up halfway through the day we can keep warm with them!

[LightBulbFun]

3 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Not sure I want to put my 48 hour old new toy through mouse poo, but I can bring some cleaners I don't really care about along to run off the generator if you have a bigger one? Chris's one tried but you can tell the motors are running slow!

I've got some Einhell cheap shitty things I picked up a few years ago that I've done nothing with, will get one/both working and if they burn up halfway through the day we can keep warm with them!

I think what @Talbot is saying is he has a mains inverter with a bit more grunt then the generator

which you can run your 240V vacuum cleaners off of

and then when the batteries powering the mains inverter go flat, they can be charged by the generator  (or I guess more kept topped up by the generator)

[beko1987]

4 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

I think what @Talbot is saying is he has a mains inverter with a bit more grunt then the generator

which you can run your 240V vacuum cleaners off of

and then when the batteries powering the mains inverter go flat, they can be charged by the generator  (or I guess more kept topped up by the generator)

Ah that does make alot more sense than I read it in my head! I think the vacs are fairly low wattage too so that could work very well tbh

[Sir Chocolate Teapot]

Just WOW.

Oh to have a field and time.

 

 

 

[sutty2006]

6cylinder is living my dream right there. 

[High Jetter]

10 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

I was only able to buy the 1976 Manta 1.9 Auto coupe that Mrs6C wanted if I bought all 8 cars.

I bet you were fuming when you found that out! What a Vaux-haul!  Absolutely well done Sir, wish I was nearer to come and drool over them assist.

[sutty2006]

I think we should do one of those “will it start?” Videos on at least all of those treasures. Be very entertaining. 

[LightBulbFun]

4 minutes ago, sutty2006 said:

I think we should do one of those “will it start?” Videos on at least all of those treasures. Be very entertaining. 

if @dollywobbler can make it, I imagine it would be good content for his youtube channel going by how well the video on @Saabnut's green goddess has done