Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[hairnet]

ps sooo many apologists

 

[Noel Tidybeard]

ooooo the cylinder metroid has stickers 👍🎖️

 

the equipe is missing its fog lights!

[Skizzer]

It was great to catch up with @Six-cylinder, @quicksilver, @Slowsilver and @Zelandeth - and there were some cracking cars.

I was also beyond excited to meet Harris Mann. I’m a big fan and he’s a lovely bloke, we had a really good chat. Absolute privilege.

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Most of my photos from the day are on film so will be a little while before we see them. 

There were a heck of a lot of Metros there today!

This one of course being my favourite for obvious reasons...

Always a good event though.  A lot of single marque shows can be a bit samey I find, but given how diverse BL's portfolio was this is always interesting.

I'd honestly forgotten this even existed in convertible form.

An SD1 is always worth a photo too, and always looks great.

This one is definitely quite a rarity though.

Can't be many of those left.

I've had an accident.

2 hours ago, quicksilver said:

What an excellent day at a show that seems to get bigger and better every year. I photographed pretty much everything so I'll just share a few highlights.

Mmm, purple Wolseley wedge

Police pursuit* vehicle

Camp in style* with a beige Maestro

Allegro Equipe with Serck plates. Oooof!

MGA was the oldest and most exotic car there. Turbo diesel SD1 in hot* pursuit.

Oldest Marina in the world, registered two days after launch. Note right-way-round wipers.

Another Marina with right-way-round wipers. Weird one this as it was LHD and converted to RHD quite recently.

Have the words "beautiful brown Montego" ever been used in the same sentence before? That's how this prizewinner was described.

Postman Pat, Postman Pat and his Maestro van

Intrepid traveller came from the Netherlands. In a Metro.

Beige Ital, cor indeed!

Never seen a Vermilion ADO16 before but the colour suits it

This has allegedly done over a million miles on the original engine

Only known surviving Metro in this weird colour called 'Sombrero'

Definitely not BL, this enormous barge was lurking in the car park, on the grass as it's far too big to fit in a space

Also got to meet Sarah Crabtree from Bangers and Cash, who was doing the prizegiving. She seems a lovely lass and reet northern.

Oh, and again

1 hour ago, Skizzer said:

It was great to catch up with @Six-cylinder, @quicksilver, @Slowsilver and @Zelandeth - and there were some cracking cars.

I was also beyond excited to meet Harris Mann. I’m a big fan and he’s a lovely bloke, we had a really good chat. Absolute privilege.

Top posting, but tissues required...

[Six-cylinder]

This Wednesday 28th Sep is a small local classic car gathering.

All welcome from 6pm.

A midweek gathering for local classic car and bike enthusiasts at Wicken Sports and Social Club. We will ask for a donation to Willen Hospice on entry, the club bar will be selling drinks and bar snacks.

Wicken Sports and Social Club
St Johns Lane
Wicken
Milton Keynes
MK19 6BP

[Six-cylinder]

Yesterday was a nice outing for the Metro at Wicken Classic car gathering.

[Six-cylinder]

Once again @Slowsilver helped me today  with some winter preparation for our cars that are going to be stored for the winter. It was a busy afternoon moving cars about.

We took the BMW 735i to storage as it is being collected in the morning.

Much tyre pumping was done.

We had to move the E reg Visa, Trevi and BiTurbo to get out the Gamma. Last time I used the Gamma I forgot to switch on the electric fan and it spat out water while sitting idling.  We refilled it with 33% antifreeze and all seemed fine, but there was not enough petrol to give it a proper test drive.

Following past rodent damage I prepared bait boxes and put them round the shed. While I did this slowsilver checked the antifreeze in the 308 GT4, E Type and 2 Daimler Sovereigns. 

One section was sweep and the cars put away.

More to do next week........

 

[hairnet]

fwibble

[Six-cylinder]

Parting with old friends!

The Visa 17RD we have had for 7+ years.  This car was very much duplication of the other Visa 17RD we have had for the last 13 years. I still have an unnatural liking for Citroen Visas, which I first owned 20 years ago and sold them new from a Citroen dealer in 1987.

We have had the BMW 735i SE 14+ years. Following Mrs6C's purchase of an E46 we joined the BMW Car club and our local group leader was a strong promoter of the E32 7 series. I was sucked into E32 ownership and valentine's day 2008 we placed a blind eBay bid on this 735i and won. Lots of memories followed, I have driven it at a steady 125 mph on a German Autobahn and taken it round the Nürburgring  ring at full tilt following my friend in a Mercedes 450 SEL.  The longest single non stop drive of any car I have driven was in this BMW 735i SE, 7 1/4 hours Milton Keynes to Edinburgh on a Friday after work and I still felt comfortable on arrival. It will be missed but I have a 1971 BMW 3.0 S which I plan to use more.

Both are sold to a Film car supply company and will be available for you to rent for your filming needs!

[chaseracer]

I was very tempted by the E32, but I'm still smarting from my last experience with a big 80s straight-six German!

[richardmorris]

I’m relieved- from the title change I thought you’d given the faithful old retainer @Slowsilver the old heave ho!

[hairnet]

4 hours ago, chaseracer said:

I was very tempted by the E32, but I'm still smarting from my last experience when my balls disappeared

 

[hairnet]

3 hours ago, richardmorris said:

I’m relieved- from the title change I thought you’d given the faithful old retainer @Slowsilver the old heave ho!

tent and almost access to the kettle

 

[Zelandeth]

Sitting in an airport with several hours to kill and the first film from the BL Day show has come back...so here you go.  In no particular order...and only tweaked very slightly based on what I can see on my phone screen.

Will possibly be a couple more to follow from the other film I finished on the day depending how they came out.

 

[High Jetter]

That's porn. Got any more?

[Six-cylinder]

10 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Sitting in an airport with several hours to kill and the first film from the BL Day show has come back...so here you go.  In no particular order...and only tweaked very slightly based on what I can see on my phone screen.

Interesting, we both shot my MGB in a similar position. I think I like your lower angle better.

 

[Noel Tidybeard]

i watched Ricky (Agatha and Anything) and chuckled a little as he went down one row and you could see cylinders & silvers behind the mg metro

[Zelandeth]

Another random photo from a prior FoD visit.

[Six-cylinder]

When you misjudge the size of an object for sale and turn up with the wrong car!

[chaseracer]

Those leeks are maHOOsive!

[Noel Tidybeard]

[Six-cylinder]

Saying good bye to another old friend today after 11 years. E36 328i Msport coupe manual, seems to have gone to a good home where it will return to the road.

[hairnet]

what toot is going be incoming

 

[Noel Tidybeard]

4 hours ago, hairnet said:

what toot is going be incoming

 

never dare an idiot! 😆

[Six-cylinder]

Our drive at lunchtime today.

If anybody spotted the newcomer its not what you think. Yes there is a black MK4 Astra on my drive, I have not purchased it, just a kind loan from @Andyrew . So if you are cut up badly on a roundabout by it don't blame Andyrew as I am going to be driving it for a while.

[hairnet]

how much to shenley m9?

[Six-cylinder]

A busy car afternoon with the help of @Slowsilver

Metro and Toledo have been taken to storage. To fit them in the Daimler Sovereign S1, Ami, GS and AX had to be started and moved. I think it is good to get them up to temperature once in a while.

A quick look at the interior of Mrs6C’s Volvo V70 T5 while I popped the new cam sensor and crank sensor inside in preparation to restarting it and fitting them to try and put out the pesky engine light. To be continued…….

The first inspection for putting up a shelve in the storage shed was done, but I forgot the ladder. I am not allowed to drill holes in the wall as it is rented and don’t want a free standing shelve unit because we are short of floor space. I am thinking about some wall plate strapping bent into a hook for the top of the concrete wall and a 90° bend to form a support for the shelve.

I was surprised to find the Toledo had a flat battery at the house, a jump and it was away but it had always started off its own battery before. It when into the dark end of the shed and I switched the engine off and noticed the radio was lit, it is not ignition switched and I had left it on with no volume for 2 ½ weeks!

The BMW 3.0S was taken from the FoD to the house garage to see what can be done with all the rust bubbles. Very ugly when I rubbed the paint bubbles! If anybody wanted to join me in the garage in the next few weeks I plan to go round the car rub back and use Rust Converter on all the bubbles.

[chaseracer]

31 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

...I plan to go round the car rub back and use Rust Converter on all the bubbles.

Seems to have worked on the Lancia, I was pleased to see at Chevrons last month.

[hairnet]

Looking at that last pic

I'd be looking at a sh bonnet 

[wuvvum]

2 hours ago, hairnet said:

Looking at that last pic

I'd be looking at a sh bonnet 

Aye, good luck finding one of those at sensible money!  Normally if an E3 gets scrapped it's due to terminal rot in every panel...