Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[Asimo]

No wonder they struggled when cold back then.

'Box might be ok today though with a sump full of 0w20. Which might be thin enough to just finish a 40 year old E-series......

[Noel Tidybeard]

Excited!

 

 

so you should be! :mrgreen:

[Eddie Honda]

I used to have a Maxi 1750HL auto. It went like a rocket* and worked fine.

 

(Initially it didn't, but that was because of lack of use and the SU piston was gummed up. When it freed off...POWAH!)

 

I also had a 1750 manual. The gear change was indeed wank.

[D Spares & Tyres]

I had a Mini automatic once just because it was cheap and I couldn't afford a better car!

 

I was expecting to hate it but thought it was quite good really. I assume it's the same box but I suppose the lack of body weight helped.

 

Glad to see the VP on its way to being fixed, I was never going to do it!

[oldcars]

I am taking the VP to Bognor tomorrow to have a manual gearbox conversion and check over before it returns to the road. My friend who owns the trailer volunteered that I could park the loaded ensemble on his drive overnight as it is the end of cul-de-sac while mine is reversing from a 50 mph road not to far from a blind crest. 

 

Funny thing since he made the offer he has a viewing on his house this afternoon and made me park the Allegro round the corner until his prospective house buyers have been and gone!

Would have sold the house it that was on the drive

[Tadhg Tiogar]

I had a Mini automatic once just because it was cheap and I couldn't afford a better car!...

I thought Minis had the Minimatic box?

[Six-cylinder]

VP safely delivered and now waiting attention.

[Six-cylinder]

First catch of 2019!

[320touring]

Holy fuck, you two play the game well! (as I am assuming Mrs6C had a hand in this!)

[hairnet]

hnnng and leave the all aggro where it is

[richardmorris]

Hmm.

https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk

 

 

Doesn’t say what it is- 2litre ct Turbo?

[Six-cylinder]

Hmm.

https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk

 

 

Doesn’t say what it is- 2litre ct Turbo?

 

Just a 135bhp 2.0 16v, I have now driven it over a 100 miles and it is a fine car.

[SiC]

VP safely delivered and now waiting attention.

This is very good news!

[Mrs6C]

Holy fuck, you two play the game well! (as I am assuming Mrs6C had a hand in this!)

I was handed a box of chocolates in this!

[hairnet]

omg bribery

[Six-cylinder]

omg bribery

 

Not by me, but by the seller.

[dean36014]

Twas just a joke as Chris kept joking mrs six cylinder would be upset  . As if that would be the case where cars are involved. Anyway i got coffee and cakes in exchange 

[Six-cylinder]

Twas just a joke as Chris kept joking mrs six cylinder would be upset  . As if that would be the case where cars are involved. Anyway i got coffee and cakes in exchange 

 

I like the notion when ever you sell a car to a shiter you give chocolates to their partner to numb there pain! 

[Mrs6C]

I like the notion when ever you sell a car to a shiter you give chocolates to their partner to numb there pain! 

I'm not sure there will be any left to give to the buyer of the 'S' Type...

[beko1987]

Oooh lovely! Xantia replacement?

[Mrs6C]

Oooh lovely! Xantia replacement?

No... Six-cylinder is on his honour to get my Xantia fixed, as as he broke it...

[Zelandeth]

Nice... that's a ten out of ten find if you ask me.

 

Always fancied an XM... that's going to be dangerously close to home if you come to sell it...

 

Nice colour for it too.

[brandersnatch]

First catch of 2019!

Best car I ever owned was an XM Onyx. I bought it at three years old for £3000 and had it for about five years. Came home to Essex from Venice in sixteen hours and fifteen minutes including the Chunnel. Fantastic cars. I’m slightly* envious.

 

 

One’s too many, ten’s not enough!

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

I like the notion when ever you sell a car to a shiter you give chocolates to their partner to numb there pain! 

 

THIS - definitely THIS...…….. (and I'm single!)

Excellent news on the PLAHhhhhh - I didn't know the box could be that bad - a loooong time ago a mate had a similar issue but I informed him it was knackered - Ooops! It went to an Allegro sniffer -so lived on. If he tracks me down I'd hate to think of repaying the cost to him plus interest after all this time!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

First catch of 2019!

 

I like how the waistline sort of harks back to that of the SM:

 

[Mrs6C]

I like how the waistline sort of harks back to that of the SM:

 

Those pictures do show the design influences, don't they? What a shame the XM wasn't made as a two door coupe as well... that could have been stunning.

 

Six-cylinder and I were lucky enough to be able to visit La Conservatoire Citroen in 2010, where this lovely sculpture resides:

 

 

 

[Bfg]

^

"Those pictures do show the design influences, don't they?"

 

 And then your first photo looked just like the black plastic lid of the concrete rubbish-bins outside McDonald's.. 

 

I know ..should have gone to SpecSavers !  

[xtriple]

Always loved XMs but never had one. Nearly bought one from a local 'car supermarket' type place about 20 years ago, was a done deal until I realised just how much I was being stitched up (not aware of just how little a 4 - 5-year-old XM was worth) and they wanted double for it. I was never bothered about the hydraulics on them having had CXs and was quite used to doing the pipes etc on mine and other peoples, now, not so sure as I can't do shit and paying other  other buggers to half-arse stuff goes aginst the grain.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

....I know ..should have gone to SpecSavers !  

I did, which is why I now wear varifocals.

[Arthur Foxhake]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/mopeds-x2-both-for-field-were-running-2-years-ago-honda-love-yamaha-barn-find/333066026002?_trkparms=aid%3D333202%26algo%3DCOMP.CATCARDS%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20180608100040%26meid%3Dc311b879f2c14cadbbbcee534e2fe64c%26pid%3D100889%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26sd%3D123639455329%26itm%3D333066026002&_trksid=p2349624.c100889.m5204

Couple of cheap field bikes.