Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - The BIG news of the day is I have driven my own Mini Mayfair for the first time!

[richardmorris]

3 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

I see the faithful old retainer has a little man from the garage to fill up for him.  Looking like the lord of the manor there @Slowsilver!

Sorry, it immediately brought to mind To the manor born, and the little man from the garage line to service the rolls.

[Six-cylinder]

11 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

It was £1.50 a litre back in 2006. My x1/9 was only run on it. By now I expect it’s £3 a litre?

I think Buckingham may be trapped in a time warp, a man to serve the petrol and only £2.15 for 4*.

[hairnet]

was steve panicking cos it look like he spun and ended up on the grass

 

[Essex V6]

On 8/19/2022 at 7:51 AM, AnthonyG said:

I will be up on Saturday, not sure about Sunday at the moment. 

@brownnova, here is an incentive to turn up: 

Dustbuster road test, from THE PAST. 

I hadn’t realised that the 300 ZX was also known as Godzilla

[Six-cylinder]

Yesterday I added a Mad Max rear assault bar to my RR.

Really a height adjustable tow bar as the boat trailer requires 19.5 inchs to ball and the small car trailer 16.5 inches. Because they are both twin axle trailers they need to be towed about level or one pair of tyres takes all the load.

[hairnet]

i thought there was a dent in the tailgate for a minute till i saw alfa grill oops

 

[mitsisigma01]

Probably will be soon when he jack-knifes the trailer 😕 

[Six-cylinder]

44 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Probably will be soon when he jack-knifes the trailer 😕 

I have been towing now for 40+ years. 

[Six-cylinder]

If the weather is not great and you own two Mercedes estates you can always back to back them and run your miniature 7 ½ inch train between them!

Our 200TE has a fresh MOT and is back on the road. One outstanding job we need to do is have the Auto gearbox oil sump replaced as it is weeping due to rust!

[hairnet]

3 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

I have been towing now for 40+ years. 

and learned that far eastern is better (KIDDING)

 

[Six-cylinder]

Thanks again to @Slowsilver and @quicksilver for helping me get 7 Citroens to the Chevrons Rally.

All the guys from the Citroen Club wanted to look at the Trevi, which is under strict supervision after it died with fuel pump failure. 

[hairnet]

🤣🤣🤣

[chaseracer]

9 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Thanks again to @Slowsilver and @quicksilver for helping me get 7 Citroens to the Chevrons Rally.

All the guys from the Citroen Club wanted to look at the Trevi, which is under strict supervision after it died with fuel pump failure. 

See you tomorrow.

[hairnet]

christopher you absolute hooligan

nice to see @quicksilver and @Slowsilver today

maxilicious

 

[Six-cylinder]

At the Citroen show we in proved the appearance of the Trevi with colour matched tank tape!

[Six-cylinder]

The Gate keepers at this years Citroen show struggled to keep out all the useless, uninteresting non Citroens even after they had asked the Trevi to park in the corner out of the way!

[hairnet]

When you fly structural gaffa tape doesn't last long 

[Six-cylinder]

My current view. 

[Six-cylinder]

Is there a reason why a recovery truck has turned up with 50 Betas gathering. 

[davidfowler2000]

FoD prep

[hairnet]

7 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Is there a reason why a recovery truck has turned up with 50 Betas gathering. 

 

he told us it was a modern that was shitting its alarm/battery

AHL MODERNZ ARE SHIT ETC

[hairnet]

1 hour ago, davidfowler2000 said:

FoD prep

ahm gonna be 500 miles etc

 

[richardmorris]

16 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

At the Citroen show we in proved the appearance of the Trevi with colour matched tank tape!

Which weirdo let that in to the Citroen show? It’s not like you don’t have enough chevrons to go round.

[richardmorris]

10 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Is there a reason why a recovery truck has turned up with 50 Betas gathering. 

Predatory, waiting to pounce.

[Six-cylinder]

The result of yesterdays 8am start was I was part of 50+ Lancia Betas together for a group photo to celebrate their 50th anniversary.

Yes the Trevi (somewhere at the back) is a Beta, third generation and extended to be a notchback as it was thought that is what the market wanted rather than a sloping back. 

[Six-cylinder]

And in the afternoon there was still time to return to the Chevrons Rally, where I had left 7 cars!

[Six-cylinder]

Thanks to those @chaseracer who helped me get my cars back to storage.

[juular]

18 hours ago, davidfowler2000 said:

FoD prep

I fully intended doing the same on the Trafic, but the oil is sitting in the Royal Mail office despite me telling them to stick it round the back of the house if I'm out.  They're also refusing to redeliver because reasons.

RM, y u so shit.

[chaseracer]

5 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Thanks to those @chaseracer who helped me get my cars back to storage.

It was great fun!  Thanks for letting me play with the DS...

[Six-cylinder]

FoD Extended hours!

I have been asked if arrivals for this weekend’s FoD weekend can start on Friday, the answer is yes you are most welcome. Just let me know when you are arriving so I can arrange entry for you.

 

As Monday 19th Sep is now a bank holiday the opportunity exists to extend the weekend to include Monday. We have one at least one staying Sunday night and anybody else who wishes to stay is most welcome.