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

[wuvvum]

E-plate, that's a late one!

[hairnet]

nerd on

the e reg ones only badge 280 not brooklands?

thats without googling and failing memory

 

[MrDuke]

That Triumph looks like what would have happened if BL still existed in the 90s.

[Six-cylinder]

Grass cut for next weekend.

[Six-cylinder]

I have not been brave enough to take the Toledo 4 door out for a drive yet after all the initial problems of it cutting out and not restarting without a short rest. Now each time I go to the FoD I start it and run it round the the field with no problem.

I am hoping we can improve the Toledo 4 door in a few different ways so I can start using it.

• Check legals and levels
• Test drive it with shadow car and tow rope
• Refit front interior door panels
• Temp gauge does not work and fuel gauge sometimes stops working and then returns
• Paint bonnet Damson

 

[Six-cylinder]

Wanted timber for shelves

I am erecting some shelving in our new container for the storage of car parts and we have bought used heavy duty metal uprights and cross bars. The shelves are 900mm deep and 1500mm wide.

I have looked into buying proper shelves and plywood sheets and they are prohibitively expensive in the quantity we need. The shelves need to be strong and I am thinking at least 18mm thick. I don’t think chip board or composite material will work well in an unheated environment with a 900mm span. I am planning to use reclaimed timber from pallets. The pallet timber are only 75mm wide on average so I will need lots of them.

Does anybody have any timber they want gone out of the way?

[Six-cylinder]

My cars are unhappy with the rain!

[Six-cylinder]

There is live car fixing happening on my drive!

[Six-cylinder]

Allegro is fixed and on its way to the next county!

[richardmorris]

3 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

There is live car fixing happening on my drive!

Well you did break it.

[LightBulbFun]

thanks to an offer of a lift from @MrDuke I should be able to make it to this gathering  

just giving a heads up (or warning LOL), as there was some uncertainty to if id be able to make it or not

[richardmorris]

I don’t think I can unfortunately. Work to do etc.

[Six-cylinder]

I have got my Peugeot 306 convertible back today serviced, new handbrake cables and MOTed.

This means a new look for the drive this afternoon.

[J W Pepper]

On 6/20/2022 at 1:53 PM, Crackers said:

Funny you mention it. I believe they are exempt from pretty much everything everywhere, and because they accelerate quite well for their size, they seem to do surprisingly well in cities as long as you have a steersman who's well and truly on the ball. 

A decent road engine will do 12-15mph in high gear flat out and the average speed of London traffic isn't much more than that, so you can do stuff like this:

Definitely something I'd love to have a go at. 

No need to worry about traffic, keep going and people will soon move out of the way, either that or they get pushed/squashed

[hairnet]

that last pic - ace apart from the bl wagon

 

[Six-cylinder]

7 hours ago, hairnet said:

that last pic - ace apart from the bl wagon

 

I agree it absolutely ruins that picture.

BUT when you have to queueing on a dark, wet, winters Friday night on the M25 there is no better car to do it in. 

Also it is the only one that can pull a 2 ton boat out of the water up a steep slippery ramp with ease and control!

It is a thought though, in summer maybe it should live in the storage shed and a Sovereign could live on the drive instead.

[Andyrew]

Discarded old shite, some pallets aswell

[Six-cylinder]

19 minutes ago, Andyrew said:

Discarded old shite, some pallets aswell

I like the way you yanked it away from me before I broke it again!

[Andyrew]

32 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

I like the way you yanked it away from me before I broke it again!

Its not just you. I snapped the mirror off trying to adjust it at speed!

[Crackers]

Will probably come up for some of this weekend but I'm utterly knackered for no particular reason so it depends whether I end up staying in bed for a year on Saturday. 

[catsinthewelder]

Looking nice and dry.  Anyone else tempted to camp and which night?

  I probably should get some work done but I've done far too much of that recently.

[horriblemercedes]

I was really hoping to make it but one of my colleagues has covid so I've been asked to cover this weekend. As I haven't been here long, I find it hard to turn it down

[LightBulbFun]

mindlessly scrolling through facebook, had to double up and look again, @Six-cylinder yer famous? LOL

I like how facebook is learning to suggest Autoshite to me basically, says a lot about what I do with my facebook account I guess LOL

"you didn't click on any of the fast car posts we suggested, so heres a Citroen Visa jump starting an E type"

https://www.facebook.com/PracticalClassics/photos/a.268875403130754/5607660469252194/

[hairnet]

9 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

I agree it absolutely ruins that picture. - you dis it you own it

BUT when you have to queueing on a dark, wet, winters Friday night on the M25 there is no better car to do it in. fair enuff

Also it is the only one that can pull a 2 ton boat out of the water up a steep slippery ramp with ease and control! - ooer missus

It is a thought though, in summer maybe it should live in the storage shed and a Sovereign could live on the drive instead.

 

park something you wanna stroke there instead so evenrytime you walk past it its

ahhhhhh.................................

[beko1987]

9 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

I agree it absolutely ruins that picture.

BUT when you have to queueing on a dark, wet, winters Friday night on the M25 there is no better car to do it in. 

Also it is the only one that can pull a 2 ton boat out of the water up a steep slippery ramp with ease and control!

It is a thought though, in summer maybe it should live in the storage shed and a Sovereign could live on the drive instead.

You'd save a fortune by only taxing it for 6 months but I'd imagine if it gets the shit with being stored it'll light its dash up like a Christmas tree in a tantrum 😂🎄

[Six-cylinder]

There is a plan to cut some metal shelving uprights down from 9ft to 7 ft to fit in the container.

If you have some suitable cutting gear please bring it along at the weekend to FoD.

[richardmorris]

Plasma torch or angry spinning wheel of doom? Don’t suppose my junior hacksaw will cut it ( ha ha).

may come up, may be going to Wimbledon if sister can’t find anyone else to go with.

[LightBulbFun]

39 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

There is a plan to cut some metal shelving uprights down from 9ft to 7 ft to fit in the container.

If you have some suitable cutting gear please bring it along at the weekend to FoD.

@Zelandeth time to break in the new Toy I mean plasma cutter?  

[Six-cylinder]

I went topless this evening!

Don't worry I mean the car. First time out for my 306 Convertible since I was put away for the winter. It drives better than I remember and was a pleasure to enjoy the evening sunshine going to a small car gathering in Milton Keynes. 

[beko1987]

4 hours ago, hairnet said:

park something you wanna stroke there instead so evenrytime you walk past it its

ahhhhhh.................................

He'd stroke anythink though the slag

 

(and fair play too)