Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[MorrisItalSLX]

Which bus manufacturer did the MGB GT upholstery! Very colourful!

[Spottedlaurel]

Good reading and great to see the old photos.

 

I wish I knew what became of my grandfather's E-Type, but as yet no photos have surfaced showing its registration. It was the usual tatty heap in the late '70s, I remember him taking hay in it down to their horses.

[Six-cylinder]

I think my fish likes Fiats a bit too much!

[hairnet]

Fiiiiish

 

In MK

 

Going wetherspoons after if ya fancy it

[Six-cylinder]

After what? Mrs6C says your JW concert is on Classic FM live broadcast tonight at 7pm... not sure what that is...

[hairnet]

After what? Oh sorry - northern mode on - later

 

Mrs6C says your JW concert is on Classic FM live broadcast tonight at 7pm... not sure what that is...

For this piece of information

 

I owe you a pint - originally down here for that but then couldn't get a ticket unless I bought the 3 grand box that was left

 

Going to iwm instead

[xtriple]

I think we must be related as I have had many of the same cars as you! My first car was going to be an Imp but then I drove it above 50mph and bought a Mini Cooper 'S' instead as the Imp scared me so much, it really didn't know what side of the road it wanted to be on! I nearly bought a Vitesse 1600 but I believed the horror stories of unreliability so didn't as I am boring

 

I would love to have kept most of the old heaps  I have had over the years, but being a serial divorcee gets both expensive and depressing and you tend to lose lots of stuff in the ensuing farce. I tuned down an 'E' type once, probably about the time you were buying yours as it was rustier than the Titanic and I didn't want to spend £600 on it. Rather wish I had now... Declined a Jensen Interceptor as well, as someone had pinched the engine, the rest of the car was mint but I couldn't find the enthusiasm for a £600 Jensen with no engine.

[Six-cylinder]

I think we must be related as I have had many of the same cars as you! 

 

Lots more to come as we have only reached 1991 so far!

[Six-cylinder]

Yes my world was complicated by another car enthusiast in the house!

 

The first car Mrs6C and I bought together was a 1972 Daimler Sovereign in sable, she went to see it and instead of reporting back, she just bought it!

 

It got hit on the very first night of our new home together when Mrs6C was returning from Wales by a young girl pulling out of a side road. Both cars damaged but nobody hurt, Mrs6C had agreed with the father of the girl he could repair the car rather than going via insurance. I was thinking this is not going to work but came home one evening to find Mrs6C and the father of the girl working on the car together. He had got a second hand wing and had it sprayed sable, only thing was he had not got the huge amount of orange peel the car had so I had to 1200 the whole car and polish it to match the wing. Well it needed doing anyway.

[hairnet]

PICS!!!!!!!

[richardmorris]

Yes my world was complicated by another car enthusiast in the house!

 

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The first car Mrs6C and I bought together was a 1972 Daimler Sovereign in sable, she went to see it and instead of reporting back, she just bought it!

 

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It got hit on the very first night of our new home together when Mrs6C was returning from Wales by a young girl pulling out of a side road. Both cars damaged but nobody hurt, Mrs6C had agreed with the father of the girl he could repair the car rather than going via insurance. I was thinking this is not going to work but came home one evening to find Mrs6C and the father of the girl working on the car together. He had got a second hand wing and had it sprayed sable, only thing was he had not got the huge amount of orange peel the car had so I had to 1200 the whole car and polish it to match the wing. Well it needed doing anyway.

 

I was thinking you’d changed a lot before I read the text!

[Six-cylinder]

Now together, Mrs6C came with cars but no camels! 1969 Triumph Herald Convertible, 1961 Herald 1200 coupe on the road and in daily use and Jaguar MK10, 1970 Herald 13/60 saloon and a Spitfire MK2 project cars.

 

We still have the white Herald 13/60 Convertible, but it is dismantled at the moment.

 

 

The Herald 1200 Coupe  requires some recommissioning but is basically a good running car.

 

The MK10 is with us but requires a lot of work to return to the road.

 

 

The Spitfire MK2 also requires a lot of work but we have most of the parts. The Spitfire was Mrs6C first car.

 

The brown Herald 13/60 saloon was always a big project but as Heralds are basically a big Meccano set it would have still been viable if her fathers blockwork garage wall had not fallen on it!

[SiC]

Some of your projects look bigger than my 1100!

[Angrydicky]

Didn't the Jag get stolen and later recovered, having been prepped for banger racing?

[hairnet]

Now together, Mrs6C came with cars but no camels! 1969 Triumph Herald Convertible, 1961 Herald 1200 coupe on the road and in daily use and Jaguar MK10, 1970 Herald 13/60 saloon and a Spitfire MK2 project cars.

 

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We still have the white Herald 13/60 Convertible, but it is dismantled at the moment.

 

 

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The Herald 1200 Coupe  requires some recommissioning but is basically a good running car.

 

hnnng want mx5 norty thoughts

 

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The MK10 is with us but requires a lot of work to return to the road.

 

anthonyg needs to sack off one and aquire one JAAAAAAAG DING DOOONG

 

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The Spitfire MK2 also requires a lot of work but we have most of the parts. The Spitfire was Mrs6C first car.

 

 not in 1965 tho eh chris

[hairnet]

Some of your 1100 projects look bigger than my house!

[Six-cylinder]

Didn't the Jag get stolen and later recovered, having been prepped for banger racing?

 

Yes unfortunately and all the structural welding has been done but now needs wings, glass and interior.

[clayts450]

 

The brown Herald 13/60 saloon was always a big project but as Heralds are basically a big Meccano set it would have still been viable if her fathers blockwork garage wall had not fallen on it!

 

That'll T-cut out, nae bother....

[timolloyd]

Forgive a personal question, but was it a shared love of Michelotti that brough you and the future Mrs6c together?

[chaseracer]

I'm surprised no-one has said anything about the Ropiest trailer of Evah being used in the rescue effort. It really is the worst piece of Autoshite trailerage.

 

Anything that has pointy Cortina hubcaps can't be all bad.

[Six-cylinder]

Forgive a personal question, but was it a shared love of Michelotti that brough you and the future Mrs6c together?

 

Yes

[Six-cylinder]

Something I have been meaning to get off my chest for some time.

 

I have had my CX vandalized, no nothing to do with the bonnet, look at the front wheel who would do this to another mans car!

 

Yesterday I managed to get it under cover, it was a tough job getting it out of a dip over a wooden sill but thanks to a winch given to me by alf892 a couple of years ago when I had no idea what I was going to use it for we got there. 

[hairnet]

Hub cap ffs throw it far away

[chaseracer]

FRISBEE

[Noel Tidybeard]

Something I have been meaning to get off my chest for some time.

 

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I have had my CX vandalized, no nothing to do with the bonnet, look at the front wheel who would do this to another mans car!

 

after all the hospitality you afford these wastrels with your luxury* camping facilities THIS  is how they repay you

[hairnet]

nutter

[wuvvum]

FRISBEE

And get a RobT-style action shot of it flying towards the bin.

[anonymous user]

And get a RobT-style action shot of it flying towards the bin.

Could you get someone else to frisbee it whilst you shoot it down clay pigeon style?

[Bucketeer]

You have some horrible wheel trims. You have a JCB. You know what to do.

[Six-cylinder]

You have some horrible wheel trims. You have a JCB. You know what to do.

 

I like that one, before we put it away we should have tested my skill on the digger by removing the wheel trims without damaging them!