Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[Six-cylinder]

I thought about going to have a look at Fiat Seicento SX this morning for sale on FB, but the seller has put me off.

[Mrs6C]

21 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

I thought about going to have a look at Fiat Seicento SX this morning for sale on FB, but the seller has put me off.

Looks like a lucky escape!

 

[richardmorris]

8 hours ago, Mrs6C said:

Looks like a lucky escape!

 

Sounds like an idiot.

[LightBulbFun]

have to admit I laughed a bit when the seller said "but we cant hold every car"

if only he knew who he was talking to!

[hairnet]

sounds like he/they need the space but he was gonna frag it anyway if no interest

theres only 35 million other cars on uk roads - youll find other more worthy tat

sight unseen might be ok sometimes for something weird or odd but not a fiat supermini

can i have the money you were gonna spend please?

@Frogchod mystery buy would be good

 

[richardmorris]

41 minutes ago, hairnet said:

sounds like he/they need the space but he was gonna frag it anyway if no interest

theres only 35 million other cars on uk roads - youll find other more worthy tat

sight unseen might be ok sometimes for something weird or odd but not a fiat supermini

can i have the money you were gonna spend please?

@Frogchod mystery buy would be good

 

I think he was going to scrap it too, and was chancing his luck.

[Noel Tidybeard]

2 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Sounds like an idiot.

nah Chris is a nice bloke actually ?

[GoGently]

On 12/24/2019 at 10:26 AM, Six-cylinder said:

I thought about going to have a look at Fiat Seicento SX this morning for sale on FB, but the seller has put me off.

I’d leave these little Fiats . Pain in the Arse to work on as no room under bonnet , had one with typical Fiat wiring problems ****

 

[Six-cylinder]

Not much car wise to report this holiday, my lazy/play it safe streak saw me take the Range Rover to drive the 200 miles to visit Mrs6C’s parents in Wales. Mrs6C is staying in Wales a little longer so our XM also got a trip to Wales.

Originally the plan was we would go down in one car and Mrs6C would drive back her father’s Berlingo face lift for us to sell for him. This was because his original MK1 Berlingo was running fine again, but now it isn’t so he is going to hold onto the face lift for now.

Baged a couple of models for Christmas but not really my Scale.

I was advised as it was going to rain overnight I should move the RR across the ford or it would become challenging, I did not move it until the morning but it did not become challenging at all.

When I got home I had to repair the firebox in our Rayburn stove before I could light it. Dig out some broken Firebrick and add fire cement was really all that I did but I cannot put two hands and a light in as I would have liked through the firebox door.  

( more husband and wife communications this time with 200 miles between us, Mrs6C did you see there was a bad derailment at Harpers Ferry)

[Zelandeth]

Can't be much better a car out there for covering distance than an XM...

[Six-cylinder]

2 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Can't be much better a car out there for covering distance than an XM...

Mrs6C choose the XM but my second choice to the RR would have been the CLK 320 because of the extra punch it has.

[Mrs6C]

Three empty freight cars fell into in the Potomac - oops!!!

[flat4alfa]

I thought that was last week?

[Six-cylinder]

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

I thought that was last week?

21st Dec, but I did not spot it until yesterday. It is a place Mrs6C and I know well and we have walked the Appalachian trail along side the railway hoping a train would cross while we were on the bridge!

[wuvvum]

When I was in Lansing in 2016 there was some sort of comicon-type event going on in the city and all the central hotels were booked up so I ended up staying in a motel on the outskirts, right by the railway line.  The PAAAAARP PAAAAAARP PARP PAAAAAAAAAAARP of the incoming CSX freight train at 6.30am each morning made an interesting alternative to an alarm clock.

[Zelandeth]

Didn't realise there was a railway line and crossing behind the restaurant we were in up north (think we were a few hours north of Macinac) and when I walked out the door I was greeted by the train that was just approaching the crossing blasting the horn.

I must have got a good few feet of air given how far it made me jump.  Hooooooolly hell they are loud up close...

[Six-cylinder]

One of heard is getting ready to leave tomorrow!

[hairnet]

transporter full?

 

[SiC]

Bonnets popped on the VP. Is it having some more love? Or needing some more love?

[Stinkwheel]

One of heard is getting ready to leave tomorrow!

I take it the AX 11 has sold then?


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[Six-cylinder]

27 minutes ago, Stinkwheel said:

 

I take it the AX 11 has sold then?


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Swapped!

[Six-cylinder]

59 minutes ago, SiC said:

Bonnets popped on the VP. Is it having some more love? Or needing some more love?

I thought about taking it to a small show tomorrow at Weedon, but the battery was flat so it is now on charge.

Thinking about timings I will have to take the new swap or it will finish as I get there, although it is a bit young at 18 years old really.

[Stinkwheel]

Swapped!

Even better, anything interesting?


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[Six-cylinder]

1 minute ago, Stinkwheel said:

 

Even better, anything interesting?


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Tomorrow you will find out!

[Wingz123]

I reckon hes bought the 306 cabriolet of doc

[Andyrew]

Seen doc's thread

So is it true? Have you finally got your Eleanor 306?

[Six-cylinder]

1 hour ago, Andyrew said:

Seen doc's thread

So is it true? Have you finally got your Eleanor 306?

Emergency Tat update!

Hold the front page!

Yes it is true, me and the green AX have slit up and I have a new love in my life!

[bangernomics]

That’s a very good exchange, that 306 is a lovely looking thing.

[Six-cylinder]

5 minutes ago, bangernomics said:

That’s a very good exchange, that 306 is a lovely looking thing.

Well I like it.

[hairnet]

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