Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[chaseracer]

Has the 404 moved since November...? 😉

[Six-cylinder]

First grass cut of the season at FoD, I left it high so I guess it will need doing again in 3 weeks.

Minor problem I lost a cutter deck guide wheel which has come of with a section of the sidewall of the cutter deck.

[Six-cylinder]

2 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

Has the 404 moved since November...? 😉

No

Has there been a FoD- no

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, chaseracer said:

Has the 404 moved since November...? 😉

404 not found!

[Crackers]

3 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Has there been a FoD- no

Does this need to be corrected? - yes! 😁

[Six-cylinder]

8 hours ago, Crackers said:

Does this need to be corrected? - yes! 😁

Just tell me when we are getting a dry weekend and I will gladly open the FoD!

[Mrs6C]

17 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Just tell me when we are getting a dry weekend after a week of dry weather and I will gladly open the FoD!

FTFY... 

[Six-cylinder]

14 hours ago, chaseracer said:

Has the 404 moved since November...? 😉

I have taken the hint and painted the front number plate mounting plate this morning ready to fit the black and silver plates after the USA style plates were stolen off it. A light rub down revealed a hand painted number plate. It reads 6450 VT 49, under the VT are the letters HU. We believe it is French and department 49 is Maine-et-Loire  in the Loire Valley in the Pays de la Loire region in Western France. 

Is the mounting plate simply off another car or has it been in France at some time???

@LightBulbFun is there anything you can find out about it?

[LightBulbFun]

10 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

I have taken the hint and painted the front number plate mounting plate this morning ready to fit the black and silver plates after the USA style plates were stolen off it. A light rub down revealed a hand painted number plate. It reads 6450 VT 49, under the VT are the letters HU. We believe it is French and department 49 is Maine-et-Loire  in the Loire Valley in the Pays de la Loire region in Western France. 

Is the mounting plate simply off another car or has it been in France at some time???

@LightBulbFun is there anything you can find out about it?

Eh Do I look french to you?!

 

interesting find! I did do a bit of digging but could not pull up much, none of the french Number plate lookup services could cough anything up on either combinations

although I find it interesting that the middle 2 letters where overpainted while the 6450 was not? that seems a bit odd

since some quick research I can find "6450XX" all of that is the vehicles serial number-letter and 49 is the departmental code, so if things where re-issued, id expect a different serial number since the chances of getting 6450 again I imagine would be slim! so I do wonder if theres another set of numbers hiding under 6450 (and possibly another departmental code under 49, since research shows the number plate of a vehicle always changed back then according to the department the owner/keeper resided in

 

however does get me thinking "6450VT49" tells us that its the 6450th registration mark of the VT letter series issued by department 49, so the question then becomes is there a way of finding out when that was issued? or at least when it was first issued from 1VT and then when it was issued to completion at 9999VT? using those 2 dates you could probably figure out where 6450 lies! that would tell you at least the  roughage of the mark and if it lines up at all with anything we know about the 404

so that might be an avenue worth exploring

 

[chaseracer]

16 hours ago, High Jetter said:

404 not found!

It's where Chris left it!

[brownnova]

6 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

Eh Do I look french to you?

Not all French people have striped jumpers, selling garlic from their 2CV van you know…

[LightBulbFun]

6 minutes ago, brownnova said:

Not all French people have striped jumpers, selling garlic from their 2CV van you know…

no your right, some of them have Renault 4's and are selling baguettes instead

[High Jetter]

6 hours ago, chaseracer said:

It's where Chris left it!

Can he remember where tho? 

[Six-cylinder]

11 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Can he remember where tho? 

What I need is 20 fine people with their dogs if they have one to help me look for it!

[Six-cylinder]

Today @Andyrew and I have a competition to see who had the most shonkey van!

[Dyslexic Viking]

So who won?

[Six-cylinder]

3 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

So who won?

We are waiting for the Autoshite masses to pronounce a verdict! 

[High Jetter]

I wish I were geographically  closer to be able to assist. What are the comp criteria?

[Six-cylinder]

Today my Vitesse returned home with a working gearbox. The problem is that the main shaft and input are still worn items. We can't find any new shafts to buy, but we do now have spare worn shafts that can be reengineered. The firm we know can do it has a waiting list so I am going to look for an alternative machine shop to do the work. 

Today we set out to refit the Saab engine but found the clutch bearing is very noisy so stopped the project until the clutch bearing I have ordered arrives.

We then turned our attention to the 1976 Manta 1.9 Auto coupe. We made a list of parts initially needed they include a service kit , water pump, water hoses, brake caliper seals, flexible brake pipes and brake pads. We also spent some time trying to free the binding front brakes, we got them to clear but every time you apply the brakes you have to manually prize them free. We started the car to run it up and down the yard and the bottom hose sprung a leak spraying a jet.

A day of mixed fortunes curtailed early by rain. Thanks the Triumph Sports Six members who came to help today.

[Six-cylinder]

My Seicento stopped flashing today!

Today in the rain the offside front indicator stopped working. Investigation revealed the bulb holder was wet and corroded. I dried it and cleaned the contacts and I am flashing again. 

[hairnet]

get the dent man out - scruffy bassa

[Six-cylinder]

9 minutes ago, hairnet said:

get the dent man out - scruffy bassa

I have a replacement wing in the correct colour.

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

I have a replacement wing in the correct colour.

Looks like a bolt on job.

[Six-cylinder]

6 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Looks like a bolt on job.

I think you are right. 

I am trying to put several cars back on the road at the moment including the Saab 95, Opel Manta, Range Rover Classic and Peugeot 404 so it is a bit down the todo list as the car functions just great as it is. If anybody feels the need and wants to lead the job then it could move up the list.

[Six-cylinder]

I collected our BX today with a fresh MOT, 303 miles in the year!

[hairnet]

loves driving

hates garages

ooft

[AnthonyG]

Re the 404, has it got French language instruments? - when I was sitting in it in November doing my best French cabbie impressions I have a funny feeling it had ‘huile’, ‘essence’ written etc on the little gauges.  Or maybe I just dreamed this🤔?

If it has French language instruments it’s likely a French market car that made its way to the US somehow. Original US market cars would have had English on the instruments. 

[hairnet]

19 minutes ago, AnthonyG said:

Re the 404, has it got French language instruments? - when I was sitting in it in November doing my best French cabbie impressions I have a funny feeling it had ‘huile’, ‘essence’ written etc on the little gauges.  Or maybe I just dreamed this🤔?

If it has French language instruments it’s likely a French market car that made its way to the US somehow. Original US market cars would have had English on the instruments. 

when italian stuff that came here had olio benzina etc

when german stuff (porsches) had druck and ol

has your nerd ran away or summat

 

 

 

[Six-cylinder]

26 minutes ago, AnthonyG said:

Re the 404, has it got French language instruments? - when I was sitting in it in November doing my best French cabbie impressions I have a funny feeling it had ‘huile’, ‘essence’ written etc on the little gauges.  Or maybe I just dreamed this🤔?

If it has French language instruments it’s likely a French market car that made its way to the US somehow. Original US market cars would have had English on the instruments. 

There was talk it may have started life in Canada so some French speaking parts. Then it could started life in France and been exported as a young car.

[AnthonyG]

I strongly suspect the car was first sold in France and then made its way to North America as a personal import (presumably before emissions regs etc made doing that really hard). 

I very much doubt Peugeot went to the trouble of fitting a French language instrument pack to the cars destined for dealers in Quebec!