Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - The Italian Job

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10 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

many waffle

so you discount the 4 speed cars but i have a letter and a number for you

A5

if you do not bring the 308 cos youre wuss or you wouldnt be let

HAS to be a french car surely

bx or visa - activa for lols when you get to wales

-END-

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2 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Normal service has resumed, I went to Tesco shopping in a Maserati that looks like as Cortina!

youre doing the cortina a disservice

stellar

[chaseracer]

Ami.

[Six-cylinder]

1 hour ago, chaseracer said:

Ami.

What have I done to you, why do you hate me 500 miles in a weekend in a 602cc Ami!

[Eyersey1234]

One that works 🤣🤣🤣🤣 sorry couldn't resist 🤣🤣

[mat_the_cat]

You have to consider which cars will be best suited to a long and sometimes hilly road trip.

 

So Ami or Visa 17RD...

[Six-cylinder]

 

10 minutes ago, mat_the_cat said:

You have to consider which cars will be best suited to a long and sometimes hilly road trip.

So Ami or Visa 17RD...

But I have sold last years car that turned out to be perfect for the trip!

I have been touring in Europe with the Visa 17RD and did shitefest 2017 with it. I collect it tomorrow from a cambelt service and fresh MOT and will consider it.

[Six-cylinder]

One more bit of exciting car news for this evening is @ianbmwcame round tonight and after soaking the bores/piston in the Carlton 2.0i Estate for a few days and now taping them with a lump of wood the bottom end rotates freely. Some marks on the bores from where water has been in there but they are not deep.

I took the head home and have striped it. No.3 exhaust valve was sticking, it had a slight rust colour but has freed up just fine. The best I can tell from my steel rule the head is still flat.

 

[AnthonyG]

If the Metro can’t come to Shitefest because it has only a 4 speed box, but the Toledo is still on the list of potentials - does that mean you’ve fitted a new gear box to the Toledo we don’t know about? 🤔

 

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1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

What have I done to you, why do you hate me 500 miles in a weekend in a 602cc Ami!

i do that all the time - and its 750cc and two less wheels

wuss

in fact - swap

edit - can i borrow the ami and ill drive it to wales

 

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Just now, AnthonyG said:

If the Metro can’t come to Shitefest because it has only a 4 speed box, but the Toledo is still on the list of potentials - does that mean you’ve fitted a new gear box to the Toledo we don’t know about? 🤔

 

he bought a beavertail

[AnthonyG]

I assume a new one, as that CF is going nowhere. Hopefully an IVECO to appall Cavcraft with. 

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1 minute ago, AnthonyG said:

I assume a new one, as that CF is going nowhere. Hopefully an IVECO to appall Cavcraft with. 

hes insane but not that insane fucked smiley transit natch

 

[Six-cylinder]

4 minutes ago, AnthonyG said:

If the Metro can’t come to Shitefest because it has only a 4 speed box, but the Toledo is still on the list of potentials - does that mean you’ve fitted a new gear box to the Toledo we don’t know about? 🤔

 

OK you are right, strike the Toledo off the short list.

[AnthonyG]

For a comfortable drive I vote one of the more modern Citroens so BX, XM or Xantia. 

If @maxxo is coming you may find him unavoidably attached to the XM by the end of the weekend, unless his ownership of one last year cured him of that particular addiction.

Somebody needs to bring a C6 to a SF sometime soon….just not me!

[wuvvum]

Visa would do it.  Never actually driven a 17RD but the same engine in a 205 makes for an eminently capable machine.

Don't blame you for discounting the Toledo - listening to an OHV 4-pot rev its tits off for 5 hours is very tiring.  Ami probably more relaxed, in the same way that my Visa sounds more relaxed at 60 than the Renault 4, even though it's probably revving (even) higher.

[Noel Tidybeard]

the goddess obvs

[wuvvum]

Goddess is lovely but it's already been to Shitefest.  Variety is the spice of life and all that.

[beko1987]

Waft in a Daimler! Just remember (if it's still there) that huge ledge upon entering the campsite. 

 

 

[Six-cylinder]

6 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Waft in a Daimler! Just remember (if it's still there) that huge ledge upon entering the campsite. 

 

500 miles @ 16 mpg of E5 £218.49 ouch!

[beko1987]

Meh, you'd waste* that on other stuff I'm sure anyway 🤷

Isn't that the minimum bill for anything your vehicle_who_must_not_be_named needs anyway? 

I vote xantia or bx. If you go the scenic route you'd give the suspension a lovely excercise keeping the speed up down those roads. Could probably park it over the lhm patch* @Sunny Jimleft last year and pretend it's not your lhm patch. 

[beko1987]

11 hours ago, Eyersey1234 said:

One that works 🤣🤣🤣🤣 sorry couldn't resist 🤣🤣

Problem is that choice could be made today but be void by tomorrow. 

Ianbmw and talbot need to get the blue carlton going and we make you drive that (with the doors roped shut). 

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1 hour ago, beko1987 said:

Waft in a Daimler! Just remember (if it's still there) that huge ledge upon entering the campsite. 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

500 miles @ 16 mpg of E5 £218.49 ouch!

He wants to get there not via big yellow taxi

stand by french comment

[mat_the_cat]

2 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

500 miles @ 16 mpg of E5 £218.49 ouch!

If you could arrange* for your gearbox to seize up some way into your journey, you may be able to get some reduction on the fuel costs of a thirsty, large-engined vehicle.

So I hear, anyway.

[Six-cylinder]

Today I collected my Visa 17RD from its cambelt service and MOT. It is pre covid since I used it, it felt very smooth and quiet with low power but plenty of torque. It also felt a bit cramped for the Shitefest weekend. 

[wuvvum]

Look at you with your four stud wheels and side rubbing strips!  Decadence.

[Six-cylinder]

6 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Look at you with your four stud wheels and side rubbing strips!  Decadence.

I also have wider front strut towers to fit my big engine. Cruises very well at 70 mph and 50+ mpg, but acceleration is very gentle.

[wuvvum]

You haven't experienced gentle acceleration in a Visa until you've driven a Spécial that's only firing on one cylinder.

[Six-cylinder]

Tonight my friend Colin came over and helped with error 404 spraying Bilt Hamber underbody wax on the inner structure of the front left wing and then bolting the wing back on. Colin took it off but Mrs6c prepared and painted it for refitting and Colin says she has done an excellent job.

[Noel Tidybeard]

2 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Tonight my friend Colin came over and helped with error 404 spraying Bilt Hamber underbody wax on the inner structure of the front left wing and then bolting the wing back on. Colin took it off but Mrs6c prepared and painted it for refitting and Colin says she has done an excellent job.

that is because Colin is a sensible chap who is as scared of Mrs C as the rest of us 🤣