Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[Six-cylinder]

3 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

Kinda amusing how the Suffix-less car (that are so often robbed of their plates) is still on its original issue plate, while the J suffix car is on an age related replacement plate! bit of roll-reversal going on there  

This is a surprise, I know David who has had that cars for many years. I will ask him next time I see him, probably next month.

[LightBulbFun]

29 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

This is a surprise, I know David who has had that cars for many years. I will ask him next time I see him, probably next month.

yeah when you have been in this game as long as I have  (yes I know your 40 years my senior!) even suffix age related plates stand out like a sore thumb, as, me being me, I have the general order of number plate issued in my head because almost every suffix number plate series started at Axx-A or Axx-B, and then reset to Gxx-N on the 1st of October 1974, you can pretty easily track forward from those 2 points and spot when there is a leading serial letter that is with a suffix letter it should not be, or as a general lose rule of thumb is that leading Serial letters and Suffix Letters only pretty rarely line up, IE you never get Jxx-J, unless its a non-period age related issue, similarly thats one of the things that made @HMC's Allegro stand out to me on its Pxx-P plate

looking at the Triumph's DVLA record, it looks like it was on a suffix-less private plate, until the 1984, and when that was removed, an age related plate, rather then its original plate was issued, as that was normal DVLA policy back then. but with a bit of DVLA wrangling, it generally is possible to get the original plate re-issued if that is something that owner/keeper is interested in (as it is now standard policy that when a private plate is removed, the original plate be re-issued to the car)

 

also the Invacar Mk12E, ex LVX250J was issued JBY503J when it was sadly robbed of its number plate

so the JBY-J extra stands out to me!

[Six-cylinder]

6 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

looking at the Triumph's DVLA record, it looks like it was on a suffix-less private plate, until the 1984, and when that was removed, an age related plate, rather then its original plate was issued, as that was normal DVLA policy back then. but with a bit of DVLA wrangling, it generally is possible to get the original plate re-issued if that is something that owner/keeper is interested in (as it is now standard policy that when a private plate is removed, the original plate be re-issued to the car)

That could explain it. I am having trouble remembering when I first met David, but I am thinking 30+ years.

[Six-cylinder]

@LightBulbFun When I first put my E-Type on the DVLA computer in 1984 I was offered a change of plate to a D reg so I was not identified as a Northern Ireland car in troubled times, being first registered in Belfast. Glad I kept 9477OZ now.

[LightBulbFun]

17 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

@LightBulbFun When I first put my E-Type on the DVLA computer in 1984 I was offered a change of plate to a D reg so I was not identified as a Northern Ireland car in troubled times, being first registered in Belfast. Glad I kept 9477OZ now.

indeed! I am still hoping the paperwork/correspondence from back then might show up at some point so I can have a good oggle at it!  

 

someone once shared an old pre-war IIRC Vauxhall car on the eBay tat thread a good few years ago, and it still had all its 1970's computerisation paperwork with it, which I really-really regret not saving the photos of, it was quite fascinating to see how exactly it was done

[richardmorris]

15 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

I have been meaning to put new wipers on the Rolls Royce for ages. In February I bought some and finally today with a totally dry weather forecast I enlisted @Slowsilver to help me put them on. 

Usual Chinese parts, the arms were listed as fit 1/4 inch spindles but they were for 6mm so the clamping block needed drilling out. Also pimple on the arm and the hole in the blade did not line up on one of them that required more drilling.

Ah "the little man from the village" hard at work. 

[richardmorris]

19 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Ah "the little man from the village" hard at work. 

Can't you have him stand on the running boards with a squeegee to wipe the screen on the move?