Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[sutty2006]

1 hour ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Jamaica yellow is much lighter I reckon. My old Nova SR was Jamaica yellow, like this:

 

It’s got 50 years of grime and pog fade in it though haha 

[sutty2006]

The other two are signal yellow and sun glow. It may have started life as signal and faded to sunglow. Very well thought of from Vauxhall! Haha.

[quicksilver]

6 hours ago, beko1987 said:

Thanks for the cars @quicksilver! (I need to weed the front garden...) 

You're very welcome, it's great to see them being enjoyed. Thanks to Mr and Mrs 6C for another excellent weekend and to @chaseracer for the mags. There were two great sources of entertainment - trying to get the Vauxhall collection going and coming up with increasingly absurd guesses of @Ghosty's new car. The Mondeo made its first public appearance and it was brilliant to see Bonk the Magic Wagon and the return of the Mighty Dacia. Even the weather wasn't as bad as I feared but it's still a good thing we brought the gazebo back on Friday as it was really needed.

[richardmorris]

Looks like a great weekend. Sadly I couldn’t make it as visiting my parents ( and x1/9) for the first time in two years. Found stuff in my bedroom I thought I’d lost!

we went out for an extremely nice dinner at Tyddyn llan , Llandrillo near Bala and Corwen. ( I do recommend it if you are in the area for a wedding anniversary type event ( mum and dad’s was 55 last weekend)), and I’m just home now.

[Talbot]

As was done previously by Inspector Morose, the people of Autoshite often get overlooked for the photos of the cars.  So, here are some of them.  I wasn't sure if I was going to put any of these up, but I will.  If anyone wants one of them removed, just let me know.  I can see why some people might not necessarily want to be immortalised on a thread like this.

Of course, I didn't notice this until I'd uploaded the photos:

@Crackers, you complete SmegHead.  Time to see how clear images are from this camera:

Not bad actually.  Quite respectable for someone completely out of their depth and a 16 year old camera.  Speaking of which, any and all critique is welcomed.  As I mentioned to a couple of people at the Field.. I used to be quite good with an old manual SLR camera, but moving from Manual 35mm Film SLR to a "modern" DSLR is like moving from a 1968 Land-Rover SIIA into a 2005 Range-Rover.  It's all sort-of the same, but a lot more complex and it's taking me a while to understand what the camera is trying to do and hence adapt.

[chaseracer]

You remembered to take the lens cap off, then?  Excellent!

[Crackers]

I thought I'd got away with that! 🤣

[Talbot]

13 minutes ago, Crackers said:

I thought I'd got away with that! 🤣

That would be a hard NOPE!

[Fumbler]

46 minutes ago, Talbot said:

Calendar front cover 2022:

Or, at least, I hope it is!

[Ghosty]

1 hour ago, Fumbler said:

Or, at least, I hope it is!

That's two calendar pics then, as it was widely agreed that this gem from the Accord/Ignis transaction was calendar worthy:

 

[MondeoBlues]

Looks like a fun weekend chaps. Sorry I couldn't make this one, it clashed with the beginning of a holiday in Edinburgh/Fife with my mum and brothers. Deffo coming to the next one so I can see them Voxhorls 

[Six-cylinder]

18^th & 19^th Sep 2021 for next FoD Open Weekend

Subject to weather and world events.

Probably last for the season, although there can still be special projects

 

Who will check the parts I have for the Toledo and slap some paint on the rusty bits please.

[hairnet]

Slapper!!

[hairnet]

@wuvvum

Dave - how fucked not broken is the limo

Did the box go in the bin yet

Is there a story why for purchase

[LightBulbFun]

8 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

18^th & 19^th Sep 2021 for next FoD Open Weekend

Subject to weather and world events.

Probably last for the season, although there can still be special projects

 

Who will check the parts I have for the Toledo and slap some paint on the rusty bits please.

bonus points if we can get it running/driving

because I have a driving test a couple days after on the 21st and so could really use the extra driving experience round the FoD LOL

(I know last time the Field was open for driving around, it really helped my confidence for the next few lessons )

heres hoping the grass is cut and the weather allows it! 

[beko1987]

25 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

bonus points if we can get it running/driving

because I have a driving test a couple days after on the 21st and so could really use the extra driving experience round the FoD LOL

(I know last time the Field was open for driving around, it really helped my confidence for the next few lessons )

heres hoping the grass is cut and the weather allows it! 

If it is and I'm there you can take my car out. You'll want experience of something with thick a pillars and large B pillar blind spots before your test. And my cars 20 years old, double the thickness and largeness of said blind spots for a 2020 test car! 

[hairnet]

On 8/23/2021 at 10:02 PM, Talbot said:

 

Of course, I didn't notice this until I'd uploaded the photos:

@Crackers, you complete SmegHead.  Time to see how clear images are from this camera:

 

rick parfitts let himself go a bit

man in a scary hat

mick fleetwoods a nutter innit

a man who loves his jaaaaaaaaag

blue car perv

book fools noone skinny

at first look i thought he was stood on the bumper - i need an eye test

'im not nicking this radiator right'

didnt know liam gallagher was there

[Crackers]

10 minutes ago, hairnet said:

didnt know liam gallagher was there

Can't lie, I've been compared to a few people in my life, but Liam G is a first. 

Jeez, it's like looking in a mirror.

Or something.

[Ohdearme]

On 7/17/2021 at 10:59 AM, Six-cylinder said:

What a snub!

I used the Sovereign S2 to visit Stoke Mandeville Hospital and in car park C it scans your reg on the way in, you type your reg into a machine before you leave and pay. Then the barrier will lift for you automatically.

The machine said "License Plate Not Found"

Maybe they've upgraded the ANPR to include LTBJSC* and it won't open anymore

*Likely To Be Jimmy Savilles Car (not casting aspersions about the current owner/driver but an early 80's plush motor in off white has a whiff of a bag of boiled sweets, puppies and duct tape in the boot).

 

I best I add, I was born in 1978 and my recollections of such cars are peak 'stranger danger' era

[Dick Cheeseburger]

On 8/23/2021 at 10:02 PM, Talbot said:

 

@Crackers Damian Allbran from The Blurs m9. 

[hairnet]

mainly the v sign

 

[Ghosty]

Rick Parfitt?! That's a new one.

[Bear]

27 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

Rick Parfitt?! That's a new one.

Really? I thought it was the status quo

[sutty2006]

*runs and checks shift calender*
 

 

 

 

 

AHHMMMM FOOKIN ORF THAT WEK END! Get in yer bastard! 

[wuvvum]

5 hours ago, hairnet said:

@wuvvum

Dave - how fucked not broken is the limo

Did the box go in the bin yet

Is there a story why for purchase

The limo has done a further 350 odd miles since it left the FOD, and it hasn't FTP'd yet.  I will be binning the box if I can figure out how to make the car work without it.  Reason for purchase - it was cheap and I wanted it.

[cort1977]

22 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

 Reason for purchase - it was cheap and I wanted it.

Autoshite in a nut shell.

[catsinthewelder]

Helpfully I've agreed to do family stuff the weekend before so easily got the nod to come.

Contemplating putting some speakers in the Dacia so I can listen to something on the 3 hour drive this time though 😂

[Snake Charmer]

12 hours ago, sutty2006 said:

*runs and checks shift calender*
 

 

 

 

 

AHHMMMM FOOKIN ORF THAT WEK END! Get in yer bastard! 

I'm on the company stand at Goodwood that weekend. 😔 I thought that was a result compared to my stepsons wedding in Ayia Napa, 

[bobdisk]

17 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

bonus points if we can get it running/driving

because I have a driving test a couple days after on the 21st and so could really use the extra driving experience round the FoD LOL

(I know last time the Field was open for driving around, it really helped my confidence for the next few lessons )

heres hoping the grass is cut and the weather allows it! 

 

17 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

bonus points if we can get it running/driving

because I have a driving test a couple days after on the 21st and so could really use the extra driving experience round the FoD LOL

(I know last time the Field was open for driving around, it really helped my confidence for the next few lessons )

heres hoping the grass is cut and the weather allows it! 

@LightBulbFun, If I can get Tiddles there, you are welcome to have a go!

[beko1987]

I went back to the fod today with the kids as I've got the week off work, so we pushed an opel forward and mucked it out! 

Wasn't full of as much stuff as the others so emptying it didn't take long, we found a sealed (had to explain this to the kids) cassette tape 

And sadly more mouse damage although most of the yuk vacuumed out, and I flushed more out with the wet vac and a handy spray bottle we found which reduced the staining more. 

The field rally car then got emptied and we found the floor that remained! One more to go through on the 18/19th and they'll all be ready to restore...