Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[Six-cylinder]

@Slowsilver helped me put the Citroen DS into storage today now it runs nicely!

[IronStar]

22 minutes ago, hairnet said:

can deliver

Don't tempt me 😄

[Six-cylinder]

The BIG news of the day is I have driven my own Mini Mayfair for the first time!

Only a short run as we ran out of daylight. The good news is it has inspired me to push on with getting the interior back together so I have enlisted Colin to help me.

[hairnet]

what a heap

[Dyslexic Viking]

11 hours ago, hairnet said:

can deliver Visa with CF to Serbia 

That would make a good thread.

[ProgRocker]

A Mayfair - such decadence!

Re: the white DS. Was that the on for sale on eBay earlier this year for a reasonable price?

[HMC]

Love the mini just as it is. mid 90s first car vibes up and down the uk

[hairnet]

5 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

That would make a good thread.

 17 hours ago, hairnet said:

can deliver Visa with CF to Serbia 

CF? would rather walk

[IronStar]

6 minutes ago, hairnet said:

 17 hours ago, hairnet said:

can deliver Visa with CF to Serbia 

CF? would rather walk

Pushing Visa to Serbia then? 😄

[Mrs6C]

39 minutes ago, IronStar said:

Pushing Visa to Serbia then? 😄

@Stinkwheel is selling a very nice LHD Visa ex- @hairnet and ex- @Six-cylinder that would be ideal for re-homing in Serbia...

[IronStar]

18 minutes ago, Mrs6C said:

@Stinkwheel is selling a very nice LHD Visa ex- @hairnet and ex- @Six-cylinder that would be ideal for re-homing in Serbia...

Not a cabrio though 😄

Honestly, if my personal circumstances were a tad different I’d be looking to treat myself to that sort of an adventure as a birthday present. However fun money is very limited ATM with impending huge bills so I unfortunately have to be sensible for a while. Maybe some other time?

[grogee]

19 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

The BIG news of the day is I have driven my own Mini Mayfair for the first time!

Only a short run as we ran out of daylight. The good news is it has inspired me to push on with getting the interior back together so I have enlisted Colin to help me.

I expect the low light helps but that looks an absolute cracker. 

How much is left to do before it's on the King's Highways? 

Bottom shot calendar pic for me - will nominate

[wuvvum]

26 minutes ago, grogee said:

Bottom shot calendar pic

Umm, I don't think it's that kind of calendar...

[grogee]

17 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Umm, I don't think it's that kind of calendar...

I'm sure it's been said before, but wouldn't it be hilarious to see @warren t claim style rough old strippers draped over our rough old vehicles for 'glamour' shots. 

[hairnet]

21 minutes ago, grogee said:

I'm sure it's been said before, but wouldn't it be hilarious to see @warren t claim style rough old strippers draped over our rough old vehicles for 'glamour' shots. 

dont think id want to see warren in 12 different outfits

[grogee]

15 minutes ago, hairnet said:

dont think id want to see warren in 12 different outfits

So you want to see him naked then? 

[Six-cylinder]

5 hours ago, ProgRocker said:

A Mayfair - such decadence!

Re: the white DS. Was that the on for sale on eBay earlier this year for a reasonable price?

Not this one, we have had it 15 years and never advertised it.

In 2007 I bought a blue Citroen DS blind on eBay with a known leaking water pump and collected it on a trailer. I replaced the water pump and ran the car.  It had a rattle from the engine and I decided not to do the work and sold it within a year.  In 2009 Mrs6C and I attended the National DS Rally and we both wanted another DS. There were two white ones for sale, a "better than new" prize winning restored D Super 5 and a tidy working D Super. You can guess which one we bought!

The photos are blue DS 2007 and the white DS in 2009 when we bought it.  We had this BMW 2500 at the time.

[Six-cylinder]

2 hours ago, grogee said:

I expect the low light helps but that looks an absolute cracker. 

How much is left to do before it's on the King's Highways? 

Bottom shot calendar pic for me - will nominate

The evening light makes the paint look ok when in truth it is "rattle can finish" and the best you can say is tidy.

It was on the road until I SORNed it yesterday. You are right it has not been driven far and the longest journey has been 11 miles and that was not me. Winter is here so my plan is to finish things off and this afternoon with the help of Colin from the Milton keynes Classic Club we have started by finding the interior trim ready to fit over the next couple of months.

I think for a calendar shot this group would prefer how I got it in April!

[richardmorris]

2 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

The evening light makes the paint look ok when in truth it is "rattle can finish" and the best you can say is tidy.

It was on the road until I SORNed it yesterday. You are right it has not been driven far and the longest journey has been 11 miles and that was not me. Winter is here so my plan is to finish things off and this afternoon with the help of Colin from the Milton keynes Classic Club we have started by finding the interior trim ready to fit over the next couple of months.

I think for a calendar shot this group would prefer how I got it in April!

I am impressed that 6months (ish) has made such a dramatic improvement.

[Minimad5]

More Discovery content (please) 😅

[Six-cylinder]

17 hours ago, Minimad5 said:

More Discovery content (please) 😅

Sorry to disappoint nothing has happened.

After the first welder I lined up to repair the inner wings on the Discovery did not work out eventually I found another welder. He was due to start a month ago, but an immediate family member was taken seriously ill and he postponed the start of the Discovery project. I don't understand people putting their family before the well being of my Discover!

The photo is today's. 

[Shite Ron]

18 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Sorry to disappoint nothing has happened.

After the first welder I lined up to repair the inner wings on the Discovery did not work out eventually I found another welder. He was due to start a month ago, but an immediate family member was taken seriously ill and he postponed the start of the Discovery project. I don't understand people putting their family before the well being of my Discover!

The photo is today's. 

I think @ianbmw has a bit* of experience welding a Discovery, it may be preferable to welding a  CF?

I would much prefer to see the Royale and Carlton GL back on the road first though.

The Mini is looking great, I would like a Mini on 10” wheels, they are fun.

[ianbmw]

52 minutes ago, Shite Ron said:

I think @ianbmw has a bit* of experience welding a Discovery, it may be preferable to welding a  CF?

I would much prefer to see the Royale and Carlton GL back on the road first though.

The Mini is looking great, I would like a Mini on 10” wheels, they are fun.

Love to steal the thunder hear however the welder which has done quite a bit of the welding on the gold disco, is now tackling Chris green one…….mainly as he’s welded many many discos and will just fly through that one where I would faff!

[Six-cylinder]

Yesterday I took the Carlton to a local Breakfast car meet. Lots of Jags and Bentleys but the Carlton found a Vauxhall friend in a Nova.

[Six-cylinder]

Today was another Classic Car Club breakfast this time with the Milton Keynes Classic Car Club in the rain. Having used the Carlton Estate yesterday I decided on a change of car and took the Citroen XM.

Bob the good friend I went Mini Miglia Racing with turned up in his new car an Audi A2 diesel.  

[hairnet]

nice audi [/joshua]

[chaseracer]

On 29/11/2024 at 19:49, Six-cylinder said:

@Slowsilver helped me put the Citroen DS into storage today now it runs nicely!

Of all your many cars, Chris, I think this is my favourite.

[MAF260]

2 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Yesterday I took the Carlton to a local Breakfast car meet. Lots of Jags and Bentleys but the Carlton found a Vauxhall friend in a Nova.

Where do you find out about these meets? I've moved to the area recently and aside from going to the Bicester Scramble and an evening at Preston Bisset I seem to have missed anything local.

[LightBulbFun]

46 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

Of all your many cars, Chris, I think this is my favourite.

but the Mondeo belongs to @Slowsilver not @Six-cylinder 

[Zelandeth]

2 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Today was another Classic Car Club breakfast this time with the Milton Keynes Classic Car Club in the rain. Having used the Carlton Estate yesterday I decided on a change of car and took the Citroen XM.

Bob the good friend I went Mini Miglia Racing with turned up in his new car an Audi A2 diesel.  

I've seen that Audi around here a few times.

I really wish these clubs would use something other than bloody Facebook to advertise them.  That way I might have half a chance of ever finding out about them less than a day after they've happened!

I do follow both MK Classic car club and MK Modern Classics, but I maybe actually see their "Our next meet is on date 'n'" posts one time out of ten.  That platform having a search function that's as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike means that if you don't just happen to come across it, you're not going to find it!

I miss my old local car club just having an old school email mailing list...club secretary sent out a reminder to the list 7 days before each meet...It was just simple and worked.