Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[Six-cylinder]

52 minutes ago, 666jjp said:

how about an old car?

https://forum.retro-rides.org/thread/228209/1935-rolls-royce-limousine-bristol

Looks nice, but mine is very similar to that and variety is my favourite cars!

10 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

It’s been a week now, how many new cars?

None purchased, but none sold either and before I buy I must sell!

I know I could sell my Morris 1300 to @SiC but I have only had it a year and really enjoyed it. Last year before winter came it was my go to car and I want that again this year.

[SiC]

On 07/01/2025 at 21:11, Six-cylinder said:

I know I could sell my Morris 1300 to @SiC but I have only had it a year and really enjoyed it. Last year before winter came it was my go to car and I want that again this year.

It actually works better for me (providing if you do eventually sell it 😅) that you still want to use it! A used car is more likely to be a reliable car.

I expressed an interest to @RobT when he was ready to sell that I'd like to buy it. Problem was, when he was ready to sell, I wasn't ready to buy! Was an agonising decision to not be able to say yes.

I know it's going to need some welding in the near future (I mean it's a 1100 after all and it's been used all year round by several owners) and I really couldn't commit to another vehicle that would be in the queue of stuff to be done. Trying to stay focused to get my Midget done as I really want that on the road this year and urgently want to get my Dolomite Sprint bodywork done as I've had that 5yrs with only one drive in it when I bought it!

Plus right now, I pulled this old bag out of storage and it would be the likely car I'd need to sell to not go over car quota - but I think it might be my go-to car over winter too! Top down motoring in a crisp cold day is fabulous. Fully electric roof that's quick makes it no hassle and no excuse either.

[Six-cylinder]

It is a bit quiet here at 11:30am, still minus 2ᵒ C so reading N Dentressangle Rover 2000 thread the subject of Alfa Romeo came up which set me thinking about our Alfas. We still have two, the Giulietta 2.0 and the 156 V6 SportsWagon,. The Giulietta is a project but not rotten and the 156 is MOTed, insured and taxed and should be back in a couple of weeks. I have also driven a fair number of others over the years.

My non-Autoshite friend Steve has had many including a Giulia, Alfetta and Giulietta at the same time and I got to drive them all. That Alfetta 1.8 was like a new car even though it was 20 years old, it was smooth, quiet and that 1.8 Twin Cam just sang. (the Giulietta 2.0 is now ours thanks to Mrs6C buying it because I wouldn’t!)

1976 Alfetta 1.6

1983 Giulietta 1.8

1997 164 24v Auto

1984 Giulietta 2.0

1978 Alfasud sprint

1998 156 2.0 manual Saloon

2001 156 V6 Sportswagon

2001 156 V6 Saloon

[beko1987]

My dad briefly had a 156 wagon in 2003/4ish. Always was nice, especially the interior. It had the lcd climate reading inside the rotating knobs 😍

It was at that time he started his business he had, and after a year or so could get a company car. The alfa had shat it's clutch so for the last 2 months of its life it sat on their drive, then as its last ever drive was traded in against the new company lease car under the fraction of its clutch it had left. Co car was a brand new (then) dame Edna saab 9-3. And that was the era we would see dream theater 3 or 4 times a tour all around the country so I remember that well. 

Sure a colleague many years ago had a 156 v6 too. Had that fantastic red leather interior. He left us and i think I heard he doesn't have it any more, which isn't surprising 😂

[Floatylight]

40 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

It is a bit quiet here at 11:30am, still minus 2ᵒ C so reading N Dentressangle Rover 2000 thread the subject of Alfa Romeo came up which set me thinking about our Alfas. We still have two, the Giulietta 2.0 and the 156 V6 SportsWagon,. The Giulietta is a project but not rotten and the 156 is MOTed, insured and taxed and should be back in a couple of weeks. I have also driven a fair number of others over the years.

My non-Autoshite friend Steve has had many including a Giulia, Alfetta and Giulietta at the same time and I got to drive them all. That Alfetta 1.8 was like a new car even though it was 20 years old, it was smooth, quiet and that 1.8 Twin Cam just sang. (the Giulietta 2.0 is now ours thanks to Mrs6C buying it because I wouldn’t!)

1976 Alfetta 1.6

1983 Giulietta 1.8

1997 164 24v Auto

1984 Giulietta 2.0

1978 Alfasud sprint

1998 156 2.0 manual Saloon

2001 156 V6 Sportswagon

2001 156 V6 Saloon

Didn't realise the 156 saloon had gone!

[Six-cylinder]

10 minutes ago, Floatylight said:

Didn't realise the 156 saloon had gone!

That went in 2022 an indirect victim of Covid. The reason I bought the saloon was Mrs6C and I used to argue who was driving the 156 V6 Sportswagon. She claimed to get out of the the end of our road at rush hour she needed its get up and go and should have priority use of it. I just liked driving it and then the black saloon came up for sale and that solved the problem, His and Hers 156s! As Covid eased our mileages did not go back up to previous levels and having two 156V6 did not have the same priority.

43 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Sure a colleague many years ago had a 156 v6 too. Had that fantastic red leather interior. He left us and i think I heard he doesn't have it any more, which isn't surprising 😂

I wanted to keep the black saloon with red leather and sell the silver Sportswagon with tan leather, but I was out voted.

[Six-cylinder]

We going to an MG Dinner this evening, trouble is it is dark, cold, misty and in London Ulez!

I have no Historic cars out of storage, but sometimes I really like my modernish Ulez compliant Range Rover. I have just been outside in -1˚ C to defrost the front and passenger side that were solid frosted ice. It started straight up against Land Rover Law in spite of having sat for 2 weeks. I scraped hard refrozen frost off the passenger side windows and moved to the windscreen only to find it was soft, the heated screen had come on and the wipers soon had it cleared. 

I looked at the fuel gauge just over half, 335 miles range left, I won't have to stand out in the cold to fill it.

I am not looking forward to the drive, but as it would be bad form not to turn up, the Range Rover is my first choice tonight.

[chodweaver]

We going to an MG Dinner this evening, trouble is it is dark, cold, misty and in London Ulez!
I have no Historic cars out of storage, but sometimes I really like my modernish Ulez compliant Range Rover. I have just been outside in -1˚ C to defrost the front and passenger side that were solid frosted ice. It started straight up against Land Rover Law in spite of having sat for 2 weeks. I scraped hard refrozen frost off the passenger side windows and moved to the windscreen only to find it was soft, the heated screen had come on and the wipers soon had it cleared. 
I looked at the fuel gauge just over half, 335 miles range left, I won't have to stand out in the cold to fill it.
I am not looking forward to the drive, but as it would be bad form not to turn up the Range Rover is my first choice tonight.

#whatnodistresspurchase?

[LightBulbFun]

12 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

We going to an MG Dinner this evening, trouble is it is dark, cold, misty and in London Ulez!

I have no Historic cars out of storage,

if you want to keep up appearances, your welcome to drop the Range Rover here in the dead end and borrow REV instead  (Although a fair number of the off the shelf mechanical bits are from the Triumph rather then MG parts bin...)

[Six-cylinder]

8 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

if you want to keep up appearances, your welcome to drop the Range Rover here in the dead end and borrow REV instead  (Although a fair number of the off the shelf mechanical bits are from the Triumph rather then MG parts bin...)

There are 2 of us!

Are you suggesting Mrs6C crouches down and hides from the law!

[chaseracer]

33 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Are you suggesting Mrs6C crouches down and hides from the law!

No - you!  Claire will be driving... 😀

[wuvvum]

You may have seen this already but Steph off of idriveaclassic has done a video on a Rolls like yours.

 

[beko1987]

I remember my friend having me, him and his girlfriend in his smart for2 a few times... 

His girlfriend was quite small (we were 18/19 then) so she could lay across the shelf bit I'm the back. Many trips to Maidenhead like that, 100% always the back way

[Six-cylinder]

3 hours ago, beko1987 said:

I remember my friend having me, him and his girlfriend in his smart for2 a few times... 

His girlfriend was quite small (we were 18/19 then) so she could lay across the shelf bit I'm the back. Many trips to Maidenhead like that, 100% always the back way

A long time ago a friend met me when I was very drunk and insisted he drove me that evening. Later we ended up as a party of 6, he had a Ford Escort Mk1 estate and can't remember why but we  used my Triumph Vitesse 2.0 MK1 Saloon. We were young and flexible, 3 in the front and 3 in the back.

This is the only picture I have of my first Vitesse (second car), but unfortunately the film in the camera had not wound on correctly.

 

[beko1987]

Back when the rules were more relaxed I was pally with the lady who was in control of the pool cars, and managed to have use of a 2009 Honda Accord Estate (still want one now) for the weekend. This would have been 2010/11 ish. Ex company cars of people who leave end up as pool cars, which is where this came.from. Was also a broken volvo estate at the same time 

I ended up with 5 people wanting a lift to high Wycombe so Greg went in the boot. Load cover down, then my front seat passenger found the built in sub the car had and we turned the bass and volume right up, as I slightly spiritedly drove the back roads to Wycombe 😂

When Eva or Charlie tell me they've done the same in several years I'm going to be angry and mortified aren't I 😂

[wuvvum]

I'm sure I've told the story before of when a lad I knew when I was at school managed to get 12 people in a Citroën AX.

[ianbmw]

@Six-cylinder this really should made publicly available!

[Six-cylinder]

33 minutes ago, ianbmw said:

@Six-cylinder this really should made publicly available!

The plan was to punish you alone for the blue Carlton!

[hairnet]

56 minutes ago, ianbmw said:

@Six-cylinder this really should made publicly available!

omg calendar and theyre all corsas

ps tomato ewwwww ffs

[ianbmw]

Every month will be a surprise for us all! I think @Six-cylinder has started off with his best car!

[anonymous user]

On 16/01/2025 at 18:23, ianbmw said:

@Six-cylinder this really should made publicly available!

Someone has tippexed over Sentence

[Six-cylinder]

Discovery body repairs have commenced.

[hairnet]

scrapper not open today?

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, hairnet said:

scrapper not open today?

That’s a funny way to talk about the field of dreams!

[Six-cylinder]

Not a great day today!

The plan was to get my Gamma ready for Sunday's Gamma meeting. It needed starting since it was September when it was last run and moving in storage to the front. I would have taken it home but with wind and rain forecast for Thursday/Friday I decided I would have it all ready and collect it on my way to lunch. The plan was is check legal and levels including tyre pressures.

Trouble is it did not want to start. We flattened the jump pack and had to get a jump from @Slowsilver Mondeo. It started, but run rough misfiring. I got it fully warm but it still mis-fired.

It ran so badly I feel unable to take it the the Gamma Lunch Sunday.

[hairnet]

put lancia badge on mondeo theyll not notice

[richardmorris]

23 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Not a great day today!

The plan was to get my Gamma ready for Sunday's Gamma meeting. It needed starting since it was September when it was last run and moving in storage to the front. I would have taken it home but with wind and rain forecast for Thursday/Friday I decided I would have it all ready and collect it on my way to lunch. The plan was is check legal and levels including tyre pressures.

Trouble is it did not want to start. We flattened the jump pack and had to get a jump from @Slowsilver Mondeo. It started, but run rough misfiring. I got it fully warm but it still mis-fired.

It ran so badly I feel unable to take it the the Gamma Lunch Sunday.

Points?

[Six-cylinder]

7 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Points?

Factory electronic ignition.

[Six-cylinder]

No car stuff today, but I have taken my RC boat to my friend John who fly’s RC aeroplanes for repair as it had stopped working.

He found I had forgot my boat has a 3^rd set of batteries, one hidden to power the in boat RC controls. The 4x AAs had leaked and ruined the battery holder. John jury rigged some of his batteries in place temporally and my boat works, rudder turns and propeller spins. John had volunteered to fit a spare battery holder he has but it turned out to be the wrong connector. John has kept the boat and is going to get a new connector and fit it for me.

John has also invited be to come and fly a RC plane in the spring at his club, which I am now looking forward to.

I was concerned about crashing somebody else’s RC plane but it turns out they have learner set ups with dual controllers so the instructor can take over if it all goes horribly wrong!