Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[mintwth]

6 hours ago, MAF260 said:

You did well to get out of there. Feral kids run around that new estate and the Co-Op is robbed on a weekly basis!

The gangsters with their Tommy (/splat) guns that arrived standing on the running boards were inside the shop when that photo was taken. 

🎶They could've been anything that they wanted to be.... 

[richardmorris]

2 minutes ago, mintwth said:

The gangsters with their Tommy (/splat) guns that arrived standing on the running boards were inside the shop when that photo was taken. 

🎶They could've been anything that they wanted to be.... 

so you’re saying @Six-cylinder is fat Sam ?

[Six-cylinder]

49 minutes ago, GeorgeB said:

Nice Herald.

It is a 6 cylinder Vitesse, one of the period converted ones.

[quicksilver]

1 hour ago, Zelandeth said:

Bits of it were originally a Trabant - but I'm not sure how much of the original car's actually left under there.  Rover V8 powered now as I understand it.

Trabant P60 van shell with Rover V8, 3-speed autobox, narrowed Volvo rear axle and Chevette front, built in Belgium about 20 years ago according to the info sheet.

[Six-cylinder]

40 minutes ago, quicksilver said:

Trabant P60 van shell with Rover V8, 3-speed autobox, narrowed Volvo rear axle and Chevette front, built in Belgium about 20 years ago according to the info sheet.

Did you get a photo of the second Dolomite by any chance?

[quicksilver]

32 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Did you get a photo of the second Dolomite by any chance?

[MAF260]

20 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

I only wanted the cashpoint but the one is Winslow was stolen with a digger!

Maybe there's an anti-CoOp sentiment in these parts. Winslow was raided twice in 2 weeks!

[GeorgeB]

23 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

It is a 6 cylinder Vitesse, one of the period converted ones.

1600?

We made one of those in 1979 from a 1360 estate.

[Six-cylinder]

2 hours ago, GeorgeB said:

1600?

We made one of those in 1979 from a 1360 estate.

Yes 1600cc. I know the owner and the early conversion history hasn't been found. It is not one of the later Park Ward Service Dept converted cars, it pre dates that.

[Six-cylinder]

I hate it when I get sold dud cars that bits just keep falling off!

[hairnet]

clumsy

 

[Six-cylinder]

After our fail to fit new wipers to the Rolls Royce because the spindle is 1/4 inch and the arm clamp that

2 minutes ago, hairnet said:

clumsy

 

Should be a warranty claim from the seller of the car as it keeps happening!

[Six-cylinder]

After last weeks fail to fit new wipers to the Rolls Royce I have now drilled out the new clamping blocks. This was because the spindles are 1/4 inch and the new clamping blocks said fit 1/4 inch, but were only 6mm.

@Slowsilver

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

After our fail to fit new wipers to the Rolls Royce because the spindle is 1/4 inch and the arm clamp that

Should be a warranty claim from the seller of the car as it keeps happening!

4 years!!

 

Do you remember where you left it?

I cable tied one in, but that eventually swapped the side repeater wiring.

At least they're cheap.

[hairnet]

1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

After last weeks fail to fit new wipers to the Rolls Royce I have now drilled out the new clamping blocks. This was because the spindles are 1/4 inch and the new clamping blocks said fit 1/4 inch, but were only 6mm.

@Slowsilver

allen milyard will be round

 

[beko1987]

3 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

I hate it when I get sold dud cars that bits just keep falling off!

Was probably that sheep you hit last weekend 🙄

[GeorgeB]

5 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

After our fail to fit new wipers to the Rolls Royce because the spindle is 1/4 inch and the arm clamp that

Should be a warranty claim from the seller of the car as it keeps happening!

Warranty was as long as the sellers drive.

[Six-cylinder]

The case of the missing 2 pints!

Tonight was not without hitch, I went to a Triumph Club meeting tonight 20 miles away in the Carlton Estate.  The temp gauge read high, rising and falling on the way.

Checking the radiator, it was hot but not boiling. Before I came home we checked the water level and found it to be 2 pints of water short. On the way home the temp gauge was steady and read a little low as usual.

What happened to the missing 2 pints!

[hairnet]

youre in the home counties

maybe it wanted perrier or san pellegrino

[High Jetter]

The guy who owned the dealership who sold that new liked a few pints. Maybe a throwback? 😀

[AxWomble]

8 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

The case of the missing 2 pints!

Tonight was not without hitch, I went to a Triumph Club meeting tonight 20 miles away in the Carlton Estate.  The temp gauge read high, rising and falling on the way.

Checking the radiator, it was hot but not boiling. Before I came home we checked the water level and found it to be 2 pints of water short. On the way home the temp gauge was steady and read a little low as usual.

What happened to the missing 2 pints!

Airlock that managed to burp it's way out? I've had that before with an old Panda - more of an issue with such a tiny coolant capacity 😬

[beko1987]

3 minutes ago, AxWomble said:

Airlock that managed to burp it's way out? I've had that before with an old Panda - more of an issue with such a tiny coolant capacity 😬

I thought that. Id be carrying coolant in the rear footwell and keeping a hawk eye on it for now and 🤞🤞

[Six-cylinder]

4 hours ago, AxWomble said:

Airlock that managed to burp it's way out? I've had that before with an old Panda - more of an issue with such a tiny coolant capacity 😬

 

4 hours ago, beko1987 said:

I thought that. Id be carrying coolant in the rear footwell and keeping a hawk eye on it for now and 🤞🤞

It has been on the road since 13th Oct 24 when it got it's new MOT without any issues.

[comfortablynumb]

Someone saw the price of a pint in that pub, and decided that two pints of your finest antifreeze was a much more sensible option.

Methanol all round then? 🤣

[wuvvum]

Sounds like a warranty claim against the person who did the engine work... 👀

[AxWomble]

7 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

 

It has been on the road since 13th Oct 24 when it got it's new MOT without any issues.

If it doesn’t do it again, I’d say that an airlock is the most likely scenario, although I’ll agree it’s odd. The inlaw’s Panda had an airlock for literally months until we visited and I cleared it with a 2L pop bottle with the bottom cut off, raising the effective fill level and pushing all the air out of the matrix. Has the heater been decent since the overhaul? 

[richardmorris]

On 18/03/2025 at 14:05, Six-cylinder said:

I hate it when I get sold dud cars that bits just keep falling off!

That headlight is dechroming a bit too.

[Six-cylinder]

Yesterday was the first warm day of the year and @Slowsilver helped me take advantage of it.

The aim was to get the Vanden Plas 1500 running and inspected to return to the road.

It has been out of use for over 3 years while @Andyrew had done a miracle job saving it as more and more rust was revealed. Without him that would have been the end for this car.

Plan “A” was to take the plugs out and put a drop of oil in each bore but the first problem was the ignition switch was stuck and would not turn at all. After much WD40 and working it suddenly it worked and the engine turned over.

We added some petrol and looked for a spark but there was not one. We cleaned the points but still no spark so we took the points and condenser from the old engine. The condenser fitted but not the points, however we now had a spark at the plugs. We had spun the engine over quite a lot but no sign of petrol so Easy start was used and it ran, but not enough to draw petrol from the tank under the car into the fuel pump and push it up into the carb.

Next time I will try my old 2CV trick of back filling the fuel pump by taking the pipe from the fuel filer inserting a small funnel and poring petrol in.

 

[Six-cylinder]

In @Zelandeth thread I looked at the cost of the cheapest 1300cc Ado16 against the VP1300 Auto.

 In April 1968 my Morris 1300 listed at £698 and the VP1300 Auto at £1135. The VP cost 63% more.

My poverty model, Morris 1300 2 door had saved the first owner £26 over the 4 door!

---

This week with @Slowsilver working on the Vanden Plas 1500 we pondered what the cost difference was between base and VP Allegros.

In 1976 the year of our VP1500 the base Allegro 2 door 1100cc cost £1626. The cheapest 1500cc was the Super deluxe at £2015. While the VP Auto was £2775. The VP1500 cost 38% more than the standard 1500 Allegro.

[flat4alfa]

On 17/12/2024 at 15:54, Six-cylinder said:

I love that car