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Today was the breakfast meeting for the Loose Alliance Group at the London Gliding club Dunstable. Another 45 miles of prewar motoring and I am finding it much more natural driving the 20/25.

I even remembered to press the 4th pedal today, anybody want to guess what it does?

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1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

Today was the breakfast meeting for the Loose Alliance Group at the London Gliding club Dunstable. Another 45 miles of prewar motoring and I am finding it much more natural driving the 20/25.

I even remembered to press the 4th pedal today, anybody want to guess what it does?

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One shot lubrication?

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1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

I even remembered to press the 4th pedal today, anybody want to guess what it does?

Summons the Butler to serve Afternoon Tea? 

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49 minutes ago, Surface Rust said:

One shot lubrication?

Yes one shot chassis lubrcation.

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5 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Yes one shot chassis lubrcation.

Bit of a cheat as my Merc also has it, albeit it from 30 years later!

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3 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Yes one shot chassis lubrcation.

Ahh..... When a pimply yoof, out scrounging bits for my first wheels [MM 1000 van] in a scrappy, I looked at an old hearse, well derelict/rotted/collapsing... It had a network of pipes running to the leaf springs <aye, shocked me !> and a box on the well rotted bulkhead - said Tecalemit.

TYG 😉

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Anybody wondered what happened to our 1989 Mazda 323GLX.

Nothing is the answer, in the spring I put it into storage to get something else out for a change and this week I was ready for a change of car so today I put the Seicento into storage and got out the Mazda.

6 months standing still. @Slowsilver insists on disconnecting batteries when we leave cars in storage and it works, I reconnected the battery and after a bit of churning it started fine without a jump. The n-s rear brake was stuck on but after a bit of forward and backward shunting it freed up and I drove it home.

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3 minutes ago, Surface Rust said:

Bit of a cheat as my Merc also has it, albeit it from 30 years later!

I don't think any of my Mercs had chassis lubrication, which one is yours?

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1 minute ago, Six-cylinder said:

I don't think any of my Mercs had chassis lubrication, which one is yours?

1885 :P

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1 minute ago, Six-cylinder said:

I don't think any of my Mercs had chassis lubrication, which one is yours?

1952 220 (w187). Prewar design really so probably a hangover from the past!

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8 minutes ago, Surface Rust said:

1952 220 (w187). Prewar design really so probably a hangover from the past!

That explains it, the oldest I have owned is a W114. My dad had a Fintail and I looked at a couple with the view of purchasing one.

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3 hours ago, Surface Rust said:

1952 220 (w187). Prewar design really so probably a hangover from the past!

pics or else :D

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