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On 2/13/2020 at 7:11 PM, DodgyBastard said:

With just a few hours sleep after a 12 hour night shift welding inside a nuclear submarine I set off to buy a car I'd never owned before, a Triumph Acclaim.

This is possibly one of the best opening paragraphs to a collection I have read!

 Don’t know how I missed this in the week, but what a lovely lovely looking car... once you’ve de-modified it of course! Well purchased! 

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I killed the Acclaim a couple of times on the way home from Perth earlier after driving through some big puddles, the first time it died straight after the puddle but restarted a short time later after drying out, the next time it died halfway through the puddle and took ages to dry out and it kept stalling/cutting out for the majority of the journey home. We got there in the end but what should have been a casual 40 minute journey turned into a 2.5 hour ordeal with having to stop, letting the car dry out then continuing before finding out it wasn't quite right and stopping again.

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My Allegro used to do that when you went through a big puddle (I remember one winter when this seemed to happen a lot). Usually you'd splash through and it would chug on for a few yards before the distributor realised it was full of water and stop producing sparks. All you could do was sit and wait for a few minutes until it was ready to go again. Probably should have started carrying a can of contact cleaner or whatever after the first time, but sitting on the side of the road with the radio on smoking a fag for five minutes seemed to fit well with the general vibe of Allegro ownership.

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Some more progress on the Chevette, wing removed and a start made on the A-pillar repairs, a repair panel was made up for the battery tray then an outer panel was fabricated, after that another panel was welded in position, there's still a few more bits to be sorted before the wing goes back on.

 

 

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1 hour ago, Mrs6C said:

@DodgyBastard - incoming PM for you!

In other news, once upon a time I was the proud owner of two Opel Kadett Cs... a 1200 Coupe and a 1200 Caravan automatic... alas both have been gone for many years, but I do like them and their similar but not identical Chevette siblings...

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12 hours ago, DodgyBastard said:

I'm fed up with this shitheap! Going to either sell it cheap or smash fuck out of it. 1a0a3f4ffab1bbdc0eff1448165f677a.jpg

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Isn't that most classic cars haha I completely mirror your sentiment. Especially having worked on minis in the past ! That been said the Acclaim looks a beautiful example! 

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Chevette Weldathon week 3...

 

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The funny thing is, all that time spent making the panels similar to how it came out of the factory and nobody will ever see it when the wing goes back on...

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45 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Some bloody good progress there.

 

Don't these Acclaims have a really strange (and generally impossible to find rebuild kits for) carb on them?

Rebuild kits are essentially unobtainable, some bits can be cobbled together from Honda motorcycle kits, NOS carbs are often more expensive than the cars and suffer the same perished rubber. I'm going to stick a weber on mine if the stock twins become un-serviceable...

Yours looks like it runs smoother than mine, which bogs down a bit north of 5,000rpm + it has a sunroof and a dipping rear view mirror - because posh.

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