shite cars Retroshite

[seacow]

Love the acclaim interested to see that. It’s not long since you had one before is it?  Couple of years?

[DodgyBastard]

I went to see it tonight, some frilly looking bits around the rear arches and bootlid. Battery was dead, tried jumping it but wouldn't start so just transporting it tomorrow.

It was in regular use until the owner gave up driving due to dementia, MOT expired in 2021 so hoping with some fresh fuel and a charged battery it'll go again.

It has a bunch of paperwork and has done 34k miles. I may well have paid over the odds for it at £700 but maybe not if I can get it going easily and register it historic...

[Alusilber]

I wouldn’t say £700 was over the odds, I know of one that went for £2600 at auction 5 years ago (was pretty minty though). 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Looks like it's the same one then. Seriously though, is it the earliest one remaining? Checker says it was registered July 81 so it just scraped in on a W plate. What a find.

[DodgyBastard]

It may well be the earliest one remaining.

The owners also had an xj8 and viva ha in the garage.

 

 

similar to these, they are keeping the Viva for their son but selling the Jag. Apparently someone came to see the Jag and made a lowball offer and was refused. How much is one of these worth?

[seacow]

10 hours ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Looks like it's the same one then. Seriously though, is it the earliest one remaining? Checker says it was registered July 81 so it just scraped in on a W plate. What a find.

First x reg car I saw on august 1st 1981 was a black acclaim

[seacow]

9 hours ago, DodgyBastard said:

It may well be the earliest one remaining.

The owners also had an xj8 and viva ha in the garage.

 

 

similar to these, they are keeping the Viva for their son but selling the Jag. Apparently someone came to see the Jag and made a lowball offer and was refused. How much is one of these worth?

XJ8 all over the place depending on mileage and condition etc etc. do you have more details?

[DodgyBastard]

2 hours ago, seacow said:

XJ8 all over the place depending on mileage and condition etc etc. do you have more details?

I can pm their number if you want to go look at it? 

[seacow]

Appreciate it but it might cause more marital strife!!  And I still haven’t cleared a space next to the E 30 in the garage. I’ll message if I grow a pair!

[quicksilver]

On 10/2/2022 at 9:43 PM, Dick Longbridge said:

Acclaim on a W plate? I drove an A plate a couple of times in the mid 90s and have seen a few Y plates over the years. W must surely be the earliest left? 

Never seen a W reg Acclaim before. According to Wikipedia it was launched on 7 October 1981 so it's some proper early registration madness and worth having just for that.

[stuboy]

fingers crossed the acclaim is a simple to get running

[DodgyBastard]

15 hours ago, stuboy said:

fingers crossed the acclaim is a simple to get running

It runs but not very well, a new battery and some fresh fuel should sort it.

[garbaldy]

Your last one (wheel spin machine)  did have its running issues too, wonder if any of its owners ever found out what the issue was.

[DodgyBastard]

 

[DodgyBastard]

 

[Mrs6C]

Excellent!

[chaseracer]

On 23/09/2022 at 07:44, paulplom said:

Would you be interested in my son's 1986 honda vision 50cc?

Paging @Six-cylinder... 😉

[DodgyBastard]

 

[DodgyBastard]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There's some calendar worthy pics!

 

I fired both of these onto Car and classic before I start any major work on them. I can't imagine anyone will want them...

[seacow]

That acclaim looks ace. Tell us more about the jag on face cloth

[DodgyBastard]

4 minutes ago, seacow said:

That acclaim looks ace. Tell us more about the jag on face cloth

 

 

 

 

 

 

The jag belongs to Derskine who bought it recently as a retro daily so he can take is Mercedes 190D off the road to do some work to it. I imagine a maximum 20mpg fuel economy will wear thin pretty quickly and it'll be up for sale in due course.

[seacow]

Looks ace. Must remember to be on holiday when he puts that up for sale!

[DodgyBastard]

 

 

Tonight I made a start on sorting out the Camry after its MOT fail. There's loads of shitty bits of welding to get on with.

[DodgyBastard]

That's the easier side done...

 

 

I'm sure the other side needs a bit more...

 

[DodgyBastard]

Only a wee bit to do.

 

[DodgyBastard]

That took a bit longer than anticipated!

 

 

Inner sill welded followed by the outer sill and inner arch then a healthy coating of seam sealer to cover up the shitty welding.

 

[DodgyBastard]

 

The joys of ldv ownership!

I noticed at the weekend when clearing some stuff out of the back of the van there was a crusty area around the rear arch/wheel tub. After some gentle prodding it became a hole.

I was just going to leave it but after driving the van a few miles it was apparent it needed sorted asap because the fumes from the side exit exhaust seemed to be going straight into the back of the van. Driving it with both windows down didn't seem to help much either.

Last night I grinded the area, made a repair section and started welding it in, the repair section was quite a good fit but required some taps with the hammer to shape it when it was tacked in place. 

After a few taps with the hammer I noticed some flaky underseal which another bastard hole appeared under further around the wheel tub so when I finished the first patch I had to make another similar one and weld that in to.

I drove it to work today and there's no reek of diesel fumes coming in but it does smell like burning underseal instead!

[DodgyBastard]

 

Acclaim sold today for £1500!

 

I had a closer look at the visa tonight, it actually looks not bad underneath...

 

 

Interior is horrible

 

Crispy

 

 

 

[DodgyBastard]

I bought this as a winter beater from Ged after he won it in a raffle I did and fitted a new pair of front drive shafts.

I really need to get the original bumper refitted because I think it looks daft with what's currently fitted.

It's a 1.8 non turbo petrol, constant 4wd with switchable hi/lo. I've been using it for the last couple of days and it's starting to grow on me a little, it's not particularly fast but makes the typical Subaru boxer burble which makes it sound fast.

I swapped that Simson moped for it before and the previous owner had made absolutely no attempt to clean it out, it was full of tip run debris, fag ash, old roll ups and crumbs.

I cleaned it out last week but it still reeks of cigarette smoke and weed and there's some stains on the seats, I think I may need to enlist a professional to freshen it up but concerned it might still be too revolting inside.

[DodgyBastard]

Much better