shite cars Retroshite

[RetroShite]

  On 09/02/2024 at 18:07, Rod/b said:

Holy shit, is this up for a raffle? I’ve always had almost unhealthy levels of want for a 2500

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Next Sunday.

https://retroshite.com/2024/02/02/triumph-2000/

[Rod/b]

  On 10/02/2024 at 03:50, RetroShite said:

Next Sunday.

https://retroshite.com/2024/02/02/triumph-2000/

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*buys all the tickets*

[RetroShite]

Another newcomer this week, a freshly restored yet unfinished Skoda rapid which cost £5k!

[wesacosa]

  On 10/02/2024 at 03:53, RetroShite said:

Another newcomer this week, a freshly restored yet unfinished Skoda rapid which cost £5k!

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I saw you had bought that elsewhere. Looks great, I know James did a lot of work on it. Same colour as my Estelle (or at least the colour mine once was).  Superb 

[dave j]

I bet that Skoda will be popular! I had one as my first car and would l love another so will deffo get a ticket!

[RetroShite]

Here's what's coming up this month!

[RetroShite]

After a shitload of welding and a bucket of seam sealer, new shocks and brake pads we have a pass on the Maestro van!

[High Jetter]

Busby will be chuffed.

[RetroShite]

Picked up this Marty McFly special last night being sold with a misfire.

Runs like a bag of shit and no compression all over the place with 150, 50, 50, 100 psi. Doesn't appear to be overheating or mixing oil/coolant although the oil did seem to be rather sludgy and black...

Apparently the Toyota 4y engine is still mass produced in China and used in forklifts so if the worst happens I can just buy a new engine...

[Schaefft]

That's a rad looking truck, just needs 4 spotlights on top!

[Tenmil Socket]

  On 12/02/2024 at 20:53, RetroShite said:

After a shitload of welding and a bucket of seam sealer, new shocks and brake pads we have a pass on the Maestro van!

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Beautiful!

[666jjp]

  On 12/02/2024 at 20:53, RetroShite said:

After a shitload of welding and a bucket of seam sealer, new shocks and brake pads we have a pass on the Maestro van!

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ready for tv work surely.

[RetroShite]

Here's this weekends cavalcade of misery.

The Triumph seems to be the most popular one to date even with the videos of it being ragged shitless, loads of people seem to want it. The Hyundai hasn't gathered much interest and the DT is doing quite well. I added the wee QR50 today for Sundays draw so probably be quite a low odds one for that.

 

 

[Boycie]

There's a reason it's the most popular .... It's feckin awesome 

[Captain Mainwaring]

  On 14/02/2024 at 20:48, RetroShite said:

Picked up this Marty McFly special last night being sold with a misfire.

Runs like a bag of shit and no compression all over the place with 150, 50, 50, 100 psi. Doesn't appear to be overheating or mixing oil/coolant although the oil did seem to be rather sludgy and black...

Apparently the Toyota 4y engine is still mass produced in China and used in forklifts so if the worst happens I can just buy a new engine...

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That's effing ace!

[mark165]

  On 14/02/2024 at 20:48, RetroShite said:

Picked up this Marty McFly special last night being sold with a misfire.
Runs like a bag of shit and no compression all over the place with 150, 50, 50, 100 psi. Doesn't appear to be overheating or mixing oil/coolant although the oil did seem to be rather sludgy and black...




Apparently the Toyota 4y engine is still mass produced in China and used in forklifts so if the worst happens I can just buy a new engine...

I bloody love this. Especially the fact that it has the 4Y in it. Proper survivor. If you do go down the Chinese route please make sure you chuck the old engine engine in the back, you know, just in case.

[RetroShite]

  On 18/02/2024 at 16:27, mark165 said:

  On 14/02/2024 at 20:48, RetroShite said:

Picked up this Marty McFly special last night being sold with a misfire.
Runs like a bag of shit and no compression all over the place with 150, 50, 50, 100 psi. Doesn't appear to be overheating or mixing oil/coolant although the oil did seem to be rather sludgy and black...




Apparently the Toyota 4y engine is still mass produced in China and used in forklifts so if the worst happens I can just buy a new engine...

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I bloody love this. Especially the fact that it has the 4Y in it. Proper survivor. If you do go down the Chinese route please make sure you chuck the old engine engine in the back, you know, just in case.

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Got a head gasket set so will get the head skimmed and try changing the head gasket before buying another engine.

[RetroShite]

Took the maestro out for a run around some old BT buildings on Sunday.

[Matty]

  On 20/02/2024 at 14:32, RetroShite said:

Took the maestro out for a run around some old BT buildings on Sunday.

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Out of everything I'd be keeping that for myself. Don't ask me why, just something about it

[RetroShite]

  On 20/02/2024 at 18:12, Matty said:

Out of everything I'd be keeping that for myself. Don't ask me why, just something about it

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It's potentially going to be the next thing to go. It's between this and the 309 Dturbo.

[Matty]

  On 20/02/2024 at 20:31, RetroShite said:

It's potentially going to be the next thing to go. It's between this and the 309 Dturbo.

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I'd imagine there'll be a lot of interest in it.

[rattlecan]

Our window cleaner at work had one identical, you could still see the ‘telecom’ bit just from the glue that had never been cleaned off. 
The silly sausage pulled up directly right behind a truck I had just jumped into & I promptly reversed it straight into him 😀

[RetroShite]

Oh dear, look what pile of shit I've ended up with...

 

[RetroShite]

Got some alloys fitted on the Dturbo 309 and will be up for a shite giveaway in March!

[RetroShite]

Got the GSA running today, we had to winch it onto the truck when collected and spent a bit of time trying to figure out why it wouldn't start. It seemed to be getting fuel and checking the coil with a multimeter there was power there.  Distributor cap and rotor arm seemed a little bit corroded so cleaned them up and checked with a loose spark plug and was getting a spark.

I removed the old spark plugs and tested them, one of 3 seemed to work. New plugs fitted today, charged the battery and fired straight up. A little bit of adjusting the carb and it seems to be running better.

I'm offering it up as a rolling resto project.

[RetroShite]

Another quality vehicle incoming!

 

[RetroShite]

Glorious!

[Captain Mainwaring]

Tasty.

[ETCHY]

  On 23/02/2024 at 20:45, RetroShite said:

Got the GSA running today, we had to winch it onto the truck when collected and spent a bit of time trying to figure out why it wouldn't start. It seemed to be getting fuel and checking the coil with a multimeter there was power there.  Distributor cap and rotor arm seemed a little bit corroded so cleaned them up and checked with a loose spark plug and was getting a spark.

I removed the old spark plugs and tested them, one of 3 seemed to work. New plugs fitted today, charged the battery and fired straight up. A little bit of adjusting the carb and it seems to be running better.

I'm offering it up as a rolling resto project.

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Fantastic colour.

[RetroShite]

I had no intention of buying any more cars until I'd cleared a decent space. I have an E28 BMW incoming as well as a Corolla and a Polo Coupe and zero extra space but when this Escort turned up literally on my doorstep I couldn't say no...