Bolly Dolly - Now boringly reliable - snoooooooooze

[Guest Breadvan72]

You might think that, but I could not possibly comment.

 

Meanwhile, I do not believe in Drive it Day, as every day should be drive it day, but here are some photos from today, including Mrs BV doing a Joan Didion.   PS - the oil is not from the Dolly.  It's from my Rover SD1!

 

 

 

 

[JeeExEll]

Dolly mixture.

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[Guest Breadvan72]

Kindly stop papping me when I'm on the way back from the pub.  Thanks.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Not much to report.  Car thrums along.  If anything happens, I may rant on about it.  I may post some invective filled shoutiness on:-

 

retroshite.freeforums.net

[Six-cylinder]

I have often thought how nice it would be to have one car that never needs anything!

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

MAFIA BOSS SAYS

[Guest Breadvan72]

Nothing lasts forever.  Unborked  car is borked.  The temp gauge sender has gone splooof.    Also, the carb mounts are creaking and leaking.  I have some posh new ones in the shed.  I can't find them.  

Meanwhile, skizzer has been doing seventies-ness:-

 

 

 

[Junkman]

I have often thought how nice it would be to have one car that never needs anything!

 

 

All you have to do for that is buy a Pig 405.

 

 

Well, if you find one, that is. Currently it's easier to find a Dolly Sprint.

[Guest Breadvan72]

I went to Sheringham Park to swap some Humphrey Repton upside my head.  I thought that I had won Coolest Car in the Car Park.  Then I found out that I had come second.  Minteroo TR4A.

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

[Guest Breadvan72]

The Dolly has been meet and greet airport parking while I spent a long weekend in Crete.  I briefed the meety greety bloke on choke, overdrive and general seventiesness.  All fine, although he was a bit slow bringing it back because he could not find the demisters, and they are rubbish anyway.  Following customary Ryanair lateness, it was past one AM by the time that I collected the car at Birmingham Airport.  I chose to drive a Warwickshire lanes route to the M40, which was a very seventies experience.  The M40 at two AM was empty, so the MIRA results for the Dolly may or may not have been tested. 

 

Carb mounts and temp gauge now fixed.  Steering tightened up a bit.  The main annoyance at present is the noisy thrust bearing.

 

Dolly currently daily driver, as X Type needs MoT (forgot), and SD1 still being fiddled with.

[Guest Hooli]

It sounds like you're running out of working cars, best buy a couple more just in case.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Latest from Dolly trip into Oxford: "Nice Cortina, mate".  

 

Meanwhile, a bloke in a Coke Bottle Cortina with lots of big fog lights gave me the big grin when we passed one another in opposite directions on the A40.  

[Guest Breadvan72]

X Type now given to soon to be ex wife.    SD1 back in use as daily driver.  Lancia on way soonish.  Sherpa van passed MoT.  UMM still needing brakes.   XJS still on its arse.  Motorbikes being motorbikey.

[Bear]

Ugh, wife life stress. Hope it all works out for the happier.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Thanks, it was a long time coming.  Countess Blondewska was arguably a symptom, not a cause.  My bad.

[richardthestag]

Thanks, it was a long time coming.  Countess Blondewska was arguably a symptom, not a cause.  My bad.

 

bugger

 

Sounds like you need more shite in your life