Wanted Mainly Mint Minx now too mint due to change in circumstances - Caution: Range Rover Content!

[pshome]

well done! just drive it around a bit (like to Albania or Iceland) and it will sort out the engine and other misbehaviours by itself.

[Dave_Q]

Such shite.

 

Many beige.

 

No words for the amount of win.

 

Will lick @ Glossop.

[drum]

It's been a long time since I heard a Talbot's tappets.

 

Well bought junkyard.

 

Edit: bloody auto-correct.

[Richard]

I don't think this one will be tappety, IIRC they cured the tappet noise right at the end of the run.

[danthecapriman]

That thing is just awesome! Top purchasage chaps. I love the colour too.

[scruff]

Fantastic, AS GOLD!!

[320touring]

Atonement achieved. May I request a shot should we meet up?

[quicksilver]

That was unexpected but most excellent. Did I read right that this has a manual gearbox? Doesn't that violate Junkman's First Law of Motoring?

 

Shame the Vanden Plah disgraced itself. I thought of Conrad today when I encountered a Vanden No Picnic Tables with the lesser-spotted map pockets instead.

[Felly Magic]

There were those who said this forum had lost it's way, then we had the blue Cavalier of lovelyness, not one, but 2 Ranchos, the Alpine weldathon, the Holy Grey Grille, Rocher the last Ambassador, lots of BL wedginess and now this in the forum livery. Cor lummy, this forum is on top form. Well purchased Man of Junkness

[stormee]

Granada 2.8GL?

6-pot carb action under a vinyl roof on thin coated cloth seats!

[Junkman]

Will lick @ Glossop.

 

I doubt that, because when I use that venue to unveil a fresh purchase, it is completely ignored and treated as if it just doesn't exist.

[Junkman]

Anyway, here it is on the Junkdrive:
 

 
Some ever so slight tinkerage was had to address the running and idling problems.
 

 

 
 
The culprit was this overcomplicated* temperamental* whatchamadong:
 

 
 
Of course I should now have this unreliable because old heap scrapped and finance something reliable because new.
However, I managed to reactivate some of my old braincells that haven't fallen victim to King Alcohol yet, long may they live!
 
All men, who are old enough to still remember Three Mile Island, may also recall, that if a Weber carbed car isn't ticking over properly, it'll run like shit for the enire range.
And we also remember, that the tickover is made by these two jets:
 

 

 
So I took them out and low and behold, there was a pink elephant living in one of them!
Some huffage and puffage commenced until whatever was in those jets had been replaced with a nice film of nicotine from the old Junklungs.
Upon reinstallation of said jets, clockworklike tickover and flawless throttle response ensued, alongside comments to the tune of 'I shit on modernz'.
 
 
The underbody is cleaner than the carburetter jets:
 

 
 
Severe 44 Gallon drum accommodation fail:
 

 
 
 
It's been a while since I last was able to indulge in such Eightiestasticness:
 

 
 
The dash by day:
 

 
 
I should have kept that Roxette music cassette I found in the Granada:
 

 

I like that 'Autostop' thing, because in 1985 that was actually still an accepted method of travelling throughout Europe.

Many of the young people one gave a lift, had their own music cassettes with them and offered them to be played during the trip.

How thoughtful of Philips to provide an extra provision for this. No idea what it really does, mind.
 
And now, I leave you to your own with the remaining pictures of today. But please try to not make a mess.
 
 
 
 
 

[dome]

That is truly fucking majestic

 

You are forgiven for non purchase of the XM

 

Just.

[danthecapriman]

Man that's clean and tidy. You sure you really want to use it on salty winter roads? I could of course offer to take it off your hands and keep it warm and dry and free from road salt...

 

...thought not, but worth a try!

[trigger]

What a glorious looking car, i think i might know who the last owner was now, was be a bit of a Talbot perv by any chance?

[holbeck]

Wow. Just wow.

[Junkman]

That was unexpected but most excellent. Did I read right that this has a manual gearbox? Doesn't that violate Junkman's First Law of Motoring?

 

Shame the Vanden Plah disgraced itself. I thought of Conrad today when I encountered a Vanden No Picnic Tables with the lesser-spotted map pockets instead.

 

It violates Junkman's first and second law of motoring.

 

Picnic Plah failure is indeed a crying shame, since the car performed flawlessly until it shat some clutch component.

I'm having a slight guilt complex, because if it wasn't for me, it wouldn't have been put through the ordeal of this trip.

 

 

That is even better than I expected. Its like a museum piece.

I love your massive clock too. CLOCK.

 

Fnar, fnar, etc, etc.

On the downside, I'm now seriously running out of excuses for being as tardy as I am.

 

 

 

Man that's clean and tidy. You sure you really want to use it on salty winter roads? I could of course offer to take it off your hands and keep it warm and dry and free from road salt...

 

...thought not, but worth a try!

 

It's not going to be extensively used in shit weather. I'm not daft. Well, actually I am, but let's pretend I'm not.

 

 

 

What a glorious looking car, i think i might know who the last owner was now, was be a bit of a Talbot perv by any chance?

 

Apparently the previous owner is very well known in the eclectic Simca/Talbot circles. As I mentioned earlier, he also seems to know PShome quite well.

That telephone box we both encountered is less than a mile from where this was stored.

[captain_70s]

I like the way it has about 15 different colour combinations depending on lighting and where you're stood, it's like that fancy purple/green type stuff you could get on an MG ZT, but more beige and cool.

[trigger]

I believe it's the same guy who owns this Solara and this Samba, if it's not him that's it's his mate who owns the Maestro VDP replica. 

 

 

[Junkman]

I like the way it has about 15 different colour combinations depending on lighting and where you're stood, it's like that fancy purple/green type stuff you could get on an MG ZT, but more beige and cool.

 

It really does that in real life, too. The lower colour is actually some kind of metallic/pearl, but both colours are standard Talbot hues.

At night, under the yellowish-orange street lights outside of my house, it looks yellow and black.

 

 

I believe it's the same guy who owns this Solara and this Samba, if it's not him that's it's his mate who owns the Maestro VDP replica. 

 

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That's your man right there. He kept the red Solara and it was in the unit of much wet dreamery.

He also owns an immaculate Maestro Plah non replica, among various other Simca/Talbot chod, including two spotless two toned Horizons,

which makes it four-tone if my arithmetics are correct. Obviously this is not the only place where he keeps his cars, since he mentioned several others.

His daily driver is a delightfully shonky Royal Mail Maestro van.

[Noel Tidybeard]

iirc autostop stops the motor when the tape reaches the end thus not resulting in stretchage

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I believe it's the same guy who owns this Solara and this Samba, if it's not him that's it's his mate who owns the Maestro VDP replica. 

 

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Aye, here's the Plah too:

 

[trigger]

That's the guy, I don't think it's a VDP though, it's listed as a 1993 Rover Maestro 1.3 LX.

 

[trigger]

In fact here he is with his Horizon.

 

[Felly Magic]

Holy Totes Amazeballs, one of those 2 tone Horizons looks like it could be a Silver Fox

[Junkman]

In fact here he is with his Horizon.

 

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One of his numerous Horizons and yes, that's him.

There is a story behind the plate of that Plah, but I forgot it, because I don't give a shit about plates.

[trigger]

Holy Totes Amazeballs, one of those 2 tone Horizons looks like it could be a Silver Fox

 

I'm just trying to remember if he owned this one too.

 

 

[EssDeeWon]

Superb! An enjoyable thread with some Austin 'Aggro' thrown in to the capers too.

 

Well bought JM.

[bub2006]

that is truly stunning. Well played sir. Shocked at the manual box though. Low spec with power steering, was it an option?

[Uncle Jimmy]

Well bought; I continue to live Simcalife vicariously through others.