MG/Triumph Day 19th Feb

[purplebargeken]

Anyone going?

 

http://mgandtriumphsparesday.co.uk/home/4579844994

[Six-cylinder]

I am going.

[purplebargeken]

Excellent. How are you doing?

[seth]

I might be there.

[Six-cylinder]

In past years MG and Triumph have been allowed to park inside the cattle shed. My dilemma is whether to bring an estate car in case there is something big I want to buy or bring the MG ZR so I can park in the shed. I am erring towards the ZR at the moment because it is still the new toy!

[Guest Breadvan72]

I may go in my Dolomite.

[Guest Breadvan72]

As is typical whenever I am thinking of taking a car to a car show, the Dolly has this morning started to misbehave. Possible clutch bollocks, ooh er.

[purplebargeken]

Go there in something more clutch happy, buy Dollopmite clutch bits after haggling, enjoy the warm glow of having obtained bits in a flurry of excitement and cheapness.

 

Never hurts to have spare components for these cars within grabbing distance. 

 

Clutch kit, slave and master cylinders, seal kits, Brake bits. It really does make sense.

 

Ball joints - upper and lower, these are going up in price and if you can store a set for that awkward moment then good on you.

[Guest Breadvan72]

I already have a clutch for it and if time permits will get it fitted this week.  The slave cylinder was replaced last year.

[beko1987]

Providing breadvans help of choice is fixed in time I'm in! If it's not then I'll drive the xantia providing it doesnt disgrace itself by then , drop bv off at the door and go park up the road out of the way or something...

[Guest Breadvan72]

The Dolomite should be fixed by the weekend.  If it isn't, I may go in the SD1, but I'm not sure.  You can have a go at ye olde heap driving if I do go.

[beko1987]

Oooh I've never driven a proper car before! My neighbor with the triumph toledo will be proud. He was out a few weekends ago changing the clutch outside our back gate. I gave him power and a cup of tea...

[Six-cylinder]

It looks like I am not going to be able to take my MG ZR as it has been untaxed, I am waiting the 28 days before I can send the V62 in to get a log book.

 

Alfa 156 is my car of choice at the moment.

[Guest Breadvan72]

The SD1 feels modernish and has power steering.  The main oldness about it is that it has carburettors, so you have to open the throttle to get it go fast.  The brakes are a bit old skule, given the weight of the car.

 

The Dolomite is a much more retro driving experience.  Power nuthin, noisy noise, thin tyres, and easily lock uppable brakes.

[beko1987]

The SD1 feels modernish and has power steering. The main oldness about it is that it has carburettors, so you have to open the throttle to get it go fast. The brakes are a bit old skule, given the weight of the car.

 

The Dolomite is a much more retro driving experience. Power nuthin, noisy noise, thin tyres, and easily lock uppable brakes.

And your happy for my first driving experience of anything like that to be in your car... I'm very flattered but very nervous! Never had a car without power steering... (zx didn't have abs but probably had much better brakes anyway...)

[OwdChina]

Ooooooh.........there's an autojumble. Can I be cheeky an ask someone to grab a hazard lights switch for a 1970 TR6 if you spot one. Mines fucked.

 

Monies and postage will be covered.

 

 

Ta muchly.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Annoyingly, the garage did not get the Dolomite's clutch fixed before they biffed for the weekend.   I may go in my SD1, subject to family hoo hahs.

[holbeck]

Unexpectedly, I'm going to this as a neutral.

 

My friend Steve has an MGB, and I'm going 'cos I'll go to the (car based) opening of an envelope.

[Junkman]

I think I'll go and make lots of pappage of flatcapped OMGMGBGTBYMG how much pain etc. etc. owners buying kackered spares.

Maybe I should also buy a Pitney Bowes Dictaphone off Mongbay and record stories of how they rebuilt a gearbox in their toilet

with nothing else but their teeth and how it took them 27 years to get a rear bumper rechromed in their neighbour's kennel

and other interesting* horseshit you read about in Craptical Plastics every week for the past 30 odd years.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Expect all inside lanes of all Midland motorways to be clogged by MGB geezers going at the regulation 55 mph.  I so wanted to drive past them in a Triumph at 95 while mooning my butt at them, but DENIED.

 

 

(OK, Triumph borked, giffer MGBs not, but even so).

[seth]

Expect all inside lanes of all Midland motorways to be clogged by MGB geezers going at the regulation 55 mph.  I so wanted to drive past them in a Triumph at 95 while mooning my butt at them, but DENIED.

 

 I'll do that for you in the Herald if you like.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Flip them off for me, please.  I ain't going, due to family blah.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Fairness to MG drivers Dept reports:

 

Today I followed a lovely 1950s G saloon (a Magnette, I think), in two tone green. The driver did his best to overtake some modern 30 in a 60 twat, but was foiled by oncoming traffic.  When the giffer/ditsy mum turned off to buy Werther's or whatever, the MG wizzed off at 70, and cornered in le style sportif.

 

NB: not an MGB.

[seth]

MGZS and MGF suitably dispatched on the M45.

[Six-cylinder]

I dispatched a Toledo properly using the 156 V6 but I think that might be cheating!

[purplebargeken]

Big numbers of attendees. Got a few non-Triumph and MG things, happy. Haggled to get my mate 4 NOS 1300FWD wheel trims for a tenner each. Seller wanted 20 quid. Bargain!

[Six-cylinder]

Just a few parked cars!

[garethj]

Didn't get the parts I wanted but a nice look around.

[seth]

I bought a pretty solid Herald spare wheel well, some Motorsport magazines from the '50s I was missing and, rather excitedly, some wheels that I will struggle to fit on the car but I couldn't pass up.

[holbeck]

 

I saw this, and thought I might have papped Mr 6 cyl's car. But no, I iz disappoint.