The Epic Austrian owned R16 from Germany doing French things in a Parallel Universe near England Saga

[Junkman]

You mean one can't be lucky once?

[Junkman]

  On 15/06/2017 at 11:37, Conrad D. Conelrad said:

It's with the welder now. He agreed that it wasn't as bad as it looked, since all the rust is confined to flat bits. 

 

That shop has all the floorpans except the rear left. Also the repair panels seem to come pre-rusted for your convenience. 

 

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The outer sill is hardly a flat bit.

 

I like that authentic restoration look of the rep panels. Patina is sooo en Vogue atm.

Isn't it typical that the one I need isn't available now? It was earlier this week.

[Cleon-Fonte]

  On 15/06/2017 at 12:37, Junkman said:

The front bumper of the one in your photo looks better than mine.

So does the offside wing.

Where is it?

 

Somewhere in France, sadly.

[Junkman]

It could be worse. But not much.

[Junkman]

Entirely btw, the car does not only have a valid TÜV, there was also an "H" assessment done at the same time!

[tooSavvy]

H .... for rusty Here & Here & Here....!!

 

 

TS

[Sigmund Fraud]

  On 15/06/2017 at 14:49, Junkman said:

Entirely btw, the car does not only have a valid TÜV, there was also an "H" assessment done at the same time!

 

Did they recognise it as the rare superleggera version, then ?

 

 

A most excellent purchase, by the way. Driving halfway across Europe to buy a worse R16 than what you could have bought locally confirms your status as AUTOSHITE HERO !

[Junkman]

The sparkling stick is being swung.

Spares have been ordered from abroad.

Let's see how it turns out.

 

And yes, dragging this holy heap half across that Yeerup was well daft in hindsight.

[Felly Magic]

Should have taken it to the bloke who's been MOT-ing Dollywobbler's Bluebird, it would have been given a fresh ticket no problem. Good luck in getting this welded up

[Partridge]

  On 15/06/2017 at 17:17, Junkman said:

The sparkling stick is being swung.

Spares have been ordered from abroad.

Let's see how it turns out.

 

And yes, dragging this holy heap half across that Yeerup was well daft in hindsight.

Hopefully it will end better when you had a Thema, and the Italian parts specialists you were dealing with pretended to be dead when your parts didn't arrive.

[beko1987]

  On 15/06/2017 at 19:12, Partridge said:

Hopefully it will end better when you had a Thema, and the Italian parts specialists you were dealing with pretended to be dead when your parts didn't arrive.

Lol what? I don't know this story...

[Partridge]

Ask him!

[Junkman]

Yeah, it's true.

 

I had a Thema which urgently needed rear shocks and they had to be ordered from Italy.

After only six weeks they already arrived, but they turned out to be the wrong ones.

All attempts to return them and get the correct ones yielded radio silence.

[Felly Magic]

Sounds like dealing with ECP and GSF, how they claimed Golf GTi mk1 plug leads would fit a Skoda Favorit 'because Volkswagen'. 

[somewhatfoolish]

That's fairly standard practise for Italian businesses; in the absence of the opportunity to communicate your needs in person via the medium of speaking english loudly and slowly with a cod italian accent, testiculating vigorously and pointing at the component in question, it's pretty much impossible to get any kind of joy out of Luigi and Massimo. That's assuming you are lucky enough to catch them open rather than closed for the endless supply of saints days, religious festivals and general manana-ness that proximity to the Mediterranean seems to induce. Lovely place and lovely food, though.

[Cleon-Fonte]

  On 15/06/2017 at 21:09, somewhatfoolish said:

 testiculating vigorously

 

[Junkman]

  On 15/06/2017 at 21:09, somewhatfoolish said:

That's fairly standard practise for Italian businesses; in the absence of the opportunity to communicate your needs in person via the medium of speaking english loudly and slowly with a cod italian accent, testiculating vigorously and pointing at the component in question, it's pretty much impossible to get any kind of joy out of Luigi and Massimo. That's assuming you are lucky enough to catch them open rather than closed for the endless supply of saints days, religious festivals and general manana-ness that proximity to the Mediterranean seems to induce. Lovely place and lovely food, though.

 

 

See, that's why I went for a French car this time.

The French are really going out of their way helping you out of a tight spot, their shops are always open and they reply to every email promptly.

Plus I don't like Italian food. In fact, I hate it. After a few days in Italy, I start looking forward to the Wipptalerhof, just across the border at the Brennero.

Whether I like the allegedly very good French food I'm unable to tell, since whenever I was in France none was served, so I never had the chance to try it.

[anonymous user]

  On 15/06/2017 at 21:30, Cleon-Fonte said:

Testiculating - definition - waving arms about whilst talking a load of bullocks.

[Felly Magic]

  On 15/06/2017 at 22:46, anonymous user said:

Testiculating - definition - waving arms about whilst talking a load of bullocks.

Sounds like Tory Bliar and Boris Johnson (ooooh satire)

[somewhatfoolish]

  On 15/06/2017 at 22:46, anonymous user said:

Testiculating - definition - waving arms about whilst talking a load of bullocks.

That's the badger; as demonstrated by all good southern europeans but taken to the level of fine art by the italians. They could be dickering over the price of a pound half-kilo of toms, how good the olive harvest will be this year or debating the particular shade of Grecian 2000 Silvio Berlusconi uses on his combover, it will be conducted with gusto, enthusiasm and enough hand-waving to power White Lees wind farm.

[Partridge]

  On 15/06/2017 at 21:56, Junkman said:

See, that's why I went for a French car this time.

The French are really going out of their way helping you out of a tight spot, their shops are always open and they reply to every email promptly.

Plus I don't like Italian food. In fact, I hate it. After a few days in Italy, I start looking forward to the Wipptalerhof, just across the border at the Brennero.

Whether I like the allegedly very good French food I'm unable to tell, since whenever I was in France none was served, so I never had the chance to try it.

For all the bad rap they get, the French are generally good eggs, I find.

[Sigmund Fraud]

  On 16/06/2017 at 15:30, Partridge said:

For all the bad rap they get, the French are generally good eggs, I find.

 

Agreed, but with two major exceptions : those who live in Paris and those who engineer French cars.

[Junkman]

And those who don't respond to emails.

So all of them.

[warren t claim]

I'm trying to imagine a car manufacturer trying to market a car with a column change manual in 2017. 

 

The second decade of the 21st century really is a boring place.

[Junkman]

In fact it became increasingly boring over the past 30 years and not only in the automotive sector.

The world, once a colourful place where people genuinely had a choice, was reduced to a shopping mall infested mishmash

and the biggest choice you have is basically between McDonalds and Burger King.

It's called Globalism and it's the most fascist thing that ever happened.

Sadly it's embraced by many, since it allows for a relatively lazy and uneventful existence within a perceived blanket of security.

 

What I like about these old cars and why I so cherish them, ist that you can see in every little detail how hard they fought for each individual customer.

The mid Fifties to the mid Eighties were certainly the heyday of the automobile. Never before or after were cars so recognizeable and individualistic.

[r.welfare]

What do we think was the last car offered with a manual column shift on the UK market - could it have been the 16 which was last sold here in '79?

[Junkman]

I'd say it is. It's also one of the very few cars that were ever sold with a five speed column change.

[Junkman]

Well, it's not.

The W124 was available with a column change manual until 1996.

 

 

It might not have been available in the UK though.

[Junkman]

This makes for another interesting* bit of trivia.

If you wanted to buy a new car with manual column shift in America after 1986

(why does this year always pop up as the watershed for things going downhill?),

you had to import it!

The last American car with manual column shift is the 1986 Ford Pick Up.

 

Your options would have been the W124 and some Japanese taxis made

by Nissan and Toyota, which retained manual column changes until 1999,

after which manual column change finally became something you do in Excel.

 

The only other cars I know besides the TX that have five speed column changes

are the 1958-61 Alfa Romeo 2000 Berlina and the 1961-71 Lancia Flavia Berlina.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

  On 17/06/2017 at 08:46, Junkman said:

In fact it became increasingly boring over the past 30 years and not only in the automotive sector.

The world, once a colourful place where people genuinely had a choice, was reduced to a shopping mall infested mishmash

and the biggest choice you have is basically between McDonalds and Burger King.

It's called Globalism and it's the most fascist thing that ever happened.

Sadly it's embraced by many, since it allows for a relatively lazy and uneventful existence within a perceived blanket of security.

 

What I like about these old cars and why I so cherish them, ist that you can see in every little detail how hard they fought for each individual customer.

The mid Fifties to the mid Eighties were certainly the heyday of the automobile. Never before or after were cars so recognizeable and individualistic.

 

 

Maybe, but it's certainly very easy to dine and live in The Reich (as well as France) without setting foot in McDonalds etc. A country based on fairly basic cuisine but bristling with very good eateries of all denominations. When I lived in Hamburg (making me an honorary Kraut) there was - believe it or not - an Indian restaurant owned and staffed by real Indians. Not Comanches but Sihks. Great food too.

 

I find the UK increasingly depressing and find also that there are shrinking pockets that contain nice folk and not aggressive, moronic Untermensch. Hence, after I have moved house later this year, I shall be saving hard to buy a 100 grand pile somwhere in the Rhineland. Decent sized house, old milking shed as a workshop, farting about with old cars and earning a modest living, mingling with the Master Race whom I have always found to be a fine body of volk.

 

Fuck, I've just found a nice old joint right next to Hahn airport (Lyinair) and it's 35 sheets to Stanstead and return on a weekday.

 

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/overseas-property/property-41413734.html

 

Cars? Very little new stuff interests me - C Class estate, a Cactus, 2 Series Coupe...err.........Alfa Giulia....umm.........fuck, that's it.