HMC- Mr Chowdhury’s Mercedes

[bezzabsa]

inside looks more Pajero spec than Shoggy... 99% of the shogs seem to be plastic and more plastic!!

[grogee]

On 10/05/2024 at 21:16, HMC said:

En route back my friend and local bargain basement motor trader Marko followed behind and circled around to allow a mutual inspection of oldskool fords

 

 

[S2000]

Love a Shogun, I had a 2002 SWB V6 Auto that I wish I had kept. The only mod I made was 10mm spacers to allow me to traverse speed bumps in and out of my village, also gave it a nicer aesthetic look (trying hard not to say stance!).

[Morris 63]

Watching this with great interest as I'm dailying my Shonky Shogun Classic 54 plate that was rescued from a friend's paddock. Classic is Mitsi speak for bASe it seems. 

You probably already know these love to rust. The filler neck in the rear arch being a favourite as it lets rust into the fuel pump and kills it. Mk3 pumps cost a fortune if borked!

Cracking things when working and nice result on the aircon.

[Morris 63]

Oh, I meant to say, since you're in the South West,  I've found Parts in Motion in Exeter good for parts, especially since they guarantee fitment if you give the reg number: 

https://www.partsinmotion.co.uk/

[HMC]

Annnnd its no longer ice cold! Did the gas go away? did something else happen?

Im currently watching the f1 with wine

But when the shogun goes back tomorrow for a tyre to the same place i will see what they think about the  aircon. I guess there was no gas in the system when checked as it escaped. But they pressure tested it before regassing? hmmmmm

[lesapandre]

[Morris 63]

2 hours ago, HMC said:

Annnnd its no longer ice cold! Did the gas go away? did something else happen?

There are pipes that run to the second, rear a/c unit on the LWB. Guess what, they rot. Quite a few folks blank them off either underneath or in the engine bay and just use the front a/c unit.

From the Shogun Facebook page:

"so far I’ve unconnected the rear pipes on the chassis rail just in front of the driver, and made some caps to blank them off, with o ring seals in and also fitted with Loctite 542. The HP union is M16x1.5 and the LP union is M24x1.5. Leaving the Loctite to go off overnight and I’ll get the garage to pressure test the system tomorrow, fingers crossed!! No doubt the blasted thing will have another leak elsewhere!!"

[yes oui si]

On 21/04/2024 at 16:31, jonathan_dyane said:

I had a neighbour with one the same colour, model and year however pretty rusty by the time it failed and MOT to be scrapped and replaced my a mk2 Fiesta by the late 90s

 

On 21/04/2024 at 16:41, wesacosa said:

My first car was an N reg Mk2

 

Pretty sure I've posted it before, but Fitha_oui_si had this properly council-spec N reg:

Sawn-off bumpers, square plate, spots, hot Crossflow and International tractor paint... 

[HMC]

Off for the weekend to france next but one, so have added the UK sticker to an already busy back end….

[Peter C]

Bon voyage!

[HMC]

Fleet news….

Mitsubishi is great. Aircon basically broken but i love the agricultural thumping 4 cylinder engine in it, and that it just works. No soft touch plastic nirvana, but hidden mission critical bits are carefully engineered. Land rover take note!

An Achilles heel on these is corrosion on the fuel filler neck causing water in the tank and fuel pump implosion. In 2021 this happened on this one and about £3600 going by the invoice later (wtf?) it was all sorted.

The escort has been sold to a fellow shiter, as has the focus.

What next? owning just the shogun didn't last long, and i had fun looking over all sorts of stuff. I nearly got an XJ12 series 3 but earlier memories of one i had in 2004 put me off. I also looked at the idea of a fiat 600 or an austin 10 that needed recommissioning but decided against.

The new “classic” arrives tomorrow. But what? 

Answers on a postcard. Clue- Pub landlord transportation.

 

[lesapandre]

4 minutes ago, HMC said:

Fleet news….

Mitsubishi is great. Aircon basically broken but i love the agricultural thumping 4 cylinder engine in it, and that it just works. No soft touch plastic nirvana, but hidden mission critical bits are carefully engineered. Land rover take note!

An Achilles heel on these is corrosion on the fuel filler neck causing water in the tank and fuel pump implosion. In 2021 this happened on this one and about £3600 going by the invoice later (wtf?) it was all sorted.

The escort has been sold to a fellow shiter, as has the focus.

What next? owning just the shogun didn't last long, and i had fun looking over all sorts of stuff. I nearly got an XJ12 series 3 but earlier memories of one i had in 2004 put me off. I also looked at the idea of a fiat 600 or an austin 10 that needed recommissioning but decided against.

The new “classic” arrives tomorrow. But what? 

Answers on a postcard. Clue- Pub landlord transportation.

 

Jaguar XJ6?

[Zelandeth]

5 minutes ago, HMC said:

Fleet news….

Mitsubishi is great. Aircon basically broken but i love the agricultural thumping 4 cylinder engine in it, and that it just works. No soft touch plastic nirvana, but hidden mission critical bits are carefully engineered. Land rover take note!

An Achilles heel on these is corrosion on the fuel filler neck causing water in the tank and fuel pump implosion. In 2021 this happened on this one and about £3600 going by the invoice later (wtf?) it was all sorted.

The escort has been sold to a fellow shiter, as has the focus.

What next? owning just the shogun didn't last long, and i had fun looking over all sorts of stuff. I nearly got an XJ12 series 3 but earlier memories of one i had in 2004 put me off. I also looked at the idea of a fiat 600 or an austin 10 that needed recommissioning but decided against.

The new “classic” arrives tomorrow. But what? 

Answers on a postcard. Clue- Pub landlord transportation.

 

1986 Lada Riva 1200L in appliance white.

That's what the pub landlord we lived round the corner from had when I was a kid.  Followed by an L plate Proton 1.3 MPi which they had for well over a decade.  Plus a string of other vehicles, but that one was the dependable daily which always stuck around.

[bunglebus]

Upgrade to a Ghia MK2 Escort 

[egg]

Who bought the Escort then?

[Morris 63]

Nice to have someone else foot the bill for the pump etc. Cost of pumps is horrendous,  hence why the old bus is worth well more than scrap price if it's got a good pump even if it fails the MOT through terminal rust. 

Going on what my mate's dad drove, as the owner of a free house when I was growing up in Somerset, car is either a Dolly Sprint, or a 635 csi!

[Dyslexic Viking]

5 minutes ago, egg said:

Who bought the Escort then?

 

[Jenson Velcro]

Jensen Interceptor or Jag XJS

[mk2_craig]

My mate Ian’s dad had an early Rover 820 fastback when he ran a pub, so one of those or maybe the facelift version, automatic of course. 

[Schaefft]

Pub landlord automatically means X300 or X308 XJ, crossing my fingers here!

If not, there was (and maybe still is) a rough XJR with long MOT on Ebay for 2k!

[mintwth]

 

[S2000]

Granada…..

[N Dentressangle]

59 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

Jaguar XJ6?

Has to be.

Many years ago when I lived in Bristol I once enjoyed* the sight of the landlord of this welcoming* establishment emerging at about 10am in his baggy Y fronts, fag dangling from gob, to fetch something from the gold XJ6 parked in front:

Not a pretty sight, either of them.

[Tayne]

1 hour ago, HMC said:

 

 

The new “classic” arrives tomorrow. But what? 

Answers on a postcard. Clue- Pub landlord transportation.

 

 

I think it depends where the pub is.

 

[Tayne]

What about that Matra Rancho that used to live outisde The Crown in Ipswich?

1980 Talbot Matra Rancho by Alan B Thompson, on Flickr

[MorrisItalSLX]

I’m going with an SD1

[grogee]

Could be a Leyland minibus. Plenty of pub landlords got into scrapes with the polis and were 'taken to the station to help with enquiries'

I hope it's BL whatever it is. The Roundel of Win

[2flags]

It's either a ULEZ refugee late 90's Corolla [seen loads of these about lately.] or a yank tank. 🙂

[gadgetgricey]

Rover P6