HMC- XK8 Starts!

[gadgetgricey]

Early start on an Easter Sunday, hope all goes well. 

[HMC]

Quick stop. Looks like the MX5 appreciation society has also decided to have a break…

 

[HillmanImp]

25 minutes ago, HMC said:

Quick stop. Looks like the MX5 appreciation society has also decided to have a break…

 

National Hairdressers convention this weekend 'innit. 

[hairnet]

will it be worth it?

way too early for a holiday day

 

[gadgetgricey]

Are we there yet Dad??

 

[HMC]

[High Jetter]

I think he's gone back to sleep.

[gadgetgricey]

Huggy????

[HMC]

[HMC]

[HMC]

[BorniteIdentity]

Murica!!

[gadgetgricey]

Blimey o reilly. Mortgage to get it back home.

Well played though. Hope Eddy was ok saying goodbye to the old girl.

[brownnova]

No way has Huggy actually departed from Eddy!!!!

[SiC]

I reckon it's on hire as no way could Eddy really let go of huggy!

[SiC]

Also filling a Yank Tank up at 182.9p/l services... Someone must be a very wealthy individual!

[NorfolkNWeigh]

3 minutes ago, SiC said:

Also filling a Yank Tank up at 182.9p/l services... Someone must be a very wealthy individual!

That’ll be for normal , Huggy would want the £2.00 per litre stuff,presumably.

[Matty]

27 minutes ago, HMC said:

Don't know where you buy your balls from but I want a pair. Awesome 👌

[Matty]

Just realised which car it is. Qudos for taking it on but im sure eddy has a heavy heart

[LightBulbFun]

26 minutes ago, HMC said:

Oh fuck me! its actually happening?! its always been one of those things that have been talked about but I never expected it to actually happen!

well I look forward to this new chapter in Huggies life and I hope it continues to stay in the forum for many years to come!

it would be really awesome to see the worst of the bodywork and such tidied up a bit  

and I hope @eddyramrod is able to visit from time to time, or get another suitably big US wafty barge  

[gadgetgricey]

19 minutes ago, SiC said:

Also filling a Yank Tank up at 182.9p/l services... Someone must be a very wealthy individual!

I think Huggy only takes Super unleaded , so probably 195.9 ish ,    

Eddy posted the other day that he filled up from 3/4 to a full tank and was £75.......

Try and coast behind a Sainsburys lorry on the way home...

[barrett]

Super low-compression, massive slow-revving American engine which was designed to run on dog piss?? It definitely doesn't 'need' super, or E5, or any of that nonsense.

Glad to see this go to a new home, I did rather think Eddy might be stuck with it forever.

[SiC]

Apart from the possibility of needing low ethanol, I don't see why this would need super? 87AKI is the lowest Gas grade, roughly equivalent to 91RON and I'd have thought it would have taken that. Our 95RON would be roughly equivalent to USA 91AKI. @PhilAwill probably know more what this could take.

The 10% Ethanol content wouldn't be a too big concern in damaging any of the fuel lines/pumps/floats/carbs as it'd have been burnt off by the time he's home. 🤣

[Ghosty]

 

Good luck, you have balls of steel. (And cornflakes). 

[Ghosty]

8 hours ago, HMC said:

Quick stop. Looks like the MX5 appreciation society has also decided to have a break…

 

As nobody has noticed - that's a bloody M Roadster on the left! The floppy top version of the clownshoe M Coupe. Extremely rare, HML says 300 on the road.

[Yoss]

5 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

As nobody has noticed - that's a bloody M Roadster on the left! The floppy top version of the clownshoe M Coupe. Extremely rare, HML says 300 on the road.

Rare? 300? I don't think I've ever owned a car of which there are 300 left on the road. OK, slight exaggeration for comic* effect but certainly not for a long long time. Last time I did was probably Austin 1800s in the late 90s.

[eddyramrod]

Yes, it's Huggy.  Yes I have a heavy heart, and will for some time I suspect, but the contents of my new thread will soften the blow somewhat.  I managed not to cry, at least.

 

[PhilA]

2 hours ago, SiC said:

Apart from the possibility of needing low ethanol, I don't see why this would need super? 87AKI is the lowest Gas grade, roughly equivalent to 91RON and I'd have thought it would have taken that. Our 95RON would be roughly equivalent to USA 91AKI. @PhilAwill probably know more what this could take.

The 10% Ethanol content wouldn't be a too big concern in damaging any of the fuel lines/pumps/floats/carbs as it'd have been burnt off by the time he's home. 🤣

Correct, that's a Fuel Crisis car, designed to run on 87 (R+M)/2, which is roughly equivalent as @SiC said to 91 over there.

Put the cheapest fuel you can in, you can give it a bit more timing with E10 but just watch because it likes to vapor lock more; it certainly doesn't need super, unless that's E0 which will help in standing traffic.

 

Phil

[SiC]

31 minutes ago, PhilA said:

it certainly doesn't need super, unless that's E0 which will help in standing traffic

Esso is about the only guaranteed petrol provider that says their super is E0 over here. Even then, some areas with Esso are E5. Everyone else's Super is pretty much E5. 

[HMC]

Back! 
Was a pleasure to finally meet Eddie. I think we first chatted a couple of years ago about huggy. I decided to be brave, and You Only Live Once! 
 

I did a sort of Cannonball run (“sea to shining sea” )of sorts from the Atlantic Ocean to the Irish Sea- and back with a relay kindly provided by Eddie.

IIRC a coupe de  ville won one year. My time at the wheel of huggy was taken much more sedately, but it was still a great road trip. I started off a bit scared to be honest as I pictured nasty traffic and overheating but it was a joy. I loosened up a bit and when sounds of the 70s came on on radio 2 I started to relax and get into the zone of rolling a shabby chic symbol of American excess. 

I need to work on my wollard! 
Plans are to have it as a rolling project. It’s very usable but I think I will need to locate my brave pills at some stage!