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[Noel Tidybeard]

Picked up the cz tonight

 

DSC_0487 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

DSC_0493 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

Decided on going back to the original colour on the 18...

 

DSC_0496 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

OMG ITS A PICASSO

[New POD]

Anyone recommend a travel insurance company that doesn't load premiums for minor pre-existing medical conditions.

 

Ie someone who has had ME (Chronic Fatigue) for whom the holiday will involve frequent opportunities to rest

and someone who has recently been treated for slipped discs, for whom the holiday will involve frequent opportunities to lie down.

[vulgalour]

 

Without me losing my temper or being all emotional, I've decided the little Renault 6TL is NOT a keeper.

 

So, if you are seriously interested in purchasing it then do make me an offer somewhere in the region of £600 for it.  I don't think this is unreasonable for a VED-exempt car with a load of new parts fitted even though I can't get it to run yet.  If/when I get it through an MoT then I'll want considerably more.  I cannot deliver it, buyer has to collect, but I expect you could A-frame it since it has brand spanking new tyres on all round.  I'd also consider a swap for something of pre-1980 vintage and similar size providing it wasn't full of rot.

 

I'll keep plugging away at it and will try and get it MoT'd but I've completely lost my love for it.  I want to focus on the Princess and the Rover instead.

 

I'm not putting it on eBay, etc. because I'm not in a rush to sell, this is just a polite notice really.

[alf892]

I went to assemble a boat engine for father Alf today.......a 1600 cross flow.........mounted in a 1959 boat. I didn't know they did them that early? Father Alf swears blind it is original engine though.

[taxi paul]

Ordered my rear light for my jap auto barge. £115.00 ,not too bad. In other news my mates two year old vivaro minibus has been in vauxhall main dealer for three days now trying to sort out limp mode. Turns out there diagnostic doo da is not speaking to the car. So they get another one apparently and now his van won't speak to this machine. All moderns etc. Also they have given him a corsa courtesy car to run round his family of nine.

[Richard]

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[DodgeRover]

Anyone recommend a travel insurance company that doesn't load premiums for minor pre-existing medical conditions.

 

Ie someone who has had ME (Chronic Fatigue) for whom the holiday will involve frequent opportunities to rest

and someone who has recently been treated for slipped discs, for whom the holiday will involve frequent opportunities to lie down.

Nationwide were reasonable for me no increase for pre existing medical conditions as long you sign a waiver to say you aren't covered in the event of a claim relating to them or only a small amount for full cover.

[ruffgeezer]

Name that shite, dug out if the garden model car edition;

 

[Ghosty]

Mk1 Golf?

[Noel Tidybeard]

 

The original OHV three main bearing Kent engine appeared in the 1959 Anglia with a capacity of 996.70 cc developing 39 bhp (29 kW) at 5,000 rpm - unusually high for the time. With a 3-3/16 in (80.9625 mm) bore and 48.40 mm (1.906 in) stroke, combined with independent (non-siamesed) four intake and four exhaust ports, it was a departure from traditional undersquare English engine design.

 

The same engine, with its bore unchanged, but with longer 65.00 mm and 72.75 mm stroke and thus larger capacities were subsequently used in the Ford Consul Classic (1339 cc) and Consul Capri (1339 cc and 1498 cc), the Mk1 and early Mk2 Cortinas (58.20 mm stroke 1198 cc, 63.00 mm stroke five main bearing 1297 cc and the 1498 cc), and the early Corsairs

A 1967 redesign gave it a cross-flow type cylinder head, hence the Kent's alternative name Ford Crossflow

The Crossflow featured a change in combustion chamber design, using a Heron type combustion chamber in the top of the piston rather than in the head. The head itself was flat with each engine capacity (1098 and 1298 cc) featuring different pistons with different sized bowls in 681F and 701M blocks. The 1599cc 691M block had the stronger 'square' bearing caps later used in the 711M, and small combustion chambers in the near-flat head (the bulk of the volume being in the piston bowl). In 1970, the new A711 block for 1298 cc and A711M block for 1599 cc were introduced with thicker block wall, square main bearing caps, large diameter cam followers and wider cam lobes, with the latter block having a 7/16" taller deck height, together with a return to the flat head. These changes represented a significant improvement in the reliability of the engines, and the blocks are commonly referred to as '711M' blocks.

A redesigned version of the Kent engine was conceived to suit transverse installation in 1976, primarily for the Mk.1 Ford Fiesta, although base model versions of the Escort Mk.III also used the engine. This derivative would go through two major revamps in 1988 and 1995 and would be a mainstay of Ford's entry level compact range for nearly 25 years.

 

[hairnet]

I went to assemble a boat engine for father Alf today.......a 1600 cross flow.........mounted in a 1959 boat. I didn't know they did them that early? Father Alf swears blind it is original engine though.

nope

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Kent_engine

 

crossflow from 67 - pre didnt go that big

[xtriple]

Went and did photo-shoot with Mark. Went to an industrial estate round the back of Newton Abbot that was quite pretty/odd/strange and he took hundreds of pictures (literally) and I took a few of him taking pictures of my car... all for the article.

 

He has posted a couple of pics and they are good, but I don't get it! Apparently, these are pictures that can't possibly exist as sharp focus on a tiny bit of the front then everything else is out of focus. I can do that easily, anytime and with any old camera I don't need multi thousand pound wiz-bang stuff to do it either!

 

Each picture is a composite of about 60 shots! It's a photographers thing apparently....

[richardmorris]

Did you get paid?

 

 

I've nothing to report apart from the merc clicking over 110000 miles and me flooring the pedal at a set of lights on the a322 to get away from some barried golf. Wa hey, it flew. Surprised said golf driver from his expression in my mirror. Twenty years older but still faster!

[danthecapriman]

Spent the whole day near enough sorting the rusty rear floor pan on the Volvo. It was far worse than I thought and I've never seen rust like this on a Volvo 740 before!

The worst is sorted now, I've chopped it all out, made new panels from steel sheet and it's welded in now nice and solid. Just got to weld one seat mount back in place, dress the welds a bit and then seam seal and paint. I'll use black stonechip on this since it'll be under the carpets.

Hopefully tomorrow I'll get the last couple of small holes sorted then it should be good for an MOT.

 

The moral to this is not to ignore water leaks! This has clearly been letting water in for some time before I bought the car. The leak was the front fresh air vents in the footwell, fixed a few weeks ago.

 

I've got mild sun burn to my face now and I'm aching like fuck from laying awkwardly under the car. I was absolutely filthy too after I'd finished! All worth it in the end though.

[trigger]

I drove to Brighton today and had a mega grin when i saw a red A reg Datsun Priare still on it's tin rivit digit plates, you just never see class like that, sadly no photo due to new phone laws but i did get one of this pretty DS in the city centre

 

[forddeliveryboy]

I've nothing to report apart from the merc clicking over 110000 miles and me flooring the pedal at a set of lights on the a322 to get away from some barried golf. Wa hey, it flew. Surprised said golf driver from his expression in my mirror. Twenty years older but still faster!

There's as much* satisfaction to be had allowing these sorts to think they've 'won', only to reel them then wave goodbye on on the next winding road.

[reb]

I just saw a saxo with a police style megaphone drive past and shout "squawk squawk ye seagull bastard aye" at a seagull merrily sitting in the middle of the road eating chips.

 

 

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[17-Coffees]

I just saw a saxo with a police style megaphone drive past and shout "squawk squawk ye seagull bastard aye" at a seagull merrily sitting in the middle of the road eating chips.

 

 

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That also translate to "Welcome to Scotland" if im correct on my seagull to English translation... 

[fordperv]

Sorted the funeral directors for father fps funeral yesterday, he will be making his final destination in a ford, unfortunately its a modern but at least its a ford, i dont think he would have forgiven me if it was anything else, my mum didnt want to go in a limo though she wants my saph as he loved it

[dollywobbler]

No obligation to have a limo. Saph would be a nice touch I think.

 

In completely opposite news, here's me driving Six-Cylinder's Alfa Romeo V6. Sorry about the rev limiter...

[Six-cylinder]

No obligation to have a limo. Saph would be a nice touch I think.

 

In completely opposite news, here's me driving Six-Cylinder's Alfa Romeo V6. Sorry about the rev limiter...

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[Six-cylinder]

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[Six-cylinder]

Now it has come up in my quote post!

[dollywobbler]

The first link didn't work for some reason. Worked everywhere else I posted it. This forum doesn't seem to like YouTube short links.

[Six-cylinder]

The 156 is resting this weekend because it has so many tools in it ready for Wednesday planned attempt to start the BX GTi and Stag.

[hairnet]

 

all the cliches happened

 

prreeeettty carrrr

 

it sings

 

awwww gorgeous

 

interior italian leather fap

 

italian driving position - ape

 

waiting for the window to go up i was waiting for the electrics slagging - oh wait there it was

 

 

 

chris - hope he paid for the petrol and the clutch lmao

 

edit - oh no he wants one - is the cylinder fleet down by one

 

ian yer a madman

 

edit 2 - oh hes fell in love - oh and there goes the limiter - hooligan

[hairnet]

The 156 is resting this weekend because ian kicked the arse out of it ready for Wednesday planned attempt to replace the clutch and rev limiter

ftfy

[brickwall]

Auto leccy man visited last night. We're up and running again...I missed an earth on the fuel pump circuit.

 

He's was really nice and very good, so if someone needs contacts for a guy in based in Lenzie, Kirky area let me know.

[Six-cylinder]

ftfy

The clutch bites high but never slips, the rev limiter is just practice to know you can't use full throttle all the time!

[richardmorris]

Cars and coffee at Chester castle.