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[Semi-C]

D'ya mean this fella?...

[320touring]

"I'mma Stanley Baxter the fuckers!"

*wiggles wig*

[dollywobbler]

Mr Makita is your friend for track rod end nuts !

 

Also, always give threads a good going with a wire brush. Penetrating oil always helps, but manky threads will always jam up.

[17-Coffees]

Currently with the 316 at Crathis Vintage car show today, event organisers at registration seemed cool with its, people in th same row as me have a glancing "Wat" look.

I've gone as far to have a print off saying how the car is 'rare' and such, least I'm trying to fit in...and gave it a quick jetwash before coming.

 

Feels good to be driving it again though, worlds away from the Abarth!

[ruffgeezer]

As is the best preparation for shitefest, I am away on holiday until Friday and so today investigated a Welsh car boot sale...

 

 

This was parked at the entrance..

 

It's a lovely looking thing but if it were mine that steering wheel would be getting in the sea sharpish.

 

 

I bought a tent ready for shitefest and a new tyre for the Volvo, the same brand as it already has for £20 nearly new. Tidy.

[Bucketeer]

 

Perhaps this would be a better question on a separate thread?

Please no. The maximum acceptable number of 'what should I buy' threads (zero) has long since been exceeded.

[Kiltox]

I finally have a car that qualifies for classic insurance! Just had a very reasonable quote for my R8 cabriolet

[beko1987]

I bought a car vacuum that clips onto a car battery from the car boot today, it blows too but not quite enough for my air bed. But good enough, taking it off is the problem as loads of air passes out of the valve. Need to cancel the bid I've got on a 12v airbed pump later, unless anyone will want it?

[beko1987]

Couldn't cancel the bid so won it and paid for it. Funds are getting low now!

[dollywobbler]

Gave the 2CV its second wash since returning to the road in January. I'm attending a local show tomorrow, you know, stationary engines, arts and crafts and that sort of thing, so I thought I'd better scrape some of the French flies off at last...

 

Still need to paint the wheels, rear wings and bootlid, and sort out side stripes. I seem to have lost momentum on that since getting it back on the road...

[Roverageous]

Just a funny little story.

 

I'm 28, and have a great relationship with my parents however I now live in Bucks and they live back up in East Yorks. I talk to them most days, but occasionally when work gets hectic it might go 3-4 days without us talking.

 

My Dad is to blame for my Rover / BL tendencies as we had a Montego Countryman and later a Rover 820SLi when I was growing up. I loved these cars. Anyway, recently, he and my Mum decided they only needed one car and bought a brand new Meriva. It's a nice little car, roomy, comfortable and easy to get in and out of for my Mum's slightly dodgy back. Sorted.

 

A couple of months ago they decided that one car wasn't cutting it, and really they could do with adding a stablemate. I suggested a 75 - which was met with an instant "no". They wanted something small, cheap & not likely to cost a lot. Late 00's FIAT Panda seemed to fit the bill, and this is what they were looking at.

 

In the mean time I had my eye on a Rover 75 tourer and man maths were in progress to add to my own fleet. Silver, 53 reg with pretty much the full options list ticked - £720. As I said I had a busy few days and by the time I got round to enquiring it had been sold. To a gentleman in East Yorks...

 

Yep... my Dad gazumped me. I don't care though, and I'm glad he came to his senses! He's absolutely delighted with it & it really does sound a good'un!

[EssDeeWon]

^^ Brilliant, what are the chances of that.

[RobT]

Went to Brands Hatch today to watch old chod on the GP circuit. All of my on track pics are rubbish, but here's a JPS Lotus and a McLaren.

 

 

 

Stuff in the paddock that took my fancy.

 

 

The Metro looked great bombing along whilst being chased down Hawthorn Hill by Capris and SD1s.

 

 

 

 

Mrs T came along for a change and enjoyed it. She gets bored within minutes at static shows (hence why I go on my own) but today was a winner. On the way home she told me of a work colleagues friends brother, or something, that's got an old car rotting away in front of their slightly dishevelled bungalow. I decided to take a look and was expecting a Mk4 Escort or similar. But no, it's weapons grade...

 

 

 

Judging by the moss growth it must have sat idle for atleast 10 years. Or a case of bought cheap in the 90s (did Ro80s go through a banger stage?) engine blew shortly after and has been sat ever since!

 

Oh, and this Alfa looked the biz. Preetty car...

 

[cort16]

I've been shuffling this thing in and out the lockup for months and I'm at a loss at what to do with it.  I had the dent in the door fixed during, which the gear linkage bust. The mot is about to run out, even though I've bodged the linkage back on it really needs a new one the exhaust is blowing at the down pipe.

I'm not overly keen to spend any more money on it right now as I've spent a fortune on it already but  without an mot it's basically worthless. I might just leave it in there until I can bring myself to do something about it.

 

[Kiltox]

OMG BARN FIND in a few years time?

[cort16]

I actually clay bar and polished it just before the linkage went. You couldn't tell now like.

[Kiltox]

I'm not ready to face another Panda else you'd have a PM, always fancied a 100HP but the last Panda almost killed me

[Asimo]

To Gaydon today, to meet up with some other Insight folk. It was hot!

 

 

Nearly a million miles total for these 6 cars, 305000 the highest, 45000 the lowest.

 

 

Not been to the museum before. If I could take just one car away, it would be this Rover P6BS

 

 

I've been fascinated by this car since reading about it in Motor Sport, must be nearly 50 years ago.

 

 

Rectangular headlights were unusual in 1967. I wonder what these were from; Renault?

[cort16]

I've had loads of older high end cars and never had any issues. Then I buy a fiat Panda and ..

[dollywobbler]

Mrs T came along for a change and enjoyed it. She gets bored within minutes at static shows (hence why I go on my own) but today was a winner. 

 

I'm with Mrs T on this one. Static shows do bore the hell out of me. That's what makes Shitefest great, in that there's usually stuff driving about. 

 

Says the man who is spending tomorrow in a field with a load of non-moving cars - bar the traditional lunchtime parade. I really do prefer events where the cars move though, otherwise my attention span is done in after about five minutes. NEC is slightly different, because I tend to distract myself by talking to folk.

[beko1987]

I'm with Mrs T on this one. Static shows do bore the hell out of me. That's what makes Shitefest great, in that there's usually stuff being pushed out of the mud by many people

 

Says the man who is spending tomorrow in a field with a load of non-moving cars - bar the traditional lunchtime parade. I really do prefer events where the cars move though, otherwise my attention span is done in after about five minutes. NEC is slightly different, because I tend to distract myself by talking to folk.

FTFY. We have a rally stage this year too...

[dollywobbler]

FTFY. We have a rally stage this year too...

 

Eh? What have I missed?! Am I bringing the wrong car?

[RobT]

Must admit I'm the same. I probably only do two or three static shows a year these days, on my own obviously, and they're BL related. When I'm bored with looking at cars I just wander around observing the top drawer fruitcakes only BMC/BL shows seem to attract.

[egg]

Spotting a rare car actually in use on the road is much much more fun!

[Justin Case]

What was going on in Shropshire today? Coming back from Mid-Wales early evening, as soon as we hit the Shrewsbury By-pass we saw a Kubelwagen and two jeeps going the other way, followed a few minutes later by an EC series ERF artic with an older ERF piggybacking it, in convoy with a 50s AEC with  drawbar trailer, all in a neat dark blue livery. Icing on the cake was a bright yellow muscle car and to cap it all a Renault 15 on a trailer, although that might not have been part of the fun. A look through event listings in Old Glory sugests that the lorries might have come from Gaydon, but otherwise there must have been quite an intersting show somewhere in the region if they were all returning from the same place

[andy18s]

Weston Park usually has something going on

[Six-cylinder]

Must admit I'm the same. I probably only do two or three static shows a year these days, on my own obviously, and they're BL related. When I'm bored with looking at cars I just wander around observing the top drawer fruitcakes only BMC/BL shows seem to attract.

I never get bored with looking at BL cars, hold on it is me you are observing!

[trigger]

OMG SD1 and Metro, your spoiling us Rob!

[beko1987]

Eh? What have I missed?! Am I bringing the wrong car?

The Bubble Car Museum - situated in an attractive tree lined area, our rally field can be hired for day trips or events

Facilities for Event & Rally Organisers

paddocks and one acre rally field next to the museum building.

electrical hookups.

fresh water, loos and showers, disabled loo and toilet/disposal facilities washup area

Indoor area for hire for evenings.

café and Farm shop as well as museum shop..

catering facilities can be arranged, we can quote for a very reasonable barbecue.

information on B&Bs, pubs and shops in the area, local attractions and run out routes.

The Langrick, Boston area offers a number of interesting runs, and the camp site

makes an excellent centre for exploring Lincolnshire. Attractions include the Guildhall in Boston, Sibsey Trader Windmill (about 5miles away), the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Visitor Centre at Conningsby, the picturesque village of Tattershall with its famous castle (both around 7 miles away) and The Aviation Heritage Museum with the Lancaster ‘Just Jane’at East Kirby.

 

I presume Moog has booked the rally field... I'll be in an auto lard car, your smx should be fine.

 

Or maybe you should bring the 2cv...

[Noel Tidybeard]

This evening I was coming back along Warwick Road, Birmingham, in the Tyseley area and I noticed an establishment with a row of Rovers parked along the front, and although I only got a glance they appeared to be for sale. I could see a couple of 75s and a MG ZS among them. Looked interesting, does that sound familiar to anyone?

 

yes thats Metro Man- used to be in smelly poak

 

https://www.facebook.com/Metroman-late-rover-spares-112886128744406/