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[Steve79]

That dash lift says ROVER 800

Your not wrong. The gap is soo big you can put your whole hand in there.

 

One more pic before collection and new thread.

[stuboy]

Just realized that Wobbler's Nippa is Maidstone registered, are the dealer stickers intact?

Maybe from here?

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Near tanners scrapyard?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Is that Eddys Rover??

[stuboy]

It's a boy!

Austin Michael Raymond Harris was born at 2352 last night and home by 0400 this morning.

He's bloody ace, as was MrsH during the entire process and the entire staff of the Birthing Centre at Treliske hospital.

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Seems to be new thing to have..lol

[fatharris]

So adorable! Congratulations!

 

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[Steve79]

Is that Eddys Rover??

I've got it off a deceased estate. Family bought it for the old boy from somewhere up north back in january last year but he passed away in may and has been pretty much unused since then.

[Brodders]

Nice!

 

This past week of Rover ownership has made me pencil in one of these as the next crusier when the 200 inevitably fails it's next MOT. Or a plush 600. Dunno.

Ha ha, you're one of us now.

 

A whole new world of pain awaits you, but you won't care because the intoxicating blend of wood, chrome and leather makes you believe it is worth it.

 

Welcome to Rover ownership.

 

 

 

 

 

Congratulations by the way Fatharris.

[vulgalour]

Keep finding pictures of basey 90s Holdens and I shan't lie, a wagon like this has STRONG appeal.

 

[Shep Shepherd]

Managed to get my ancient Pure Highway DAB car adaptor working after a long period of being in my box of discarded tech, due to it deciding not to pick up any stations one day; it simply needed a factory reset:

 

 

Should go well in the waggins, especially as it has a mag-mount aerial

[MarvinsMom]

further mini tinkering..... and another fruitless day at the unit.

 

finally got both front hubs are finally off, we are going to fit new ball joints and bearings, but i think Goliath or Geoff Capes fitted the old ones.

 

with the ball joint splitter on it, the ball joints did not want to come apart, but some how we managed it. we have found that the outer cv boots are shot, and the track control arms are less than clever. great......

 

the previous owner had bought the car a moulded carpet set. i've trial fitted it, and while the colour is nice, it don't come anywhere near fitting properly cos its intended for an MPI,

 

so the carpet has a cut out for the fuse box next the the drivers door, cut out for the seatbelts in the wrong places and a mouded lump for the airbag ECU that my '74 doesn't have. so new carpet needs to be added to the list of stuff needed. along with drive shaft boots and new track contol arms, and i've no idea how on earth we are going to change those.... 

 

fuck.

 

you know those ideas you have that which seemd to be a good idea at the time,but infact are not?

 

yeap, buying that friggin' mini was one of those......

[panhard65]

Had a succesful day yesterday selling stuff. I sold a mobylette that I brought back from France for a nice little profit then sold my lads MG Midget. It had sat around for 6 months when his insurance ran out. I have also got rid of the big heap of spares I had for the Midget and hopefully the bloke who bought my 204 is coming back today to collect all the spares that went with it. It will be nice to have some space in the workshop again. I must try not to fill it up with more crap though.

[Christine]

Excited! A whopping  8 cylinders     ,and less than 3 litres ... And i'm  and the only bidder ,  I don't think anyone else has seen it 

3hrs to go  and i'm still the only bidder @ 99p      fingers crossed no one else has seen it  due to crap title !! My wife ain't at all happy...

[Angrydicky]

Registered 500 miles away in Maidstone 18 years ago so quite long odds, I would say.

GA on the old registration system was Glasgow.

[Angrydicky]

I've driven past John Childs Perodua dealership, which is out in the Kent countryside not a million miles from Ashford. It's a fantastic looking old place, with lots of signage and lots of knackered Peroduas out back (and decent ones in the showroom). I reckon he would be a good source of hard-to-find parts.

[Six-cylinder]

3hrs to go  and i'm still the only bidder @ 99p      fingers crossed no one else has seen it  due to crap title !! My wife ain't at all happy...

 

Ferrari do a  3 litre V8, but so do BMW!

[egg]

I've driven past John Childs Perodua dealership, which is out in the Kent countryside not a million miles from Ashford. It's a fantastic looking old place, with lots of signage and lots of knackered Peroduas out back (and decent ones in the showroom). I reckon he would be a good source of hard-to-find parts.

Not sure if I have or not, it's vaguely familiar, I'm sure me or other Kent shiter's would happily have a nose for our Perodua fans!

[MorrisItalSLX]

Keep finding pictures of basey 90s Holdens and I shan't lie, a wagon like this has STRONG appeal.

 

 

Apoligies in advance for pouring petrol on your desire fire 

 

 

 

 

 

[Skizzer]

Excited! A whopping  8 cylinders     ,and less than 3 litres ... And i'm  and the only bidder ,  I don't think anyone else has seen it 

  

3hrs to go  and i'm still the only bidder @ 99p      fingers crossed no one else has seen it  due to crap title !! My wife ain't at all happy...

Two Vauxhall Corsas?

[dollywobbler]

I've driven past John Childs Perodua dealership, which is out in the Kent countryside not a million miles from Ashford. It's a fantastic looking old place, with lots of signage and lots of knackered Peroduas out back (and decent ones in the showroom). I reckon he would be a good source of hard-to-find parts.

 

I did enquire about service parts when I first got the Nippa, but they seemed to be about twice the price of Ebay, so that was the end of that. Hard to justify splashing out on expensive bits for a £300 car.

[Six-cylinder]

  

Two Vauxhall Corsas?

 

Be carefull or you could end up with a 2 litre 6 cyl!

[fordperv]

It's a boy!

 

Austin Michael Raymond Harris was born at 2352 last night and home by 0400 this morning.

 

He's bloody ace, as was MrsH during the entire process and the entire staff of the Birthing Centre at Treliske hospital.

 

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Congratulations

[DodgeRover]

Keep finding pictures of basey 90s Holdens and I shan't lie, a wagon like this has STRONG appeal.

 

Good news there is/ was at least one in the UK and it's in white too. The V6 isn't as bad on fuel as you would imagine either.

[Jams]

Had a lovely lie in this morning! Got up had breakfast saw it was a nice morning and decided to refit the interior on the civic.

 

Newly acquired front seats in all clips back went to pop back seat in and I got a wiff of what I’m trying to get rid of!

 

Two Alsatians that must of smoked 40 a day! Ha so back out with the seats soaked boot carpet rear seats and matts in cleaning solution and scrubbed them. Yuk

[Tayne]

3hrs to go  and i'm still the only bidder @ 99p      fingers crossed no one else has seen it  due to crap title !! My wife ain't at all happy...

Well?

[Christine]

Still leading....trembling and smoking a lot of fags  . ...  Having second thoughts , If i win can someone help me load ?  I'm not looking at ebay site until 1pm ,too nervous

[Christine]

Fuck , i just had to look.....I'm still the only bidder and winning 

[Christine]

I lost ! by a £..  

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sold-as-a-pair-for-spares-project-2-Allett-36-in-Cylinder-Mowers-1967-1975-/222814002211?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&nma=true&si=t%252BGNbK3WAzitwFgd5OBXu7dCZTU%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

[fatharris]

Congratulations/commiseratuons!

 

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[dollywobbler]

Actually isn't raining, so I emptied the garage.

 

As I want the 2CV back on the road, that meant getting the Invacar out of the way. I cleverly* bodged the broken transmission mount back together with cable ties to allow me to move it.

 

Then I had room to manoeuvre the 2CV and get it jacked up, so I could adjust the handbrake. Now much better. I also made a bracket for the tiny li-ion battery, so that's now actually bolted in. Thought the MOT man might prefer that to tying it in with baler twine...

 

Also greased the kingpins, before finally losing my rag with my utterly shit grease gun. For every few squirts of grease you get, there's about ten minutes of pissing about trying to bleed the sodding thing. I need a better one.

 

Then rolled the 2CV outside. Had to resort to chucking a bit of fuel into the carb, but when I took the top off the air filter, I found this...

 

Seems I likely did bring some little mouse friends back from Sussex then, and they've transferred vehicle...

 

2CV has now had a driveway test run to clean the brakes up. Will get it booked in for a test...

[richardmorris]

Lovely day today so I went for a walk round Farley heath. Car was steamed up when I got back so once home decided to check if the carmats were damp. Well they weren’t damp. They were drowning. Removed them, squeezed out about two litres of water and they’re now leaning against a radiator. Dried the floors and used some wd40 to clean up the oxygen sensor connections that are helpfully placed under the driver’s mat.

 

It’s the one thing I dislike about running an older car as daily.