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[BorniteIdentity]

2 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

It's here!

The seller was a wee bit late as the OSF caliper was binding but I was not put off as both my previous 75s did this.o

Off out to the shops now.

I actually logged on just to look for pics of this animal. Looks friggin’ bangin’. 

[richardmorris]

All I managed to do today was get rid of one of the spare 2cv seat frames to another local club member who arrived in his black and red Charleston. Mild excitement as he took a wrong turn on the drive and ended up speaking to the royal protection squad on the intercom. Apparently they knew where he wanted to go as they told him “ you’ll be wanting the other 2cv owner”. He was on the cctv too!

 

[wuvvum]

5 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

It's here!

The seller was a wee bit late as the OSF caliper was binding but I was not put off as both my previous 75s did this.o

Off out to the shops now.

That is a seriously smart looking motor.  I'm mildly jealous.

[00833827]

Kangoo has a leak. But its not engine oil. Its one of the hydraulics. I gave it a spin around some lanes yesterday and got a stop warning along with the handbrake light so im thinking its brake fluid. Its stopping fine and the light went off again so i better investigate it.

Also its difficult to start first time the last few days.  

I pumped the tyres today. Thats all i have done to it so far

[Tadhg Tiogar]

23 hours ago, Ghosty said:

..... some dolt who was interested until he asked me how many previous owners it had had. 

Eight is apparently 'too many' on a 35 year old car. ...

If it's any consolation, I'm the CX's 7th owner in 32 years, so I'd say that's average. 

[Split_Pin]

8 hours ago, Mrs6C said:

That Mercedes behind it is in the same reg. no. series as my Cadillac!

That Cadillac is lovely. I'll bet it wafts like a good'un.

[Ghosty]

8 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

If it's any consolation, I'm the CX's 7th owner in 32 years, so I'd say that's average. 

I distinctly agree with you and don't see the issue. 

 

[Burnside]

More work on the Stilo SW. As the nearside door was getting harder to close yesterday. Which is courtesy of some previous bodger. So I decided today to try and fix it, before it fell off. 

Ignore the bolt on the left as I'd already undone it at this stage. The other bolt above on the lower hinge was already loose, because it's way too long! Which in turn was causing the door to drop when opened. 

So after failing to unscrew it, as I couldn't get a spanner or socket on the other end to stop it spinning. I decided to bite the bullet and take the door off. Not what I wanted to do today, but needs must. 

Door off and the bolt was then easily removed. So with a new bolt and alot of faffing. The door was bolted back together.

Only problem was the door was even worse! 

Annoyingly this ment I had to take the door off again. As after some head scratching. It turned out that the upper hinge, was also loose and missing a bolt from inside the A pillar.

At this point I was expecting a Curry for dinner, so didn't take any more pics in the rush to get it back together. 

 Thankfully got it back together ok this time and got to enjoy my curry. 

I'll have to take it off again. As the current door has a ruddy big dent in it. Annoying I have a replacement door but it's miles away. 

On the plus side, least the hinges should be ok for next time. 

[mitsisigma01]

Here's a pride to be proud of ???

[loserone]

I hope that's a B6 turbo

[ProgRocker]

Week off work, Almera N16 aircon stopped working just during our hot weather recently so I'm at a Wilco Fast Fit getting it checked out. Aircon has never been recharged since my ownership of 9.5 years.

Apparently there's a leak so there's an extra charge to investigate. Given its been so long I'm happy to pay the extra.

[Philmanns]

On 5/12/2020 at 10:41 PM, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Ah now, if only I could haul one up to Bradford to bring that Ro80 home....

Have you bought one then Ivan?

[richardmorris]

being photographed for auction I expect. Certainly there are a lot of people about outside not distancing themselves.

 

[richardmorris]

Lamborghini for the field of dreams.

[richardmorris]

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, Philmanns said:

Have you bought one then Ivan?

Even if I have, I have no means of bringing it back, so that's academic 

[richardmorris]

traffic jam forming.

 

[richardmorris]

found the Porsche on line.

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1205046

 

and the lambo.

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1226724

[richardmorris]

[richardmorris]

[Zelandeth]

Never realised those tractors were air cooled.  Every day's a school day.

[barefoot]

Delayed news from Friday, I was a little grumpy.

Drains blocked, plumbers with rods called. I had to move the 75, the 944 & the T2 to let them access the manhole covers. 75 & T2 not a bother, drove them around the block, parked them up and went back for the Porsche. Fired up, drove it around the block, backed it onto its new parking space on a driveway a few doors up the street. What the fuck is it leaking? Fuel! Great big stripes of the stuff. 

Plumbers cleared many tonnes of shit & advised that my drains had collapsed & would need replacing. 

Porsche is leaking from the pipes as they duck under the back axle - specialist told me that TADTS

That's booked in for June the 2nd - Autoaid will apparently deal with breakdowns at home - and take it to local garage.

Still waiting for a couple of quotes for digging up drive/fitting new drains/re-laying drive...

Happy fucking xmas!

[richardmorris]

2 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Never realised those tractors were air cooled.  Every day's a school day.

I didn’t even notice. I did notice that none of them could get it into reverse.

[willswitchengage]

Happy birthday @richardmorris!

[DSdriver]

3 hours ago, richardmorris said:

There can't be too many of those in RHD. I wonder if it is this one that I papped back in the 1970s

1936 Mercedes 540K Cabriolet by Jean-Pierre Declemy, on Flickr

[Philmanns]

7 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Even if I have, I have no means of bringing it back, so that's academic 

There’s always ways of getting them back. Anyvan.com or Shipley.com . There’s one coming to me this eve from Bolton, cost £164 which is good value if you ask me. 

[HMC]

1 hour ago, DSdriver said:

There can't be too many of those in RHD. I wonder if it is this one that I papped back in the 1970s

1936 Mercedes 540K Cabriolet by Jean-Pierre Declemy, on Flickr

There was a 500k half buried behind a butchers in Walsall, that was RHD iirc

Edit- that now appears to be in the Netherlands 

https://www.louwmanmuseum.nl/en/car/mercedes-benz-500k-spezial-roadster/

[richardmorris]

I didn’t even twig that it was RHD. It was certainly the one I’d take home from today.

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, DSdriver said:

There can't be too many of those in RHD. I wonder if it is this one that I papped back in the 1970s

1936 Mercedes 540K Cabriolet by Jean-Pierre Declemy, on Flickr

Sadly the truck was right up against my wall so couldn’t get a decent photo.

[DSdriver]

9 minutes ago, HMC said:

There was a 500k half buried behind a butchers in Walsall, that was RHD iirc

Edit- that now appears to be in the Netherlands 

https://www.louwmanmuseum.nl/en/car/mercedes-benz-500k-spezial-roadster/

 

Just now, richardmorris said:

Sadly the truck was right up against my wall so couldn’t get a decent photo.

That was going to be my next question. Did you get any other pics at all?