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[brownnova]

There’s a weekly car night at a local motorbike repair shop/alcohol free bar/pizzeria/ coffee  shop/identify crisis haunt  on a Tuesday.

Took the magic wagon today as it was the most easily accessible.

Look what bloody parked next to us! 

Can’t get away from Deux Chevauxs! 

Much quieter than the last time I was here but a few nice things. 

That Corvette was immaculate! Utterly wonderful thing! 

[Cord Fourteener]

5 hours ago, brownnova said:

There’s a weekly car night at a local motorbike repair shop/alcohol free bar/pizzeria/ coffee  shop/identify crisis haunt  on a Tuesday.

Took the magic wagon today as it was the most easily accessible.

Look what bloody parked next to us! 

Can’t get away from Deux Chevauxs! 

Much quieter than the last time I was here but a few nice things. 

That Corvette was immaculate! Utterly wonderful thing! 

Either there's a few little Lotus like that our way or I see this one buzzing around a lot!

And what is that pale Volvo/American coupe/yacht looking thing?

[andy18s]

New-ish Lada Niva for sale if you want to jump the waiting list (!)

Around £12k after you jump through all the hoops

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Meanwhile, outside Australia House, there's some sort of demo going on. Not sure if it's Free Palestine or Free Julian Pissflange. Maybe they're competing against each other to see who's the loudest...

[barefoot]

And the Scirocco is return, mendy fast & fun.

[Mrcento]

Came to the conclusion that spaceship Civics were scientifically designed to attract dirt. I don't know what it is about them, whether it's the shape, the angles of the panels or what, but they're a complete magnet for muck, crap and general road dust and dirt. It all just seems to stick.

Noticed it's not just mine either, passed  5 or 6 of them today and they were all about as filthy as mine.

[holbeck]

Roffle Saab collected.  

 

No petrol station shot as @Minimad5 left it with pretty much a full tank of fuel.  Thanks what an amazing gesture. 

225 miles via mostly A roads so we could have a meet up en route with @83C in Shrewsbury.

Not bad at all.

[HMC]

So the w210 disgraced itself by going into limp mode occasionally on the trip to Battersea.

Anyway after a bit of a road test back home I could her a whoosh and a loss of boost and after a few things tightened up we have full boost once more.

I presume the sudden loss of boost made the ecu panic as at higher speed/ load it would cut the boost entirely and then return to normal if you switched off. It would do it again if you pushed boost up a bit too far.
 

Anyway, normal service resumed, and trip mpg quite good as I tended to feather the throttle a bit rather than just gun it. Lots of construction work around the old power plant as Apple are making it an HQ later this year.

 

 

[Minimad5]

1 hour ago, holbeck said:

Roffle Saab collected.  

No petrol station shot as @Minimad5 left it with pretty much a full tank of fuel.  Thanks what an amazing gesture. 

225 miles via mostly A roads so we could have a meet up en route with @83C in Shrewsbury.

Not bad at all.

Glad the fuel got you to your destination 😎

Did you manage to have a peek at the N/S ? , as that bloody manhole cover made a racket 

[holbeck]

4 minutes ago, Minimad5 said:

Glad the fuel got you to your destination 😎

Did you manage to have a peek at the N/S ? , as that bloody manhole cover made a racket 

@Minimad5 N/S front looks fine. All good. 

Thanks once again for the full tank of fuel.

[Fumbler]

That green ex British Gas Transit 4x4 drove past me in Hawkhurst earlier today. I remember the beginning of the reg as E11 which is how I recognised it from a picture on here. My God it looks sad now, whoever owns it isn't the best at taking care of it.

[Minimad5]

1 minute ago, holbeck said:

@Minimad5 N/S front looks fine. All good. 

Thanks once again for the full tank of fuel.

No worries !

Sorry we couldn't stay and chat, but hopefully next time we'll be able to have a good chin-wag

[OM646]

3 hours ago, holbeck said:

 

 

The car must be really pissed...

"36,7 motherf*cking gallons"

[Cord Fourteener]

4 hours ago, holbeck said:

Roffle Saab collected.  

No petrol station shot as @Minimad5 left it with pretty much a full tank of fuel.  Thanks what an amazing gesture. 

225 miles via mostly A roads so we could have a meet up en route with @83C in Shrewsbury.

Not bad at all.

Magnificent! Only a few SIDS pixels missing, bonus. 

[Unclefester]

The new arrival 2.4 v6 full service history years mot roof work flawless v6 is lovely quite impressed with this.

[Ghosty]

12 hours ago, Fumbler said:

E11

E111SAX. Fuck me, did that fall into the wrong hands.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

1 hour ago, Ghosty said:

E111SAX. Fuck me, did that fall into the wrong hands.

30k on the clock at the last MOT. No trace of MOTs online pre-2017. Last change of keeper in January 2021. 

Does anyone know the story with it? What an amazing example. 

 

[Isopon]

15 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

30k on the clock at the last MOT. No trace of MOTs online pre-2017. Last change of keeper in January 2021. 

Does anyone know the story with it? What an amazing example. 

 

I believe that it was hacked up into some form of camper... it was NATO green and the interior looked like a D.I.Y sauna. It was also in the Ebay tat thread.

[Ghosty]

15 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Does anyone know the story with it? What an amazing example. 

It got sold some time after the last FOTU, where it was on display. Some wankpuffin rollered it matt green and turned the inside into a really, really shit camper conversion then put it on eBay again, I seem to recall it had a stained glass window in there (?!). 
It's fucking ruined now. 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

3 minutes ago, Isopon said:

I believe that it was hacked up into some form of camper... it was NATO green and the interior looked like a D.I.Y sauna. It was also in the Ebay tat thread.

 

3 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

It got sold some time after the last FOTU, where it was on display. Some wankpuffin rollered it matt green and turned the inside into a really, really shit camper conversion then put it on eBay again, I seem to recall it had a stained glass window in there (?!). 
It's fucking ruined now. 

Why the AF would someone do that to such an immaculate survivor? The mind boggles. A quick search suggests the owner who showed it when A1 condition and then sold it, only sold it due to emigrating. Probably just as well by the sound of it; if they still lived local to it in it's current guise, they'd likely want to smash the hipster's beardy face in...

Dare I ask, anyone got the link from when it was sold most recently? 

[Isopon]

11 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

 

Why the AF would someone do that to such an immaculate survivor? The mind boggles. A quick search suggests the owner who showed it when A1 condition and then sold it, only sold it due to emigrating. Probably just as well by the sound of it; if they still lived local to it in it's current guise, they'd likely want to smash the hipster's beardy face in...

Dare I ask, anyone got the link from when it was sold most recently? 

I have fount the link but it doesn't appear to work- I also only have 1 picture of the interior unfortunately (Cavacraft's original post on Ebay tat is on page 5840)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-transit-county-4x4-camper/324451686175?hash=item4b8ad3d71f:g:iBQAAOSwpfxf8LyV

The interior

[Dick Cheeseburger]

8 minutes ago, Isopon said:

I have fount the link but it doesn't appear to work- I also only have 1 picture of the interior unfortunately (Cavacraft's original post on Ebay tat is on page 5840)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-transit-county-4x4-camper/324451686175?hash=item4b8ad3d71f:g:iBQAAOSwpfxf8LyV

The interior

Oh. So that's the new interior of that minty clean, restored ex BG Transit shown above? I can't comprehend why someone would do that to such a fantastic example which likely cost them a hefty purchase price initially, rather than a rotten £500 shitter which would be more deserving of this fate...

[vulgalour]

Did the tank-to-tank fuel up on the Maestro and learned it does 26.4mpg urban.  That seems pretty good for what it is.

[Yoss]

This could go in the lazy spotters thread but I think it deserves a bit more exposure.  There is an elderly couple on my delivery who have a garage at the back of their drive. Occasionally one of the garage doors would be open and I could just see the corner of this from a distance. I've been on this delivery about five years and never seen more than a glimpse. Today it was out the front and I got to see it in all its glory. 

How fabulous is this. 

But the sad news is it's going away. The good news is their son is taking it on so it's staying in the family. It is much better than I ever expected. A quick MOT check shows no rust at all. I was chatting to the old boy, saying I used to drive these regularly for Royal Mail and he happily pointed out that that his was a 2 litre petrol, O series I think, and goes quite well. I could use this as an everyday car then. Though it deserves better than that as the rust would soon creep in if I did that. Inside was mint too. 

I shall miss it even though I've never seen it properly until today. It used to make my day just seeing it from a distance occasionally. 

[brownnova]

Ooof that is awesome that!! 

[HMC]

VW MPV 

[cms206]

We have been on holiday this week in the van. An awesome week in a cracking campsite, loads to do, WIFE_CMS got horrifically sunburnt, smol_cms has had an absolute ball. The only issue with the van itself is the fridge has been playing up

Then my attention was drawn. Our van has visitors.

Anyone know how to get rid of a fucking wasps nest in the side of a Fiat Ducato?

[High Jetter]

Nope, never had that problem. Never had  a Ducato. 

[wuvvum]

I removed the steering column shroud in the Ypsilon earlier (what a faff that was - all the interior plastics in that car seem to be fitted together like a bloody Chinese puzzle) to investigate whether I could work out which wires related to the (broken) headlight switch, and reroute them via a separate om/off switch.  No such luck - the column stalks are in one unit with a single multiplug for both stalks, which has 8 wires running from it, four of which are green.  So I have no chance of finding which one is which - I bought what seems to be the only workshop manual available for the car and it's bloody useless, so I've got nothing to go on.  New set of stalks required then.  Bloody moderns.

[somewhatfoolish]

Spray the byke with a can of kill-o-zap insect death.