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[Split_Pin]

3 hours ago, Lankytim said:

Another 10 mile wonder around Stoke revealed some beautiful old crocks. 
 

The SD1 was a regular sight until a few years ago, glad to see it’s still around. 
 

I think we can all unite and agree that the best use of the Lincoln involves an oval and a steel post. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's a Northern Counties Palatine 2 bodied Volvo Olympian. It looks like it's from a First Group batch from 1997 or 1998. First haven't used step entrance buses for a long time and most go for scrap when they've come out of service. That's a excellent spot. 

There's one in preservation in Glasgow from a the local First company, they'd probably appreciate it for spares but it's got a look of 'not for sale' about it.

[auntiemaryscanary]

Sirion (bought on here) passed.

Great stuff but I was stunned at how clean the emissions are

 as it's burning around a litre of oil every 500 miles!! Still can't believe it really. I'd purposefully left the oil close to min - somehow it did the trick. 

To celebrate (Suzie the sexy Sirion - not really it's just a sodding car) it will be getting 2 new rear Goodyears to replace the cracking Joyroads. If it fails next year on emissions it will at least go to the scrappers classily shod.

[JJ0063]

Motorcycle theory tomorrow at 10am. Haven’t revised yet, oops.

[GMcD]

On 11/11/2021 at 11:28, TheOtherStu said:

Brand new job started this week, down south. Drove back last night, been there since Sunday.

The wife is particularly impressed that this afternoon, I'm driving to the NEC to disappear until Sunday night. If anyone is coming, if you come to the MR2DC stand, I'm the fella with the beard and the Blue Mk3 (with the brown engine). I've seen some of the snobbery around the NEC and my car is far from a) standard and b) a garage queen, so expect to see some criticism. The MR2DC got slagged off last time too, because it didn't contain mint, standard examples (which isn't what the DC is about).

I didn't spot this otherwise I'd have come round and said hello. Thanks for taking the time and effort to display your car. I much prefer seeing a loved example that is used regularly, rather than seeing rows upon rows of display models you could eat your dinner off. Much more my cuppa tea! 

[LightBulbFun]

6 hours ago, Ghosty said:

Really struggling to find a car for sale that I actually want to buy (!). Just looking for a winter shitter... 

https://autoshite.com/topic/47386-tx2-24-taxi-£500-charade-10-auto-£250-west-midlands-pics-added/

£500 London Taxi, its Automatic and has plenty of space for bikes and what have you  

[17-Coffees]

According to FB , it's been 4 years since myself, @Supernaut &  @rantingYoof have met for the NEC Classic motors show!

As proof, here me hitting 70mph** in (at the time, and the rest) on that Northern stretch of the M6  in  @Supernaut's Mondeo! 🤣

 

 

[Jamie]

Can't sleep  lied in bed eating rolos and watching some Scottish bloke tart up an old vectra B, living the dream. 

[JJ0063]

Theory test revision I did for 30 mins last night is working. 
 

 

[Split_Pin]

3 hours ago, Jamie said:

Can't sleep  lied in bed eating rolos and watching some Scottish bloke tart up an old vectra B, living the dream. 

Dougies channel is brilliant,  he's bought a £200 Astra MK3 saloon in the summer that he's doing up now too. Hopefully he will get round to his Cavalier too.

He used to be the editor of Total Vauxhall magazine, now he's with Truck and Driver. 

Proper Vauxhall anorak, knows every obscure trim level and special edition from the 80 and 90s.

[barefoot]

Susie is making some dreadful noises when I drive her around corners. My man with the spanners reckons it's the drive shafts, so she's booked in for Tuesday. Do they actually break or is it just the bendy bits at the ends which come undone? Anyone know if 1.8 Coraddo items will fit an '87 Susie?

And I've been meaning to say for a while that since switching to super unleaded, Barry covers noticably more miles to the galleon.

Naming cars is for utter twats.

[Jamie]

4 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Dougies channel is brilliant,  he's bought a £200 Astra MK3 saloon in the summer that he's doing up now too. Hopefully he will get round to his Cavalier too.

He used to be the editor of Total Vauxhall magazine, now he's with Truck and Driver. 

Proper Vauxhall anorak, knows every obscure trim level and special edition from the 80 and 90s.

Yeah I love his stuff! It feels like your going back in time watching his vids. Shame that woman fucked him over with this one! 

[Split_Pin]

Aye his era of interest is exactly the same as mine although he says he's never had a Corsa B. That's good as I've seen enough of them!

That roaster of a woman might have done him over but he sure turned a negative into a positive with saving the car and getting a few thousand subs along the way!

[brownnova]

15 hours ago, Ghosty said:

Really struggling to find a car for sale that I actually want to buy (!). Just looking for a winter shitter... 

 

15 hours ago, grogee said:

I have the exact opposite problem. 

Also in the market for a winter beater and can’t seem to decide what I want… there are loads of quite interesting things out there.

Although I really ought to sell some thing before I buy! 

[Jamie]

4 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Aye his era of interest is exactly the same as mine although he says he's never had a Corsa B. That's good as I've seen enough of them!

That roaster of a woman might have done him over but he sure turned a negative into a positive with saving the car and getting a few thousand subs along the way!

Same! Before I became a serial bmw licker I had plenty of vectra B's, corsa B/Cs and an Astra G. My mate had a corsa sport as a, first car in red, I used to envy him 😂

 

[Jamie]

Fixing stereo surround no glue. 

 

This'll have to do then. 

Note : it not mine 

[hairnet]

2 hours ago, JJ0063 said:

Theory test revision I did for 30 mins last night is working. 
 

 

swot bastard

 

[LabRat]

Mrs_LabRat had a little* bump in the Tivoli last night. Was at a notoriously bad unlit crossroads in the dark, didn't see the bloke opposite her indicate to turn right across the front of her and walloped it.

Of course, she couldn't pick a bloody focus to hit, oh no. She went and twatted an Isuzu Trooper, which needs quite a bit of repair now- new bumper, headlight, bumper support, front grille and wing... Which because it's a late model trooper (04 plate) means that you can't source the parts.

The Tivoli is looking a bit worse for wear too:

I'm reckoning new wing, headlight and bumper skin, but we shall see what the insurance says.

She is fine thank Christ, other than it tripping off her anxiety by having to deal with the insurance. 

[Minimad5]

3 hours ago, hairnet said:

swot bastard

 

How did you get on, at the actual test ?

[hairnet]

7 lessons - pass

 

[JJ0063]

2 minutes ago, Minimad5 said:

How did you get on, at the actual test ?

Theory done.. 47/50

 

Can’t remember the hazard perception but enough to pass 👍

[barefoot]

6 hours ago, barefoot said:

And I've been meaning to say for a while that since switching to super unleaded, Barry covers noticably more miles to the galleon.

Naming cars is for utter twats.

I really am an utter twat. I can't believe that I wrote Barry, when of course I meant Billy!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

The inevitable queue at the local jet wash.....

[High Jetter]

13 minutes ago, barefoot said:

I really am an utter twat. I can't believe that I wrote Barry, when of course I meant Billy!

Ah, was confused for a moment, thought you meant Bobby! 😃

[auntiemaryscanary]

10 hours ago, barefoot said:

Barry covers noticably more miles to the galleon.

Naming cars is for utter twats.

Dear Mr barefoot, I have in past given some my cars ironic* monikers, "The Doblo of Delight" and "The Perodua of Power", (oh how I larfed at the Nippas 42bhp) to name but 2.

Question: in your most valued opinion does the above edge me closer to or actually put me in utter twat territory.

If you do not want to tell me the truth in a public forum I have enclosed a stamped address envelope.

Yours expectantly but nervously,

Mr auntiemaryscanary

[barefoot]

There's nothing wrong with any of that old bollocks, it's the total absence of any proper marque identifier that sticks in my clack. 

[grogee]

6 hours ago, LabRat said:

Mrs_LabRat had a little* bump in the Tivoli last night. Was at a notoriously bad unlit crossroads in the dark, didn't see the bloke opposite her indicate to turn right across the front of her and walloped it.

Of course, she couldn't pick a bloody focus to hit, oh no. She went and twatted an Isuzu Trooper, which needs quite a bit of repair now- new bumper, headlight, bumper support, front grille and wing... Which because it's a late model trooper (04 plate) means that you can't source the parts.

The Tivoli is looking a bit worse for wear too:

I'm reckoning new wing, headlight and bumper skin, but we shall see what the insurance says.

She is fine thank Christ, other than it tripping off her anxiety by having to deal with the insurance. 

Sorry to hear that. It's such an unpleasant thing to happen, and then you have Brazil-style bureaucracy to deal with afterwards. It's enough to ruin a weekend (she'll be miserable, which will make you miserable too). 

I guess insurance is the only way to go but in terms of pure repairs it might get away with just the bumper and lights. The wing and bonnet could be touched up, possibly. 

That doesn't help the 04 Trooper of course and you're right, that is a bad combination of old, shite and rare for the parts people to deal with. Wonder if they'll end up writing it off? Farmers would be frothing at the gash for those.

[LabRat]

9 minutes ago, grogee said:

Sorry to hear that. It's such an unpleasant thing to happen, and then you have Brazil-style bureaucracy to deal with afterwards. It's enough to ruin a weekend (she'll be miserable, which will make you miserable too). 

I guess insurance is the only way to go but in terms of pure repairs it might get away with just the bumper and lights. The wing and bonnet could be touched up, possibly. 

That doesn't help the 04 Trooper of course and you're right, that is a bad combination of old, shite and rare for the parts people to deal with. Wonder if they'll end up writing it off? Farmers would be frothing at the gash for those.

Unsurprisingly, it's a farmer who owns the trooper, he uses it for his dogs and farm work and it's not exactly a sparkling example. Destined to be a fridge soon I reckon- currently the only font wing he could find in the UK was £600 and the number support beam was £350 second hand!

As for the Tivoli, I reckon the wing, headlight and bumper will need replacing, the bonnet can be straightened up where it's bent over and repainted. Comes to something when part for and obscure Korean car are easier to find.

[Bren]

Pricing the tools to pull and reseat the vectras' leaking injectors. Not even entertaining taking it to a workshop as either to hard to do or £££££££.

[grogee]

2 minutes ago, Bren said:

Pricing the tools to pull and reseat the vectras' leaking injectors. Not even entertaining taking it to a workshop as either to hard to do or £££££££.

Dizzle I take it. I was asked to do an injector on a Qash thing with the 1.5dci, but didn't have the kit and was a bit scared at the risk of breakage in head. Maybe they're not too bad. Anyway my policy is usually 'take the job on, you'll still make a few quid and have the tool to do more afterwards'. Consequently I have loads of tools now. But never quite enough. 

[SiC]

51 minutes ago, Bren said:

Pricing the tools to pull and reseat the vectras' leaking injectors. Not even entertaining taking it to a workshop as either to hard to do or £££££££.

Tried looking for a mobile injector puller person? Quite a few around nowadays as it's become a specialist tool job and skills.