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[SiC]

It was my birthday yesterday so I had a chill out weekend. Mrs SiC struggles to comprehend that idea so tried booking the day up for us to both see her friend. 🤦‍♂️

Anyway on Saturday we went to a country life museum.








Wondered around Tiverton. Lovely buildings intertwined with a sorry looking town centre.









Drove back home up the A38. The roads around Somerset/Devon are absolutely filthy at the moment.
Took the TT to scrub the tyres in. The handling is vastly improved with decent rubber now on it.

Also saw this quirky RHD Yank on the Saturday morning on the streets of Clevedon



Yesterday we had lunch in Priddy and then to Wells for a wander and Ice Cream.


Finally the Engine pallet has been picked up today to head northbound to its new home. Was supposed to have gone on Friday but useless couriers.

Going to find a scrapman to pick up the remains of the Dolomite carcass. Even if I don't get money for it, I just want it gone from the drive now.

 

[Split_Pin]

I have finally reached 500 subs on my You Tube  channel. 

Finding time to release new videos has been challenging but I hope to do more once the lighter nights allow some shite spannering again.

The funniest thing is that my buyer's guide for MK3 Cavaliers helped someone buy a good example. I know its a decent example because I subsequently and unknowingly bought  that same car blind from ebay and it wasn't until I sent him a picture of it outside my house that he recognised the surroundings from my videos!

 

[AnnoyingPentium]

17 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

I have finally reached 500 subs on my You Tube  channel. 

Finding time to release new videos has been challenging but I hope to do more once the lighter nights allow some shite spannering again.

The funniest thing is that my buyer's guide for MK3 Cavaliers helped someone buy a good example. I know its a decent example because I subsequently and unknowingly bought  that same car blind from ebay and it wasn't until I sent him a picture of it outside my house that he recognised the surroundings from my videos!

 

Congrats mate. Subscribed to your account as well.

[Wibble]

Me too

[Split_Pin]

Thanks both!

[Eyersey1234]

If things go to plan we will be moving house next weekend.

[Sunny Jim]

This chapter in the annals of the Flat Cap Sailing Club comes to an end. We've sailed 1123 miles in the last eight weeks: Portugal to Madeira then on to the Canaries via the Savage Islands.

Mates for over 25 years and still having daft adventures together. 

[HMC]

works car park: wierd historical link with the 7, the bmw dixi and the cars immediately surrounding (and dwarfing ) the 7

[lesapandre]

Very sweet video of a summers day and the 1979 Daimler and Lanchester Owners Club Rally - this would have been shot probably on 'Super 8' and has been transferred to video.

I ran a few of the stately 50's cars regs through the DVLA car tax checker and have found few still on the road - either out of tax 30 years + or the reg on a  modern. 

Oh dear - just shows that even cars in enthusiast preservation are understandably subject to continuing high attrition over 40+ years - just like all the pictured Stans, Rays and Bills who owned them.

And me... I was in my teens then and now in my 60's.

I did not run all the car regs through... so maybe a few more survive or in a dusty shed under a sheet. Here is hoping.

 

[brownnova]

Bodge of the day… 

Needed a number plate for the trailer, but didn’t want to fork out for what’s likely to be a one off use. So I found an old front number plate in the garage and painted using our kitchen’s yellow paint. Bought some stick on letters/numbers for £3… 

Result… 

That’ll do… 5 and 7 a little wonky… but that’s ok. 

[vulgalour]

1 hour ago, lesapandre said:

Very sweet video of a summers day and the 1979 Daimler and Lanchester Owners Club Rally - this would have been shot probably on 'Super 8' and has been transferred to video.

I ran a few of the stately 50's cars regs through the DVLA car tax checker and have found few still on the road - either out of tax 30 years + or the reg on a  modern. 

Oh dear - just shows that even cars in enthusiast preservation are understandably subject to continuing high attrition over 40+ years - just like all the pictured Stans, Rays and Bills who owned them.

And me... I was in my teens then and now in my 60's.

I did not run all the car regs through... so maybe a few more survive or in a dusty shed under a sheet. Here is hoping.

 

Is that Sybil Fawlty handing out the awards at the end there?

[captain_70s]

1 hour ago, lesapandre said:

Oh dear - just shows that even cars in enthusiast preservation are understandably subject to continuing high attrition over 40+ years - just like all the pictured Stans, Rays and Bills who owned them.

There are quite a few photos online of Dolomite club meets from the mid 90s and nearly all the cars are dead.

[lesapandre]

30 minutes ago, vulgalour said:

Is that Sybil Fawlty handing out the awards at the end there?

Possibly Elsa Lanchester?

[vulgalour]

That does seem more likely, now you point it out.

[HMC]

I’ll stop photobombing news 24 after this one, but…..

School drop off 

[artdjones]

13 minutes ago, HMC said:

I’ll stop photobombing news 24 after this one, but…..

School drop off 

I just hope none of the parents are on Mumsnet. "Am I being unreasonable or is this man abusing his children by taking them to school in an 80 year old car without airbags".😁

[Rust Collector]

It would have blown my mind if my Dad was swapping out old motors at the rate @HMC does when I was a kid, I would have absolutely loved it.

Knowing my luck, my son will grow up with zero interest in cars 🤣

[brownnova]

1 hour ago, artdjones said:

I just hope none of the parents are on Mumsnet. "Am I being unreasonable or is this man abusing his children by taking them to school in an 80 year old car without airbags".😁

I have had a parent say similar to me about taking the kids in the 2CV… 

[Rust Collector]

I have a customer visit in that there Lun-dun tomorrow so I've paid my first ever ULEZ charge - I'm taking my filthy, polluting 1 litre hybrid 😅 I should probably contact Honda for a certificate of conformity at some point...

[Zelandeth]

Oh bugger... just realised halfway through installing a bunch of shelving that I need to unplug a power and a network cable to reroute it.  Unfortunately said cables are the ones providing power to and the connection to the router for the network switch that feeds everything in the house with data.

...So that will have to wait until everyone is done with work for the day then!  Which is annoying as it means leaving the room in a state of complete disarray.

My own fault for not thinking about it earlier, but still irritating.

[BeEP]

2 hours ago, HMC said:

I’ll stop photobombing news 24 after this one, but…..

School drop off 

Your children go to school in a graveyard??

[DeanH]

1 hour ago, BeEP said:

Your children go to school in a graveyard??

No airbags you see...

[wuvvum]

3 hours ago, Rust Collector said:

I have a customer visit in that there Lun-dun tomorrow so I've paid my first ever ULEZ charge - I'm taking my filthy, polluting 1 litre hybrid 😅 I should probably contact Honda for a certificate of conformity at some point...

Should have taken the Lada.  Exempt innit.

[Cookiesouwest]

5 hours ago, HMC said:

I’ll stop photobombing news 24 after this one, but…..

School drop off 

Nope. Photo bombing should continue.

[Rust Collector]

7 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Should have taken the Lada.  Exempt innit.

If I'd got around to replacing the clutch by now then I'd be very tempted! As it stands, I'm not sure I'd fancy 2 to 3 hours of the A27/M23/M25 in it😅

[wesacosa]

31 minutes ago, Rust Collector said:

If I'd got around to replacing the clutch by now then I'd be very tempted! As it stands, I'm not sure I'd fancy 2 to 3 hours of the A27/M23/M25 in it😅

I looked up the Lada when it was for sale and it was showing as not exempt. it should be (unless there is some BS referring to imports) but would investigate before planning to bring it into Sadiq Turpin's Utopia 

[Joey spud]

About two years ago my son bought a scruffy second hand Clarke portable garage for £50 with plans of housing his 300zx in it but instead left it rolled up in my garden. Fast forward to today and I dug it out of the bushes and spent 45 mins putting it up.

I wasn't expecting it to be any good but I'm quite impressed with it's design and how you can tension the cover so it is nice and tight. I don't think it would last long in a location like an exposed field but if it is well anchored down the side of a house I reckon they would be great asset for a shitter.

 

[Rust Collector]

33 minutes ago, wesacosa said:

I looked up the Lada when it was for sale and it was showing as not exempt. it should be (unless there is some BS referring to imports) but would investigate before planning to bring it into Sadiq Turpin's Utopia 

Ooh I just checked and you are correct. It's in the historic tax class so it should be exempt, I'll register it with TFL and see what happens...

*edit:

After all the excitement of registering for a TFL account and then punching in the reg to register it as exempt I got this:

Job jobbed!

[Stanky]

26 minutes ago, Joey spud said:

About two years ago my son bought a scruffy second hand Clarke portable garage for £50 with plans of housing his 300zx in it but instead left it rolled up in my garden. Fast forward to today and I dug it out of the bushes and spent 45 mins putting it up.

I wasn't expecting it to be any good but I'm quite impressed with it's design and how you can tension the cover so it is nice and tight. I don't think it would last long in a location like an exposed field but if it is well ancored down the side of a house I reckon they would be great asset for a shitter.

 

My father in law had one of these and they're great. What you need to do is to make sure that the top cover is pulled really taught over the frame because if it gets windy and it flaps about then the frame rubs through the cover. My brother-in-law built it for my FIL and did a shitty job, and it rubbed through in about a dozen places over the space of 2 years.

Something thats massively worth doing is fitting pipe lagging to the 60 degree angle sections to help cushion the elbow from poking through the cover if you can

Some people who live just down the road and whose house is on the seafront have one of these that they keep their MX5 in and its survived absolutely fine for 10 years or so, in a position that's much more exposed to wind and weather. It does look like it was built correctly though

[loserone]

6 hours ago, brownnova said:

I have had a parent say similar to me about taking the kids in the 2CV… 

I got the same on here on a 19 year old car with a 4 star NCAP rating.

 

Quite irresponsible