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[Yoss]

13 minutes ago, grogee said:

Donde este fest, @Yoss? 

Nope, you've lost me. I tried putting it in to google but all the replies were in Spanish so I'm still none the wiser. 

[Yoss]

21 minutes ago, grogee said:

Donde este fest, @Yoss? 

Right, doing one word at a time I think you're asking me where it was. In which case in it was just north of Telford. 

[grogee]

8 hours ago, Yoss said:

Right, doing one word at a time I think you're asking me where it was. In which case in it was just north of Telford. 

That's a stretch from Southampton! Well done. 

I was going to ask, what's the story with the Favorit spoiler? Yours has one, mine doesn't. Was it a dealer fit thing? 

I only ask because I'm missing the rear downforce in the Woodcote and Abbey sections of Silverstone, and I think it's hurting my lap times. 

[brownnova]

12 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Is that an Argyle? The Austin heavy 10 looking thing.

I believe it’s a Crossley. 

[Yoss]

^^ I did 348 miles yesterday! I was considering whether I should go or not but in the end common sense went out the window and I I thought I'd go for it despite it being further than the car has been in the last three months since the engine rebuild but it was fine. I think I can consider the rebuild successful. 

The spoilers were fitted as standard to the higher spec cars, which yours is, but it had a new tailgate fitted before the repaint, they can rust quite badly, and they never bothered refitting it. 

[stuboy]

Mrs stuboy back yesterday from cuckoo fair near lewes ringer sussex

[brownnova]

Two shows in one day today. Gawsworth Hall and Capesthorne Hall are only a few miles from each other, and both had shows today!

Enjoy the best of the motors: 

All done in the Saab today… 

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, stuboy said:

Mrs stuboy back yesterday from cuckoo fair near lewes ringer sussex

Bugger, forgot about that so thanks for the pics.

[wesacosa]

23 hours ago, Yoss said:

 

 

Plus this Favorit that put mine to shame. 

 

pretty sure that one was about to be scrapped a couple of years ago due to the head gasket going but it was saved at the last moment by Georgina and Owen from the Young Retro motor club 

[Cluffy]

Some humdingers there... Thanks for sharing 🙏 

[Yoss]

1 hour ago, wesacosa said:

pretty sure that one was about to be scrapped a couple of years ago due to the head gasket going but it was saved at the last moment by Georgina and Owen from the Young Retro motor club 

The owner said this but I think his name was Simon. In my cars defence he says it is now garaged and rarely used and mine is the opposite of that but credit to him it is ridiculously clean. So much so that I took a picture of his door bottom! 

The whole interior looks like new too though I didn't get any pictures of that as I was too busy just looking at the immaculate carpets and seats. 

I'm actually quite happy that it is better than mine. It's good that somebody is keeping it in this condition so that at least one exists like this while I can carry on using mine every day and just keeping it reasonably tidy. I'd rather it was that way round, I really don't think I'd want the responsibility of owning something this good. 

[artdjones]

The rain stopped for a couple of hours, so the Mégane is back on the floor. The weird resonating/knocking on the overrun has gone thanks to the new driveshaft, and everything else went back together fine. Except for spending €155 on parts I hadn't banked on. A very low mileage hub, and ABS sensor, plus a new ball joint, after noticing a tiny split in the rubber. Annoying, as the old one was less than a year old.

[RobT]

I've been on a collection mission today.  I didn't pay those pez prices, it was just for show.

The XC70 @ruffgeezer had for sale and it's a lovely old thing.  They've never really been on my radar but it ticks plenty of boxes.  I also wanted a car from a trusted shiter as there's so much overpriced crap on eBay etc these days, and the pressure has been on to get a new ULEZ daily since the Forester shat itself.  I bought this manual 323 Sport a couple of weeks ago thinking I could cope with changing gears for a while, but no.  Can't be bothered around town.  Auto waft is the way to do it IMO.

[Split_Pin]

Made a new buddy with one of the dads at my sons basketball club who's into RC cars and we've been rallying them about the grounds of the old house that's part of the estate the hall sits on.

A second person and his decent phone camera netted a few good shots of the MB:

I snapped a few of his 2 cars, they're insanely fast. He fitted 4 wheel steering to the Gravedigger one.

Fun times!

[ruffgeezer]

26 minutes ago, RobT said:

I've been on a collection mission today.  I didn't pay those pez prices, it was just for show.

The XC70 @ruffgeezer had for sale and it's a lovely old thing.  They've never really been on my radar but it ticks plenty of boxes.  I also wanted a car from a trusted shiter as there's so much overpriced crap on eBay etc these days, and the pressure has been on to get a new ULEZ daily since the Forester shat itself.  I bought this manual 323 Sport a couple of weeks ago thinking I could cope with changing gears for a while, but no.  Can't be bothered around town.  Auto waft is the way to do it IMO.

So glad you like it, I knew it would find a good home on here.  The mazda looks a lovely motor - shame there was no room at the inn!

[RobT]

No worries it was worth the ask!  I'll punt it on some other way.  It's a decent car despite some suspension knocks and a bit* of rust.

[Llessur]

On 26/05/2025 at 06:23, Yoss said:

I love a good Felicia and there were a few there. 

 

The girl I was seeing when I was 17/18 had one like this, my two memories of it are 1) it overheating every time it detected even a sniff of a traffic jam and 2) being an unwilling front seat passenger during its inaugural flight over this roundabout:

To be fair to her, after we landed she was very apologetic and even bought me a Mars Bar from the Tesco petrol station round the corner whilst making me promise not to tell her parents exactly how the front suspension components managed to work themselves so far out of whack from factory specifications.

[alcyonecorporation]

On 26/05/2025 at 08:46, brownnova said:

I believe it’s a Crossley. 

Manchester's finest (before, during and after the Model T was built in Old Trafford). 

[SiC]

Clean pass on the old turd 🎉

 

[cms206]

Shopping list for a new car:

Smallish, economical hatchback (or estate), modern and (hopefully) reliable, in good condition with a decent whack of MOT.

I think I only managed "(hopefully) reliable". Maybe.

One in... petrol station shot quite apt, as that is where it was purchased from.

[reb]

There are creatures outside my window 

[Tickman]

1 hour ago, cms206 said:

Shopping list for a new car:

Smallish, economical hatchback (or estate), modern and (hopefully) reliable, in good condition with a decent whack of MOT.

I think I only managed "(hopefully) reliable". Maybe.

One in... petrol station shot quite apt, as that is where it was purchased from.

I see no issues, looks fantastic 

[loserone]

1 hour ago, reb said:

creatures

Do you have the networking required to source some parts of these a bit later on in the year¿?

[reb]

2 minutes ago, loserone said:

Do you have the networking required to source some parts of these a bit later on in the year¿?

Not really alas, and I don't have much incentive to pursue such a thing what with having gone vegetarian a good few months ago.

Once I've got my license back I could definitely* bundle one into the volvo and run it down to you!

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, reb said:

There are creatures outside my window 

Potential Sunday lunches!

[24vdiamond]

Bye bye little astra 😪

 

[wuvvum]

Had unexpectedly good weather today so I thought I'd crack on and get the Merc done.  That didn't quite go to plan.  I got the rear anti roll bar bushes done after a bit of a fight (they are an extremely tight fit on the bar and there's too many bits of suspension around them to get any proper leverage, and one of the Torx head bolts rounded off and had to be sliced through with the grinder), but the spring proved to be more of a challenge - I got the strut off the car with no issues (unlike the ones on the bloody Eos), but because of the way the spring had snapped my compressor was only able to grab hold of one coil, which meant that it wasn't able to take enough tension off the spring before it ran out of travel.

So I'm going to have to run the strut round to the garage tomorrow morning and ask them nicely to swap the spring over for me, so I can put it back on the car and take it for its retest.  At the moment it's sat in the drive immobilised which means I can't charge the Mitsubishi.

[Rustybullethole]

10 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Had unexpectedly good weather today so I thought I'd crack on and get the Merc done.  That didn't quite go to plan.  I got the rear anti roll bar bushes done after a bit of a fight (they are an extremely tight fit on the bar and there's too many bits of suspension around them to get any proper leverage, and one of the Torx head bolts rounded off and had to be sliced through with the grinder), but the spring proved to be more of a challenge - I got the strut off the car with no issues (unlike the ones on the bloody Eos), but because of the way the spring had snapped my compressor was only able to grab hold of one coil, which meant that it wasn't able to take enough tension off the spring before it ran out of travel.

So I'm going to have to run the strut round to the garage tomorrow morning and ask them nicely to swap the spring over for me, so I can put it back on the car and take it for its retest.  At the moment it's sat in the drive immobilised which means I can't charge the Mitsubishi.

Can remember from my days of lowering cars that some merc springs were notoriously hard work. Maybe for the best.

Thought id chuck the new washer pump on quick before breakfast.

This of course turned into a war when the rubber decided to disappear inside the bottle when removing the old pump. I mean how did it even do that? A random act of fuckery which in hindsight was always going to be the way. 

Much plastic shit removed and now have working screen wash. The even refitted some of the fixings for said plastic shit. 

[Dyslexic Viking]

15 hours ago, cms206 said:

 

240 has become mostly too expensive for this now but if you go back 15 years, this is in this condition the typical teenage car, at least in rural areas in Norway. And the Saturday night is spent outside the local petrol station or similar, the driver is 18 and an agricultural machinery apprentice, and the friends of the same age are builders apprentices or similar and in the back seat are also two teenage girls who all 3 are trying to get to bed, everyone except the driver is drinking and on the car stereo is a song about a bloke named Reidar who has bought a new manure spreader.  The Volvo is parked in a group of cars and tractors and mopeds and it's about the same conditions in all of them.

And later, someone decides they are a rally/racing driver, leading to episodes like the picture below.

Here you have insight into Norwegian youth culture in the countryside about 15 years ago that no one asked for.

[lesapandre]

UK car production down to 1952 levels - 59,203 - perhaps we'll see the Austin Somerset reintroduced - hope so I'd buy one 😀 

Though commercial vehicle numbers bump it up to around the 300,000 mark.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgrydlqqn8o

To put these numbers in some perspective - Morocco made almost 500,000 vehicles in 2024.