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[catsinthewelder]

I tried that theory when I bought a £200 Espace blind off the bay,  It's the only car I've ever scrapped because of rust and I own an 1100 and a Disco

[Asimo]

 slightly flimzy looking bit of box section running the length of the back of the passenger side sill which proceeded to crumble to dust in my hand and fall in its entirety into my eyes. The metal around it is perfect 

 

 

Any chance of a photo of that bit, for possible future Avantime inspecting purposes please?

 

Such a shame to go to all the trouble of doing the only truly effective thing to rustproof a steel structure (hot-dip galvanizing), and then spoil the finished job with a few supplementary parts that are made to Lancia Beta standards.

[Cavcraft]

That 205 really is superduper.

 

I have just got off the phone from a young and enthusiastic** shiter who has a Plan.  WCPGW?  There's a pretty epic tat collection thread in the making, ladies and gentlemen, oh yes.  It involves rust, royalty* and southerners.

 

 

**mental

I'll have a tenner on Maestro Van in the 3.05 at Derby.

[Junkman]

Well duh! Believe me. You can slam a P6 Auto into first and if you're coming down a REALLY steep hill, you'll still be glad P6s have excellent brakes. I may as well have put it in neutral. It also sounds horrible. 

 

That's because the Rover V8 engine has less than average engine braking capabilities, entirely irrespectively of which kind of gearbox is mounted behind it.

I've noticed this with several such engined cars that had antediluvian gearboxes. On steep down slopes, they just rev into the red and would still accelerate,

if you didn't use the brakes for assistance.

Good thing the brakes are little prone to fading even when used hard.

[brickwall]

TVR owners will tell you that. it will just rev like hell and then you disappear through a hedge.

[Skoze]

A guy just came and picked up my Capri Turbo Tail. In a Mini. With a passenger. If anyone sees a burgundy Mini going round the M25 with a big black slab of fibreglass hanging out the rear window, worship him. 

 

Also still waiting on my beer from yesterday's business deal. 

[EssDeeWon]

A guy just came and picked up my Capri Turbo Tail. In a Mini. With a passenger. If anyone sees a burgundy Mini going round the M25 with a big black slab of fibreglass hanging out the rear window, worship him. 

 

Also still waiting on my beer from yesterday's business deal. 

 

Are you starting to get that feeling youve been done? LOLZ

[dugong]

There's an absolute belter of a 205 Rallye for sale on a local Facebook page. Proper, stripped down and full respray with new graphics job, lovely looking car.

 

Except it's not a Rallye, it's a 1.1

UK market Rallyes weren't Rallyes anyway - they were XSs with a sticker kit. Got screamed at by a bloke at a past job for that.

[Partridge]

UK market Rallyes weren't Rallyes anyway - they were XSs with a sticker kit. Got screamed at by a bloke at a past job for that.

Well that's shot down my dreams of having a RHD, phase two 106 Rallye. Shot down in flames. Literally.

[dugong]

Well that's shot down my dreams of having a RHD, phase two 106 Rallye. Shot down in flames. Literally.

205 Rallyes. Not 106 Rallyes. We got the 106 Rallye PH2 just fine in right-hand drive. 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Man in van follows me onto a side street and starts tooting and flashing. Okay, what? He wanted to let me know I'd shed a hubcap a couple of miles back (busy road, no chance to stop) and he'd seen it roll up someone's drive into their garden. 

 

So I went back on the bike later to have a look and found it lying in some soil behind a car. I didn't hear it fall off, and even if I knew I'd lost it today I'd have never found it without knowing what house to check out. So, thanks, man in van! 

 

Oh, and you know the universal law that says every branch of Halfords must have one tin of paint which is a hundred years old and never ever going to sell? Spotted a good one today.

 

A portmanteau of "rattle can"? by cdconelrad, on Flickr

[quicksilver]

Wow, I remember those blue cans with the Granada. There's been at least two different designs of silver can since then so I reckon that must be at least 15 years old. I wonder if they'll ever sell it or rmaybe they're keeping it as an historical artefact so they can charge eleventy hundred quid for it in the future?

[saucedoctor]

I still have a rattlecan somewhere with a mark 3 Escort on it. I'm pretty sure my Dad retains an old TIN of T Cut, bearing a red mk4 Cortina. I took the lid off it one time, about 20 years ago, and it dam near knocked me on my ass.

[Sloth in a bowl]

The Moog has collected a welder from Birmingham, we will be expecting tales of learner steel stitching in the near future. 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I still have a rattlecan somewhere with a mark 3 Escort on it. I'm pretty sure my Dad retains an old TIN of T Cut, bearing a red mk4 Cortina. I took the lid off it one time, about 20 years ago, and it dam near knocked me on my ass.

I only just finished a tin of T-Cut last month. I was quite sad because I've never bought T-Cut, just used that seemingly bottomless can which I stole from my dad. Here's its last hurrah:

 

[Asimo]

Bought a tin of Isopon for the first time in years and years, made me smile 'cause it still has an Austin Maestro picture on the lid!

[dave j]

I used a rattlecan at the weekend I have had for about 17 years! I only used it to put some paint on some repair panels but it lasted for ages and was still a good finish!

[cobblers]

Back when I worked at frauds you would sometimes walk down the paint aisle and smell some fresh paint, it would more often than not be an ancient can in one of the undershelf drawers that had rotted through and was pissing out all over the place.

 

If you want an obscure BL old colour can in halfords, look under the shelf, there's usually loads of old cans in the hidden drawers on the floor.

[Junkman]

I became uncle twice today!

 

The Junkclan added two boys to the world population this morning.

Please welcome

 

Leo Castor:

 

Ole Pollux:

[Shep Shepherd]

 

[dugong]

Not even. They were XR spec. 70bhp...

 

All the UK Rallyes I've seen were stickered up XSs with XS engines. Five bhp difference. 

[Cavcraft]

I'm getting a form of debate about this now on eBay. A lad asked if the engine in my 106 is a JP3 engine, I said I believed it to be the TU 'suitcase' engine as fitted to the BX amongst others.

He's now saying something about the XN and XSi, but in truth I just don't care.

[Richard]

The TU isn't the suitcase is it?

[messerschmitt owner]

It's £250. It has an engine. What more does he need.

[dugong]

The TU isn't the suitcase is it?

Correct. 'Suitcase' was the X series Douvrin that the TU directly replaced.

 

It's £250. It has an engine. What more does he need.

Lordy, what a muck trumpet. Reminds me of the time I worked at a well known electronics retailer and we had AV geeks ringing up wanting to check the serial numbers of 32" Samsung TVs 'because the screens within a certain number range have superior panels'. They were going into stores with sheets of paper and asking them to unbox TVs so they could check them out.

 

Also, it's £250. You don't get to be a picky sod at £250, sorry. The fact the car has tax, test and tyres is doing extremely well for the money. People in the UK don't realise how cheaply we can pick up second-hand cars in comparison to other European nations and the USA.

 

Lacquer Peel seems to think service history is a given on a car at this price point. I think he's on another planet. Does the car work? Is it £250? Right, where's the cash point?

[Cavcraft]

It's £250. It has an engine. What more does he need.

Lord knows. He's 'having a think about it' apparently.

[Jon]

£250 for a road legal car would be an absolute gift over here. I'd buy it off you in a flash even though I don't need it, just on the strength of the pocket money price alone. That said, insurance isn't compulsory over here and you can't lob in claims for whiplash, etc. so policies are much cheaper and it's overall just an easier system. I bet that 106 will fly, with it being a 1.4. All things are relative but such a large engine would've been a pipe dream when I passed my test at 17 in '98.

 

Don't you ever tire of dealing with the great unwashed for not much profit margin, Billy?

[Cavcraft]

Sometimes, bordering on the often! I still don't like binning useable cars but you can't save them all. I (mistakenly) thought a buy it now would detract from the usual crowd. To be fair I reckon the immediate payment bit has put loads of knobheads off though.

[dugong]

Lord knows. He's 'having a think about it' apparently.

I wouldn't speak to him again even if he called \ messaged back.

 

Although this will sound suspiciously like 'Autoshite Stock Reply #89' (between 'Aren't I clever I've saved £10 by getting my discs and pads from a scrapyard' and 'I can't possibly like a popular car because it will dent my inverted snob standing') I'd send a car like that straight over the bridge. Life is too short to deal with people like engine code boy for so little return.

[Cavcraft]

Oh aye, I'm not getting back to him. He asked me a question then basically answered it himself, seemed a bit odd.

Anyhow, maybe he's just hoping I'll mail him back and suggest a lower price or something, that's something that won't be happening.