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[Shep Shepherd]

Found out on the way home from work in freezing fog this morning that The Volvo's rear fog lights aren't working. Balls.

[Cavcraft]

It's all go here at Cavcraft: one of the fleet left then one of our celebrity* customers dropped by to see what we had in stock.

 

[richardmorris]

Are they still a celebrity if you don't recognise them?

[trigger]

Is that Amir Khan?

[tooSavvy]

... or that 'alleged' wife popper... wouldn't have got away with it in those trainers.

 

TS

[Bren]

Just read on tinterweb that 83% of italian police rang in sick on new years eve.

 

17% attendance is a right result.

[vulgalour]

Are they still a celebrity if you don't recognise them?

 

I've always assumed that if I don't recognise them they must be a celebrity.  It's one of those words whose meaning has changed to now be 'talentless feckless wonder with nothing between the ears' rather than 'accomplished actor/musician/artist/philanthropist/other individual of note'.

[Richard]

Are they still a celebrity if you don't recognise them?

 

They are only a celebrity if you don't recognise them.

 

 

 

Edit- beaten to it by Vulgalour

[Cavcraft]

Some tit out of 1D.

[trigger]

I hate ebay, I got into a bidding frenzy in the last few seconds on that blue Yaris, I bid £830 then 2 seconds later i got outbid at £850 and then it finished. I would have paid £850 too!

[steve_earwig]

Ah, but it wouldn't have ended there, the other buyer might have been prepared to pay any price because it matches his wife's varicose veins or something.

[twosmoke300]

Starlet ! That fiesta looks like it's getting the std mk3 rust in the centre of the door shut. God knows how they rust there but its the beginning of the end.

[Lacquer Peel]

Joined the SVM.

 

[trigger]

 

 

Starlet !

I've just placed a £500 bid on it and it's now met it's reserve, still 8 days left to run though.

[skattrd]

I've just placed a £500 bid on it and it's now met it's reserve, still 8 days left to run though.

 

It's annoying when you do that, as this now means you can't bid on anything else for 8 days or until someone outbids you.

[EssDeeWon]

I hate ebay, I got into a bidding frenzy in the last few seconds on that blue Yaris, I bid £830 then 2 seconds later i got outbid at £850 and then it finished. I would have paid £850 too!

 

You don't need to enter a bidding frenzy, just enter your highest bid, i.e. £850 then if someone else bids £850 with 2 seconds left you get the car because you bid £850 before they did.

[EssDeeWon]

It's annoying when you do that, as this now means you can't bid on anything else for 8 days or until someone outbids you.

 

(Pretty sure) if you did find something else in the meantime you can retract your bid, there are a number of valid excuses you can use that ebay provide in the drop down box when doing this.

[trigger]

I bid a highest bid of £801, I then got outbid with a few minutes to go so decided to go the extra £29, in hindsight I should have just upped it to £850 but like Steve says, where does it stop? It not the end of the world though, I still need to sell the Merc really.

[richardmorris]

I hate ebay, I got into a bidding frenzy in the last few seconds on that blue Yaris, I bid £830 then 2 seconds later i got outbid at £850 and then it finished. I would have paid £850 too!

Stick with a 190, it should outlive that lot of superminis.

[Bren]

Removed the fuel sender from my sd1.

 

It looks spotless (as it should in a bath of solvent) and I cannot see anything broken.

 

A secondhand one beckons.

[xtriple]

Seriously considering a bid or two on that 280ZX posted on ebay tat thread. Had a few of those over the years and I am rather fond of them. However, dog is set to cost me £2.5K tomorrow or the day after and I'm feeling a little low in the funds department.

 

But, you only live once and all that.....

[Ghosty]

Starlet SRs look great - I especially like the (usually white) ones with the little Castrol-inspired 'SR' decal set.

[Cavcraft]

Looks like I've bought an oldish Fiat. Obvs Ive done it the right way and bought it on the strength of a few pictures and a shit description.

 

[Pete-M]

Removed the fuel sender from my sd1.

 

It looks spotless (as it should in a bath of solvent) and I cannot see anything broken.

 

A secondhand one beckons.

 

The fuel gauge used to work fine in it.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Good work Cavette, those trucks are really cool. Id love one

[myglaren]

Indeed. I think that's where I am at the moment. As I've pointed out, so much of the car I bought in 2000 has already been replaced (in stages Mr DVLA so it's all legit) but somehow it is still the same car to me. I have been pondering a somewhat more creative colour-scheme for some time though. There aren't enough hand-painted, hippy-style 2CVs about anymore. And I'm hoping that several layers of brush-applied paint may help protect the bodywork...

 

That's all going to take time to sort out though, so I reckon my priority will be to get another motor. I'm quite prepared to SORN Elly for a bit so I can enjoy another A Series for a bit. It's many, many years since I had another A-Series Citroen on the road. In fact, I don't think I've managed it since buying this one in 2000. A few projects have gone, failed to improve much, then moved on. Oh, hold on. I think I owned a Dyane for a bit when the 2CV went through its first rebuild in 2002/3. Possibly.

 

If you do hand paint it, consider using Tekaloid.

I did the GS with it and it came up exceedingly well.

 

Used to be easily available in motorists shops but haven't seen any for a long time - not that I have looked or frequent motorists shops much these days.

[Cavcraft]

And just to negate the FIAT purchase I have agreed to buy this, again from pictures only. Well, just one picture actually.

 

 

 

*Its not all bad though, this is the ever poplier 3 banger 1.0.

[andy18s]

Are you not going after a certain blue Tipo then Billy?

[cms206]

And just to negate the FIAT purchase I have agreed to buy this, again from pictures only. Well, just one picture actually.

 

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*Its not all bad though, this is the ever poplier 3 banger 1.0.

I always wanted a set of those alloys for the Cavalier but seeing as it's still awaiting me learning to weld and I don't want the Corsa attached to them, I'm oot.

[Cavcraft]

Are you not going after a certain blue Tipo then Billy?

 

 

Tipo?