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[EssDeeWon]

Well, yesterday went well. My dad gave me a lift over to Thame in Oxfordshire to collect my new tat. Loaded up the spares, signed the paperwork, exchanged cash, checked levels and we were off!

Just a mile outside Thame it started misfiring like a bastard, which the previous owner had warned me about. I found that it only misfired under light to medium acceleration, so most of the way back I was accelerating, then coasting, then accelerating again, to stop the thing misfiring! Impossible to keep a constant speed with it!

 

I can confirm it goes very well indeed, my dad couldn't keep up in his Rover 618 and I made it back home to Southend 10 minutes before he did! It starts and idles fine, so the misfire is quite unusual.

 

Right now I'm going to go down to the post office and attempt to sweet talk them into letting me tax the car with just the new keeper supplement (PO lost the MoT certificate).

 

Do you know what it is yet? Dollywobbler will almost certainly recognise it!

 

I know what it is, but only because I have just seen him driving it, and its a BEAUT! 

[Lord Sterling]

Well, the Angela Merkeledes was due to go in to sort the oil/coolant loss issues, but that not happening now due to a missing mechanic and garage owner who is trying to sell his house. Nae bother, hopefully I can get in next week.

[HMC]

Phil_lip passed by earlier in this rot prone Italian thoroughbred en route to the handover to negative creep. I think it's the only car I can think of combining exposed painted steel and swathes of alcantara in the same interior.....

 

 

We almost had a re run of shitefest Cymru what with this and the Rover 220 sharing the same ( oil stained ) bit of gravel.

[phil_lihp]

Note high tech windscreen washer system located in the centre console. Not to be used at speed unless you want a wet lap as it turns out.

[DS20]

 

 

Do you know what it is yet? Dollywobbler will almost certainly recognise it!

 

 

 

Is it a Vauxhall Victor from the early '70s?  

 

Whatever it is, moar pics please

 

 

Edit: 

Just seen Trigger's post 

[Timewaster]

I'm going to say it's a Hindustan Ambassador.

[dollywobbler]

Trigger's bob on. It's this one.

[trigger]

I really love that, I'm massively jealous of you Dicky!

[dollywobbler]

In other news, I appear to be watching a car on Ebay that finishes today and currently has no bids. I've even got tacit approval from Mrs DW. I haven't even had my first payday with my new job yet and I'm already trying to spend the money...

[dollywobbler]

Drat. Someone sniped in and just got a lovely Daihatsu Domino for £250.

[dollywobbler]

In yet more other news, I've finally uploaded another video. Only six months after it was shot...

[EssDeeWon]

Drat. Someone sniped in and just got a lovely Daihatsu Domino for £250.

 

Only one thing for it.....Log back onto Ebay and line up some ( about 8 ) cans/bottles of something alcoholic, I guarantee you'll own something great and even better by midnight tonight. 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Went up to a scrapyard today to get a new headlight for my Uno pick up. Outside was this, which is for sale:

 

 

 

Its a 2.0 DOHC auto, 111,000 on the clock and despite the moss looked very clean and unmolested. Even had an original Ford stereo that took up two slots in the dash. Anyway they wanted £550 for it which seemed a bit salty to me but they might take an offer and it did look decent. Its at Autoline in Cheadle, Staffs

[HMC]

^ that granny looks ace, I've always liked these though my fave would have been if they did the estate pre facelift preferably a 24v cosworth upfront.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

 

Here's the unlucky Fiorino which gave up its headlight, shame as it was pretty tidy with under 70k on the clock! £25 for a headlight which was the maximum I could bring myself to pay under any circumstances.

[Keymaster]

So we went to look at that house with the avatimes on the drive. Owner seemed a nice bloke & would fit in here no trouble. Here is a pic of his avatime complete with ductape body repairs for you all to enjoy

[The Moog]

Used the new pela to change the oil on the civic. How easy was that!

 

It needs to be changed every 6000.

[320touring]

Fuel pump failure on the 320i..where? Right hand lane of the fuckin m8 in rush hour traffic.

 

RAC plus highway plus polis. Superb.

[barrett]

New tat is being delivered on Monday! Spent most of today clearing space in the shed to dump it in. Luckily it's very small.

It's too obscure to even hint at what it might be, but just for fun it's one of three known examples of the marque and the only known of this specific model type. Also the only one that is even close to being complete and on the road, which in this case means no engine or gearbox and off the road for decades.

 

Really, no more cars now, this is getting stupid.

[HMC]

So an obscure microcar, and ( lot of assumptions here and a random guess) presumably british produced as its located in England based on the speed of arranging delivery. So it's an ..... Opperman unicar!

[skattrd]

close to being complete and on the road, which in this case means no engine or gearbox and off the road for decades.

 

Are engines and boxes readily available then? or are those as rare as the car themselves?

[catsinthewelder]

Villier's?

[barrett]

Not a microcar. Engines easy and plentiful and cheap to find. All will be revealed on Monday, I hope!

[HMC]

Looking fwd to the reveal!

 

micro cars would be prime fodder for these pages except for the fact that theyre all mega expensive these days. Id love a messerschmitt Tiger, been for a drive in one and loved it. At the time they were merely pricey, now theyre crazy money IMO.

[richardmorris]

My old neighbour from sunninghill just came over in his new toy. We've just been doing up and down the park's drive. Apart from the plastic switches it's like being in the forties!

[andy18s]

Spent Sat down at Race Retro at Stoneleigh Park

Had snow at home as we set off,the sun burst out just as we arrived and stayed with us untill we started the trip home

Wind was bitter tho

Excellent day spent watching various ages of rally cars getting chucked about a "rally stage"

 

Couple of pics

 

Walked around a corner to see this carpark of wet dreams

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Star of the show for me was this incredibly rare RS1700T

 

 

Few more here if you are interested

 

http://s304.photobucket.com/user/Ten660/slideshow/Race%20Retro%202015

[mercrocker]

My old neighbour from sunninghill just came over in his new toy. We've just been doing up and down the park's drive. Apart from the plastic switches it's like being in the forties!

Quite agree, I could quite happily spend the rest of my life making that look like a Wellington bomber inside.

[Shep Shepherd]

Bade farewell to The Wentworth yesterday evening, which is to be used as a spares source for the 940 estate (fitted with a truck turbo running 20 psi boost) towing the trailer:

 

 

It was going to go to the buyer as repairable project, but damage to the nearside rear floor sustained during my 'off' put paid to that. At least its many good parts will help keep other 700s and 900s on the road. Why, The Volvo has its road wheels (fitted with almost new Yokohama tyres) and steering wheel

 

As for The Saab, I have driven it over 1000 miles since I bought it, and it's proving to be a sound buy

 

EDIT (1645): The collection could have ended better for The Wentworth's new owner:

 

 

I blame the Wentworth Effect.

[Lacquer Peel]

What SAAB have you got Shep?

[Shep Shepherd]

^

2000 9-5 SE 2.3t manual estate:

 

 

Loving it so far