egg Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 I believe Andy has talked about returning to UK for a few days soon as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 I filled the ZR with petrol today and for the 1st time since I have owned it was not fooled by the petrol gauge picture of a pipe on the right when it is a left fill car. Lacquer Peel and brickwall 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sterling Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 In not car related me news, I'm currently sat in a hedge in eastern Europe, using somebody's un-pasworded wifi, having been given two hours to leave the property I have been looking after/doing work at for nine months by the owners lawyer earlier today, who in her words said the owner had'gone mental and needed to sell everything'.I have no money and no food and am currently wondering where to pitch my tent up before I probably try to hitchhike back to the UK or summat.More importantly, I have grabbed three cracking spots today that will get posted when the wifi gods decree.Shit man! Not sure how I can help. I'm currently living hand to mouth due to works pay going down and work being a little sparse. If you do make it back to the UK, you are more than welcome to crash at mine. If I can help financially soon, I will. Western Union is a good way to send cash, I do this quite regularly for Mrs_Sterling. purplebargeken and oldcars 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave21478 Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 Ah, pointless night drives....favourit pastime of the depressed and lonely. I havent done this sort of thing for a long time - just driving for the sake of it. Anyway, took the wee Panda out for a blezz. Got off to a cracking start by scraping the corner of the bumper on the garage wall trying to maneuver it out past the Metro.meh, adds character. Or something. Found myself down a wee road that runs through the middle of an active quarry. Fiat electrics.....only one dipped beam works. Only one main beam works too....obviously the opposite side to the working dip for maximum wonkiness. I thought about trying a bit of 4x4 One Life Live etc etc on the massive piles of gravel, but decided best not in case I got stuck or tipped it over or something typically dumb like that which I seem to excel at. The engine sounds terrible when hot though - Its not getting worse but its really quite bad. I have decided I like the car after all so I reckon if I can find a cheap donor I will pull a Cinquecento engine swap. mercrocker, Shep Shepherd, Lacquer Peel and 17 others 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holbeck Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 I did a 250 mile round trip in the C15 today, to spend the day biking some of the old railway lines in the Forest of Dean. danthecapriman, richardmorris, Asimo and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMC Rebel Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 I filled the ZR with petrol today and for the 1st time since I have owned it was not fooled by the petrol gauge picture of a pipe on the right when it is a left fill car. http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/icon.asp and/or http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1280536/Has-motoring-writer-solved-riddle-plagued-drivers-decades.html Six-cylinder 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pillock Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 True. It's not the side that the pipe is​ on, but if there's an arrow that does show you. Six-cylinder 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pillock Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 Although that daily mail article misses the point that at 99% of forecourts, it doesn't bloody matter as the pipe reaches across a car. Doesn't stop people queueing for a particular sided pump giving you evils as you "jump the queue" to use the "wrong" one. Six-cylinder, Bobthebeard and saucedoctor 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 True. It's not the side that the pipe is​ on, but if there's an arrow that does show you. That's a Bini thing isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardK Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 Eyes went super-wonky yesterday and the prospect of removing the fan pulley on the Volvo just to replace the timing belt cover wasn't making me happy. FPB7 came over and helped and it was done in minutes, many of them spent swearing at the person who designed the fan and pulley. Then we started on freeing off a stuck brake. billyboy406v6, brickwall, drum and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 True. It's not the side that the pipe is​ on, but if there's an arrow that does show you. The only other that fools me my having the pipe illustration the opposite side to the cap is the C15 and neither have arrows, it is hard for a bear with a very little brain! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supernaut Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 ^^ Wasn't the Bulgarian shiter called sealtainn or similar? Iirc he relocated from the Shetland isles to Bulgaria complete with Granada mk3 ghia ( ex j.white/Essex man/robt) Aaah, Sealtanin. Not heard from him in a while. I remember roughly a year ago when I helped* him in the Sprinter bus caper. Rml2345 drove it up to Aberdeen from Glasgow after Seal had bought it over the phone. He then immediately took it up to Shetland on the ferry from Aberdeen and used it as his main 'moving to Bulgaria' vehicle. IIRC it had something like 500k km on it at the time. I just hung about in the Omega providing company and a warm car to sit in. RobT and beko1987 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 Nippa had a tough day. I've taken the S-MX for some wheel refurbishment (you lot are going to hate it), so cadged a lift home with Mrs DW. After she'd done our six-weekly shop. That meant that the boot was full, as was the rear seat, and the footwells. Thankfully, the misfire wasn't so bad today (dry and new plugs seem to be helping), so it gamely tackled the big hills with that rather appealing three-pot noise. Very fizzy. In fact, it was doing so well I rather forgot about the shopping. Until it came to braking. Jeepers! A big shop makes rather a difference to a lightweight car... Bobthebeard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 I've taken the S-MX for some wheel refurbishment (you lot are going to hate it)Orange? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 Orange? dragon skin wrap? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMC Rebel Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 That's a Bini thing isn't it?Various cars have the arrow. I have had-JeepLand Rover (Disco)Among others that did, Also, cleverly, my current Mondeo has the arrow within the low fuel light. The side the pipe is on in the wee picture has fook all relation to the filler side - that is a popular urban myth - although it obviously can be "right" for some cars, that is accident, not design. Bobthebeard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy18s Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 In not car related me news, I'm currently sat in a hedge in eastern Europe, using somebody's un-pasworded wifi, having been given two hours to leave the property I have been looking after/doing work at for nine months by the owners lawyer earlier today, who in her words said the owner had'gone mental and needed to sell everything'.I have no money and no food and am currently wondering where to pitch my tent up before I probably try to hitchhike back to the UK or summat.More importantly, I have grabbed three cracking spots today that will get posted when the wifi gods decree.Only just seen this Alex....You still in the area?Pmd you NorthernMonkey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skoze Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 Ahoy! Not visited these shores for a while, wanted to catch up a little while a go but everything had disappeared off the face of the earth. Where's the garage gone..?Fleet update; Sold the Crapi after it refuse to love me back. Bought an XJ6 SPORT* for £300 (new owners/ PXs, apply within) Started doing this to my Landy because it definitely needed 4 times the power it left the factory with in 1952 Coprolalia, BorniteIdentity, Slappy and 16 others 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 This local ZX is on the road but never moves. The local yoof have stoved in a side window, now covered with bin liner. The old boy who owns this also has a decaying Chevette behind his fence, but can't get a shot of that! 1,200 miles in last 8 years. RobT 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 Orange? Yup. Quite seriously so. I fear they'll make Trump look like a Whitby weekender. JohnK, Bobthebeard, Shep Shepherd and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 Nippa had a tough day. I've taken the S-MX for some wheel refurbishment (you lot are going to hate it), so cadged a lift home with Mrs DW. After she'd done our six-weekly shop. That meant that the boot was full, as was the rear seat, and the footwells. Thankfully, the misfire wasn't so bad today (dry and new plugs seem to be helping), so it gamely tackled the big hills with that rather appealing three-pot noise. Very fizzy. In fact, it was doing so well I rather forgot about the shopping. Until it came to braking. Jeepers! A big shop makes rather a difference to a lightweight car... Daimlers have a good sized boot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 Daimlers have a good sized boot! Mrs DW is not going to be driving the Daimler anytime soon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave21478 Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 Night Drives Volume Two, the "pishing doon" edition. Took the Metro out for a pointless drive following the sam route as the Panda last night. It was a lovely evening until it wasnt, when it started pishing down with rain. And back home..... I like yellow headlights. Semi-C, drum, CGSB and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
320touring Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 Pointless drives are very much FTW! brickwall, Shep Shepherd and saucedoctor 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shep Shepherd Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 I was going to polish The Volvo's paintwork this week, but I quite like the dusty 'faded grandeur' look it currently sports, so I'm going to leave it for now: Bobthebeard, egg, HMC and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 Daimlers have a good sized boot!I nearly bought a 52 reg jag before the Mercedes but most of the boot seemed to be used for the spare wheel, for a large four door saloon the boot is tiny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
320touring Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 I nearly bought a 52 reg jag before the Mercedes but most of the boot seemed to be used for the spare wheel, for a large four door saloon the boot is tiny.Xj40 drivers use a hatchet to ensure that the 'cargo' fits.. Brodders, billyboy406v6 and richardmorris 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 I nearly bought a 52 reg jag before the Mercedes but most of the boot seemed to be used for the spare wheel, for a large four door saloon the boot is tiny. We had a 1997 and that seemed OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Essex V6 Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 As well as perving over old Princess';s and Cresta's me and my mate went on a treasure hunt for this Drive it day thing, meeting at Saxmundham and finishing at Framingham Castle we had to go across the countryside finding clues in his Marina whilst i wrote the answers down, It was a bloody good laugh and unsurprisingly we didn't win, even though we got to the castle first! It was a lovely venue to finish at though and a pint of old Rosie and a fish finger sandwich in the pub next door went down a treat! Anyway here's some photos of the other cars in the hunt. IMG_1944.JPG IMG_1945.JPG IMG_1951.JPG IMG_1966.JPG IMG_1952.JPG IMG_1954.JPG IMG_1957.JPG IMG_1955.JPG IMG_1958.JPG IMG_1956.JPG IMG_1961.JPG IMG_1959.JPG IMG_1962.JPG IMG_1960.JPG IMG_1964.JPG IMG_1965.JPG IMG_1967.JPG IMG_1968.JPG IMG_1969.JPG IMG_1970.JPG IMG_1974.JPG IMG_1971.JPG IMG_1975.JPG IMG_1972.JPG We also found ourselves chatting the owner of this old village garage which was the local BL garage in the 70's, they said the apprentice joined at 15 and he's retiring soon at 65! That's a long service! IMG_1986.JPG IMG_1985.JPG IMG_1988.JPGThat XR2 is lush! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hooli Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 Xj40 drivers use a hatchet to ensure that the 'cargo' fits.. As shown in 51st State, S3 XJ drivers just slam the boot a few times till it all goes in. 320touring, bub2006 and Eddie Honda 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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