Broadsword Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 On the assumption that's sporting the grey tweed interior it seems to be, I could do with a front seat base that isn't threadbare, either side is fine since they swap. Apparently they come out easily by unhooking the rubber bands under the seat? I've not done it, Dean-numbers has. I could also do with the central sunvisor clip thing as mine has broken around one of the fixings. If it's got the Citroen branded floor mats in the front, I'd like those too.Noted. I didn't bring any of those things back this time, but will try and get them next time. Yes it's grey tweed (I love it!). Driver's side seat base was threadbare but I think the passenger side is much better. No mats, but but maybe the sun-visor bit is there. Edit: interior shot so you can evaluate the condition somewhat. vulgalour and Christine 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Thinking about it, since it's the same interior as mine, I should really pull the lot to replace my sun faded stuff. Trouble is, I'm not sure I can afford that. Obviously, if it is in budget I wouldn't ask you to strip the whole lot, Mike's offered to ferry me down in the P38 so we can load that up with everything. Do you know what sort of price they might want for all the seats, the dash, and the door cards? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 I reverse bump started an elderly ladies Honda jazz this afternoon that ran out of electricity on a busy street for her, a bit scary! But she got on her way richardmorris, paulplom, Rusty_Rocket and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Oof, the interior on that scrap BX has a really good dashboard. How much of a pain are they to remove I wonder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broadsword Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Oof, the interior on that scrap BX has a really good dashboard. How much of a pain are they to remove I wonder?Unfortunately I don’t know my BXs, something I regret, so no idea on the dash. Should probably have one some day. Looks like rust killed this one at UPI. Here is the price list: https://www.u-pull-it.co.uk/pick-part-price-list Items not on the list tend to be cheap. I tend to get good prices for small things (on a good day) because I drive a Jaaaaag. Thing like door seals and door card should be cheap but a full interior for example will incur a set price so you have to box clever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacquer Peel Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 In my experience the price list is advisory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catsinthewelder Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 According to the pricelist a complete cloth interior is £56 which compares well to £17 for a seat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Ideally I'd grab all the seats, the dash, the binnacle, and the door cards. Unfortunately I can't budget enough for that so I'll make do with the seat base and the sunvisor clip for now. It's the Princess' fault anyway, needing an MoT like some sort of modern car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozeydustman Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Took the curtains down in the old place this evening to get them dry cleaned else we'll be charged by the letting agents (bastards). I noticed that the landlord had used the ultimate in shite methods to attach the curtains to the rings. For me it's not a grin, nor a grump, but certainly worthy of sharing. somewhatfoolish, Lord Sterling, stuboy and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarvinsMom Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 bloody cars..... replaced the n/s headlamp bulb yesterday. this morning? am greeted by the bulb failure thing lit up on the dashboard. cos the o/s bulb has now blown in sympathy....... SO i've had to get another headlamp bulb. at least the guy at the local motor factos didn't have to look up on his computer what bulb the Rover actually needed. He served my yesterday! been to the local tire emporium cos the back tires were pretty fooked. and ended up buy 4 of them..... cos the front tires weren't that clever either. they were about legal which frankly the rear tires weren't. bastard Rover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Finally sold some spare interior panels tonight for the Corsa that I'd had for sale for ages. They were fairly rare items and not that cheap and the problem wasn't that thwy were too dear, it's just that there aren't that many people left with early Corsa Bs. Had a good chat with the buyer as I don't really get to talk to anyone else who likes these cars! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Quite a few of us seem to have taken our cars out for spins just for the sake of it today, myself included. After having taken the 75 to Belgium it was only fair that the MV6 got a trip out to to stretch its legs, including a cheeky traffic light GP with a Maserati Ghibli in Ipswich (one of the new ones, not one of the pornographic beasts from the 70s) and back road cruise around mid-Suffolk. The opportunity to get a photograph at a quality dining establishment couldn't be missed either. WP_20190317_003.jpg I also got to see a particular favourite of mine in the Asda car park in Stowmarket earlier in the day, in the shape of this 75 V8. WP_20190317_002.jpg I do prefer the preface lift MV6 and I love the 18 inch wheels. Brodders 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainrcz Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Won 8gig of Kingston Hyperx fury ram on eBay. Tomorrow's news, new centre section for the noisy exhaust some dozy ginger wanker fitted to my car.... Sent from my VFD 710 using Tapatalk LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brodders Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 I do prefer the preface lift MV6 and I love the 18 inch wheels. The pre face-lift Omegas really do it for me. The facelift ones do look rather up to date, and I do like them a lot, however there is just something about the older ones which appeal to me in a slightly dated 1990s way. The ride quality is also rather good considering the size of the alloys. I was expecting a rather firm ride, but the suspension and velour seats do a very good job of soaking up the bumps on the road (aside from the larger craters which litter some of the quieter roads around here). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 No idea where to put this really, but I think certainly of interest. I was discussing with my partner in crime my lack of phone signal in my house therefore relying on Skype to call people and companies, which isn't ideal as I don't have an incoming number. I said I was going to buy a cheap corded phone as I'm not a fan of cordless phones for a great number of reasons. This morning was the start of 2 weeks holiday, so I had a lie in. She woke me up, told me she had a present for me and handed me a plain white box. Open it up and: She spotted it in a local curiosity shop she frequents on Friday, but the assistant didn't know if it worked so said to come back today and the owner would be there and he could test it for her.It works brilliantly, could probably do with a bit of a clean up as it's a bit crackly when dialling, but the ringer works as intended and the sound quality is clear if a little bit quiet. Anyone got any idea as to the vintage of it? I showed it to my garage monkey Keith and his response was "That's a bit archaic." But then again he drives a Civic saloon, so what does he know? Sent from my SM-N960F using Tapatalk mercedade, strangeangel, purplebargeken and 18 others 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captain_70s Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Looks like a GPO 746 to me, 1970s. reb, LightBulbFun, Fat_Pirate and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 The phone of my childhood right there... blakey79 and reb 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 I did a little bit of digging, post 1971, I'm sure I can narrow it down further based on the dial label. Sent from my SM-N960F using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Going by the colour, probably late 70s. The colour of them changed, and the inserts, but not much else. In the eighties they went beige and peach, with the occasional bathroom blue. 70s ones tended to be yellow-ish, that green, and a darker blue. Brown ones tended to be around from the 50s right up until the end of production while the black ones seemed to fizzle out in the 60s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loserone Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Get yourself a DTMF generator, for the full early noughties insurance company call experience Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 I will need one to use automated call systems, won't I? Sent from my SM-N960F using Tapatalk loserone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Going by the colour, probably late 70s. The colour of them changed, and the inserts, but not much else. In the eighties they went beige and peach, with the occasional bathroom blue. 70s ones tended to be yellow-ish, that green, and a darker blue. Brown ones tended to be around from the 50s right up until the end of production while the black ones seemed to fizzle out in the 60s.Most of the furniture in my house bar the sofas is 1970s, so that's perfect. Sent from my SM-N960F using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 bloody cars..... replaced the n/s headlamp bulb yesterday. this morning? am greeted by the bulb failure thing lit up on the dashboard. cos the o/s bulb has now blown in sympathy....... SO i've had to get another headlamp bulb. at least the guy at the local motor factos didn't have to look up on his computer what bulb the Rover actually needed. He served my yesterday! been to the local tire emporium cos the back tires were pretty fooked. and ended up buy 4 of them..... cos the front tires weren't that clever either. they were about legal which frankly the rear tires weren't. bastard Rover. That is pretty common to be honest with the bulbs. If I have a bulb go and I think its original to the car, I tend to replace the matching one on the other side. Chances are if one is end of life, the other isn't far away! LightBulbFun and MarvinsMom 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 I did a little bit of digging, post 1971, I'm sure I can narrow it down further based on the dial label. Sent from my SM-N960F using TapatalkIt'll definitely be 70s-early 80s. Dial label doesn't tell you anything except it's pre-1995 as that's when they changed all the regular landline numbers to have leading ones or twos, so 021 (Birmingham) became 0121, etc. I also have one, but it has a non-standard case, it's blue with a black receiver and dial bezel, and the wiring doesn't match any schematics I've seen, so it doesn't ring and I can't make it do so. Works, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 Sorta-snap! this was my bedside phone while i was over at Zels place, I was well pleased to find it was hooked up and working (wonder what the neon lamp looking thing in the receiver is for, a visual ringer?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisItalSLX Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 It will be a visual ringer for use in areas where loud ringing would not be suitable, i.e. library, theatre, hospital etc.Someone once told me they were for deaf people, but what use is a telephone to a deaf person! All this talk of telephones is getting me excited, shame I don’t know anything about UK models. The Moog, purplebargeken, reb and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 The phone of my childhood right there...Ours had a lock on it. Which is a nice way for parents to show they trust their own kids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 It will be a visual ringer for use in areas where loud ringing would not be suitable, i.e. library, theatre, hospital etc.Someone once told me they were for deaf people, but what use is a telephone to a deaf person! All this talk of telephones is getting me excited, shame I don’t know anything about UK models.I'm sure my dad told me they were for deaf people too. Honestly when I opened the box it made me realize that she really does have the measure of me, I should probably keep her around!I live for things like it, everyday objects that literally everyone has/had that have their own histories that nobody normal cares about the details. I have a lot of information in my head somewhere about GPO phoneboxes, not the phones inside, just the red bit. Maybe why I fit in here, i like to think, easy to find another 23 year old to enthuse about engine swapping a 205 but not many who get being so interested in the mundane. To most it's maybe "retro" but not much more. Found the same when I was into bikes. Bumped into a friend out with his cycling club, one of them was riding a very clean 1980s Colnago with full Dura Ace. He didn't even know or care what frame tubing it had, despite it having three stickers proclaiming it. Our conversation was brief and awkward. Sent from my SM-N960F using Tapatalk Datsuncog, mercedade, Ghosty and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 Sorta-snap! Image from iOS (66).jpg this was my bedside phone while i was over at Zels place, I was well pleased to find it was hooked up and working (wonder what the neon lamp looking thing in the receiver is for, a visual ringer?)There's a lot going on in that photo. Looks like my sort of place. Sent from my SM-N960F using Tapatalk LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busmansholiday Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 I know that the little oblong on the top can be removed and a switch fitted. It was if you were on a 'party line', ie a shared line with another house down the street because the exchange was full. We were like that for a time in the late 60's or early 70's. You had to lift the receiver, listen to whether it was in use then if not, press the button to get the line. LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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