Cord Fourteener Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 1 hour ago, brownnova said: Sorry Tim, plans are already in place for this afternoon. Another time tho that sounds fun! We should perhaps make a local meet up for the few of us nearby brownnova 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 12 hours ago, MikeR said: rescued this little chap tonight .... the dog spotted it ... only 230 grams ... with ticks ..... not good for the winter curled up fast asleep now like a little puppy after its feed ... will be dropped off at the vets/rescue next week or sooner .. meanwhile he has to sleep on a pile of my old odd socks from the rag drawer he is off to the rescue centre now , he has eaten a sachet of cat food , done a escape bid in the night ,found and re housed and had his breakfast and gone back to sleep !! TooManyPeopleMovers, dome, Yoss and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 1 hour ago, Tim_E said: We should perhaps make a local meet up for the few of us nearby I’ve been thinking of organising a Shitesteddfod for us Welsh Shiters for a while! Skizzer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Went to Chester cars and coffee this morning. Here’s some of what I saw! Sadly I had to park between two moderns, although when I looked I realised that there’s 10 years between the two cars either side of mine! One life... lived it. Got the major horn for a 924 at the moment. Lots of shiny stuff, plenty of modified and modern stuff but a good friendly mornings meet! strangeangel, dome, vulgalour and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spurious Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Because I'm easily distracted, I bought something this morning. It's made in a country that no longer exists.Can't pick it up for about 10 days or so. Sadly. But there shall be a collection thread soon. Oh yes. dome, Cord Fourteener, Skizzer and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fumbler Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 16 minutes ago, Spurious said: It's made in a country that no longer exists. Yugoslavia? LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spurious Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Yugoslavia?All will be revealed. Along with coffee, trains and a drive home (hopefully). You're in the right continent anyway but I'm saying nowt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fumbler Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 1 minute ago, Spurious said: All will be revealed. Along with coffee, trains and a drive home (hopefully). Oh yes indeed. Looking forward to it! Spurious 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Oi I’ve cornered the Yugoslavian market on AS thanks! In reality I look forward to whichever (hopefully former communist) car you have bought! BorniteIdentity, Spurious and Cord Fourteener 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Caddy mk1 Spurious 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 42 minutes ago, Spurious said: Because I'm easily distracted, I bought something this morning. It's made in a country that no longer exists. Can't pick it up for about 10 days or so. Sadly. But there shall be a collection thread soon. Oh yes. Ohh I hope its a Trabant! (or a 2 Stroke wartburg) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spurious Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Ohh I hope its a Trabant! (or a 2 Stroke wartburg) Sadly not. Thought theres a nice trabant for 2200 on Facebook it's a little out of my budget. I needed something that will do a work run every so often.It's a fairly solid motor car. Bit bargy. LightBulbFun and BL Bloke 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 all safely dropped off at the rescue centre , and some of his unwanted guests already removed ... BL Bloke, danthecapriman, strangeangel and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cord Fourteener Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 (edited) Went out for a blast, a bit of a tune up and a nice drive. I did the triangle on the Denbigh moors, that are on my doorstep. Car is on top form, list of things needing doing is reduced to the meanial now. I saw some bad driving, a rare raptor (possibly a Hen Harrier, maybe a kestrel. Both live up there, Hen Harriers are very very rare indeed so statistically it was a kestrel I suppose), the biggest murmuration of starlings I've seen in a very long time and a sheep in the road who nearly ruined everything for us both. Was a lot of fun and very pleasing. Edited October 20, 2019 by Tim_E brownnova, danthecapriman, mrbenn and 16 others 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captain_70s Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Man, the early unmolested 924 is such a nice design. Cord Fourteener 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayMK Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Today I was presented with this excellent edible Reliant by my son, made by one of his colleagues from work. It made reaching 70 with a Reliant more bearable (i.e. possible ?). Steviemillar, vulgalour, richardmorris and 33 others 35 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Happy birthday. How old is the reliant? ( and who is in better shape?!). LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayMK Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Just now, richardmorris said: Happy birthday. How old is the reliant? ( and who is in better shape?!). Thank you. The Reliant is 58 years old and probably more stable?. richardmorris, LightBulbFun, Saabnut and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Anyone else see car journeys last night with Christopher Timothy and Peter Davison? Driving who1 round Beaulieu and the Jurassic Coast in amorgan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 MHROTD! I'd say that edible Reliant is very passable - a bit like real ones are! RayMK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cord Fourteener Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 57 minutes ago, RayMK said: Today I was presented with this excellent edible Reliant by my son, made by one of his colleagues from work. It made reaching 70 with a Reliant more bearable (i.e. possible ?). Gorgous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cord Fourteener Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 59 minutes ago, captain_70s said: Man, the early unmolested 924 is such a nice design. Yes, quite the tear-drop lines and wide stance. Feels like you are sitting on the road at first, then you forget then you pass another vehicle and you remember. I remember looking up to talk to my friend in a Kia Piccanto like I was talking to a lorry driver. It's a joy to drive around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amishtat Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 A few from a local meet this morning. wuvvum, strangeangel, danthecapriman and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtriple Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 After my prophecy of the other day re the battery, I was proved a damn sight more clairvoyant than Mystic Meg as the car refused to start this morning - half hearted churn for a second or two and then, nuffin As Chester was dancing around on the end of his lead and making irritated noises (he makes noises for everything!) I was going to leave it and walk to the shop, but as the pain in the old spine has been fairly horrendeous of late, changed my mind and got the jump pack out of the boot. Nice neat port on the drivers side to connect leads to so should be a piece of piss, but no, for some reason, the jump pack leads wouldn't mae a decent connection so had to dig out the battery itself. Once I did that, battery was found, all connected up and away she went. And away we went to Halfords. I could have waited until tomorrow but why bother? They open today purely for the benefit of the likes of me (lazy old fuckers) and so I bought a new battery and had a very nice young lady fit it for me! Cost £15 to have it fitted and £120 for the battery but after judicious use of the 'Trade card' the whole bill was £88.60 which I thought was a bargain. She was nice but slow and told fibs- I asked her to connect a 'code saver' which I could have done myself and so after faffing about fetching another battery she plugged into the OBD port (?) wich surprised me somewhat. She made a meal of changing the bad boy but got there in the end but of course, all the codes had gone and the roof wouldn't work. Ho hum... Still gave her a tip though and didn't make a song and dance about it, usually on Mercs it's a case of the windows need to be reset before the roof works which is really REALLY difficult - you put the windows to the top and hold the buttun up for 5 seconds and then one touch works and so does the roof. That was the case today and so 30 secods and all sorted (though the radio has lost its codes for station presets which, as I never listen to the radio is hardly heart breaking and saved the poor lass from having a melt down as she looked proper sttressed by it all. Stevebrookman, Fat_Pirate, paulplom and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Bye cars. CityRover will also get a cover, but it's still got one run to the unit to do. That'll be at about 7am tomorrow morning. Then I'm on a coach for a scary number of hours on the way to that there London. Not sure what my comms will be like once I fly on Tuesday, but will try to report in. BL Bloke, taxi paul, dave j and 21 others 24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SierraMikeHotel Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Anyone here own two Talbots, a Solara and a Horizon? One had RAC in the reg, didn't have my phone on me for a pic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Positive delivered tools to get on with the shalaxy driveshaft... And for bacefook page I'm on took some pics of the car and missus( who thinks she's fat and ugly, the female mind..lol ) mrbenn, jumpingjehovahs, Stevebrookman and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BorniteIdentity Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Happy Birthday, @RayMK ! Brilliant cake. Hope you’ve had a good day. LightBulbFun and RayMK 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefoot Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 I have just seen the future, in the daily mail. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7592485/Father-eight-invents-electric-car-battery-drivers-1-500-miles-without-charging-it.html Cord Fourteener and taxi paul 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cord Fourteener Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 1 minute ago, barefoot said: I have just seen the future, in the daily mail. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7592485/Father-eight-invents-electric-car-battery-drivers-1-500-miles-without-charging-it.html Sounds just epically awesome, shame it's in the Daily Hate Mail because I simply don't believe anything they write. The article doesn't even cite any sources, which means that I have to dig to see if it's utter codswallop or not. I hope it's actually based on something (Which for the Daily Hate Mail would be a refreshing change) as a leap forward in battery tech has been mooted and is long over-due... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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