BL Bloke Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 The garage has just phoned to say that the 205 has passed its Mot. ? High Jetter, jumpingjehovahs, wuvvum and 14 others 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burnside Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 19 hours ago, egg said: incoming.... Just left a £50 deposit on some 90's shite. Not that exciting, but it does have a carb, a choke, 4 speeds and no PAS. The kind sellers are delivering it to my door Saturday morning. Possible future roffle fodder ahoy... Fiat Panda Italia 90? Skizzer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 1 hour ago, richardmorris said: A rough looking thing like that for £300 that would be useful at the FoD as a motorised wheel barrow, get it bought! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 It didn't run. (perfect for the FOD!). and this one is $40,000 https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1088539 Closely followed by a Japanese (probably ) family in a Toyota Alphard Executive Lounge. Which I'd not heard of. They all got out ( apart from the chauffer), went into the hanger to look at something posh and expensive. Interior of the van looked quite impressive. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=alphard+executive+lounge&sxsrf=ACYBGNRXfGR9VnQ7eEPHtGkH_VeJ1SSSgw:1581686806114&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=dtVI0ffl76knSM%3A%2C5Azr4hckp-W-LM%2C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kSAcJctgx398Ovhxx41ed8pg19jVg&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjqruXBktHnAhUUWsAKHewCCqkQ9QEwCHoECAgQKA#imgrc=dtVI0ffl76knSM: Six-cylinder 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slowsilver Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 2 hours ago, Six-cylinder said: A rough looking thing like that for £300 that would be useful at the FoD as a motorised wheel barrow, get it bought! No need to spend money. You already have the tiddly truck, which actually is a motorised wheelbarrow. Hopefully when the weather improves we can have another FoD tinkering day and fit the new petrol tap. Then hopefully it will be a runner again. Or is there any hope of resurrection for the Chinese JingLing thing? Six-cylinder and LightBulbFun 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosfandango Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 Today I was mostly collecting my Bonnie tracker that has been in storage for nearly two years. I’ve a new workshop/lockup that means I can at last have all of my shite in one place. CFD Datsuncog, vulgalour, wuvvum and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 35 minutes ago, Slowsilver said: No need to spend money. You already have the tiddly truck, which actually is a motorised wheelbarrow. Hopefully when the weather improves we can have another FoD tinkering day and fit the new petrol tap. Then hopefully it will be a runner again. Or is there any hope of resurrection for the Chinese JingLing thing? As well as getting the Tiddly truck working, Catsinthewelder has had the Jingling engine case welded so I hope we will have that running as well. Maybe we should get Hubnut to do a back to back driving review! LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slowsilver Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 13 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said: As well as getting the Tiddly truck working, Catsinthewelder has had the Jingling engine case welded so I hope we will have that running as well. Maybe we should get Hubnut to do a back to back driving review! Good news on the JingLing. Tortoise and hare job. JingLing would blow tiddly truck away for about 10 minutes, then break. Tiddly truck would just keep plodding on until it ran out of fuel. ? Floatylight 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeordieInExile Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 Spotted while out about. No idea whose car it is. Shame to see it just sitting there unused, I've never seen one of these on the road. New POD, Burnside, BL Bloke and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 19 minutes ago, GeordieInExile said: Spotted while out about. No idea whose car it is. Shame to see it just sitting there unused, I've never seen one of these on the road. 411/412 Variant (Estate) LightBulbFun, Split_Pin, spike60 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeordieInExile Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 Aye, I know what it is...I just dunno why it's sitting off the road outdoors in a trendy bit of Newcastle! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BorniteIdentity Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 I received a Valentine’s card from Moonpig this morning. She hates me calling her that... dozeydustman, BL Bloke, richardmorris and 17 others 2 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 2 hours ago, Slowsilver said: Tortoise and hare job. JingLing would blow tiddly truck away for about 10 minutes, then Catsinthewelder's children would break it. Tiddly truck would just keep plodding on until it ran out of fuel. ? FTFY. catsinthewelder, richardmorris, Slowsilver and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyersey1234 Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 @LightBulbFun I wonder what would happen if someone turned up for their driving test in an Invacar LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyersey1234 Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 More route learning today and finally got round to getting my new sat nav set up. LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 2 minutes ago, Eyersey1234 said: @LightBulbFun I wonder what would happen if someone turned up for their driving test in an Invacar sadly they dont meet the requirements for a Class B driving test you could probably take an invacar if you were doing a driving test in a Tricycle due to medical reasons (but your licence would be restricted to Tricycles only) I do wonder how it worked back in the day, I have seen plenty of period Photos of Invalid vehicles out and about on L plates so clearly it was more than just "do a lap of the hospital car park" as is commonly (miss) reported on the internet, and Stuart told me in the past, that after 1960, users had to pass at least a class 3 Tricycle test/licence, but im not sure what that involved exactly (which I think would be Class C here https://www.gov.uk/old-driving-licence-categories note that the 410Kg thing crops up again! also note the Invalid carriage category J, that AFAIK is no longer issued or such like, so who only knows what the modern day licence requirements of an actual invalid carriage (an invalid vehicle weighing 254Kg or less) are!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aston Martin Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 Does anyone remember seeing the Evo style bodykit for the Maestro? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 28 minutes ago, HarmonicCheeseburger said: Any rules for taking your driving test while dressed as Deadpool? Nope LOL they also dont have anything about the car actually requiring 2 seats for the instructor... so I wonder what would happen if you rolled up in a Larmar invalid car... (ok not sure it can hit 62Mph, but if you ask Derry preston cob if you can borrow the engine from his Invacar new era, it should!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 One successfully downcycled display cabinet. "Japanese Elm" is apparently what Fablon calls teak, at least in the range available at our local Homebase. Wilkinson's own brand enamel grey-green for the backing board. Pretty chuffed with how will this turned out, looks a good 30 years older than it really is. Original teak veneered chair back for comparison purposes. Skizzer, Twiggy, Datsuncog and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 Good work on the furniture and room there. I've got to set off on a collection mission very shortly, but it's not very epic or exciting. It'll involve me borrowing my son's bike and cycling 2-3 miles to the garage to get the Camry, now it's T&Ted and had an oil and filter change. Then buy a new battery (as it's currently using one robbed off the Sunny) and use it to go and watch a rally event at Snetterton. vulgalour, BorniteIdentity, Angrydicky and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex66 Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 We have finally moved in to our home, mrs got a start date for her new job, so thats all good good. As a bonus I have spent the last year or so helping my dad out due to mobility issues and finally this wk end my brothers are helping him move into sheltered housing, timing could not be more perfect. As always there is a downside and the social landlord is trying to fuck us over on stuff they should have made the last tenant deal with bunch of C's, they have been nowt but grief. Nice this morning looking out over open fields. catsinthewelder, Vince70, vulgalour and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 Well that was easy enough. Wind was even in my favour cycling there, and I didn't have to do battle with it coming back home. Camry now happily on the driveway and ready for use after breakfast. It's still such a great thing to drive, with a quality feel and still pretty tight given its age and mileage. The new clutch and various suspension parts it had back in 2017 probably help there. Approaching 108k miles now, would be good to crack 110,000 by next year's MoT. Still a long way to the 203k my previous estate got to....... egg, Vantman, Coprolalia and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozeydustman Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 New tool arrived yesterday while I was laid up in bed with a migraine. 19 hour’s sleep and I feel like magic now. Bought because of sake of owning one, but I may need use of a cheap Chinese £10 scope. Trying to justify to the wife any automotive use for it in the garage. Need to case it though. Also had an offer to make some seasonal countryside brew, so might have an addition for the home brew thread Coming up. LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex66 Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 18 minutes ago, dozeydustman said: New tool arrived yesterday while I was laid up in bed with a migraine. 19 hour’s sleep and I feel like magic now. Bought because of sake of owning one, but I may need use of a cheap Chinese £10 scope. Trying to justify to the wife any automotive use for it in the garage. Need to case it though. Also had an offer to make some seasonal countryside brew, so might have an addition for the home brew thread Coming up. Some of these dirt cheep Chinese boards are pretty superb, I have used some class D power amp modules and DA boards with a lot of success after doing a bit of modifying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozeydustman Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 6 minutes ago, Alex66 said: Some of these dirt cheep Chinese boards are pretty superb, I have used some class D power amp modules and DA boards with a lot of success after doing a bit of modifying. My experience with the cheap Chinese stuff has been a mixed bag. Either really really good or totally and utterly crap. That signal is the 3.3v 1KHz signal from the test point on the board and it looks good, if a little scratchy. Just remembered I have a fault on my C64 I need to diagnose so it should be good there... Jamie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy18s Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 33 minutes ago, dozeydustman said: New tool arrived yesterday while I was laid up in bed with a migraine. 19 hour’s sleep and I feel like magic now. Bought because of sake of owning one, but I may need use of a cheap Chinese £10 scope. Trying to justify to the wife any automotive use for it in the garage. Need to case it though. Also had an offer to make some seasonal countryside brew, so might have an addition for the home brew thread Coming up. If you can play Snake on it then that's all it needs.... DeeJay and dozeydustman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozeydustman Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 57 minutes ago, andy18s said: If you can play Snake on it then that's all it needs.... Weren’t some early games played on a scope? Knowing my inquisitive mind I’ll probably find something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 new car arriving in next half hour... Angrydicky, Craig the Princess, Skizzer and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 44 minutes ago, dozeydustman said: Weren’t some early games played on a scope? Knowing my inquisitive mind I’ll probably find something I have a very early memory of my Uncle (an engineer at Marconi) showing me some sort of game on a big old scope he had at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 Oh hello It be base-y crusty! low millage I've sewn up the deal Above all, it's a Rover Yeah, I've joined the @Twin-Cam club Amishtat, dave j, Vince70 and 46 others 49 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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