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On 9/14/2020 at 8:55 PM, holbeck said:

The MINI has landed. 

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Thanks to @gadgetgricey for a smooth transaction, very happy with it. Drove back to Devon sweet as a nut. 

Thanks also to @simon8201 for his time and assistance.

That's a hell of a roof!!


MX5 is having some time out in the garage, waiting for sealant to set for 24/48/72 (probably the latter as I'm busy tomorrow) after replacing the rear CAS O ring and camshaft cover, hopefully this will stop it doing such a good impression of a sieve all over the floor. Was planning to do the sump but I'll have to either lift the engine out or drop the subframe and front axle to do that so I'll see how much this helps first...

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12 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Any chance the engine conversion has caused the big ends to wear?  As for the 720, I am happy with the standard 2cv performance. A £3000 bill on top of the cost of a nice car is not what I think sensible- I had no idea it cost so much!. I have a sportscar for that sort of thing.

The bottom end is entirely unknown to me. It's an engine I acquired many years ago and it had been sitting outside. I threw it in the car, but ended up fitting the 652 kit as the bores were badly glazed and water damaged on the 602. That tells you what state the engine was in. 

Suggest you try a 720 before writing off the idea. The difference is remarkable.

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1 hour ago, dollywobbler said:

Nope. That's as good as the opening gets on those.

Given how 'focussed' these seem to be, I'm surprised that Lancia didn't just use a NACA duct or slidey vent in a fixed window glass. Does it sort of pivot around the bottom rear corner then when you wind it down?

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Just been caught trying to steal 20 bottles of king goblin in tescos. The shop assistant came running in the car park and collard me. Is use that scan and shop thing and forgot to scan them. Very embarrassing being lead back into the shop by the trolley.

 

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I could feel my face glowing red. Not like me at all. I normally couldn't give two f's.

I had loads of other shopping and the beer was the last thing I bought. I counted twenty going into the trolley but forgot to scan one twenty times once finished. 

I'm sure the wife didn't believe me. She said 'it's rather alot to forget to scan' along with other stuff.

I'm in there every other day. It's making me wonder if I've done it before and got away with it!

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2 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

The normall my lovely interior smell has been replaced with wet dog.

I pulled up the mats and the carpets are damp. The previous owner modified the sunroof drains to stop any leaks so I'm not sure what's causing this. 

It's all drying out just now but I need to investigate.

 

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Blocked scuttle drains?  They're one of the usual culprits on 75s.

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3 hours ago, paulplom said:

Just been caught trying to steal 20 bottles of king goblin in tescos. The shop assistant came running in the car park and collard me. Is use that scan and shop thing and forgot to scan them. Very embarrassing being lead back into the shop by the trolley.

I guess, technically, you had stolen them, even though totally accidentally (m'lud). I'm sure they recognized it was a genuine error by your beetroot shade and good attitude but I bet this is happening an awful lot, with people seeing that they get away with it accidentally once then taking advantage. It's only going to push prices up in the long run. 

I never use scan and shop or self scan in the (probably vain) hope that I'm contributing to keeping checkout jobs going.

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Finally booked the Kennedys to come out and regas the Princess.  A necessary procedure and one I've been putting off for at least 6 or 7 years now.  They're pretty busy so it's not happening until the end of October, I do hope it ends up being a smooth job for them and that the car doesn't throw any toys out the pram about it.

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39 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

I guess, technically, you had stolen them, even though totally accidentally (m'lud). I'm sure they recognized it was a genuine error by your beetroot shade and good attitude but I bet this is happening an awful lot, with people seeing that they get away with it accidentally once then taking advantage. It's only going to push prices up in the long run. 

I never use scan and shop or self scan in the (probably vain) hope that I'm contributing to keeping checkout jobs going.

They want 50% of shoppers to use self scan or says as a minimum. However, the number of hours available to supermarket managers depends on things including sales but also queue times, which is a factor of the number of people waiting for a proper checkout. 

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With all this talk of 2CVs on here, I'm thinking that I ought to give one a go. I personally don't really like them but I'm slowly convincing myself to not...

Also didn't realise how plentiful and cheap parts are for them. New chassis for under 500 quid to complete shells for only 4k! I guess it helps that there isn't much to them. 

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9 minutes ago, SiC said:

With all this talk of 2CVs on here, I'm thinking that I ought to give one a go. I personally don't really like them but I'm slowly convincing myself to not...

Also didn't realise how plentiful and cheap parts are for them. New chassis for under 500 quid to complete shells for only 4k! I guess it helps that there isn't much to them. 

When I first had mine new parts were harder to come by but seconds hand bits were plentiful. Now it’s probably the other way round. If you don’t think you like them then I think you need one to drive first before committing. 

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Bluebird trim seems to be curing, but left for a bit longer to set. Also treated the battery tray to a coat of bilt hamber. In the meantime I've managed to lose the J-clamp for the battery, dammit. A cable tie will suffice for a bit until I can find the old one, inevitably as soon as I order up a new one.

Been doing a few errands in the Mondeo this evening, and noticed the temperature gauge flopping around. Uh oh. I had just left the car idling for about 5 minutes, but it carried on on a decent run. Coolant level below minimum and a small trickle of coolant under the thermostat (the housing of which was recently replaced when it dramatically fell apart on the A1M). Topped it up and gave a run around for a bit longer and no more came out. I'll have a proper look tomorrow, but it's really less than ideal on a car which is going to Scotland in a week's time... Fingers crossed it's an expired hose or clip that's obvious when seen in daylight. 

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1 hour ago, SiC said:

With all this talk of 2CVs on here, I'm thinking that I ought to give one a go. I personally don't really like them but I'm slowly convincing myself to not...

Also didn't realise how plentiful and cheap parts are for them. New chassis for under 500 quid to complete shells for only 4k! I guess it helps that there isn't much to them. 

Certainly give one a go. They're not for everyone, but I can't imagine life without one, and I've owned them since 1996. If you can weld, that helps, because they do like to rot. Can make projects attractive as most are on decent chassis these days. Be warned that they can be quite different to drive depending on chassis, dampers and suspension heights. Six-cylinder's feels very different to drive to mine.

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1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

..... If you don’t think you like them then I think you need one to drive first before committing. 

They have a certain charm but, having tried 6Cyl's 2CV, I think more practice with the gear change is required. I kept thinking I was going to end up selecting reverse from 3rd gear.

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3 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

They have a certain charm but, having tried 6Cyl's 2CV, I think more practice with the gear change is required. I kept thinking I was going to end up selecting reverse from 3rd gear.

The one in his is weird. And I’ve been driving them for three decades.

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6 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

It was for someone on Saturday. The previous user had yanked the handle out too far, and the release was consequently fucked.

 Ah.  I’m not a habitual handbrake user after years of CXing.  The cx handbrake is basically the same as the 2cv but less useful. The x1/9 seems to be built with similar themes. I Leave the cars in gear leaving the handbrakes to work once a year for the mot.

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1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

When I first had mine new parts were harder to come by but seconds hand bits were plentiful. Now it’s probably the other way round. If you don’t think you like them then I think you need one to drive first before committing. 

It was the general look of them and seeing them as a crappy cars when I first starting noticing cars when I was growing up in the 90s and my most impressional time, that ingrained this view into me.

But one thing I like doing is challenging my perceptions and I feel you can really only do that with a car after putting a few miles on one in different types of locations, road types and conditions.

 

17 minutes ago, dollywobbler said:

Certainly give one a go. They're not for everyone, but I can't imagine life without one, and I've owned them since 1996. If you can weld, that helps, because they do like to rot. Can make projects attractive as most are on decent chassis these days. Be warned that they can be quite different to drive depending on chassis, dampers and suspension heights. Six-cylinder's feels very different to drive to mine.

Interesting. Makes sense. I guess I saw 2CV and just assumed they're all pretty much the same, but I guess parts quality varies greatly as per standard classic car running experience - including the accuracies of the reproduction chassis. 

 

5 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

They have a certain charm but, having tried 6Cyl's 2CV, I think more practice with the gear change is required. I kept thinking I was going to end up selecting reverse from 3rd gear.

See the challenge of a different gear change to me is part of the appeal as its so different. I still maintain that @Six-cylinder DS that he kindly let me drive last year was by far the most difficult vehicle I've ever driven. The only vehicle out of hundreds I've driven since passing my test that made me feel like a complete beginner driver again. LHD, column shift, 4 pedals (handbrake pedal right next to clutch of all places!), self centering steering, fixed belts, binary brake pedal and a few other things. A few would be fine, but literally everything was different! If they weren't so expensive, I'd get a DS just because I like the challenge of properly mastering one.

 

3 minutes ago, Mally said:

The gear change is a challenge at first.

I do think are a little sedate for SiC though.

Long hair or a beard often helps for some strange reason.

I have a beard and I did have long hair once for a short while a good few years ago. However I accidentally burnt the long hair off... ??

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