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[chaseracer]

Who am I to disagree...?

[Mally]

I've got half a blue slate roof and half a blue sheet roof on my house.

[Andyrew]

7 hours ago, SiC said:

Bristol Sunroof Centre phone number no longer works. Dropped an email but doesn't give confidence. Did hope they would fix rather than needing to replace.

BAS International hoods in Newport Wales will do a glass hood fully fitted for £744. However earliest appointment is April next year!

Save yourself £735 for something more fun.

This stuff is good for these repairs.

[HillmanImp]

Wow, that's a lot of posts for a dozen blokes supposedly posting up photos of Talbot Solaras.

 

I'm actually wondering if Autoshite is a hub of great international activity after all?

[reb]

Bloody deer.

[Soundwave]

Probably even bloodier at this point...

[reb]

Just now, Soundwave said:

Probably even bloodier at this point...

Yes, it's been run over a few more times because people are fuckwits. It's mince.

[Soundwave]

Hope the vehicle repairs aren't too expensive. Was it already deceased when you hit it?

[reb]

Just now, Soundwave said:

Hope the vehicle repairs aren't too expensive. Was it already deceased when you hit it?

It's my mum's brand new Duster, so it's going through the insurance, £300 odd excess. It was very much alive when she hit it, it jumped out right in front of her.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

11 minutes ago, reb said:

Bloody deer....

...and that's just the cost of the repairs.

[Soundwave]

3 minutes ago, reb said:

It's my mum's brand new Duster, so it's going through the insurance, £300 odd excess. It was very much alive when she hit it, it jumped out right in front of her.

 

Ah, I see. Is she alright?

I always feel so bad when I hit something - I felt awful for days when my Mazda headbutted a pigeon. (as a side note - it's amazing how many feathers a pigeon actually has. The impact was like a grenade going off inside a pillow.)

[brownnova]

Last of the Mavericks Wales meets until spring tonight… 

 

Can’t believe how much I’ve come to value these evenings and how much I’m going to miss them… rain put a lot of people off tonight so a lot less cars, but a few nice ones nonetheless

[reb]

7 minutes ago, Soundwave said:

 

Ah, I see. Is she alright?

I always feel so bad when I hit something - I felt awful for days when my Mazda headbutted a pigeon. (as a side note - it's amazing how many feathers a pigeon actually has. The impact was like a grenade going off inside a pillow.)

She's quite upset about the car, being brand new and all, but otherwise alright.

I did a similar thing in my first Volvo going possibly slightly faster than I should have been on my way home from work at 4:30 in summer, pigeon flew out in front of me and just fucking exploded. I'm pretty sure there's still feathers in it now and it's been off the road for years.

[Barry Cade]

17 minutes ago, Soundwave said:

 

Ah, I see. Is she alright?

I always feel so bad when I hit something - I felt awful for days when my Mazda headbutted a pigeon. (as a side note - it's amazing how many feathers a pigeon actually has. The impact was like a grenade going off inside a pillow.)

Try headbutting a pheasant whilst on a motorbike.. unpleasant.

[Jon]

On 9/26/2021 at 1:22 PM, Austat said:

A package came in the mail today...

... full of interesting late 50's/early 60's chod:

One of my best eBay finds, it was up for auction and only had one hour left when I found the listing. I got it for $30 for the job lot which is pretty good, as these 1950's/early 60's copies of Wheels go for $15-$20 each. They're very good condition considering how old they are, I'll scan some articles for Shite Magazine Scans.

Snap!

Bought these on Trademe a few months ago and my cousin picked them up for me. We finally met up last night, so I was able to see what I'd received. Think I paid about $20, from memory - which is actually quite a bit for me, with my tight-arse tendencies and all.

I've got a few 50's issues now, a few more 60's issues and from '74-1989, I've only got one issue missing! I've also got loads from 1990 onwards (bought a massive job lot years ago cheap) but it's pre-1990 that interests me most.

As you can see, there are some duplicates and I have other duplicates, too. Happy to send duplicates to you for the cost of postage from NZ to Aus, if you'd like.

[Austat]

1 hour ago, Jon said:

Snap!

Bought these on Trademe a few months ago and my cousin picked them up for me. We finally met up last night, so I was able to see what I'd received. Think I paid about $20, from memory - which is actually quite a bit for me, with my tight-arse tendencies and all.

I've got a few 50's issues now, a few more 60's issues and from '74-1989, I've only got one issue missing! I've also got loads from 1990 onwards (bought a massive job lot years ago cheap) but it's pre-1990 that interests me most.

As you can see, there are some duplicates and I have other duplicates, too. Happy to send duplicates to you for the cost of postage from NZ to Aus, if you'd like.

I'm very envious of your purchase.

[Fumbler]

Specialist phones up saying they're too busy to see my car this week. Onwards to the next Citroen Specialists- Triple A in Rye. Hopefully they have a free slot. I spy a C5 estate outside so they can't be all that bad.

[reb]

Phone interview went well, now have a video one next week! Hopefully it goes well too.

[JJ0063]

Had a call this morning from a local but big name in the area recovery firm offering an interview next week for a class 2 tilt and slide recovery role. Sounds bloody perfect for what I want - home based with the truck, 6 on 3 off and salary is between 7-9k more than I’m on now.

To some it would be the worst job ever but this is my dream job and I’ve wanted to do it for many years so I’ll be giving it my all.

[chaseracer]

22 hours ago, Mally said:

I've got half a blue slate roof and half a blue sheet roof on my house.

ROCKABILLY ROOFING (prop. C Perkins) MEMPHIS TENNESSEE...

[Zelandeth]

I'm sorry...what the hell?

Just unbolted the exhaust manifold from the head...the last thing I said before starting was "Okay, let's place our bets on how many I snap..."

Every single one unbolted without any drama whatsoever.  Okay, 50/50 as to whether the nut unscrewed or it wound the stud out, but that's irrelevant to me at this stage.

What madness is this?!?  I was expecting this part to be a full afternoon of swearing in itself!

[Ghosty]

I've got a telephone interview for the AA call centre in the morning. 

[Arthur Foxhake]

19 hours ago, Barry Cade said:

Try headbutting a pheasant whilst on a motorbike.. unpleasant.

I had one hit me in the chest after rolling over the nosecone of my Cagiva Mito. It then rolled up my chest, then over my helmet, leaving me slightly bemused.

The local policeman in Great Missenden, when I was young, P.C Flint, was unfortunately killed by a pheasant strike on his way home from work on the A41 between Chesham and Tring, whilst on a motorbike.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

51 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

.What madness is this?!?  I was expecting this part to be a full afternoon of swearing in itself!

Because Mercedes. 

[Mally]

54 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

I've got a telephone interview for the AA call centre in the morning. 

What other kind of interview would you expect😀

Don't mention Autoaid.

[Split_Pin]

A lot of work done on this recently.
Welding to offside sill at rear (cost £0 -did it myself)
I replaced the full cooling system as the radiator was corroded and blocked. New radiator, water pump, thermostat, fan switch, fans tested, coolant and I also replaced a few small pipes that were soft and leaking.
Straight through the MOT with only 2 advisories for front bushes and discs
New timing belt and tensioner today as the tensioners weren't done last time. Bottom pulley bolts had turned to chocolate so I'm glad I didn't attempt this myself.
Total cost including parts, the MOT and labour where I didn't do the work myself came to £264.

I took it to the Tartan Tarmac breakfast meet on Sunday and amongst about 95% very, very expensive and/or exotic cars, it seemed to be a refreshing change for the other attendees and got quite a bit of attention. 

A good choice of budget retro car I'd say.

 

[Yoss]

On my delivery on Monday there was a tree down right across the road. By the time I took this picture most of it had been cut up but when we first turned in to the road it was a sea of green right the way across. 

 

I was off yesterday but when I got to the same spot today I found this. 

I had no idea there was a car underneath it at the time. Shame as its quite unusual if not particularly interesting. 

[omegod]

6 minutes ago, Yoss said:

On my delivery on Monday there was a tree down right across the road. By the time I took this picture most of it had been cut up but when we first turned in to the road it was a sea of green right the way across. 

 

I was off yesterday but when I got to the same spot today I found this. 

I had no idea there was a car underneath it at the time. Shame as its quite unusual if not particularly interesting. 

Tommi SMäkinen edition? 

[TheOtherStu]

5 hours ago, reb said:

Phone interview went well, now have a video one next week! Hopefully it goes well too.

Yay!

I had my first interview in 18 years a couple of weeks back. Was given the job.

Clearly, having spent the last 18 years doing interviews helped my technique 😂

[reb]

1 minute ago, TheOtherStu said:

Clearly, having spent the last 18 years doing interviews helped my technique 😂

I conducted quite a few interviews over the last few years, though I was making it up as I went along and it was purely academic because Numbertile Pizza will hire anyone.