wuvvum Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Peatboghorror achieved - 30 minutes wait for the next train. Six-cylinder 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmsguzzi Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Collection time in BMW’s beigest moment. Jazoli 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catsinthewelder Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 3 hours ago, Angrydicky said: It would be nice if there was a company that offered unloved, shite classic driving days, but I guess they would quickly go bust offering those 😂 Well I don't think Shitefest ever turns a profit but nobody ends up in the poor house (unless they blow 2 ZX tyres on the way home). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmsguzzi Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Beats the A1 RayMK, loserone, wuvvum and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Sold the zephyr it's heading to Heathrow area to be restored.. Asimo, brownnova, SiC and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Collectioned. AnnoyingPentium, MrGTI6, DVee8 and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayMK Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 April has nearly passed already. At the beginning of the month I drove over to Nether Winchendon where I was married in Dec 1972 and where my wife has rested since May 2007. It poured with rain so I did not get out of the car, instead stopping at Brill (windmill) to eat my packed lunch. A bit later in the month I stopped for a walk near Preston Capes and was buzzed by three army light helicopters. Today, as it was sunny and warm, I decided to go out for a drive but the Tipo did not respond to the ignition key at the Start position. No current was being drawn so I went in to my garage to find the special tool (hammer), then clouted the battery terminals and the starter solenoid. Normal service resumed after I'd hit the solenoid. I stopped after about a mile on a dusty unmade lane near Helmdon for a couple of photos next to a crop. Asimo, Joey spud, Dan29 and 19 others 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Detroit and Devon culture clash! mk2_craig, nomiST, brownnova and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk2_craig Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Not strictly automotive related, but it does involve some nice grot in a strange parallel with the @Datsuncog Subaru experience. The now Mrs_Craig bought this table from Q&Q many years ago. It has spent well over a decade outside in all weathers. Looks OK still, doesn't it? However it's going to need some attention to the underside for its next MoT. That's supposed to be a continuous square frame supporting the opaque toughened glass panel. Aye, that's humped. No chance of welding that up! beko1987, AnnoyingPentium and Datsuncog 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmsguzzi Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Collectioned, nice to meet @loserone. A couple of beers and a pie to keep my Dad happy, couldn’t ask for more! Car is a cracker, definitely a lot perkier than the Inca forum bike. Though I appear to of already broke the clock adjuster, technically the clock still works like, I’m just gonna be living 20 mins in the past. LightBulbFun, brownnova, Jazoli and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 1 hour ago, mk2_craig said: Not strictly automotive related, but it does involve some nice grot in a strange parallel with the @Datsuncog Subaru experience. The now Mrs_Craig bought this table from Q&Q many years ago. It has spent well over a decade outside in all weathers. Looks OK still, doesn't it? However it's going to need some attention to the underside for its next MoT. That's supposed to be a continuous square frame supporting the opaque toughened glass panel. Aye, that's humped. No chance of welding that up! Just put a bead of expanding foam around the entire perimeter on that join with the glass Just like subaru owners have to, but without having to get the matt black out afterwards mk2_craig and mercedade 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 1 hour ago, RayMK said: April has nearly passed already. At the beginning of the month I drove over to Nether Winchendon where I was married in Dec 1972 and where my wife has rested since May 2007. It poured with rain so I did not get out of the car, instead stopping at Brill (windmill) to eat my packed lunch. A bit later in the month I stopped for a walk near Preston Capes and was buzzed by three army light helicopters. Today, as it was sunny and warm, I decided to go out for a drive but the Tipo did not respond to the ignition key at the Start position. No current was being drawn so I went in to my garage to find the special tool (hammer), then clouted the battery terminals and the starter solenoid. Normal service resumed after I'd hit the solenoid. I stopped after about a mile on a dusty unmade lane near Helmdon for a couple of photos next to a crop. Do these later ones have the digital dash still? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayMK Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 6 minutes ago, richardmorris said: Do these later ones have the digital dash still? No. Nice reliable dials and a clock which continuously makes very mechanical whirring noises. richardmorris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LabRat Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Made it back from darkest Bradford with Mrs_LabRat's new steed, she's still grinning and to be fair it's an absolute hoot to drive for a modern. I want to meet the brave person who shelled out for a towbar on an Ignis, then never bothered to use it... (Apparently it'll tow a tonne, presumably slowly with a lot of noise) The shed of a C4 is going for scrap tomorrow, after a closer look it's really not worth saving- needs way too much work to justify keeping and I wouldn't want to sell it on in the state it's in! Joey spud, Barry Cade, Dyslexic Viking and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Rebuilt the stator tube hub control assembly (I have no proper name for this thing) for the Lanchester today after re-wiring it. Fresh grease has made it operate much better. Arse of a thing to record working on. Self-cancelling mechanism for the semaphore switch works nicely too now. Fingers crossed it actually works properly once reinstalled. LightBulbFun, RayMK, Angrydicky and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitsisigma01 Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 9 minutes ago, LabRat said: wouldn't want to sell it on in the state it's in! Is there a thread for how bad this is ...link please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrcento Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Currently trying to convince a guy to sell me an OMG LIABILITY car i nearly bought 2-3 months ago, but he beat me to by a matter of minutes. He bought it, washed it, then stuck it straight back up for sale at 4x the cash with an ad dripping with 'Collectors item' bullshit bingo. It didn't sell. It now sits up the side of a pub, abandoned, filthy, partially vandalised and seemingly being used as a skip. Supernaut 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LabRat Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 17 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said: Is there a thread for how bad this is ...link please There isn't a thread cos it was bought as a £400 stop gap shed to get her to work and back whilst we sorted the Ssangyong out. Its suffering with rusty rear sills, giffer spray paint on one rear door and a crease in the sill on the passenger side, work gearbox mount, 2 duff lambda sensors, worn clutch and possibly a gearbox idler gear judging by the whine, broken drivers side spring thanks to Oldham's wonderful road network, worn wishbone bushes on both sides and not a straight panel on it... Oh and the Comms 2000 unit is fucked, so the indicators don't self cancel and the fog lights have been bodged into a switch on the dash (rear only, the previous owner couldn't be arsed wiring the front up) It also has a sellotaped key that works the central locking when it can be arsed, and a lovely* stench of fag smoke from the previous owner smoking roll ups in there, along with the foam collapsing in the drivers seat so absolutely no support at all. Still, cartakeback are giving us £450 for it, so it's been 4 months of essentially free motoring for her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 And home. Smoll car is smoll. Smoll car is also tremendous fun. I picked it up from just the other side of Leicester and Google Maps sent me down some nice windy little back roads to get to the A47 - it really is a great little thing to chuck around. It's a mid range model so has electric windows but no aircon - and seemingly no air recirculation button, so if you're driving past a pig farm you know about it. Needs a bit of welding and a brake pipe for the MOT - it also had the EML on but that went out half way home after I stopped for pez. It's surprisingly nippy given how high geared it is (a 1-litre shopping car shouldn't be able to do 60 in second gear) and the gearing means it's a lot more refined on the dual carriageway than the Daihatsu was as it's not screaming its tits off at 70. Overall I really rather like it so far. cort16, LabRat, RayMK and 15 others 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Bought last weeks classic car weekly digitally because of x1/9 content. They say 333 on the road in the uk! There’s also an article on Hagerty today as well. https://www.hagerty.com/media/car-profiles/retro-rematch-fiat-x1-9-vs-triumph-tr7/?fbclid=IwAR0HcxC3UjbnalIbxbr1dYcXHm7cUgZ97NPUlFVFR3UkM-o-UMIzaCn995U Barry Cade, Shite Ron and Six-cylinder 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 On 28/04/2022 at 21:58, Crackers said: Had my first "proper Mini" experience today with a (very) short scoot in a 1999 Rover injected one. I liked it. That's it. That's the news. My sister's first car was a bog-standard 1973 Mini 850; white with blue vinyl 'seats', 10" wheels and a huge two-spoke plastic tiller. It was like a go-kart compared to my (first) Dyane - you didn't so much steer it as think it round corners... Crackers, LightBulbFun and mk2_craig 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 2 hours ago, LabRat said: Made it back from darkest Bradford with Mrs_LabRat's new steed, she's still grinning and to be fair it's an absolute hoot to drive for a modern. I want to meet the brave person who shelled out for a towbar on an Ignis, then never bothered to use it... (Apparently it'll tow a tonne, presumably slowly with a lot of noise) The shed of a C4 is going for scrap tomorrow, after a closer look it's really not worth saving- needs way too much work to justify keeping and I wouldn't want to sell it on in the state it's in! Was the C4 from "that there Goole" - the very strange OAP car dealers by any chance? £450 scrap - that's impressive! LabRat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loserone Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 3 hours ago, jmsguzzi said: Car is a cracker, definitely a lot perkier than the Inca forum bike. Hope it treats you well dude, pleasure to meet you both. Get that twin carb setup bought! @KitKat KitKat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 1 hour ago, wuvvum said: And home. Smoll car is smoll. Smoll car is also tremendous fun. I picked it up from just the other side of Leicester and Google Maps sent me down some nice windy little back roads to get to the A47 - it really is a great little thing to chuck around. It's a mid range model so has electric windows but no aircon - and seemingly no air recirculation button, so if you're driving past a pig farm you know about it. Needs a bit of welding and a brake pipe for the MOT - it also had the EML on but that went out half way home after I stopped for pez. It's surprisingly nippy given how high geared it is (a 1-litre shopping car shouldn't be able to do 60 in second gear) and the gearing means it's a lot more refined on the dual carriageway than the Daihatsu was as it's not screaming its tits off at 70. Overall I really rather like it so far. Was the original owner rich* enough to tick the box for rev counter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 45 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said: Was the original owner rich* enough to tick the box for rev counter? Nope. RoverFolkUs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 12 hours ago, Cookiesouwest said: To cheer myself up, I'm going to the Somerset Country Classics meet at midday. First show since before covid became a thing. How was it? I meant to go to it today but I forgot and ended up in Devon instead! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandeth Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 3 hours ago, wuvvum said: And home. Smoll car is smoll. Smoll car is also tremendous fun. I picked it up from just the other side of Leicester and Google Maps sent me down some nice windy little back roads to get to the A47 - it really is a great little thing to chuck around. It's a mid range model so has electric windows but no aircon - and seemingly no air recirculation button, so if you're driving past a pig farm you know about it. Needs a bit of welding and a brake pipe for the MOT - it also had the EML on but that went out half way home after I stopped for pez. It's surprisingly nippy given how high geared it is (a 1-litre shopping car shouldn't be able to do 60 in second gear) and the gearing means it's a lot more refined on the dual carriageway than the Daihatsu was as it's not screaming its tits off at 70. Overall I really rather like it so far. They are fun aren't they? Rev limiter in 2nd should be 65. Which mine saw far more often than I'd like to admit...the noise they make when worked hard is still great I reckon. Keep an eye on the oil level as some of them like a drink - though mine never used a drop of oil the whole time I had it (9 years and about 65K miles) despite my driving it like I stole it a lot of the time. Radiator is a bugger to change as it's sandwiched between the slam panel and crash bar so that has to be dropped off to change it, and make sure there's free play in the clutch cable or it'll eat the release bearing. A lot of these have silly high clutches as apparently the dealer info says they're self adjusting... they're not! The adjuster is on the nearside towards the back of the gearbox as I recall. The wing indicator repeaters are a stupid design. The bulb can't be replaced so the whole unit needs to be changed - though they are like £3 even from the dealer so hardly the end of the world. Bugger me on principle though! If you need a set of tail lights I think I still have s pair in the garage. wuvvum and LightBulbFun 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Cade Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Spotted this odd thing through the week.. First time I've ever had to Google a car to find out what it was! brownnova and Lacquer Peel 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainBoom Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 10 minutes ago, Barry Cade said: Spotted this odd thing through the week.. First time I've ever had to Google a car to find out what it was! Is that a SAAB 9-7X? I've never seen one in the metal, so it's only a guess LHD and square number plate, presuming a US import? Barry Cade 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OM646 Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 1 hour ago, CaptainBoom said: Is that a SAAB 9-7X? I've never seen one in the metal, so it's only a guess LHD and square number plate, presuming a US import? Yes. It's a 9-7X, aka "Trollblazer" Although as unloved as it is... I'd have a ton of fun with the Aero that has a Corvette engine and apparently handles very decently for the big thing it is CaptainBoom and Barry Cade 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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