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[trigger]

I had a day of mixed emotions on Friday, I sold my Dolomite to a farmer for close to the asking price

I dropped it back to my dad's barn for the new buyer to collect it and to bring my Astra home

I was cruising down the A12 where I lost all its drive just as I passing Colchester and broke down on the side of the busy road. 

Where I ended up having to call Essex police for a road closure and a tow behind a BMW 550 to a BP garage. 

Thankfully dad turned up with some tools and a tow pole where we found the spring for the points had snapped and he had to tow me home, I've now ordered a few ignition set up for about £15 so should be back on the road again. 

I'm now not sure if I should spend some money and get the car professionally painted on both sides to really smarten it up or just buy something else, trouble is everything is so bloody expensive at the moment, cars I was paying £2000 for a couple of years ago are now £7000+.

I was bidding on this 8000 mile Ital which was the car that made me want to sell the Dolly in the first place and that sold for £7000 in auction

[HMC]

Sorry to hear about your breakdown @trigger

Ive just gone into town to collect a pizza and managed to (badly in the excitement) park next to the wobbed up wolseley I sometimes see for a BL CARS group shot

 

[Cavcraft]

Erm, seem to have bought an old Vauxhall...

...a 2.0 Super Touring. It's pretty bad body work wise (the kit didn't do them any favours) but they're a rare old thing now.

[Split_Pin]

^^

Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

*critical fapping*

[Cookiesouwest]

40 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

Erm, seem to have bought an old Vauxhall...

...a 2.0 Super Touring. It's pretty bad body work wise (the kit didn't do them any favours) but they're a rare old thing now.

Well done

[puddlethumper]

I helped a Ninja this afternoon. He was stopped 50m in front of me and I thought he might be having a bit of bother. He started walking towards me so I hopped out to see if I could do anything. Asked me if I had an iphone charger  . I had to inform him that I had no time money for such fripperies. A message on face ache resulted in bugger all so I asked him where he lived which turned out to be about 7ish miles away. So he's left the bike with me and I drove him home. Insisted on giving me £20. Not going to say no. Bugger, it's upside down. Bloody wasn't in my saved pics.

[richardmorris]

Lots of movement at work site  this week with many Nigel mansell cars off to Monaco. Plus  this 1970 Alfa Romeo Le Mans car which was also in the film with Steve McQueen . Recent £700,000 of invoices!

https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/mc22/monaco/lots/r0001-1969-alfa-romeo-tipo-333-sports-racer/1189668

[wuvvum]

Just back from a 500-mile round trip to Somerset and back in the Jag.

Not too shabby considering!

I'd like to say that it ran faultlessly but I'd be lying - I got caught in rush hour traffic going through Buckingham and the DSC light came on.  Switching the car off and back on again cleared it though and it then ran OK.  Other than that it was spot on, a lovely comfortable place to spend 11 hours...

[SiC]

That Speedo reminds me of the one on the A4 B8 I had. Optimistic for the vast majority of powertrain combinations and useless for them too. About a fifth of the dial used in almost all legal scenarios. And unless you have a rare massive engined version, only half of it is useful to VMax. 

[stuboy]

15 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

Erm, seem to have bought an old Vauxhall...

...a 2.0 Super Touring. It's pretty bad body work wise (the kit didn't do them any favours) but they're a rare old thing now.

lovely...

 

when i frequented VVOC they loved the supertourings, and holy grails of the st200's and rare red ones

[Dayno]

3 hours ago, trigger said:

I had a day of mixed emotions on Friday, I sold my Dolomite to a farmer for close to the asking price

I dropped it back to my dad's barn for the new buyer to collect it and to bring my Astra home

I was cruising down the A12 where I lost all its drive just as I passing Colchester and broke down on the side of the busy road. 

Where I ended up having to call Essex police for a road closure and a tow behind a BMW 550 to a BP garage. 

Thankfully dad turned up with some tools and a tow pole where we found the spring for the points had snapped and he had to tow me home, I've now ordered a few ignition set up for about £15 so should be back on the road again. 

I'm now not sure if I should spend some money and get the car professionally painted on both sides to really smarten it up or just buy something else, trouble is everything is so bloody expensive at the moment, cars I was paying £2000 for a couple of years ago are now £7000+.

I was bidding on this 8000 mile Ital which was the car that made me want to sell the Dolly in the first place and that sold for £7000 in auction

Love the Astra, sorry to hear that it broke down but good it's nothing major. I was watching that Ital and thought it finished on Thursday at £4500, did the bidding get extended or something? I tried to place a bid within the last couple of minutes but their site went down.

[trigger]

1 hour ago, Dayno said:

Love the Astra, sorry to hear that it broke down but good it's nothing major. I was watching that Ital and thought it finished on Thursday at £4500, did the bidding get extended or something? I tried to place a bid within the last couple of minutes but their site went down.

Same happened to me, i went to put £5000 on and it just crashed and kept reloading, apparently the car actually caused the website to crash! They extended it for 3 days starting from £4500, they didn't tell any of the bidders though, quality website. 

[AnnoyingPentium]

4 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

Erm, seem to have bought an old Vauxhall...

...a 2.0 Super Touring. It's pretty bad body work wise (the kit didn't do them any favours) but they're a rare old thing now.

Oh my god. 

Well bought.

[mitsisigma01]

@puddlethumper

[paulplom]

20 hours ago, Eyersey1234 said:

I received a summons for jury service on Saturday to take place at the end of next month, has anyone on here done it?

Get yourself a criminal record sharpish. You won't have to do it then.

[Jazoli]

1 hour ago, paulplom said:

Get yourself a criminal record sharpish. You won't have to do it then.

Or just ignore the summons, it's not sent recorded or signed for so you never received it! 

[puddlethumper]

9 hours ago, mitsisigma01 said:

@puddlethumper

Ninja man came back with a bike trailer and his Misses who gave me a box of Milk Tray. Stuff my face later with those. 🙂

[Dyslexic Viking]

We are on a tractor buying trip today 

[scdan4]

Hey @sutty2006

New head new headset new sump new nozzles new MAP new belts new gaskets.

Purring. Boost is back baby.

Figured having carefully stored a spare engine for years I should use some of it.

Shiny new ticket on it and all. Even taxed it. 

8k till the big 250. Should do that this year.

 

 

 

 

[sutty2006]

24 minutes ago, scdan4 said:

Hey @sutty2006

New head new headset new sump new nozzles new MAP new belts new gaskets.

 

Purring. Boost is back baby.

Figured having carefully stored a spare engine for years I should use some of it.

Shiny new ticket on it and all. Even taxed it. 

8k till the big 250. Should do that this year.

 

 

 

 

This is grand news! 
 

let me know when I can buy it back 🤣

[3VOM]

11 hours ago, paulplom said:

Get yourself a criminal record sharpish. You won't have to do it then.

Or get pregnant IIRC.

[Cavcraft]

19 hours ago, stuboy said:

lovely...

 

when i frequented VVOC they loved the supertourings, and holy grails of the st200's and rare red ones

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sadly, the interior in this one has been had off (by a previous owner, years ago) and replaced with fairly basic model seats. A GSi interior or half-leathers from an SRi would probably improve it. The body work is quite shit too, sadly.

[Cord Fourteener]

Can a saloon be used as a good load lugger?

If its a Volvo 740 then yes. 

 

[Stanky]

Phwoar, some red hot Briggs and Stratton action there @Cord Fourteener

 

approved

[Bren]

The vectra's leak off pipes arrived 24 hours after ordering from autovaux. They are genuine in PSA packaging. Let's see if they have cured the leak.

[OM646]

Today I fitted the EMF display in my friend's Berlingo. 10 years later, this van finally has a trip computer and a genuine radio 

[Dyslexic Viking]

4 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

We are on a tractor buying trip today 

And we're home. I'm quite excited as this is my first encounter with a vehicle built and developed under communism and the first impression is good. This is a 1976 Zetor 2511 which I think was Zetor's smallest model in the 1970s it has a 1.6 liter 2 cylinder diesel engine with 25 horse power and was built in Czechoslovakia.  And it's going to be used in my dad's company.

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, 3VOM said:

Or get pregnant IIRC.

Especially if you're a male!

[Stanky]

26 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

And we're home. I'm quite excited as this is my first encounter with a vehicle built and developed under communism and the first impression is good. This is a 1976 Zetor 2511 which I think was Zetor's smallest model in the 1970s it has a 1.6 liter 2 cylinder diesel engine with 25 horse power and was built in Czechoslovakia.  And it's going to be used in my dad's company.

MPs here in the UK have literally LOST THEIR JOBS looking for stuff like this on the internet.

Nice work, is it a trick of the camera or does it have a green 'modesty' curtain for safety on the rear of the roof/cab?

[Dyslexic Viking]

10 minutes ago, Stanky said:

MPs here in the UK have literally LOST THEIR JOBS looking for stuff like this on the internet.

Nice work, is it a trick of the camera or does it have a green 'modesty' curtain for safety on the rear of the roof/cab?

The green in the picture is one as in the picture below, is unsure what it is called in English so not part of the tractor. We were quite lucky with this one as it has few hours and good history. Older Zetors are also getting difficult to find here as the demand abroad for these is high and this means that most Zetors end up on export unfortunately.