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On 5/25/2022 at 7:53 PM, HillmanImp said:

Viewing arranged on Friday for a totally stupid, overly priced, (probably) unreliable, inappropriate, midlife crisis money pit which I have absolutely no room for. 

It sold before I could look at it. :(

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Should've gone earlier. Thats the 2nd one up for sale locally that I've missed out on in as many weeks. 

Think someone somewhere is telling me to finish the one I already have. 

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As indicated in my for sale thread,  I have left a deposit on another car. I kept having dreams that I owned a Cavalier again, the most recent one was where my old schoolfriend Graham Cullen was aggressively wheelspinning away in L620GLS, a satin red hatch with a towbar (yes,  my brain literally made all of this up in my sleep).

This had been relisted a few times so a cheeky offer was made and accepted. 

@worldofceri is collecting it on 2nd of June from Hereford and bringing it north (the 2nd Cav I have smuggled up here) to Scotland.

Can't wait!

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1.6 big block LS so likely no ball of fire but as long as it goes well. All it probably needs is the famous* Split_Pin timing belt treatment, other than that it appears decent.

These shots were what sold it to me:

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Espace sailed it’s Mot yesterday, advisory on a tyre sidewall so got two new ones.

heard a clatter today driving back from garage. Stopped but nowt obvious but now I’m on the A1 on a longer drive I’ve been gifted* a lovely check ESP warning.

:) 

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As indicated in my for sale thread,  I have left a deposit on another car. I kept having dreams that I owned a Cavalier again, the most recent one was where my old schoolfriend Graham Cullen was aggressively wheelspinning away in L620GLS, a satin red hatch with a towbar (yes,  my brain literally made all of this up in my sleep).
This had been relisted a few times so a cheeky offer was made and accepted. 
[mention=3722]worldofceri[/mention] is collecting it on 2nd of June from Hereford and bringing it north (the 2nd Cav I have smuggled up here) to Scotland.
Can't wait!
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1.6 big block LS so likely no ball of fire but as long as it goes well. All it probably needs is the famous* Split_Pin timing belt treatment, other than that it appears decent.
These shots were what sold it to me:
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That came up on my local(ish) classic car search. It's probably not rotten as it's not Scottish and doesn't live by the sea
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Pulled the BGT out of storage earlier. Took it shopping.
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Going to venture into Bristol tomorrow and go to the local Moss Motors open day. Hopefully it's not going to misbehave itself in the city! It's not been back for a while and I'd rather it not have a fright.
Probably should wash it but I don't know if I'll get time to.
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I'm off to the inaugural Castle Donington Classic Vehicle bollocks meeting in the morning. I shall be driving the classic antidote; Suzie the scruffy silver car and have spent three minutes this evening preparing a plaque to denote; 'Winner of Worst British Respray award 2017' as voted for by the twats on Autoshite. 
I wonder if I'll be invited back.

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Whoops, I thought I had done all the necessary work to make the 205 pass inspection, but not quite:

- Left tie rod is fucked

-  Rear brakes imbalance

Also, profile of the front tyres is just about acceptable for the inspection, but since the car is at the garage atm anyway I figured it makes sense to have them replaced now.

I'll have the garage sort it out, and it will hopefully be ready early next week.

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Off collecting this tomorrow: 

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It's replacing my Civic Coupe. Trading it with a mate, his Civic sedan met an untimely end, and this replaced it after I sent him a link to it. He didn't gel with it and missed having a Honda - I've been looking for something with a bit more of an involved driving experience and started looking at MX5s again, we've managed to arrange a swap so I get this to run about in and keep miles off my sedan while having many grins and lols. It's a UK spec 1.6 with amongst other things, an LSD, HSD coilovers, a fibreglass hardtop and an MX5parts exhaust.  
I've already ordered/started gathering a few bits for it including Japanese spec deep pile checkerboard floormats, that Nardi steering wheel, a Bluetooth radio, white gauge faces to brighten the interior... Thought I'd missed the boat on usable MX5s and fancied another so I'm feeling pretty lucky. 

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Had to go to the Post Office delivery depot in Oldham this morning, cos it's Mrs Labrat's 40th today and the postie missed us with one of her presents. The weapon of choice for such a trip?

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First time I've driven it without Mrs Labrat present (it's still very much her baby) so I took the opportunity to give it a good hoon to see what I thought... It's bloody hilarious- thrives on revs and handles like a go cart,  there's something refreshingly old school about it too, despite the tablet in the dash. It's a basic 1.2 16v dualjet job, but goes far better than you would think.  I've not laughed like that driving a smol car in a long time.

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Even taking into account a the possibility of a slightly optimistic fuel computer, the Mrs has ran this for 2 weeks so far off a single fill up so it can't be too far wrong... I'm reckoning somewhere around the 40-41mpg round the doors. Mad little thing does closer to 60mpg on a motorway run.

TL:DR Fat bloke drives smol japanese car and grins like an idiot. 

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On 5/26/2022 at 3:58 PM, The Vicar said:

Some character building in the form of a rear ending for my Italian stallion this morning:

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Shite update for a shite car:

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The broken backbox rubber seems (to my untrained eye) to be the worst of things. There is a bit of distortion around the lip of the boot but the floor itself seems in one piece still.

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I spent the afternoon on my brother in law's Peugeot J5. It had a test last December which it failed, so the rear air springs were replaced, and it was resealed at a camper specialist, then collected by me to have the other test work done, mainly welding and problems with the lights. One thing and another, including COVID-19 intervened and it couldn't be retested until early this month, where it failed on brake efficiency and the fact that 6 months of sitting around had caused lots of metal brake pipes to rot. Basically every pipe from the cab backwards. The tester said the efficiency problems were mainly down to the fact that the back brakes were doing very little. He attributed that to problems with the rear compensator. I started on the brakes last Saturday and completed making up and fitting all the rear pipes and a new compensator today. There's one other pipe to replace in the front wheel arch. 

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6 minutes ago, Crackers said:

Apparently the thing now doesn't run right after replacing the back box. 

Yeah, I don't quite understand how that happens, but never mind. 

Ooh that sounds like a backpressure issue to me. I wonder if a re-tune would help.

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21 hours ago, Ghosty said:

Off collecting this tomorrow: 

No description available.

It's replacing my Civic Coupe. Trading it with a mate, his Civic sedan met an untimely end, and this replaced it after I sent him a link to it. He didn't gel with it and missed having a Honda - I've been looking for something with a bit more of an involved driving experience and started looking at MX5s again, we've managed to arrange a swap so I get this to run about in and keep miles off my sedan while having many grins and lols. It's a UK spec 1.6 with amongst other things, an LSD, HSD coilovers, a fibreglass hardtop and an MX5parts exhaust.  
I've already ordered/started gathering a few bits for it including Japanese spec deep pile checkerboard floormats, that Nardi steering wheel, a Bluetooth radio, white gauge faces to brighten the interior... Thought I'd missed the boat on usable MX5s and fancied another so I'm feeling pretty lucky. 

Gorgeous!!!

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1 minute ago, JJ0063 said:

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/719483349257404/
 

Nearly 600k on the clock, looks immaculate. Much better condition that a lot I’ve seen! 
 

If it wasn’t for the fact it’d be a nightmare to resell, I’d probably have a dabble.

Looks like a new yin to me.

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