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1 hour ago, artdjones said:

I just hope none of the parents are on Mumsnet. "Am I being unreasonable or is this man abusing his children by taking them to school in an 80 year old car without airbags".😁

I have had a parent say similar to me about taking the kids in the 2CV… 

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Oh bugger... just realised halfway through installing a bunch of shelving that I need to unplug a power and a network cable to reroute it.  Unfortunately said cables are the ones providing power to and the connection to the router for the network switch that feeds everything in the house with data.

...So that will have to wait until everyone is done with work for the day then!  Which is annoying as it means leaving the room in a state of complete disarray.

My own fault for not thinking about it earlier, but still irritating.

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3 hours ago, Rust Collector said:

I have a customer visit in that there Lun-dun tomorrow so I've paid my first ever ULEZ charge - I'm taking my filthy, polluting 1 litre hybrid 😅 I should probably contact Honda for a certificate of conformity at some point...

Should have taken the Lada.  Exempt innit.

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31 minutes ago, Rust Collector said:

If I'd got around to replacing the clutch by now then I'd be very tempted! As it stands, I'm not sure I'd fancy 2 to 3 hours of the A27/M23/M25 in it😅

I looked up the Lada when it was for sale and it was showing as not exempt. it should be (unless there is some BS referring to imports) but would investigate before planning to bring it into Sadiq Turpin's Utopia 

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About two years ago my son bought a scruffy second hand Clarke portable garage for £50 with plans of housing his 300zx in it but instead left it rolled up in my garden. Fast forward to today and I dug it out of the bushes and spent 45 mins putting it up.

I wasn't expecting it to be any good but I'm quite impressed with it's design and how you can tension the cover so it is nice and tight. I don't think it would last long in a location like an exposed field but if it is well anchored down the side of a house I reckon they would be great asset for a shitter.

 

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33 minutes ago, wesacosa said:

I looked up the Lada when it was for sale and it was showing as not exempt. it should be (unless there is some BS referring to imports) but would investigate before planning to bring it into Sadiq Turpin's Utopia 

Ooh I just checked and you are correct. It's in the historic tax class so it should be exempt, I'll register it with TFL and see what happens...

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After all the excitement of registering for a TFL account and then punching in the reg to register it as exempt I got this:

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Job jobbed!

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26 minutes ago, Joey spud said:

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About two years ago my son bought a scruffy second hand Clarke portable garage for £50 with plans of housing his 300zx in it but instead left it rolled up in my garden. Fast forward to today and I dug it out of the bushes and spent 45 mins putting it up.

I wasn't expecting it to be any good but I'm quite impressed with it's design and how you can tension the cover so it is nice and tight. I don't think it would last long in a location like an exposed field but if it is well ancored down the side of a house I reckon they would be great asset for a shitter.

 

My father in law had one of these and they're great. What you need to do is to make sure that the top cover is pulled really taught over the frame because if it gets windy and it flaps about then the frame rubs through the cover. My brother-in-law built it for my FIL and did a shitty job, and it rubbed through in about a dozen places over the space of 2 years.

Something thats massively worth doing is fitting pipe lagging to the 60 degree angle sections to help cushion the elbow from poking through the cover if you can

Some people who live just down the road and whose house is on the seafront have one of these that they keep their MX5 in and its survived absolutely fine for 10 years or so, in a position that's much more exposed to wind and weather. It does look like it was built correctly though

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1 hour ago, Rust Collector said:

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After all the excitement of registering for a TFL account and then punching in the reg to register it as exempt I got this:

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Job jobbed!

Print that out or save it somewhere, I have little trust in Mr Khan(t) and his systems....

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2 hours ago, Joey spud said:

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About two years ago my son bought a scruffy second hand Clarke portable garage for £50 with plans of housing his 300zx in it but instead left it rolled up in my garden. Fast forward to today and I dug it out of the bushes and spent 45 mins putting it up.

I wasn't expecting it to be any good but I'm quite impressed with it's design and how you can tension the cover so it is nice and tight. I don't think it would last long in a location like an exposed field but if it is well anchored down the side of a house I reckon they would be great asset for a shitter.

 

Looks like the sort of storage solution I need for some of the fleet which have to live outside… I can’t just never find one for anywhere near £50!! 

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I have just been to view, and purchased, a 125…

Decided when I sell the scirocco I want to press on and actually do my big bike test but after doing my CBT last year I realised I’d probably benefit from a few months on a 125 to build my confidence before taking a test. 
 

Found this on Facebook 15 mins from us, it’s 1 owner from new and only done 1700 miles. It’s not spotless, few chips and rust specs but not been down the road or anything. Sounds brilliant too. 
 

Will Roffle in 6 months when I’m done with it if there’s enough interest. I’ve just paid £800.

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This might interest @juular, I got talking with a friend of mine's Dad yesterday and we were chatting about cars for a bit. He showed me this photo he found and recently scanned. 

This is him with his 1962 Volvo Amazon, taken in Sydney in 1983.

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This was one of two Amazons he had, the other one he bought as a university student when he studied in Sweden a year later. He now owns two mid-1950's Chevrolets.

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9 hours ago, wesacosa said:

I looked up the Lada when it was for sale and it was showing as not exempt. it should be (unless there is some BS referring to imports) but would investigate before planning to bring it into Sadiq Turpin's Utopia 

8 hours ago, Rust Collector said:

Ooh I just checked and you are correct. It's in the historic tax class so it should be exempt, I'll register it with TFL and see what happens...

*edit:

After all the excitement of registering for a TFL account and then punching in the reg to register it as exempt I got this:

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Job jobbed!

yah dont actually have to register for a TFL account its just the general ULEZ checker does not really work properly so anything thats post 1973 will still come up as needing to a pay a charge when it wont if it is historic vehicle taxation class'ed

 

if you go to the pay a charge checker a Historic vehicle is correctly flagged as exempt :)

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(note how I am not signed in or anything)

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