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[egg]

Happy Christmas everyone!

 

[dozeydustman]

I’m off to London shortly for the Smithfield Market meat auction. Staying with papa & mama dustman who have switched back to these. Is it that sad I have many excites over silver top from real bottle. I have just drunk 3 espressos though, which may be some* of the excite

[dollywobbler]

I did face plant into the berm because it was slippery. I looked like a minstrel. 

 

A fly tipping minstrel. 

 

 

 

Frankly, I'm amazed you didn't get run out of town. Or burnt at the stake. 

[Skizzer]

Staying with papa & mama dustman who have switched back to these. Is it that sad I have many excites over silver top from real bottle.

We have those too, and a proper milkman called Ray The Milky, because we live in 1980.

 

Sadly he drives a Diesel Transit rather than a Unigate W&E milk float powered by Chloride batteries. It’s good, but not quite the same.

[loserone]

Happy Christmas everyone!

 

 

I miss my Pride.

 

 

Alcy, that sounds like a proper C15 adventure.

[Guest Hooli]

Green tech M8. CO2 capture and storage, innit.

 

Beige label, it's foam

[Guest Hooli]

Can you get 14" mud terrains?

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/x2-185R14C-102-100Q-FEDIMA-MUD-SNOW-COMMERCIAL-VAN-TYRES-18514-1857514-/282068909544

[Cavcraft]

Happy Christmas everyone!

 

 

 

If that's not on the front of next year's calendar, Autoshite has been abducted by aliens.

[DeeJay]

I thought you were going to have a moan about your milk being frozen.

[Six-cylinder]

Got a C15 very stuck down a country lane. 

HA, LOL, FOEM, these are unstoppable, an Ariel Atom won't get me down here!!!!!!!!1

 

Was dragged out backwards by Mitsubishi Outlander. 

Entire rear bumper ripped off. 

 

 

Fuck. 

 

Always take your pushing team!

[Supernaut]

I still remember, after SF16, stopping at a services about 30 miles up the motorway because my Xantia had a bit of a death wobble above 60mph.

 

I put the suspension on full height and scraped fuckloads of mud out of the insides of the front wheels. It drove much better afterwards!

[oldcars]

Happy Christmas everyone!

 

That dog takes great pride in picking he correct tree. Merry Christmas.

[Cavcraft]

#Fordfanboi

 

[Six-cylinder]

I still remember, after SF16, stopping at a services about 30 miles up the motorway because my Xantia had a bit of a death wobble above 60mph.

 

I put the suspension on full height and scraped fuckloads of mud out of the insides of the front wheels. It drove much better afterwards!

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[SierraMikeHotel]

Oh for fuck's sake.

 

 

My own fault, I like to park the car as close to the wall as possible so it's not blocking the front door of the house and just mis-judged it. In perfect dry sunny conditions. Idiot.

[mercrocker]

Mrs Rocker managed to take down an entire dwarf wall with that precise point on her 190E.  Not a scratch.   Sorry that doesn't help......

[puddlethumper]

Had some sparkly work done the other day. 

 

 

This is what the inside of the panels ended up like after condensation

got in behind the textile faced foam that had been glued on.

 

 

At some point, before I got it, someone had decided to hook the 

glass out and fill the holes in. Probably so it could be registered

as a commercial and used as a business expense.

Shame really as I would've loved a 3 door estate coz they are 

for winnaz as we all know.

Took a few years to find a couple of good panels but thanks to D Spares

who found a van, on a farm, which became a good donor.  Cheers Tom.

 

 

This is how the outside looked. Nice eh ? Got my mate Alan, who is brilliant at

vehicle stuff and has at least a dozen yanks, the latest being a pale green

and white Impala, to wave the sparkly stick at it.

Note the festive fairy lights.

 

 

Nice hole.

 

 

and no hole.

 

Both sides done. Chuffed as fuck. He's going to do the rear arch, as you

can see above, soon as well. Top bloke and not expensive.

 

 

 

 

[richardmorris]

Just dried out the Mercedes as there was a lot of condensation on the windows. Turns out it’s because it’s now about ten degrees colder than when I used it this morning. Frosty tomorrow, and a nice sunset for Christmas Eve.

[Asimo]

Washed the fleet. It's years since they were all clean at the same time.

 

 

Dehumidifier in the van as I was a bit careless doing the door sills. Paint washed off the van roof so I'll have to get up there with a brush next spring. I did remember to push the Insight forward a few feet to wash the part of the wheels hidden by the spats.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Oh for fuck's sake.

 

 

My own fault, I like to park the car as close to the wall as possible so it's not blocking the front door of the house and just mis-judged it. In perfect dry sunny conditions. Idiot.

At least the damage seems confined to the trim piece - that pops off. Could fit reversing sensors while you are at it (standard fit are in the trim bit you are replacing)

 

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[SierraMikeHotel]

That's good to know!

[They_all_do_that_sir]

That's good to know!

Dont ask me how I know

 

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[tooSavvy]

Gatwick police made several arrests at lunchtime today..

 

Suspects, wearing brightly coloured paper hats, were led away whilst 'suspicious' aerial devices were confiscated.

 

 

Many were overheard protesting "we purchased these crackers at Tesco, we're innocent!"

 

SAS later raided a huge out of town warehouse but no further crackers were found..

A Tesco spokesman said "We aren't surprised, we always ensure all our stock goes before Xmas - Every little helps"

[vulgalour]

Since I'm not doing anything else today, I thought I'd have a go at dismantling the spare rear suspension units for the Princess.  FAILED.  All of the pivot shafts are completely seized and my tools are neither man enough nor produce enough heat to free them off.  Disappoint.

 

Still, it was nice driving around on roads that were mostly deserted and the new magic box ignition thingy has made the Princess chug along a fair bit smoother than the knackered condenser, so I'm happy about that so far.

[cros]

Festive indulgence all afternoon, I've been pulling my propshaft.

Will have to de-barnacle under here by the look of things.

[Shep Shepherd]

Was on my own at work all day today (no problem, as I can't stand this time of year), so not only was The Volvo the oldest car in the car park (as per usual), it was also the only car in the car park:

 

 

The new rear brakes are bedding in nicely now that I've driven the car around 100 miles since I got it back from the garage. I'm still really glad that I didn't try to replace them myself!

[155V6]

#Fordfanboi

 

My donor Puma has 14 inch Peugeot steels now to balance that out 

[cros]

Was on my own at work all day today (no problem, as I can't stand this time of year), so not only was The Volvo the oldest car in the car park (as per usual), it was also the only car in the car park:

 

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The new rear brakes are bedding in nicely now that I've driven the car around 100 miles since I got it back from the garage. I'm still really glad that I didn't try to replace them myself!

I like them Volvos a lot, that's the right colour and everything. As I stared up at the rusty underbelly of my newest acquisition yesterday it did cros my mind that I should have looked for one.

[Royale80]

Just been offered a brand new council lockup-5 mins walk from me. 30 seconds from my brothers for £10 a week. Would be rude to say no!

 

Steve

[Shep Shepherd]

I like them Volvos a lot, that's the right colour and everything. As I stared up at the rusty underbelly of my newest acquisition yesterday it did cros my mind that I should have looked for one.

 

The car displays a marked reluctance to rust badly, even after almost 29 years of exposure to the British weather; when I finally got around to rustproofing the car's door sills last year, I discovered that they were factory-fresh ^^

 

I can't imagine that there are many Signal Red 740 estates in existence any more, though. I actually bought it on price and condition, rather than colour and spec - I actually wanted a metallic grey or metallic dark blue GLE, but there were none on Bay at the time.

 

In 15 years, I've only seen two others painted the same colour.