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[panhard65]

Off to see a Corvair in the morning. I hope it isn't quite as bad as it looks, the seller says it is really solid. Priced at less than the shipping costs of bringing one over. I might even be able to keep my Rolls if this one comes off.

When it was last for sale.

and what it looks like now

[17-Coffees]

Heading down to Morris Leslie's Classic car auction down at Errol today along with Supernaut.

They have a Toyota Sorer (Lexus SC) up for sale....and it's the rare V8 model as well! 

 

It's estimate is only £500 - £1000! 

 

If it hovers around that mark I cannot be responsible for what happens...

[DodgyBastard]

Heading down to Morris Leslie's Classic car auction down at Errol today along with Supernaut.

They have a Toyota Sorer (Lexus SC) up for sale....and it's the rare V8 model as well! 

 

It's estimate is only £500 - £1000! 

 

If it hovers around that mark I cannot be responsible for what happens...

 

 

Forget the Soarer, there's a Zastava Yugo in the auction.

[DodgyBastard]

Picked up this yellow thing in Arbroath last night.

 

Pez station shot by srblythe, on Flickr

 

It's actually pretty quick, I can kinda see why Wilsonx2 likes them. I'm just getting prepared for my journey south of the border with it today.

[Sloth in a bowl]

Dropped the Puma with Bub2006 and am now waiting for the train back from Derby to Brum. Derby station is busy with diesels, I quite like it.

[dean36014]

A week off work, and the old Zx is going to embark on another trip to norfolk broads to revist some childhood haunts. A mate was asking about breakdown cover and it put a niggling doubt in my head. Checked my policy and it turned out I had named vehicle cover and not personal membership. I've been blindly driving round the country in a 24 year old car with no cover in place, oops!

[beko1987]

I've never had breakdown cover...

 

Just take the £50 zx and if it breaks set fire to it and get a taxi to the nearest train station!

[oldcars]

Forget the Soarer, there's a Zastava Yugo in the auction.

Just had a look that's class, looks mint as well.

[bub2006]

Dropped the Puma with Bub2006 and am now waiting for the train back from Derby to Brum. Derby station is busy with diesels, I quite like it.

Thank you many times over for help

[HillmanImp]

After this incident earlier in the week where I left my window open overnight:

 

 

The drivers side window had stopped working.

 

On the day of the DOH! both passenger side windows had decided to just wind themselves down everytime I turned the car on and not wind themselves back up but that had resolved itself at least.

 

So last night I decided to take out the switch and clean it up and see if that sorted it.

 

 

After dismantling the switch the wrong way round so that everything fell out, I gave it a bit of a clean with a cotton wool bud soaked in alcohol (single malt scotch - it is a Jag) and put it all back together and I had a working window again.

 

Relieved, I put the door back together again and went to put my tools back in the garage.

 

Unfortunately, I now couldn't get out of the car as the door wouldn't open.

 

Sadly with the failing light I couldn't get the door apart again either as couldn't get the little plastic cover off one of the screws in the dark, i could only savage everything around it, so I had to sack it off till this morning but thankfully, I now have windows again, even if the front passenger window will only wind down from my controls. I can wind it back up from the passenger side one.

[plasticvandan]

The downside to having been riding an MZ for the last month,is now I really,really want a Trabant.

[holbeck]

My lad has had to put the Honda prelude he recently purchased through the forum onto ebay. Insurance has proved a nightmare for him. Adrian flux quoted him a grand fully comp. He got a few more that were around £1,600. So he rang them back to accept the price when I suddenly became £2,000 , because original company had withdrew qoute. I rang Admiral today and to put him onto my multi car policy till end of Feb was £800. That's more than a years fully comp on his 2.0 turbo s60. So he has put it for sale while he still gets qoutes. Don't think he will get a good one.

 

For God's sake someone buy this, so that I can have it at some unspecified point in the future.

[brickwall]

Not much recently as the Rangie has been very well behaved. then  a fuse blew, then the rear door lock fell off as the retainer bolts had flown south, then it overheated, then the windscreen wipers decided not to work.

 

All sorted now.

[panhard65]

Off to see a Corvair in the morning. I hope it isn't quite as bad as it looks, the seller says it is really solid. Priced at less than the shipping costs of bringing one over. I might even be able to keep my Rolls if this one comes off.

corvair.JPG

When it was last for sale.

rotten corvair.jpg

and what it looks like now

200 mile round trip to look at the Corvair and I don't think I will bid on it. It has been standing a long while and the distributor is missing which set alarm bells ringing. It is solid enough however but won't be for long as it is sat out side and starting to show rust on the B pillar. It has also been "restored" at some point in it's life and the filler is starting to show. I think I will spend a bit more and find one in the states as this one doesn't inspire me with confidence.

[HillmanImp]

Not much recently as the Rangie has been very well behaved. then  a fuse blew, then the rear door lock fell off as the retainer bolts had flown south, then it overheated, then the windscreen wipers decided not to work.

 

All sorted now.

Thats nowt for a full morning of Range Rovering though, isn't it?

[taxi paul]

Well the prelude lives to get driven another day. My lad has insured it with Adrian flux. They rang him back and said they had managed to get it to £1,000 fully comp. So its no longer for sale and he's looking forward to pop up headlights'.

[dollywobbler]

200 mile round trip to look at the Corvair and I don't think I will bid on it. It has been standing a long while and the distributor is missing which set alarm bells ringing. It is solid enough however but won't be for long as it is sat out side and starting to show rust on the B pillar. It has also been "restored" at some point in it's life and the filler is starting to show. I think I will spend a bit more and find one in the states as this one doesn't inspire me with confidence.

 

Oi! I thought we didn't do sensible in these parts?

[Shep Shepherd]

Bought this today, with a view to using it to clean The Volvo's and The Aero's engine bays:

 

 

WCPGW?

[RayMK]

High pressure wetness near (electrical) connectors, ignition bits, breathers and vents could dampen your enthusiasm for cleanliness  .

[danthecapriman]

200 mile round trip to look at the Corvair and I don't think I will bid on it. It has been standing a long while and the distributor is missing which set alarm bells ringing. It is solid enough however but won't be for long as it is sat out side and starting to show rust on the B pillar. It has also been "restored" at some point in it's life and the filler is starting to show. I think I will spend a bit more and find one in the states as this one doesn't inspire me with confidence.

Shame it was a bit of a waste of time, but I think your better off going to the source with american stuff. There's less choice here and the temptation to just accept what's available.

If you go to the US, prices are often cheaper and there's far more choice to get exactly what you want. Of course the shipping will cost but I think you'll get a better car out of it.

[Supernaut]

The Soarer Mr Coffees mentioned earlier sold for £800.

 

In person, it was rough as fuck though. Gaudy as fuck chrome wheels, a flat tyre, the headlights were almost opaque, the external driver's door handle was falling apart, as was the door card on the inside of the same door.

 

Very clean MOT history though, so somebody may have got a bargain on that! In other news, I drove The Caffeinated LS400 again today, from Dundee to Aberdeen. I still want one!

[Asimo]

200 mile round trip to look at the Corvair and I don't think I will bid on it. It has been standing a long while and the distributor is missing which set alarm bells ringing. It is solid enough however but won't be for long as it is sat out side and starting to show rust on the B pillar. It has also been "restored" at some point in it's life and the filler is starting to show. I think I will spend a bit more and find one in the states as this one doesn't inspire me with confidence.

One of those sad dry-climate cars which gets imported sight unseen, disappoints the importer and then rots away on British Ebay as he tries to get his money back?

[Shep Shepherd]

High pressure wetness near (electrical) connectors, ignition bits, breathers and vents could dampen your enthusiasm for cleanliness  .

 

I've made engine bays very wet with forecourt pressure washers many times in the past and haven't had any problems; due to being mindful that various under-bonnet things don't like to get wet, I've gone in well prepared

 

I'm more concerned about how effective the actual sprayer is. I reckon it will be all right for my purposes (the box has a Volvo on it, so I live in hope), but at £14.99, I'm not going to complain too much if the results are disappointing.

[17-Coffees]

As Supernaut said, that SC400 was very rough looking, and considering the MOT expires this month could have been a very big gamble! (Even though the history is apparently good) 

That said, I'm sure some Mike Brewer wannabe will clean it up and have it on eBay for a few grand in a few weeks time.

 

I learnt my lesson with the Cappuccino though, if a rare car you want is being sold looking a little rough, but at a good price. DONT DO IT! 

[Asimo]

Sitting on the wall in the drizzle waiting for MOT result* and along comes a Jeep, a proper WWII style one with no top, which conks out in the road right in front of me. Heavy bugger to push!

A quick stir of the fuel in the under-seat tank and it was running again. Beautiful slow tickover, incredibly quiet, the advantage of low compression engines made out of cast iron with little thought to weight. 

Turns out it was along for a "virtual MOT" and running for the first time in five years, hence the sludgy fuel. A postwar French built one with 24v electrics and a HUGE dynamo. All electrics screened and waterproof like something NATO from the seventies.

Guess what I have been searching eBay for this afternoon?

 

**Civic. Fail. Brakepipe.

[bub2006]

Lexus ls400 on Gumtree for £395. Mot till next year.

[DVee8]

Some photos from our Supercar day at Elvington racetrack.

 

This is what my 12 year old should have been driving.

 

This is what the poor lad had to make do with,bless him.

 

He couldn't quite see over,so he had to use a booster seat.

 

 

This is what a 12year old looks like after 6 laps and 85 miles per hour in a Aston Martin.

 

I'll put my photos up later.

 

It was good day but my wife was charged extra for insurance £25 as the excess for totaling a car is £5000.Even though she had already payed an extra £50 on line for something else.

 

Spectators are kept away behind barriers but their photographers are there charging for pics.

 

The deal  for me was 4 laps  in a 911 twin Turbo then a high speed hot lap with the instructor.

 

First is the demo lap this is with 3 others in a bmw

The first lap in the 911 is finding ones feet,were to turn in and were to put your foot down.

Laps 2and 3 are full on fast laps,lap 4 is as fast as possible but only 3/4 of the lap then turn in to finish.

 

Now the high speed hot lap,that was implied in the 911,was in a Focus RS,myself,my lad and someone else.

 

Dont get me wrong it is a great day,but they want as much as possibe from you.But the running of these events wont be cheap and there was many there.

[Tamworthbay]

The best bit in the world of riding an MZ for the last month,is now I really,really want a Trabant.

FTFY

[worldofceri]

I've made engine bays very wet with forecourt pressure washers many times in the past and haven't had any problems; due to being mindful that various under-bonnet things don't like to get wet, I've gone in well prepared

 

I'm more concerned about how effective the actual sprayer is. I reckon it will be all right for my purposes (the box has a Volvo on it, so I live in hope), but at £14.99, I'm not going to complain too much if the results are disappointing.

 

I could do to jet-wash the Saab's engine bay as getting the massive amount of crud off the steering gear might help locate the leak from the pas.

 

However, I'm scared of getting water into the electricity, especially since about 50% of the non-essential electrical bits and bobs don't work anyway I could do without rendering the rest u/s.

 

Any tips?

[egg]

has anyone ever successfully sourced a part through breakeryard.com on any other online breakers search tool?