The new news 24 thread

[hairnet]

f40 gordon keeble 330gt

 

f50 ahahahahahahaahahahaha

[RobT]

Carlton is lush.

My holiday would be a 1000x better if I could smoke about in the Carlton rather than the poxy Smart we've got!

[cort16]

I saw this great picture of an XJ220 on an other forum. Semi detached house and XJ220 on the drive. Why do I think this person isn't married?

 

[xtriple]

I hate to say this but I may have to leave the forum as yo are all, clearly, fucking morons!   The F50 is a thing of beauty, the F40 is a TR7 with a bodykit and a dreadful apology for a chassis (ever see one 'undressed'? The XJ 220 has always left me a bit m'eh 'cos it should have been so much better (V12, 4 wheel drive prettier bodywork) and all the Ford switchgear, well really!

 

Having said all that (and upset every other forum member with my views... forcefully put!) I have NEVER been that into Ferraris. Countach however I think is gorgeous and one of the few cars that got better with all the facelifts... no one else will agree with me there either as EVERYONE says the Gandini original is pure and beautiful (it is) but the later ones have a brutality and sheer aggression that sold a million Athena posters. No one puts a picture of an LP400 version on their wall in preference now do they.  The Espada on the other hand was pretty right from the off, and the MK1 wheels are gorgeous and deserve to be in a gallery even without the rest of the car.

 

However, if you want a REAL supercar that looks fantastic then you have to wander off in your time machine back to the late 20, early 30s and drool over Bugattis and Bentley racers. Very different but Christ, are they beautiful and the noise one of those old Bugs makes is orgasmic!

 

Please note, I was only joking so don't get your hopes up - I ain't going nowhere

[drum]

I shouldn't do auctions. There's an agricultural come general tat auction every month or so and the auctioneer's face lights up when he sees me arriving. Im always buying a bunch of old shit I don't need, sometimes spending a few hundred quid.

 

I went to a car auction after work tonight. I've just bought 4 (four) cars, none of which I particularly like or need. God sake! I'll need to go back with a car load of drivers. How am I going to insure them all to get them home? One doesn't even have an mot.

 

My temples are starting to throb...

[Tam]

I shouldn't do auctions. There's an agricultural come general tat auction every month or so and the auctioneer's face lights up when he sees me arriving. Im always buying a bunch of old shit I don't need, sometimes spending a few hundred quid.

 

I went to a car auction after work tonight. I've just bought 4 (four) cars, none of which I particularly like or need. God sake! I'll need to go back with a car load of drivers. How am I going to insure them all to get them home? One doesn't even have an mot.

 

My temples are starting to throb...

Ok I want first pick for driving home!!

[Noel Tidybeard]

i mustard mitt the henly blue bugatti is my favourite of all of those

[overrun]

I saw this great picture of an XJ220 on an other forum. Semi detached house and XJ220 on the drive. Why do I think this person isn't married?

 

 

Wonder if he knows this bloke?

 

http://s238.photobucket.com/user/Jonty99/media/10455456_10154242361030111_3303590951915597738_n_zps41e482eb.jpg.html

 

Also, F40 all day, every day. That and an RS200 have always been top of my Lotto list!

[purplebargeken]

 

 

Its a fairly safe bet that if you have an actual car, Ken will be up for swapping it for whatever he has at the time 

 

Initially I was outraged* by this comment but upon reflection......... fair enough actually.

 

Alas I only have a partially dismantled Mk3 Golf and I feel that no-one would want that

 

At least PBIS/FJ wouldn't tell me to get stuffed if I had a R75 lol. 

[Tickman]

I shouldn't do auctions. There's an agricultural come general tat auction every month or so and the auctioneer's face lights up when he sees me arriving. Im always buying a bunch of old shit I don't need, sometimes spending a few hundred quid.

 

I went to a car auction after work tonight. I've just bought 4 (four) cars, none of which I particularly like or need. God sake! I'll need to go back with a car load of drivers. How am I going to insure them all to get them home? One doesn't even have an mot.

 

My temples are starting to throb...

Was looking at a Volvo in Dundee and has bought FOUR cars!

Well done, offer of assistance* / pointing and laughing still stands.

[Negative Creep]

I saw this great picture of an XJ220 on an other forum. Semi detached house and XJ220 on the drive. Why do I think this person isn't married?

 

 

 

Probably realised the Jag is cheaper and more reliable than a wife

[BorniteIdentity]

Some really bloody good news from my end.

 

My chum Emma (who helped with the Sierra bASe and mentioned here http://bit.ly/2bXo43M)has just had her most recent MRI scan results and is still stable.  Whilst secondary cancer doesn't go away, she's been very stable now for 18 months.

 

She asks about the car all the time.  I would like to get some pictures of her with it before too long.  If we leave it much longer my worry is that...well... it's too hard to say really.  

 

But there's a good chance Dicky will have made it too nice by then and Emma won't recognise it.

[mrbenn]

Some really bloody good news from my end.

 

My chum Emma (who helped with the Sierra bASe and mentioned here http://bit.ly/2bXo43M)has just had her most recent MRI scan results and is still stable.  Whilst secondary cancer doesn't go away, she's been very stable now for 18 months.

 

She asks about the car all the time.  I would like to get some pictures of her with it before too long.  If we leave it much longer my worry is that...well... it's too hard to say really.  

 

But there's a good chance Dicky will have made it too nice by then and Emma won't recognise it.

Now that is good news! Was just wondering how she was the other day.

[320touring]

I got the train to work today. Everything I own is fuckernated..

[M'coli]

Has the 205 sold or is that being used by the Burd?

[320touring]

Has the 205 sold or is that being used by the Burd?

I has got a deposit paid and due for collection soon- not been using it as considered sold:)

 

the train is no hardship bar avoiding having a pint or two before getting on it to come hame

[Kiltox]

avoiding having a pint or two before getting on it to come hame

 

Does not compute

[320touring]

Does not compute

never drunk in stirling then;)

[Kiltox]

never drunk in stirling then;)

 

Alloa's worse....

[320touring]

Alloa's worse....

True, but then again I don't work in Alloa. Larbert is always good for a boxing match

[Kiltox]

Hahaha yep!

[trigger]

Pissing hell, I just had a quick play at the Fiesta sump bolt, first tap with my hammer and punch and the bastard popped inside the sump and all the oil came out. Bollocks.

 

Looking online they don't list a sump gasket so it looks like i'll have to take it off and then stick it back on again.

[beko1987]

I used tigerseal to stick the meriva's gasketless sump on, still leak free* 2 years on

 

*doesnt leak oil from the sump at least...

[trigger]

I've just been out at bought this stuff, looking at it the magnetic end of the plug has come off put part of the bolts thread is still attcahed to the sump hole, Ford want £47+vat for a new sump, i hope i don't end up having to go down that route.

 

[beko1987]

That looks like it'll work too! You should be able to remove the remains of the bolt with the sump out and dripping oil all over the lawn easily enough

[hairnet]

less than fiddy for sump aint too bad ya tight wad

[DVee8]

Watching news 24 before work this morning,on the rolling text along the bottom of the screen....

 

...Renault may stop building diesel engines..

 

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37287129

[andrew e]

Good news eh!

[Ghosty]

As long as they don't do it by throwing the engine blocks through the wall of the factory.

[fordperv]

I've just been out at bought this stuff, looking at it the magnetic end of the plug has come off put part of the bolts thread is still attcahed to the sump hole, Ford want £47+vat for a new sump, i hope i don't end up having to go down that route.

 

I've used that stuff and it's decent, there will be no tension on the bolt that's still in there so you should be able to get the remains out without too much fuss