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[stuboy]

Went to help friend garry to put parts of his car back together at his home in sittingbourne..

[overrun]

Citrine win. 

 

Are those MOMO Ferrari's, too? Prefer your Zetec wheels, Stu! But I guess they are period.

I'd have some TSW Stealth's.

[holbeck]

Hmm,

 

Both the Scotto 305 and the Kentish Mondeo have Gloucester registrations.

[fordperv]

I do love a bit of citrine yellow

[Jim Bell]

Yellow cars are for winners.

[Fat_Pirate]

I've just refitted the new thermostat housing on the KV6 Rover again, this time with a smidge of gasket sealer on the o-rings.  I will return in an hour and if that engine Vee is full of red coolant again... there will be a raffle.  

[Fat_Pirate]

I've just refitted the new thermostat housing on the KV6 Rover again, this time with a smidge of gasket sealer on the o-rings.  I will return in an hour and if that engine Vee is full of red coolant again... there will be a raffle.  

There was indeed a load of coolant doing a runner... but I could see it was actually coming from the new temperature sensor.  Extracting it without dismantling has been a major ball-ache and has resulted in a set of BBQ tongs becoming part of my tool kit, but hopefully it's fixed now (copper o-ring added).

[overrun]

Yellow cars are for winners.

This must be true. I tried and failed to buy one.

[purplebargeken]

I've never had a yellow car. I like yellow cars.

 

I had a yellow Suzuki GS850 but it just wasn't the same. Primarily because it was a motorbike.

[Supernaut]

I didn't want to post this in the grump thread, because it's not much of a grump really.

 

I find myself questioning why I have the Xantia. It's a nice car to waft about in, but it doesn't inspire me in the slightest. It's a bit 'grown-up' really.

 

I tend to enjoy driving the BMW 316 far more. Nice little revvy N/A 1.6 that's just willing to go and go. I end up driving it far quicker than the Xantia, even though it's probably technically 'slower'.

 

I've been offered a black W reg Civic Aerodeck 1.6 Vtec stupidly cheap because it's been off the road a couple of years. This is more through the owner's laziness rather than anything being massively wrong with it. It's been on a proper driveway and not in long grass either. Getting an MOT on it shouldn't be too much of a hardship. It even includes a new catalytic converter. Basically, it belongs to another member of this forum who lives locally to me, and he's probably never going to use it again. It's a lovely little thing though.

 

Dilemma! Does somebody want a cosmetically challenged but mechanically sorted low-mileage Xantia? It'll even include a 5L bottle of hydraflush!

[egg]

 

Been using this today - very effective and no smears...(not cheap but you get what you pay for....)

[DodgyBastard]

 

305 collection take 2

 

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[spike60]

A few pics of a handful of the cars and bikes at Saltburn hill climb today, most were a bit newer than my selection though all are supposed to be pre 1976.

 

Panther

 

The Golden Ford. 1911 Model T racer

 

Brough Superior

 

Grenfell Special..

 

Railton.

 

The last couple were my favourites though I know little of them. I think they belonged to the same family who also had a Bentley. Fair few shiny Shepa coupes and A35 convertibles there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[dugong]

[320touring]

Looks lovely! do I detect a smidgen of coolant use? or is it the classic "big engine, small runs and loads of condensation'?

[stuboy]

Citrine win. 

 

Are those MOMO Ferrari's, too? Prefer your Zetec wheels, Stu! But I guess they are period.

I'd have some TSW Stealth's.

yeah momo ferraris..

[doobietoo]

Just won a 1959 spridget saloon on ebay... *may make for an interesting collection thread...

[Ghosty]

Spridget saloon?

 

Magnette?

[doobietoo]

Ghosty, on 11 Sept 2016 - 7:18 PM, said:

Spridget saloon?

 

Magnette?

 

noooooooo

[M'coli]

A35.

[Ghosty]

I wonder what, hmm.

 

In other news the A4 seems to have been fixed.

(I'm secretly hoping it grenades. It won't).

[doobietoo]

M'coli, on 11 Sept 2016 - 7:33 PM, said:

A35.

 

    :-D    

[greengartside]

Update of events at Greengartside towers.

 

Well....not a lot really. The Zafira is still awaiting an M.o.T but that will be happening quite soon. Looks like the list is a new cat, N/S wishbone and coil spring, adjustment / repair of rear brakes, new N/S handbrake cable and possibly a new tyre on the front O/S. I've replaced the blown main beam bulb and put a set of correct sized front wiper blades on. Now I can see out of the windscreen okay.

 

Also I'm thinking of selling my little Fiesta, I need a bigger car so I'm looking for a 4/5-door. I've narrowed it down to Mk5 Astra, Mk4 Golf GT TDi (post-02 plate with the comfier recaro seats) and maybe the Rover 75 tourer Diesels. I also have my eye on the local garage's Skoda Fabia 1.4 but I don't think they will be selling that any time soon. I love my Fiesta but I've well and truly scratched the itch now so I want someone else to have some fun with it.

[ruffgeezer]

Toying with buying this to nick the tyres from, does anyone need any bits from a povvo Mk3 Golf?

 

 

[Kiltox]

OSF wing if it's not rotten, glove box door

[Ghosty]

3VOM? PBK?

[Coprolalia]

What engine is it?

[EssDeeWon]

Plodding up the A130 towards Chelmsford this morning, I kept seeing crowds of people standing on the bridges over the A130....  Surely they haven't all come out to check out a primrose yellow 75 in action??  No, it was the Essex Air Ambulance bike run, 5000 of them all soon caught me up, wow what a turn out!  I ended up caught up in it all, I slowed up and kept my distance and to be fair for Sunday bikers they were all very respectful.  Never seen so many bikes before.  Good on them.

[Stanky]

Today, not entirely of my own choice, I drove virtually the entire length of the A3. I didn't realise it started at London Bridge, but it does.

 

90% of it was really easy to drive. The last 10%, less so. Especially as London Bridge was closed, but you were not told of this major issue until you were in sight of the bridge itself. at least 40% of londoners* were then required to do a u-turn and go back around and over Tower Bridge, which was fun.

 

I have to say though, driving in central london is good for keeping the mind active - I recall my old man saying it isn't hard to drive in town, as long as you know where you are going. Keeping an eye on signs and having a good idea where you are is a good workout and the only time I had to resort to the sat nav was when I was confronted by the 'road closed' signs and had to rapidly find another route.

[Ghosty]

I agree. I've cycled in London before and I've had no problem navigating by road.