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[oldcars]

Finally had a few mins to look at all the stuff i picked up at the NEC show few weeks back. Read a copy of Classic Car Mart. There was a great feature with a Isuzu Piazza with looked like dugong on here's car. There was also a Prelude that look familiar too, might have been in a raffle. Great feature and a good read.

[AMC Rebel]

Condolences Taxi Paul.

[320touring]

Grrr. Traction already sold sight unseen for full asking price and not in the UK yet either!

Owner sounded pleasant though.

I'd be up for a short bimble* round France hunting a traction..

 

Can provide a modern boring derv:)

[3VOM]

Vec failed it's MOT - knackered front shock and two tyres.

I have two 215/50 R17 tyres for sale

[richardmorris]

Nice looking design still, but I don't like the colour.

 

 

Edit. Should say that This was at work's business park today.

[3VOM]

Just had a lovely evening after a garage owning mate called me in distress with a mk1 Golf that he's had in for weeks.He's fitted a new engine after the old one expired because of badly set up twin 45's..owner wanted it put back to standard k-jet. He'd done all the heavy work but couldn't get it to start. Got the message that he needed an auld cunt to come along who knows about these vintage cars.... I'm 42 FFS. Anyway he supplied the coffee and the GTi is now purring like a kitten.

 

No laptop required.

Hopefully you got away with the twin 45s - "These will never work." "I'll have a look at them and see if I can salvage something from them." etc.

[bangernomics]

Another interesting (and affordable) traction normale has just been pushed my way. 1950 small boot normale with pilote wheels rather rare ( although I'm not really a fan of the pilotes). Sold by the owner for the last 18years to fund a gite business in the Loire. Christmas prezzie time?

 

Not this one, but same year.

 

 

 

Oh and the piloted are the other pic a -lots of holes! What do you all think? Apparently they're quite valuable.

Very nice and how "affordable"?

 

 

If at first you don't succeed, keep fixing it until it's dead.

[richardmorris]

Very nice and how "affordable"?

If at first you don't succeed, keep fixing it until it's dead.

 

Very good mechanically, with unleaded heap and updated driveshafts. Still three speed gearbox and new interior and headlining. New michelins and twenty years of collected spares. Paint good but not perfect, no rust. And less than nine thousand £.

[bangernomics]

Very good mechanically, with unleaded heap and updated driveshafts. Still three speed gearbox and new interior and headlining. New michelins and twenty years of collected spares. Paint good but not perfect, no rust. And less than nine thousand £.

That's not bad at all if it's solid. They do like to rust though.

[richardmorris]

That's not bad at all if it's solid. They do like to rust though.

Yes, which is why I have no intention of buying one without my 2cv mechanic and long term tractioniste coming and checking it over first. We went to see one in elstree a few years ago that looked pretty good, although pale grey, but both sills needed replacing (once we jacked it up and crawled underneath) together with quite a complex rust repair to one of the door gutters.

 

Oh and this one I've just missed on had a stainless exhaust too.

[dollywobbler]

Getting on for 500 miles in the MG3 and I still like it. Still not found any proper Internet though, and I'm still 160 miles from home. Time for the next stage!

[cms206]

Three fucking times I've had to deice this bastard today.

 

 

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[320touring]

The Toledo froze in 4hrs today in Stirling. Great fun*

 

Glass was duly cleaned

[Ghosty]

Nothing going on at chez Ghosty, as ever. Old Man's in for yet another hernia op soon (third at least), but fuck knows when as the weather fucked up the hospital - we of Stalybridge were on BBC News for it the other day, the town centre's at one end of a valley coming down from Saddleworth Moor, and a couple of large waterways pass through. Combine the freak rain with snowmelt from Friday, and it's flooding and sinkholes ahoy. No harm done up here though, I live on a pretty steep hillside.

[beko1987]

Polish the fucker.

[richardmorris]

Unless it's had the fastest respray ever, here's another one in white.

[dome]

Haven't you seen Cannonball Run 2?

[cort16]

That's kinda my plan, except seeing as I can't weld I was going to pop rivet/bolt it back together with a bit of metal to strengthen it. Where did you cut yours?

 

I can't actually remember now. The guy who I rent my lockup off recons you could just do a single cut and twist it on but I couldn't get that to work so ended up cutting a section out of it.

[richardmorris]

Vinyl wrap maybe?

 

 

Actually I watched the white one being loaded on a truck and then the orange one went past again  - so definitely two. There's a yellow one in the warehouse too from earlier in the year.

[Supernaut]

I've just made a booking at Ramp it Up - Angus for Saturday afternoon.

 

I plan to swap over the O2 sensors in the exhaust on the LS400. It was provided with new ones, and they're apparently the cause of the high idle (2k rpm) when cold. I've booked a half-day slot so 17-Coffees can come along and do the brakes on his LS400 too.

 

I will report back with my experience of the place.

 

 

 

Oh yes, and the previous owner of my LS400 is now in Oregon and has bought himself a car... a year 2000 LS400 in white with a tan interior!

[oldcars]

Polish the glass.

Might try this, the Reliant in freezing on the inside too, that's really annoying.

[tonedepear]

Might try this, the Reliant in freezing on the inside too, that's really annoying.

What's the score here? I'm being super dense I'm sure, but glass polish? Or paintwork polish on the glass? 

[Asimo]

My Alcyone is broken. 

It's always broken.

We need pictures, preferably a thread of it's own.

[richardmorris]

woking  - other side of the airfield to McLaren.

[oldcars]

What's the score here? I'm being super dense I'm sure, but glass polish? Or paintwork polish on the glass? 

Glass polish. Im not to fussed about the outside freezing but the inside is a pest.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Nothing going on at chez Ghosty, as ever. Old Man's in for yet another hernia op soon (third at least), but fuck knows when as the weather fucked up the hospital - we of Stalybridge were on BBC News for it the other day, the town centre's at one end of a valley coming down from Saddleworth Moor, and a couple of large waterways pass through. Combine the freak rain with snowmelt from Friday, and it's flooding and sinkholes ahoy. No harm done up here though, I live on a pretty steep hillside.

 

I lived in Stalybridge when I was little - Thirlmere Close

[Mr_Bo11ox]

This is the sort of place that would tell me: 'It looks like a Calibra from the front and Calibras are just better'. 

 

So I'll leave it. I like them, and that's enough for me. Would like another XT so I could do the Alcyone double-dip. 

Thanks for your interest, though. 

 

Ooohh!!! You're obviously a very sensitive soul!!! How the f*** do you know what anyone is going to say? Pull yourself together man.

 

You've got a cool old car and are happy to come on here and chip in with what everyone else is doing but not contribute anything about your own motor, have I got that right?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Well whatevz I suppose, but its a good job not everyone does that or it would make for a pretty friggin rubbish forum.

[panhard65]

Thanks to scaryoldcortina I have twins again !!

The plate did look better on the hearse but never mind. I might even give the 806 some love as I have found a Citroen Synergie with hopefully the correct colour panels to replace some of the battered bodywork before having it signwritten.

[M'coli]

I agree. 

 

I'm not much good at this forumming. I'd rather read your posts, to be honest. 

You're doing alright...