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[Spottedlaurel]

I'm in France again for a short break, drove down to Normandy.................

 

Very envious. I really like Normandy.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just met r.welfare of this parish again and have given the 2cv a quick wipe with meguirs show shine ready for drive it Day tomorrow.

Looks like an antidote to the ZZ-Top "Eliminator" album cover.

[stuboy]

Is Daddy the front of the daddy wagon looked boring so I decided to add some stripes

[stuboy]

Decided i was bored of not seeing where drop all there crap so upgraded to cree led bulbs

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just after buying a three-quid CX "automatique" badge for the CX bootlid.

 

CX-Basis charge over 50 Euros for much the same thing

[davehedgehog31]

My Rover 216 has either;

 

1. Jettisoned one of it's rear mudguards.

 

2. Only ever had one rear mudguard.

[vulgalour]

Ghosty:  Is that gen Prelude blessed/cursed with the passive rear steer?  I imagine if that's worn or faulty it could show up as a tracking issue which isn't a tracking issue.

[chodweaver]

According to my favourite weather site www.lightningmaps.org anyone on England's south coast with a view of northern France and the Channel islands has got a mega thunderstorm to watch

[SiC]

According to my favourite weather site www.lightningmaps.org anyone on England's south coast with a view of northern France and the Channel islands has got a mega thunderstorm to watch

Yup can agree with that. Some big bang's going on right this moment.

[MarvinsMom]

its currently very pleasent here in the north east.

 

just whiled away an afternoon in the beer garden of the ship inn at Saltburn, right on the sea front.

 

am now drunk-ish. which is nice,

[SiC]

Some fantastic cloud formations with this thunder too. The top is rolling around onto itself.

[madrat]

Went to the Black Country Museum today and had a thoroughly good time.

 

At the top is the car shed. Very much old car smell. Mrs SiC remarked that it smelt like me at night after I'd been fiddling with the car all day. Said in a way that it's not a good thing...

 

 

Went in this lovely old bus. The No Spitting Sign made me chuckle. Shows people back then were just as rude as nowadays.

 

Some pictures of the main village:

Love that place, fish and chip shop is amazing.

[SiC]

Love that place, fish and chip shop is amazing.

I was very disappointed that the fish and chip shop never had any ketchup though. Fish without ketchup is just wrong for me. Will have to bring some sachets next time I go!

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Love that place, fish and chip shop is amazing.

 

It's not bad at all.

 

Went there a couple of years ago when Lady Weakling lived in Wolverhampton.  They had the old Newcomen steam engine going and it was absolutely glorious.

[clayts450]

Pollen everywhere. Cruiser had an intriguing bumble-bee paint job and bizarrely the Streetshite had yellow paw prints all over the bonnet.

 

Both now clean (Streetshite shiny, Cruiser not yellow)

[Tadhg Tiogar]

I was very disappointed that the fish and chip shop never had any ketchup though. Fish without ketchup is just wrong for me. Will have to bring some sachets next time I go!

Prefer using mayonnaise, because more Belgian.

[madrat]

Prefer using mayonnaise, because more Belgian.

Just salt and lots of vinegar for me.

[dean36014]

Today I've been taking this pile of expensive parts and  trying to make them fit the Xm. I couldn't find a hatcjback rear silencer so had to adapt an estate one to fit. The cat fitted perfect but the centre and rear silencers took some reworking of the brackets to fit nicely. The rear silencer just need a section of the tail pipe cutting off and rewelding.

[bramz7]

Picked up this slice of nice as a new daily today. They're pretty good on bends.

 

 

 

Also, nice to meet Marina Josh of this forum too. Enviable collection, and a very brave and friendly car nut.

[catsinthewelder]

Dry here so far,  hoping it stays that way as my daughters are camping on the common behind the house.

[stuboy]

Popped up to see my mate(EGG MAY REMEMBER HIM) whom fell down the stairs and fratured some vertabrae,he wanted his underbody guard putting back on his ghia x mondeo, so i voluntered, the sun had made his wheel centres off too, luckly for him i had trim tape in the galaxy..

[Jerzy Woking]

Electric roller shutter door being fitted to the garage next week so had to move stuff around to give the fitters the space they require.

 

Firstly the Mingebag Merc went to be recycled - although the engine ran perfectly, it was niggly problem after niggly problem, and was taking up way too much time fixing, time I would rather be spending elsewhere. This has also freed up my driveway for the first time in 13 months.

 

It has also made me decide to sell off some of my bikes that I use rarely - the CBR600 I sold to my brother yesterday (with the proviso I get first refusal on it if he sells it), the Vity scooter is going to a mate at the end of the month, and the Suzuki Hokuto will be up for sale once the new battery gets here (the THIRD bike battery that has died on me over winter).

 

Will have a clear out of all the stuff in the roof space too - loads of W202 and W124 parts, assorted motorbike parts and tools. I will also clear all the shelves of the empty polish bottles and empty aerosols. Am I the only one that puts them back on the shelf rather than the bin when they run out?

[taxi paul]

Just watching flipping bangers. Now I want a Toyota MR2.

[Supernaut]

Picked up this slice of nice as a new daily today. They're pretty good on bends.

 

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Also, nice to meet Marina Josh of this forum too. Enviable collection, and a very brave and friendly car nut.

Oooh, a Blaze Yellow Dturbo! Get you. Well jell.

[fordperv]

Picked up this slice of nice as a new daily today. They're pretty good on bends.

 

20180421_192823.jpg

 

 

Also, nice to meet Marina Josh of this forum too. Enviable collection, and a very brave and friendly car nut.

Oooofff the right colour, amount of doors and engine I'd love one exactly like that

[LightBulbFun]

Went to the Black Country Museum today and had a thoroughly good time.

 

At the top is the car shed. Very much old car smell. Mrs SiC remarked that it smelt like me at night after I'd been fiddling with the car all day. Said in a way that it's not a good thing...

 

 

Went in this lovely old bus. The No Spitting Sign made me chuckle. Shows people back then were just as rude as nowadays.

 

 

I thought that bus looked familiar, turns out its an ex London Transport GS (Guy Special) GS 40 specifically  http://www.countrybus.org/GS/GS.html

[Jon]

Sit-rep on the Cavalier front: I decided to bite the bullet and attempt to ingratiate it into the mindset of Mrs_Jon. How better than to use it to whisk her away for the weekend? 

 

 

 

We drove round the Coromandel, which is quite hilly in places, so a good test out for the brakes. Verdict: OK, not dangerous but I think could be better. I'll be the first to admit though that the ride is atrociously choppy and harsh, as if someone's filled everything under the wheel arches with concrete. I don't think it can be all because it's an SRi, as our 205 is nowhere near as bad as this. I'll adjust the tyre pressures but I think that's wishful thinking. 

 

Had a nice trip though and Mrs_Jon found the jittery ride mostly amusing rather than annoying, until the point that it gave her a headache towards the end of the journey home. Still, she's not mentioend it since and overall she did have a great time, so it can't have been that bad. Think I'll have to cut her a key for the passenger door though, as this chivalry business of owning a car with no central locking gets tiring quite fast.

 

#luckylady

[dave21478]

Picked up this slice of nice as a new daily today. They're pretty good on bends.

 

20180421_192823.jpg

 

 

Also, nice to meet Marina Josh of this forum too. Enviable collection, and a very brave and friendly car nut.

 

 

Oooh, a Blaze Yellow Dturbo! Get you. Well jell.

 

 

Aye, as a young lad in the early 2000`s you would have been THE DADDY with one of these and since I am at least a quarter of a century out of date I still want one.

[dean36014]

This morning I've been playing with the Xm again. been underneath and cleaned up every bit of loose sealant I could find and rust treated where required. Quick coat of galvanised spray paint followed up by a good coat of underbody sealant. Cleaned the sills up and repainted them in stonechip paint. As it was so warm this morning everything was virtually dry within minutes which made life easier. Rooted round in the shed i found a can of black waxoil, a quick memory check and i reckon its about 12 years old. Cracked the seal and its perfect inside, so might as well lob some of that on as well. So now I have the xm ready for a retest, smelling of waxoil ever so slightly. Fingers crossed it passes on emissions this time, but it only just failed last time and now it has a nice new cat on it. I thing the old one was well knackered as there were large pieces of the honeycomb stuff inside all the silencers i took off. Now its just a case of trying to get all the mess off me! 

[Shep Shepherd]

Spraying a car's semi clean engine bay with a couple of cans of pound shop tyre shine makes a huge difference:

 

 

 

 

Concours, here I come!

 

Pawnote: the black stuff in various parts of the engine bay is congealed Waxoyl, which I have no intention of removing, ever.