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[MorrisItalSLX]

Happy New Year!

With Love, MorrisItalSLX, Reporting from 2020.

[wuvvum]

What's it like?  Has Brexit happened yet?

[Floatylight]

Sump replacement, oil & filter completed on C3, also oil and filter on C4GP, not to self really must get oil leak on C4GP sorted and check levels more regularly, waste oil on left from C4GP...

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[chaseracer]

On 11/22/2019 at 5:19 PM, chaseracer said:

In other Blingo news, all of the electric seems to have escaped.  I have bought a power pack and will "charge to 200!" tomorrow, if it stops raining.

Finally got off my arse and did this.  Battery is indeed banjaxed.  New one ordered online and will be fitted by the excellent local branch of ATS Euromaster on Friday morning.

[mrbenn]

My NYE plans are coming together nicely. Just been to the Co-op and bought 4 x Leffe's and a bag of crisps.

Crisps are already gone...

[Supernaut]

After spending the day helping fitting an engine and gearbox to a series 1 land rover, I watched the afterglow of this decade fade behind the hills.

Here's to the future, and also those we have lost.

Have a good one, all. I'll see you on the other side (also with more landy details).

[Skizzer]

4 hours ago, HillmanImp said:

Someone has also chundered on the path outside the house so I've had to clean that up. . 

Harsh — I didn’t think the colour match was that bad.

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[clayts450]

On the subject of post-modern street graffiti what I can only assume must have been a bear dropped a huge turd outside work, and then the Great British public proceeded to tread it all over the place.

I didn't clean it up

[greengartside]

K11 NEWZ.

I haz bought a car cover for Dudley the K11, an eBay jobbie by a manufacturer called Maypole. I have to say it’s been really good at keeping the bird poop off it, although the interior is starting to get a bit mouldy so I’m gonna address that in the new year. I’ve left the drivers window down a tad to try and air it out a bit.

The plan is to MOT it and sell it on, as I still don’t have a need for it. Not sure on the price yet but I would like to make a profit on it and bodywork-wise this is a really good example. I stuck the battery back on him again this afternoon and he fired on half a turn of the key after being sat for two weeks, so I think that he’ll be okay for a few more thousands of miles yet.
 

Happy New Year to all you shiters!

 

[Mally]

I always thought they were female.

[SiC]

*Hnnnnnnngh*

Then labour on top. Porsche Tax basically. Non genuine bottles exist but its been advised many a time for your own sanity to not use them.

I was intending to do most of it myself and make a YouTube video on it once we move house. However I just want to use the car right now. My local garage said ok to the suspension work on the Boxster and I'm really hoping that they'll be happy to do the coolant tank too. No special tools are needed, apart from small and leathery thick hands maybe.

I'm hoping that in 2020 we'll have a bit of a road trip to South of France in it.

[The Moog]

After spending the day helping fitting an engine and gearbox to a series 1 land rover, I watched the afterglow of this decade fade behind the hills.


Here's to the future, and also those we have lost.
Have a good one, all. I'll see you on the other side (also with more landy details).

Pleased you have got a good end to the year - hoping 2020 brings you more of the same...

[Dannyk]

Finally Put a new midsection on the polo, snapped two exhaust clamp bolts and hurt my hand after slipping and punching the underneath. Then started it up for the first time in a week, started fine but has a bloody blow. 

Gave the yaris (or granny mobile as my daughter calls it) a good clean and polish. Then changed headlight bulbs. What an absolute nob the passenger side one is! Made my newly bad hand even worse.

1/10 would not recommend playing with cars today. 

 

[strangeangel]

On 12/8/2019 at 11:45 PM, LightBulbFun said:

it just means the vehicle has been either dead or inactive for so longer, thats its either just not part of the DVLA database, or its been archived by the DVLA and is not on the front line so to speak

 

 

This. My 1959 Vespa had no paperwork when I got it from a family member and it didn't show up on DVLA. I went round the houses, trying to find old taxation records to no avail, and - as a last resort - filled in a V62 as if I'd just bought it without a registration document. Bingo! Turns out it had last been taxed in 1979 and not transferred to the new computerised system, but was still on their records. A V5c arrived showing me as the first and only owner! This was closely followed by a letter saying I should return it because there was an error on it. Obviously I did nothing of the sort, but a few days later another V5c arrived with my name as keeper and, this time, my Uncle as the previous owner

 

[Kiltox]

1 hour ago, SiC said:

*Hnnnnnnngh*

Then labour on top. Porsche Tax basically. Non genuine bottles exist but its been advised many a time for your own sanity to not use them.

I was intending to do most of it myself and make a YouTube video on it once we move house. However I just want to use the car right now. My local garage said ok to the suspension work on the Boxster and I'm really hoping that they'll be happy to do the coolant tank too. No special tools are needed, apart from small and leathery thick hands maybe.

I'm hoping that in 2020 we'll have a bit of a road trip to South of France in it.

I’m planning a Poor Man’s Porsche repair series later in the year so if you have other jobs needing doing I’d be happy to help you out! Mine needs loads doing   

[SiC]

3 minutes ago, Kiltox said:

I’m planning a Poor Man’s Porsche repair series later in the year so if you have other jobs needing doing I’d be happy to help you out! Mine needs loads doing   

I was hoping to do a bunch of YouTube videos documenting changing the bits, but I was waiting to move house and have better facilities to do that. However that is taken forever (well over a year now since we started) and I feel a bit fed up at the moment. So I just want to go driving in it. My local garage  agreed to do the suspension previously, but I'm hoping that they'll agree to do the coolant bottle too.

What needs sorting on yours? Mine is coolant bottle + cap, front top mounts and ignition switch. Oh and could do with a service + aircon regas. Minor stuff really for the average 20 year old porker.

[Kiltox]

Top mounts (TBH it probably wants a full suspension overhaul at 137k), brakes, a CV boot, indicator stalk assembly, sill welding (I’ll get a garage to do that unless you fancy it? ). Few other bits I can’t remember 

PAS pipes are hanging on by a thread - that’s not a DIY job without a ramp though. 

[cort16]

Do you not think with the youtube videos you'd need to do it twice?  Once with the swearing, 4 hours undoing one seized, fire, big hammers, blood,  undoing the previous bodges when you find the ARB is actually made of rolled up pages of the beano and crying then the second time when you film it and you looks like you know what you're doing. 

I don't think I've ever seen a wheels dealers that they crack their knuckles trying to undo a calliper bolt that some previous bodger has molested with a set of grips.

[Kiltox]

2 minutes ago, cort16 said:

Do you not think with the youtube videos you'd need to do it twice?  Once with the swearing, 4 hours undoing one seized, fire, big hammers, blood,  undoing the previous bodges when you find the ARB is actually made of rolled up pages of the beano and crying then the second time when you film it and you looks like you know what you're doing. 

I don't think I've ever seen a wheels dealers that they crack their knuckles trying to undo a calliper bolt that some previous bodger has molested with a set of grips.

Editing / time lapse for those bits ? 

You are right though - main reason I haven’t made any videos on my mk1 Clio is that I have NO FUCKING IDEA what is wrong with it!

[cort16]

Have you noticed the more popular car youtube channels never get too technical? I think folk are more interested in the story of the car and a bit of working on it rather than gritty technical details.

 

[Kiltox]

4 minutes ago, cort16 said:

Have you noticed the more popular car youtube channels never get too technical? I think folk are more interested in the story of the car and a bit of working on it rather than gritty technical details.

 

Yeah this is going to be the approach I’ll be taking - might do the odd in-depth video where nobody else has mind. 

[cort16]

Just watching George Clarks Christmas amazing spaces. He's on a husky sled and says "these dogs can run at 15mph, thats twice the speed of rush hour traffic in some places in the UK"

Nice analogy George.  Driving your Mondeo through Birmingham at 8am on Tuesday morning really relates to riding a fucking husky sled through the snow in a Finish wilderness.

I hope he stands in husky shite.

[beko1987]

10 hours ago, Kiltox said:

Yeah this is going to be the approach I’ll be taking - might do the odd in-depth video where nobody else has mind. 

I dunno, I think you should turn yourself into Goonzquad and start buying smashed exotica from copart and repair it over many episodes... 

[Skizzer]

1 hour ago, beko1987 said:

I dunno, I think you should turn yourself into Goonzquad and start buying smashed exotica from copart and repair it over many episodes... 

Goonasquad?

[BorniteIdentity]

Just back from a spontaneous outing in the mini. My neighbour “Mick the Bus” called to ask if I knew about it; I had no idea but it turned out to be a very enjoyable meet indeed.

From what I gather, the New Years Day meeting at Barrington dates back to the 70s. When the organiser retired, nobody took over but people kept coming anyway. That story is probably a parable and could be applied to all sorts of things that people think need moderating and organising, but whatever (!)

It was a really eclectic mix. Not classics but some vintage stuff, some classic, some retro and some interesting moderns too. It was super relaxed and a brilliant atmosphere. I’d intended to take the Sierra but the battery just laughed at me - so we went in Nan’s mini instead. 


The red one arrived mid photo. Alpine badged. 
 

My favoured garage have just finished repairing a GTfour for a customer. I think they’re the bomb. 
 

As I say, all were welcome. Aye - the fabled 260 V8.

 

 

I loved seeing this little babe arrive. 

 

Cute as a button. 
 

The owner of this collared me and we got talking. He seemed mostly disinterested in the bASe but a nice fella. Has had it for about 30 years, done a lot of work himself and it’s just ticked around to 260k. 

 

Here’s Mick the Bus turning up! 

 

Quite an interesting story with this little Truck. It’s an Auto Union. Nope, me neither. However it turns out that they would, in time, become Audi. 

 

It seems popular around these parts to dislike MK2 Escorts, but I fucking love them. A friend at school inherited a brown MK2 in about 1999 and he was utterly ashamed of it. He’d park around the corner from college and refuse to be seen in it at times! I reckon he’d love one now! 

 

NOTREDSHOCKER

 

I couldn’t believe it. Tried explaining how important this car was to blokes of my age when we were kids. Wife looked apathetic and a bit confused. 

 

 

That Morris was gorgeous. The best colour (just ahead of Trafalgar Blue) and with a beautiful purple vinyl interior. Devine.

 

Mk1 Madness. Note in the screen identified it at as a 1959 example.

 

And that was that. Well, nearly. Just as we were about to leave we spotted a late arrival. 
 

FUCK YES.

Sexual.

We should do a club stand next year. After all, if someone can take their Ferrari Testarossa out in January - you can dust down your old heap! I did ? 

[Eyersey1234]

Nice looking selection there. My grandparents first car was a beige Prefect 100E bought new in 1955. It was a cancelled order they were lucky to get given how scarce new cars were at the time 

[hairnet]

20 hours ago, Kiltox said:

Editing / time lapse for those bits ? 

You are right though - main reason I haven’t made any videos on my mk1 Clio is that I have NO FUCKING IDEA what is wrong with it!

phila gifs surely

 

[64A60]

I took the A55 to the (heaving) Stony Stratford Vintage gathering today. Only a 70 mile round trip on A and B roads but the longest distance I've done so far in it. Was mostly ignored by the spectators because dull 50's British saloon but I did have a chat with the neighbour of the previous (now deceased) owner and a chap who owned a identical example in 1968 and wanted a sit inside. I was also interviewed and photographed by someone from Classic Car Weekly so might be in the next issue...

[Broadsword]

Calling @Jim Bell I’m trying to send you a PM, but it says you can’t receive messages. Is your inbox full?

[NorfolkNWeigh]

30 minutes ago, 64A60 said:

I took the A55 to the (heaving) Stony Stratford Vintage gathering today. Only a 70 mile round trip on A and B roads but the longest distance I've done so far in it. Was mostly ignored by the spectators because dull 50's British saloon but I did have a chat with the neighbour of the previous (now deceased) owner and a chap who owned a identical example in 1968 and wanted a sit inside. I was also interviewed and photographed by someone from Classic Car Weekly so might be in the next issue...

I noticed how clean this was earlier today, I actually thought " Oh, that's like the one @64A60 has got"!  Didn't realise you were that local, although I must admit I was distracted by that shiny old Commodore, parked next to you.

Did you see the grey A60 parked outside The Plough ? It was fully blocking the footpath and I as we were driving past 2 Chavvy looking blokes made a point of scraping the back wing with a pushchair- looked as if it was going to kickoff when the driver got out.