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[richardmorris]

2 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Never realised those tractors were air cooled.  Every day's a school day.

I didn’t even notice. I did notice that none of them could get it into reverse.

[willswitchengage]

Happy birthday @richardmorris!

[DSdriver]

3 hours ago, richardmorris said:

There can't be too many of those in RHD. I wonder if it is this one that I papped back in the 1970s

1936 Mercedes 540K Cabriolet by Jean-Pierre Declemy, on Flickr

[Philmanns]

7 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Even if I have, I have no means of bringing it back, so that's academic 

There’s always ways of getting them back. Anyvan.com or Shipley.com . There’s one coming to me this eve from Bolton, cost £164 which is good value if you ask me. 

[HMC]

1 hour ago, DSdriver said:

There can't be too many of those in RHD. I wonder if it is this one that I papped back in the 1970s

1936 Mercedes 540K Cabriolet by Jean-Pierre Declemy, on Flickr

There was a 500k half buried behind a butchers in Walsall, that was RHD iirc

Edit- that now appears to be in the Netherlands 

https://www.louwmanmuseum.nl/en/car/mercedes-benz-500k-spezial-roadster/

[richardmorris]

I didn’t even twig that it was RHD. It was certainly the one I’d take home from today.

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, DSdriver said:

There can't be too many of those in RHD. I wonder if it is this one that I papped back in the 1970s

1936 Mercedes 540K Cabriolet by Jean-Pierre Declemy, on Flickr

Sadly the truck was right up against my wall so couldn’t get a decent photo.

[DSdriver]

9 minutes ago, HMC said:

There was a 500k half buried behind a butchers in Walsall, that was RHD iirc

Edit- that now appears to be in the Netherlands 

https://www.louwmanmuseum.nl/en/car/mercedes-benz-500k-spezial-roadster/

 

Just now, richardmorris said:

Sadly the truck was right up against my wall so couldn’t get a decent photo.

That was going to be my next question. Did you get any other pics at all?

[Mally]

 

3 hours ago, barefoot said:

Delayed news from Friday, I was a little grumpy.

Drains blocked, plumbers with rods called. I had to move the 75, the 944 & the T2 to let them access the manhole covers. 75 & T2 not a bother, drove them around the block, parked them up and went back for the Porsche. Fired up, drove it around the block, backed it onto its new parking space on a driveway a few doors up the street. What the fuck is it leaking? Fuel! Great big stripes of the stuff. 

Plumbers cleared many tonnes of shit & advised that my drains had collapsed & would need replacing. 

Porsche is leaking from the pipes as they duck under the back axle - specialist told me that TADTS

That's booked in for June the 2nd - Autoaid will apparently deal with breakdowns at home - and take it to local garage.

Still waiting for a couple of quotes for digging up drive/fitting new drains/re-laying drive...

Happy fucking xmas!

You may be covered for the drains on house insurance, or not!

[richardmorris]

Just now, DSdriver said:

 

That was going to be my next question. Did you get any other pics at all?

Sorry no. The truck backed up to the wall ( annoying me as it as over the pedestrian walkway) then there was a deep rumble so I had a look out the window and took the photos. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, Philmanns said:

There’s always ways of getting them back. Anyvan.com or Shipley.com . There’s one coming to me this eve from Bolton, cost £164 which is good value if you ask me. 

Shiply gives cause for concern, because there is at least one driver out there who collects the car and then doesn't deliver. 

[puddlethumper]

On my useless jaunt to Aylesbury, see Crusta, and back on the m/way I was not the oldest heap classic on the road.

I passed a C reg Mazda 929 coupe. Slowed down as I passed gave a thumbs up and got one back. Also a Honda Acty,

or similar, van on an N ,lowered, wheels and a nice paint job doing about 50 so had to slow right down, easy as very

little traffic, gave him a toot which was returned. A bit later I passed a Ferrari. I bet he's going to brag to his mates

how he got overtaken by a 32 year old van. Ha ha.

[wuvvum]

Took the V70 to Tesco this evening and nothing broke, so that's good.  Annoyingly it turns out the nearside CV joint is a little bit clicky on full lock as well - I couldn't previously hear it over the row from the offside.  I'm not sure I have the mental energy to tackle that job again - I don't think I'll bother with it, it's nowhere near as bad and the boot is intact so it won't be full of dust and grit like the other one was.

It's also decided that its tailgate is open all the time, so that's another thing to look at.  Bloody moderns.

[Split_Pin]

The nearside CV joint on my Audi has clicked a little when pulling left out of  T junctions. It's never got any worse in the 15 months I've owned it and I can only hear it if the radio is off, so I have ignored it.  I presume the boot is fine as there was no mention of it on the recent a MOT.

 

[SiC]

If all goes to plan, another fine @worldofceri delivery is booked for Thursday. Bit nervous as it's an eBay win and I've not seen the car in person. The seller calls it a restoration job despite it looking not too bad in the photos. 

[Carlosfandango]

Got into the workshop today for the first time in nearly 8 weeks. While it was great to be in and get reacquainted with my little projects, it was a pain in the hole paying rent for April and May... ah well, onwards etc. 
looking forward to getting the P38 build moving again. 
 

CFD

[Semi-C]

SECOND VERSE, LAME AS THE FIRST:

Owing to the success of my last Mk3 operation, I was compelled to give my languishing estate car a nudge and see if I could wake it.

It’s shameful to admit that this is how it has spent the last 3 years, didn’t time used to fly.

 I’m not surprised to report that a slack handful of jerry can sloshes, administered straight to the throat, and the battery from the GXL was all it took to coax it into action.

The depth of welding it requires has stabilised reassuringly but alas, hasn’t receded to quite the extent I had hoped.

That’s enough reality, here’s a misleadingly optimistic angle:

(**BACKGROUND BONUS** Mrs C’s, ex 95quidpeugeot Celica)

As reward/punishment for anybody that made it through this post, here’s more. You pervert.

STAY TUNED....

 

[Datsuncog]

Blast from the past tonight via the local news:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/52690999

The spod who sold me my first car back in 1997 - a hand-painted lump of Isopon cunningly sculpted into the shape of a Mk5 Cortina - has just collected his 119th motoring conviction.

I'm quite sure, in retrospect, that the twat didn't have a licence at the point I bought it off him either; and the reason he was offloading his, ahem, pride and joy for £80 to a dopey 16 year old was that he'd just received a fine for having said Cortina parked on the public highway with no VED.

So he thought he'd punt it on to me, then give DVLNI my details and tell them he'd sold it to me aaaaages ago, so not guilty, yer honour.

Naturally, I was horrified to then receive a fine for a car which I'd never driven and was currently lying in bits in the garage... only I still had the classified ad I'd torn from the local paper. Which was dated three weeks after the offence had been recorded. And also gave the seller's name and address (he'd no phone), which happened to correspond with the same street in which the offence had been recorded...

I sent DVLNI back a photocopy of the ad, and funnily enough heard no more about it...

What do you even do with someone like that?

[Zelandeth]

Jeeeezusss...

Makes your blood boil that someone with a squeaky clean record gets the book thrown at them for one transgression - which there was no actual evidence of - yet they get a slap on the wrist and told "don't do it again" essentially...

[New POD]

4 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Blast from the past tonight via the local news:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/52690999

The spod who sold me my first car back in 1997 - a hand-painted lump of Isopon cunningly sculpted into the shape of a Mk5 Cortina - has just collected his 119th motoring conviction.

I'm quite sure, in retrospect, that the twat didn't have a licence at the point I bought it off him either; and the reason he was offloading his, ahem, pride and joy for £80 to a dopey 16 year old was that he'd just received a fine for having said Cortina parked on the public highway with no VED.

So he thought he'd punt it on to me, then give DVLNI my details and tell them he'd sold it to me aaaaages ago, so not guilty, yer honour.

Naturally, I was horrified to then receive a fine for a car which I'd never driven and was currently lying in bits in the garage... only I still had the classified ad I'd torn from the local paper. Which was dated three weeks after the offence had been recorded. And also gave the seller's name and address (he'd no phone), which happened to correspond with the same street in which the offence had been recorded...

I sent DVLNI back a photocopy of the ad, and funnily enough heard no more about it...

What do you even do with someone like that?

Not suspend the sentence? 

Download an uber app on his phone ? 

I've been watching OZaARK on Netflix.  So gunshot to the head? 

[barefoot]

11 hours ago, Mally said:

 

You may be covered for the drains on house insurance, or not!

Sadly not.

Spoke to Aviva who said it would be covered under accidental damage - although I'm unsure what sort of accident would cause that, and I could only claim for subsidence if the house had been affected by it as well.

[beko1987]

7 hours ago, Semi-C said:

SECOND VERSE, LAME AS THE FIRST:

Owing to the success of my last Mk3 operation, I was compelled to give my languishing estate car a nudge and see if I could wake it.

It’s shameful to admit that this is how it has spent the last 3 years, didn’t time used to fly.

 I’m not surprised to report that a slack handful of jerry can sloshes, administered straight to the throat, and the battery from the GXL was all it took to coax it into action.

The depth of welding it requires has stabilised reassuringly but alas, hasn’t receded to quite the extent I had hoped.

That’s enough reality, here’s a misleadingly optimistic angle:

(**BACKGROUND BONUS** Mrs C’s, ex 95quidpeugeot Celica)

As reward/punishment for anybody that made it through this post, here’s more. You pervert.

 

STAY TUNED....

 

Remember that from shitefest Wales! Had a fabulous view of the front end in my rear view mirror for about 2 hours as we crawled past the fatal accident on the m40 past Gaydon! Then you opened it up (presumably to get it cool) when the traffic cleared and it sounded fantastic! 

Ask me what I did the day before yesterday though... Not a clue! 

[00833827]

Went searching for that leak this morning. Cant really see where its out of but its at least lodging on this thing. Gearbox related you think?

[Semi-C]

23 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Remember that from shitefest Wales! Had a fabulous view of the front end in my rear view mirror for about 2 hours as we crawled past the fatal accident on the m40 past Gaydon! Then you opened it up (presumably to get it cool) when the traffic cleared and it sounded fantastic! 

Ask me what I did the day before yesterday though... Not a clue! 

Just reading your written rememberings brought a Morgan shaped smile to my face, a first rate trip out indeed, impossible to comprehend that was 2015.

[HMC]

9 hours ago, SiC said:

If all goes to plan, another fine @worldofceri delivery is booked for Thursday. Bit nervous as it's an eBay win and I've not seen the car in person. The seller calls it a restoration job despite it looking not too bad in the photos. 

Looking forward to updates! Sometimes that’s a ploy to avoid differences of opinion about condition - set the expectation level lower and it’s a winner. I was terrible for it on e bay- I think buyers were in the mind to bring a dustpan and brush to collect when I sold a car and left much happier.

[Eyersey1234]

This morning the A63 is the busiest it's been since lockdown, looks like people returning to work 

[beko1987]

1 hour ago, Semi-C said:

Just reading your written rememberings brought a Morgan shaped smile to my face, a first rate trip out indeed, impossible to comprehend that was 2015.

Oh yes, we did see a Morgan or two didn't we! Which is strange as you never normally see one... 

[Semi-C]

24 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Oh yes, we did see a Morgan or two didn't we! Which is strange as you never normally see one... 

We saw so many of them I could have sworn somebody had licked my eye with an LSD coated tongue.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

9 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Blast from the past tonight via the local news:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/52690999

.......What do you even do with someone like that?

Sterilisation sounds like a good idea. Can't have that type of thing passing down the generations.

[dean36014]

I spotted a bargain on Facebook marketplace and couldn't resist. The 90's wants it's wheels back.

Was sitting in the sunshine and wanted the umbrella out for a bit of shade. Unfortunately the table doesn't have a whole in it for the umbrella so had to improvise.