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[hairnet]

42 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

The pub near the yard was open for outdoor drinking, so Bill and I went on an alcohack, and stood in a queue with everyone else....

San Miguel a fiver per pint....

Landlord has promised us Guinness next weekend. 

lmfao dunno about 6 foot apart - more like 6 foot up in the air

nice hairse

[hairnet]

22 hours ago, wuvvum said:

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ AS FUCK TL:DR

 

I cheered myself up by going for a quick spin in the Renault 6

 

Fuck that was a boring post.  Soz.

not boring in anyway cos of this

more on the 6 obvs

[lanciamatt]

51 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

The pub near the yard was open for outdoor drinking, so Bill and I went on an alcohack, and stood in a queue with everyone else....

San Miguel a fiver per pint....

Landlord has promised us Guinness next weekend. 

I hope these lager prices aren't a sign of things to come . Our local £2.60 for fosters. £2.90 morreti. 

[HMC]

Maybe it’s “the new normal” as we hear so often. 

 

[S2000]

8 minutes ago, lanciamatt said:

I hope these lager prices aren't a sign of things to come . Our local £2.60 for fosters. £2.90 morreti. 

I want to live where you do ....... for me Fosters 4.60 and Morreti 5.20........... and I live outside the big smoke ....

[Tadhg Tiogar]

14 minutes ago, lanciamatt said:

I hope these lager prices aren't a sign of things to come . Our local £2.60 for fosters. £2.90 morreti. 

 

6 minutes ago, HMC said:

Maybe it’s “the new normal” as we hear so often. 

 

 

3 minutes ago, S2000 said:

I want to live where you do ....... for me Fosters 4.60 and Morreti 5.20........... and I live outside the big smoke ....

FIVE FUPPIN' QUID!!! I dread to think how much they're going to charge us for Guinness next weekend. 

[lanciamatt]

Lol, have you seen the film kez. Its not bad now really. Investing some decent coin in centre. Built quite alot factories on old pit sites.

[SiC]

1 hour ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

The pub near the yard was open for outdoor drinking, so Bill and I went on an alcohack, and stood in a queue with everyone else....

San Miguel a fiver per pint....

Landlord has promised us Guinness next weekend. 

I like how everyone else standing there is completely ignoring the fact there is a horse in the queue. As if its a normal occurance... 

[lanciamatt]

Lol, have you seen the film kez. Its not bad now really. Investing some decent coin in centre. Built quite alot factories on old pit sites.

[lanciamatt]

They repainted Barnsley main colliery other month, looks nice now. There is a preservation group too looking after the grounds too, put benches there etc. 

[mitsisigma01]

2 hours ago, barefoot said:

I forgot to mention, the fair wife thinks block paving looks really, really pretty, whereas I am becoming more & more aware that our selection of elderly cars  all leak oil to varying degrees...

Can anyone else see trouble ahead?

Imprinted concrete, pretty colours and patterns for the Mrs, sealed and oil proof for the leaky old shiters, win win ?

[Carlosfandango]

I “may” have bought this today. Shite car with OMGHGF confirmed.

 

ballsack

 

CFD

[Tadhg Tiogar]

50 minutes ago, SiC said:

I like how everyone else standing there is completely ignoring the fact there is a horse in the queue. As if its a normal occurance... 

I noticed quite a few photos being taken. If you see anything showing a horse standing in a queue for the pub, that's probably us.

[brownnova]

3 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Waxham this evening. 

I miss read that as Wrexham... and I thought, that can’t be Wrexham, Wrexham’s a shithole.....

 

[richardmorris]

great colour

[HMC]

Nice to see it on those chromed steel wheels with the whitewalls. Period loveliness. 
 

Antidote to dog bollock red and chrome wire wheels.

[richardmorris]

Just now, HMC said:

Nice to see it on those chromed steel wheels with the whitewalls. Period loveliness. 
 

Antidote to dog bollock red and chrome wire wheels.

I think it was USA spec given the large indicators and small number plate recesses. No plates on it but LHD. It looked great in the colour.  Nothing else about today though.

[richardmorris]

15 hours ago, brownnova said:

I miss read that as Wrexham... and I thought, that can’t be Wrexham, Wrexham’s a shithole.....

 

Bits are, and bits aren’t. 

[brownnova]

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

Bits are, and bits aren’t. 

Very true... said for comedy effect really... 

[Justin Case]

20 hours ago, SiC said:

I like how everyone else standing there is completely ignoring the fact there is a horse in the queue. As if its a normal occurance... 

Barman to horse : you know we don't get many horses in here 

Horse: at a fiver for a pint of San Miguel it's hardly surprising 

[Bren]

Shedtastic. And I have a tan similar to Richard Dreyfuss in close encounters of the third kind.

[Angrydicky]

I gave my Somerset a grease up earlier, followed by a bath and a quick blast up the road:

It ran really well but the multimeter confirms the alternator is goosed, it’s only showing 12.5v at idle and not much more when I blip the throttle, which would be below par for a dynamo, let alone an alternator. I chucked the multimeter on the Rover battery to check it, 14.3v at idle.

The alternator came in a conversion kit a few years ago, it’s a proper cheap no name one. Squeals like a bastard when it’s cold too. Anyone got a good one kicking around?

 

 

 

[HillmanImp]

Not been on here much peeps, hope everyone's groovy. 

Not much to update. Subaru was sat a bit as I've not been using it but I was taking it for a rag every couple of days but then it developed a drain on the battery. I couldn't figure out where it was from so stuck it in the naughty corner for a but but looked at it again the other day and it's mended itself. No drain. Result...... for now. 

However its started cutting out. Seems to have a misfire. Decided to give it an overdue service. Got plugs, oil filter, pollen filter & air filter. Coil packs are £120 each so if its one of them I need to find out which one it is rather than replace them if it is one of them that's the problem. 

Changed the air filter. Winner. 

Looked online to see how to change the pollen filter. 

Okay, fuck that.

Right, where are the plugs? 

Oh, boxer engine innit. They're on the side. Only accessible from underneath. Bollocks to that. 

Right, Where's the oil filter? *looks online *. Oh, impossible to get to as the manifolds in the way.  Plus if I'm paying some cunt to do the plugs I may as well get them to do the oil too. 

Booking the fucker in at a garage in the morning. 

Porsche is bang on though. Its the daily again. 

 

[KitKat]

36 minutes ago, Angrydicky said:

I gave my Somerset a grease up earlier, followed by a bath and a quick blast up the road:

It ran really well but the multimeter confirms the alternator is goosed, it’s only showing 12.5v at idle and not much more when I blip the throttle, which would be below par for a dynamo, let alone an alternator. I chucked the multimeter on the Rover battery to check it, 14.3v at idle.

The alternator came in a conversion kit a few years ago, it’s a proper cheap no name one. Squeals like a bastard when it’s cold too. Anyone got a good one kicking around?

 

 

 

That's a splendid looking Somerset  @Angrydicky

That blemished paint on the wings is perfect

[r.welfare]

13 minutes ago, HillmanImp said:

Right, where are the plugs? 

Oh, boxer engine innit. They're on the side. Only accessible from underneath. Bollocks to that. 

You can do them topside using a socket set with a universal joint if you take the airbox and battery out.  You’ll still remove some of the skin off your knuckles though.

[LightBulbFun]

1 hour ago, Angrydicky said:

I gave my Somerset a grease up earlier, followed by a bath and a quick blast up the road:

It ran really well but the multimeter confirms the alternator is goosed, it’s only showing 12.5v at idle and not much more when I blip the throttle, which would be below par for a dynamo, let alone an alternator. I chucked the multimeter on the Rover battery to check it, 14.3v at idle.

The alternator came in a conversion kit a few years ago, it’s a proper cheap no name one. Squeals like a bastard when it’s cold too. Anyone got a good one kicking around?

 

 

 

what a lovely looking thing

I love the Registration mark too, for obvious reasons! will have to remember it for when I get a chance to go through the Essex registration ledgers for the same obvious reasons LOL

[Angrydicky]

1 minute ago, LightBulbFun said:

what a lovely looking thing

I love the Registration mark too, for obvious reasons! will have to remember it for when I get a chance to go through the Essex registration ledgers for the same obvious reasons LOL

Thanks for the thought, but I've already been there

The ledger revealed it was supplied new to an A.C. Starr Esq. on 18/9/1953. Here's the Somerset outside the address it was first registered to, in Romford. 

 

[HillmanImp]

26 minutes ago, r.welfare said:

You can do them topside using a socket set with a universal joint if you take the airbox and battery out.  You’ll still remove some of the skin off your knuckles though.

I read a shortcut with the pollen filter too but I'll only break something. I asked a mechanic mate who's out of work if he fancied doing it and he said no, take it to a garage and I don't blame him. 

[r.welfare]

I’m no great mechanic but it was ok.  The rearmost ones each side are the hardest as there’s not much clearance against the inner wings.  There’s just a lot of engine in the bay.  I changed a headlight at the same time and that was a faff.

The engine note makes it all worthwhile

[LightBulbFun]

4 minutes ago, Angrydicky said:

Thanks for the thought, but I've already been there

The ledger revealed it was supplied new to an A.C. Starr Esq. on 18/9/1953. Here's the Somerset outside the address it was first registered to, in Romford. 

 

ah very cool

(somewhat fitting  initials there!)