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[Jamie]

23 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

You bought a new tyre? 

Haha and the car 

[Agila]

On 9/18/2020 at 11:15 PM, Fumbler said:

Indeed they did. Very zippy I'm told.

Oh yes fumbler very zippy. Reminds me of this. You're too young for this but made me laugh. Apparently it was a joke done by the crew. It's aged very very very badly.

 

[Fumbler]

26 minutes ago, Agila said:

Oh yes fumbler very zippy. Reminds me of this. You're too young for this but made me laugh. Apparently it was a joke done by the crew. It's aged very very very badly.

 

Very very very badly..!

[N19]

Mondeo exhaust shield rattle has been cured permanently... By removal. Nothing near the back that should be affected by it being missing. Fuel filter done at the same time. Just need to trace the water leak and it'll be ready for the trip up North...

[Tenmil Socket]

Was out in the MX5 earlier for a couple of hours and stopped at the Scotch Piper pub in Lydiate. Really old quirky pub with a thatched roof. There was a couple of classics gathered round the back. I was told there’s a classic car meet there tomorrow night so might pop along. Anyone in the North West fancy it? 
 

Couple of pics:

 

[Tenmil Socket]

The owner of the Bentley (in the yellow top), his name was Bob Bentley! He was an old chap who explained he had it professionally restored over four years! He was a retired commercial pilot and had newspaper cuttings in an album from when he crashed a plane in the Lake District (Scaffell Pike?) in 1978 when he had two people on board who he was teaching to fly. He said they were found by ramblers 32 hours later! 
 

http://www.yorkshire-aircraft.co.uk/aircraft/lakes/awbd.html

[clayts450]

Got to the bottom of an annoying scraping noise coming from one of the 620's wheels this afternoon. First step, jack up the car, axle stands, engine on, handbrake on, whack the shift into D and see if it was one of the front wheels. It was, offside. Back down, nuts loosened, jacked back up, wheel off. Engine on, handbrake on, into D - same noise. Without managing to chop any of my fingers off worked out it was the back plate rubbing against the inside of the front brake disc, or rather a rusty impersonation of a backing plate. Snipped off some far gone bits, bent a bit of it back, engine back on again, into D, blessed silence.

Rewarded the car by taking it on on a blast around some fast roads, to make up for it missing out yesterday, and embarrassed a number of moderns with some pure driving skillz , especially the Skoda which took exception to being burnt at a set of traffic lights, right up my jacksie which I saw off at the M1 slip road and giggled like a child when he got trapped in lane 1 behind a slow coach, and a stream of overtakers in lane 2. I was goneski, well out of there - last sight in the RVM was his right indicator forlornly and pathetically winking, trying to get out into lane 2 whilst I was dust down the road.

[strangeangel]

Tomorrow's forecast for my 'hood is Scorchio, which means I can start work on my new BMW.

 

Now there's a sentence I never thought I'd ever use!

 

[brownnova]

1 hour ago, Tenmil Socket said:

 I was told there’s a classic car meet there tomorrow night so might pop along. Anyone in the North West fancy it? 

Monday seems a random day... what time is it? 

[SRi05]

On 9/19/2020 at 6:25 PM, SRi05 said:

Got the Jag back from the bodyshop today, I haven't had a chance to give it a proper wash yet, but I'm absolutely delighted with how it's turned out. Bonnet, roof, boot and rear quarters all resprayed. Totally transformed the car from before. @domewill be happy to see how this has turned out as well I'm sure 🥳

This is booked in for a set of 4 new tyres on Thursday, after that I'll use it to waft about in on my days off work, since it doesn't fit in the carpark I can't drive it there 🤣

I'll probably list it for sale before the winter, although I don't expect much interest. The last one I had took ages to sell on here. This one only has 74k miles on it however, so might be  a more attractive proposition 

[strangeangel]

2 hours ago, brownnova said:

Monday seems a random day... what time is it? 

 

You say that, but the Fleur de Lys job in Wakefield is a long-established and massively popular show that happens on a Thursday evening...

 

[brownnova]

Aye, usually these things are midweek, Monday seems an odd one to pick... 🤷‍♂️

[brownnova]

This weekend I had planned to do a bit to the Nova seeing as Chumley had been cancelled and I now had a free weekend. Sadly being ill put paid to that. So last night I went to the petrol station and filled three Jerry cans. 

One for the green 2CV to see if adding 5 more litres would lead the fuel gauge to register since my tank replacement, one for the Nova as it too wasn’t reading anything on the fuel tank, and one for spare... 

Result was... 2CV still reading nothing on the gauge which is frustrating. I may have to drop the tank and ensure the connections for the sender are all correct, but it started well not having run for about a month. 

Nova’s turn... also still reading nothing on the tank level after 5 more litres... arse. 2 for 2.

 Let’s give it a start to check it wasn’t a fluke on Thursday. 

Nope still starts well. But only with lots of choke, any attempt to move the choke in is resisted with dying off. Hence the high revs in the video. There is a high pitched whistle, I wonder if there is a vacuum issue somewhere. Investigation to follow. 

 

Whilst we’re starting the project cars... be rude not to give the Yugo a go... been a good long while since that was started... 

All is well, runs very sweetly as you can here. So motivation is high. Let’s get these two back on the road. 

Toying with doing project video content... mainly to keep me doing the projects... but wouldn’t want to flood the market for videos of Welsh, bearded owners of 2CVs and Yugos... 

[Carlosfandango]

My series was delivered out of storage yesterday. I’d agreed to buy it a couple of years ago but with one thing or another it’s only now that I’m getting around to doing anything with it.

It’s a 1973 Petrol 88”. A very nice man dropped it off to the workshop and I’ve been poking about on it since. Got it started and discovered that the brakes are shot and it has no clutch. The bulkhead needs repair but the chassis is in pretty good shape. This is a budget ‘get it roadworthy’ type restoration as the RRC is kinda swallowing up any spare change but that adds to the appeal of it. I’m not sure if shiny series 3 land rovers appeal to me as much as scruffy ones... 

(yes, I’m hoping to avoid putting the roof on)

 

CFD 

[wuvvum]

Picked up a correct oil filter for the Mondeo this morning - it was a 5-minute job to change now that the housing cover was torqued to a reasonable level.  Then I had to go and pick TheDoctor up from the station.  On my way out I noticed the driver's door window on the 164 had dropped and wouldn't wind back up.  Door card off (had to resort to the HBOL to tell me how to get the winder handle off - thankfully the car dates from an era where Haynes manuals were slightly better written than they are today) and it turned out the glass had simply come out of the channel on the carrier, so that was slotted back in and wound up fine.  I also took the opportunity to tiger seal the quarterlight back onto the top hinge - they were glued on from the factory and none of the glues I've tried up to now has lasted, I'm hoping the PU sealant will be a bit more durable.

Then it was time to have a look at the Spacy.  When I was in the motor factor's this morning I also picked up a length of 3/16" fuel hose.  In fitting the new hose I found that some plonker had tried to pad out the T-piece with electrical tape, which had partially melted through exposure to petrol and partly blocked one of the outlets.  So that won't have been helping the starting issues.  Carb back on, with its cheapo eBay cone air filter replacing the PITA original airbox for now, fuel lines connected, jump leads on, and

Great success.  The reason it died when I went to rev it was that like a twat I'd forgotten to reconnect the vacuum hose for the fuel tap after priming the system, so it wasn't getting enough fuel through - with the vacuum reconnected it revved up fine.  It's still a little way from me being able to take it for a spin though - for one thing one of the inlet stubs on the carb is smaller than the others and the 3/16" hose is not quite a tight enough fit and is weeping a bit of petrol so I'm going to have to put a clip round that, and for another thing the scooter's battery is completely dead and it doesn't have a kick start so at the moment if it cut out I'd have to push it home.  At least it's alive now though, which I'm happy about.

 

[SiC]

Blasting along the Somerset countryside in the Boxster when going back from my Sisters place in Westbury, we happened to pass a 2CV full of young men who you would expect to fit the stereotype of 2CV owners. When these events occur, I find them useful periods of time to quiz questionally to judge the acceptability of a car in my wife's eyes.

So I causally passed comment that I do quite fancy a go in one sometime. Mrs SiC response was "Oh ok. Are they quite expensive?" 

I take this kind of response as a coded response as "I quite like them and it would be acceptable you buying one if they're not too expensive"

Well I quipped "They are expensive but you can them cheaper as a project". I could almost hear her eyes rolling around when I said that. To be fair, I have a Dolomite outside in dire need of attention and a broken Clio in the garage. Admittedly the Clio wasn't supposed to be a project but like most cars I buy, they invariably are for the first few months (or even years) and end up being money sinkholes. 

Anyway I said I much prefer one as a Van. "Why?" as a sharp question. Well they're a bit different as that, more useful and quirky.

"Did they ever do them as a Van?" Yeah they did I responded as very unexpectedly a 2CV Van passed the other way. 

Some would take that as a sign that fate is intervening. I don't believe in any of that bollocks but it's good to know that I could get away with having one. No doubt something would have to be sold from the "fleet" to allow that. So certainly no rush to start looking. 

Especially as when I put a saved search in on eBay I tend to end up with something. Something that is a bigger project than originally envisioned...

[High Jetter]

This isn't going to end well. Or is it?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

The Mistress is now well and truly back on the livery yard run, and floating as she does now, you can almost forgive the other quirks, such as the unfavourable automatic ratios or the random leak from somewhere, or the not particularly good fuel consumption (which goes hand in hand with a 3-speed auto).

She runs, and that's all that matters. Nothing else quite suppresses shite surfaces like she does. 

I've also had quite a lot of Pernod tonight and am finding it difficult to think....

[brownnova]

8 hours ago, SiC said:

We happened to pass a 2CV full of young men who you would expect to fit the stereotype of 2CV owners.

What bearded and from Wales? 😆

[Six-cylinder]

I still don't understand why people understand why I have a 2CV, but think I am odd for having a Visa or two!

[richardmorris]

They've broken it though   - the door catch this side won't hold the door down.

[Tenmil Socket]

14 hours ago, brownnova said:

Monday seems a random day... what time is it? 

Yeah, I thought that. I believe it's the 3rd Monday of the month for cars. There's another night for motorbikes but I'm not sure which day? I've only ever stopped off at this pub on a Sunday if I see anything interesting in the car park. I think I might pop down tonight so I'll only get there around 6ish. This is the last one as it's getting darker earlier. I haven't driven the MX5 with the roof down at night for a while. The pub dates from 1302!

https://forum.retro-rides.org/thread/181261/merseyside-weekly-mondays-scotch-piper

[Tadhg Tiogar]

14 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

They've broken it though   - the door catch this side won't hold the door down....

Maybe some string might help.

[davehedgehog31]

13 hours ago, SRi05 said:

This is booked in for a set of 4 new tyres on Thursday, after that I'll use it to waft about in on my days off work, since it doesn't fit in the carpark I can't drive it there 🤣

I'll probably list it for sale before the winter, although I don't expect much interest. The last one I had took ages to sell on here. This one only has 74k miles on it however, so might be  a more attractive proposition 

@Split_Pinto the beige courtesy phone

[Borsuq]

Oh blimey, I think me dad's getting more and more serious about getting one of these:

Star 266 6x6 lorry. He used to have a civilian, 2x4 version of this thing until the mid 90s and I think nostalgia is kicking in hard.

They keep showing up for sale for peanuts as military surplus, and while it's started as a bit of a joke that we should get one, I guess joking about acquiring more automotive shite is never as non-serious as it appears.

This one has popped up for sale for the equivalent of about 1450 quid and my dad's now probing around whether I'm down to go and have a look at it this weekend.

I think what's particularly appealing to my dad is the prospect of turning it into a camper. Problem is, he's licensed to drive lorries, I'm not.

This is going to inevitably end with me needing to get a category C license I guess.

[Sealtainn]

In other news, I’ve managed to crawl out from under my rock. Hope everyone has been keeping well in my absence


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[SRi05]

1 hour ago, davehedgehog31 said:

@Split_Pinto the beige courtesy phone

I've owned this for about 5 weeks. In that time I've replaced the front pads and discs, changed the oil, replaced all 4 tyres and spent £700 on paintwork. Lucky if I've driven it 200 miles 😂

Looks fucking fabulous parked outside the hoose though 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

13 hours ago, brownnova said:

.... last night I went to the petrol station and filled three Jerry cans. 

One for the green 2CV to see if adding 5 more litres would lead the fuel gauge to register since my tank replacement, one for the Nova as it too wasn’t reading anything on the fuel tank, and one for spare... 

What was the Fairy Liquid bottle for?

[Saabnut]

1 hour ago, Sealtainn said:

In other news, I’ve managed to crawl out from under my rock. Hope everyone has been keeping well in my absence


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Glad to see you back

[Slowsilver]

2 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

I still don't understand why people understand why I have a 2CV, but think I am odd for having a Visa or two!

Quicksilver and I were discussing this very point yesterday. Having both driven your 2CV and most, if not all, of your Visa variants, we agreed that, although the 2CV is great fun, we would both prefer a Visa for use as day to day transport.