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[captain_70s]

1 hour ago, GingerNuttz said:

 

Not even one of mine. Strange old times...

[GingerNuttz]

24 minutes ago, captain_70s said:

Not even one of mine. Strange old times...

Strange times indeed when you've not got any rotten cars 😂

[camryv6]

6 hours ago, puddlethumper said:

4 stroke ??

Is that all it takes ?

[LightBulbFun]

9 minutes ago, GingerNuttz said:

Strange times indeed when you've not got any rotten cars 😂

well he still has the Yellow dolomite right? LOL  

[GingerNuttz]

6 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

well he still has the Yellow dolomite right? LOL  

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh........

[stuboy]

9 hours ago, puddlethumper said:

4 stroke ??

 

[stuboy]

2 hours ago, camryv6 said:

Is that all it takes ?

allows me more time to be on here...

[stuboy]

5 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

Finally managed to source a rear hatch glass for my 205.

Took me ages to find one,but thankfully a mate turned one up on his travels. 

More battered that a fish in a chip shop but the glass was intact. 

A nice polish chap by the name of Eddie fitted it for me just a few mins ago, quite a battle to remove it from the old tailgate,but he had the tools and the talent.

Chuffed.

bet you was shattered..lol

[Ghosty]

Update: E34 got back to Rhyl, apparently it's leaking oil from the dipstick (?) but no comeback. Chaps been back for his Disco and said nothing, I'm calling that caveat emptor. That's how we like it. 

[loserone]

8 hours ago, goosey said:

Kind of underestimated how much room I’d need for tyres

thats eight in a 205, it is doable.

[stuboy]

22 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Your missus is V6?

Very 6exy

[stuboy]

23 minutes ago, loserone said:

that you ed sheeran?

[loserone]

5 minutes ago, stuboy said:

that you ed sheeran?

Oh aye

[brownnova]

10 hours ago, Ghosty said:

BMW's gone.

I put it on Marketplace yesterday morning. 

Two 'is this still available' and a swap for an E240. 

I woke up in the middle of the night and a chap's messaged asking to view it. 
I thought sod it, reply in the morning. 

Messaged him around 9am, asking when he wants to view, he says today, can be there in a couple of hours - turns out he's in Rhyl. 
Shows up at midday and looks over the car, says he's got £1,180 in cash and £30 in the bank, is that okay? 

Damn right it is, £40 off asking price. 

He sees the car starts, doesn't even look under the bonnet, hands over cash, V5 done, gone. Turns out he needed a car by Monday as he was getting fucked to the high heavens by a finance company on a Disco 3.
He's left in the E34 to get a mate and he's coming back later to pick up the Disco.

fucking WINNER. 

Oh it’s coming to North Wales? I’ll keep an eye out! 

[DVee8]

There are some nice lots going through Mathewsons auction next weekend.

https://www.mathewsons.co.uk/auction/details/-march-classic-vehicles--memorabilia-auction/?au=4&pn=2&g=1

2007 PROTON SATRIA NEO estimate £600 - £900.

 

 

LOT 182 2004 FORD FOCUS ST170 estimate £1,500 - £2,500 . Didn't someone on here want one of these?

 

 

 

[andyberg]

9 minutes ago, DVee8 said:

There are some nice lots going through Mathewsons auction next weekend.

https://www.mathewsons.co.uk/auction/details/-march-classic-vehicles--memorabilia-auction/?au=4&pn=2&g=1

2007 PROTON SATRIA NEO estimate £600 - £900.

 

 

LOT 182 2004 FORD FOCUS ST170 estimate £1,500 - £2,500 . Didn't someone on here want one of these?

 

 

 

@Cookiesouwest

[chancer]

23 hours ago, SRi05 said:

Some of you may remember this Honda from the roffle thread a few weeks ago:

 

 

 

 

 

Scrubs up not too bad eh  ? I made the mammoth collection of around 3 miles from my house and it had sat on the drive for a week as I was busy at work. Finally took it out for a wash & a little get to know you drive & a short time later a brake hose decided to shit about 5 billion litres of fluid out on the way home which was a laugh*  So it was immobilised for another week or so till yesterday when it was finally replaced.

I'm trying to sweet talk a mechanic I know into swapping the gearbox over, it has a known issue dropping down from 3rd to 2nd gear were it makes an extremely unpleasant crunch, I can drive around it for now though. Plan is to get it through it's MOT in May and take it from there. I'll probably use it more than an I initially thought due to petrol prices being OMFG, makes sense when the rest of the fleet are thirsty bastards.

Overall VELLY PLEASED

Looking good! I kinda regret letting this go now, but it was sat doing nothing. I have the replacement box in the back of the van, will get it dropped over to you

[SRi05]

28 minutes ago, chancer said:

Looking good! I kinda regret letting this go now, but it was sat doing nothing. I have the replacement box in the back of the van, will get it dropped over to you

Nice one, cheers. If you happen to know anyone who'd like some CASH MONEY to fit it then also give me a shout 😂 

[Broadsword]

Fuel prices are rising before my eyes, literally. I rocked up for some LPG in the Range Rover. First observation it went up from 82p last week to 96p when I got to the station today. Bugger! I connect the gas filler thingy, press the button and the price rose to 99p as I started to fill up. I've heard of dynamic pricing, but this is more dynamic than I expected! Diesel is defo going to hit £2 per litre isn't it?

[Ghosty]

On 3/10/2022 at 10:02 PM, Liggle said:

Looks like an aftermarket stainless manifold fitted?

Yeah, one of those Japspeed D-series manifolds and not much else past the cat as it was knackered. New exhaust is on back order (ECP send you the wrong parts for coupes) an should be here in the next couple of weeks. 

 

[wesacosa]

just been to manor park classic auction. have to say I was quite impressed.  No catalogue fee or fee to register to bid.  Even have a 4 post lift you can view the cars on in week leading up to auction. Fuzz Townshend and the guy from Salvage hunters classic cars have some interest in the business and both were there.  Nice mix of cars . Fancied a cheeky one on the Estelle or the Ital but didn't in the end. Ital went for a song at 3k

that Nova saloon had 5700 on clock , although didn't see what it went for

[dome]

1 hour ago, Broadsword said:

Fuel prices are rising before my eyes, literally. I rocked up for some LPG in the Range Rover. First observation it went up from 82p last week to 96p when I got to the station today. Bugger! I connect the gas filler thingy, press the button and the price rose to 99p as I started to fill up. I've heard of dynamic pricing, but this is more dynamic than I expected! Diesel is defo going to hit £2 per litre isn't it?

Just filled the Rangey at 72.9p per litre. Same as 2 weeks ago. Not sure how long that'll last.

[RoverFolkUs]

8 minutes ago, wesacosa said:

just been to manor park classic auction. have to say I was quite impressed.  No catalogue fee or fee to register to bid.  Even have a 4 post lift you can view the cars on in week leading up to auction. Fuzz Townshend and the guy from Salvage hunters classic cars have some interest in the business and both were there.  Nice mix of cars . Fancied a cheeky one on the Estelle or the Ital but didn't in the end. Ital went for a song at 3k

that Nova saloon had 5700 on clock , although didn't see what it went for

The streetwise among that lot 😛

[Zelandeth]

1 hour ago, dome said:

Just filled the Rangey at 72.9p per litre. Same as 2 weeks ago. Not sure how long that'll last.

Only garage I'm aware of round here that has LPG has had it at 99.9 since the middle of the week.

[Kiltox]

15 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Only garage I'm aware of round here that has LPG has had it at 99.9 since the middle of the week.

BP and Shell are dirty price gouging bastards. 

[RoverFolkUs]

13 minutes ago, Kiltox said:

BP and Shell are dirty price gouging bastards. 

My nearest shell is 161.9 petrol and 176.4 diesel,

My second nearest (about 2 miles further) is 178.0 petrol and 194.9 diesel 🤔

So give or take 20p difference /L 

Complete madness, and neither are anywhere near a motorway nor any sort of service station!

[Zelandeth]

6 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

My nearest shell is 161.9 petrol and 176.4 diesel,

My second nearest (about 2 miles further) is 178.0 petrol and 194.9 diesel 🤔

So give or take 20p difference /L 

Complete madness, and neither are anywhere near a motorway nor any sort of service station!

Yep, we've got that here.  There are a Shell and BP literally on the opposite sides of the road from each other and they had a difference of about 15p per litre on petrol and 20 on diesel during the week.  Haven't been past in the last couple of days.

[Kiltox]

8 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

My nearest shell is 161.9 petrol and 176.4 diesel,

My second nearest (about 2 miles further) is 178.0 petrol and 194.9 diesel 🤔

So give or take 20p difference /L 

Complete madness, and neither are anywhere near a motorway nor any sort of service station!

On Tuesday I passed a BP selling diesel at 179.9. Supermarkets pretty much everywhere  were selling it for 151.9. 

[RoverFolkUs]

Just now, Zelandeth said:

Yep, we've got that here.  There are a Shell and BP literally on the opposite sides of the road from each other and they had a difference of about 15p per litre on petrol and 20 on diesel during the week.  Haven't been past in the last couple of days.

As it all comes from the same refinery/suppliers it much just be blatant profiteering, no matter what they say, when the stations are so close together. 

It's been going on for months since the nonsense last autumn which pushed prices up, they never came back down

Someone's pockets have been lined with gold among all this...