richardmorris Posted May 7, 2022 Share Posted May 7, 2022 Booked a ticket for Beaulieu next weekend for the autojumble. Is anyone going? BorniteIdentity 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted May 7, 2022 Share Posted May 7, 2022 7 hours ago, Lankytim said: I seem to remember people ribbing him over ruining the car- a matt black paintjob often being the last job on a car before it winds up in a scrapyard. A few weeks later a photo emerged of said Triumph, sat in a scrap yard with it's roof caved in. I'd like to point out that mine only has a matt black bonnet (and wing tops if we're being picky) and it's not even matt black it's satin. Also it's been like that since 2008 and I've owned the car since 1995 so it is definitely not following the same career path. Today I have driven to Northampton to pick up a brand new Favorit bumper. The new car has this exhaust sticking out in the wrong place for which they have cut an extra lump out of the bumper. It should protrude from that recess just to the left. It's not the hairiest of boy racer exhausts but it is a little noisy and I would prefer a standard looking one in the right place at some point. In which case I now have an unmolested bumper to go with it. grogee and Dyslexic Viking 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted May 7, 2022 Share Posted May 7, 2022 heads up chaps !! Switch Island lights are FUBARED https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/traffic-lights-out-week-busy-23893843 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrcento Posted May 7, 2022 Share Posted May 7, 2022 7 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said: I do find the Zafira B moderately appealing, and a factor of 10 less shit than a Zafira A A factor of 10 more flammable, though! HillmanImp, RoverFolkUs, catsinthewelder and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted May 7, 2022 Share Posted May 7, 2022 3 hours ago, Cord Fourteener said: Not only is it a great daily but its a handsome beast, in my humble opinion. Only drawback is that in today's geopolitical climate its not so cheap to run. Yeah, but you can’t put a price on the awesomeness of daily-ing an old Volvo… Our Volvos should meet sometime! Cord Fourteener 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davehedgehog31 Posted May 7, 2022 Share Posted May 7, 2022 Fired a pair of eBay springs on the back of the @NorthernMonkey320d touring. Sketchy; Sitting a bit more nicely now, even with a fully laden boot and full tank of fuel. Really happy with this old tub, first BMW I've owned and I think I "get" it. Feels quite cosseting and all the controls have a direct feel. Steering nicely weighted and it's fun to plot down a twisty road. BorniteIdentity, gm, loserone and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cord Fourteener Posted May 7, 2022 Share Posted May 7, 2022 49 minutes ago, davehedgehog31 said: Fired a pair of eBay springs on the back of the @NorthernMonkey320d touring. Sketchy; Sitting a bit more nicely now, even with a fully laden boot and full tank of fuel. Really happy with this old tub, first BMW I've owned and I think I "get" it. Feels quite cosseting and all the controls have a direct feel. Steering nicely weighted and it's fun to plot down a twisty road. I had the 2.5 6 cylinder petrol one of these, my first BMW, I get it. I entirely agree, it's direct and well weighed, from the switches, stalks and door shut to the steering and handling. Everything is purposeful and well designed. No car is perfect but this is pretty dam good. I'd love to try newer BMWs just to see how they've improved, and if I had another I'd have a 5 series diesel estate just for the space. The 3 series e46 estate is great but I have a Mondeo and very little compares with the boot of a Mondeo, only older Volvos, Granadas and Omegas and newer Passats and 5 serieses. davehedgehog31 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cord Fourteener Posted May 7, 2022 Share Posted May 7, 2022 1 hour ago, brownnova said: Yeah, but you can’t put a price on the awesomeness of daily-ing an old Volvo… Our Volvos should meet sometime! I agree, it's just that you can put a price on 97 octane petrol. In our house we consider 45mpg to be pretty poor, we are both achieving that in our respective modern shitboxes so the estimated 25mpg of the Volvo isn't really affordable right now. However that's not the car's fault, this car was designed and built in the Cold War so modern fuel prices were not a consideration. As for our Volvos, they totally should meet! I can't wait to see yours, I'll show you mine if you show me yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
17-Coffees Posted May 7, 2022 Share Posted May 7, 2022 A Smart can Green Lane just as good as the Landy boys can... 🤣 LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisItalSLX Posted May 7, 2022 Share Posted May 7, 2022 On 07/05/2022 at 18:53, Spurious said: Don't the Aussies have something they put on the dash for this? Like a carpet? Remember seeing something like that in @dollywobbler's antipodean videos... Indeed we do, behold the dashmat! They work in 2 ways, either protecting a good dash from cracking or hiding the cracks on a bad dash. OM646, Dyslexic Viking, beko1987 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 In today’s Sunday Times magazine. From Photographer Nick Waplington’s “Living room” series, Nottingham 1991… “chronicled the domestic world of working class Britain” https://1972.agency/artists/nick-waplington/projects/living-room Yoss, Dyslexic Viking, Austat and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 6 minutes ago, HMC said: In today’s Sunday Times magazine. From Photographer Nick Waplington’s “Living room” series, Nottingham 1991… I've seen that one doing the rounds on Twitter recently. Marina was last taxed in '89 so the photo looks to be more like early 80s I'd have thought. Almost twenty years of life for the Marina was pretty impressive to be fair... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 Maybe he bought it as a project and was trying to nurse it through an mot? The date was given in the caption, but that could be publication date. edit- apparently he started taking those images in 1983- so you are spot on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnoyingPentium Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 14 hours ago, Mrcento said: A factor of 10 more flammable, though! From Briskoda. RoverFolkUs and Mrcento 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 1 hour ago, HMC said: In today’s Sunday Times magazine. From Photographer Nick Waplington’s “Living room” series, Nottingham 1991… “chronicled the domestic world of working class Britain” https://1972.agency/artists/nick-waplington/projects/living-room I've had the road outside my house looking like that before though 🤔 And that's been fairly recently 😂 Does that make me working class now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cord Fourteener Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 What a beautiful garden! Twiggy, Dyslexic Viking, RoverFolkUs and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asimo Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 RIP Dennis Waterman dome, Back_For_More, Vantman and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 Did some more digging through the garage.. Various engine blocks without heads or sumps... 2x v6 engines... think they Essex lumps.. anyone confirm? Back end of a white lada.. Bootlid, 2 wings and pair of doors for a zephyr.. Anyone I'd the dash clocks?? Villiers pump? Anglia glovebox lid? Cord Fourteener, LightBulbFun and Dyslexic Viking 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandeth Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 43 minutes ago, stuboy said: Did some more digging through the garage.. Various engine blocks without heads or sumps... 2x v6 engines... think they Essex lumps.. anyone confirm? Back end of a white lada.. Bootlid, 2 wings and pair of doors for a zephyr.. Anyone I'd the dash clocks?? Villiers pump? Anglia glovebox lid? Hillman and Lada for the dash clusters (probably goes with the dash assembly you found earlier), no idea on the last horizontal layout one though. That pump looks interesting... though I seem to be finding all manner of petrol powered stuff interesting these days... LightBulbFun and Cord Fourteener 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 22 hours ago, MikeR said: heads up chaps !! Switch Island lights are FUBARED https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/traffic-lights-out-week-busy-23893843 So, if it's like this at 6.24 pm on a Sunday Evening, what will it be like tomorrow at 5:45 am when I was planning to head to Birmingham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 12 minutes ago, New POD said: So, if it's like this at 6.24 pm on a Sunday Evening, what will it be like tomorrow at 5:45 am when I was planning to head to Birmingham bloody Q on a Sunday afternoon !! , we used the old Northern perimeter route , a lot of millenials dont know it .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayMK Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 A couple of days ago I treated my Tipo to four new tyres. The old ones still had adequate tread but the sidewalls were cracking - as 7 year old budget tyres tend to do. £204 later, my Tipo is resplendent with Chinese budget finery. Whilst I was at the tyre place, a Tesla owner phoned for a quote and was complaining about the rate at which his car consumed tyres. The quote was £218 each corner. That made me feel better. I've had occasional non-starting behaviour from the Tipo since about a week ago, usually cured by a sharp clout on the starter solenoid. It drove on to the ramp at the tyre place just fine, but was dead when the tyre fitter tried to drive it off after fitting the new tyres. He seemed slightly amused when I told him there's a hammer in the boot - just clout the starter solenoid. He did so and the engine started. The bonnet stay came off in his hand. I told him to chuck it in the footwell and have rehomed it this evening. I've also polished the rear offside door now that the patch I de-rusted, primed, painted and lacquered has hardened. It looks smart enough at a couple of paces. I may replace the starter if it continues to misbehave. A remanufactured unit is £58 on eBay. That would do. BorniteIdentity, Split_Pin, Tickman and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metal Guru Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 4 hours ago, Zelandeth said: Hillman and Lada for the dash clusters (probably goes with the dash assembly you found earlier), no idea on the last horizontal layout one though. That pump looks interesting... though I seem to be finding all manner of petrol powered stuff interesting these days... The Zephyr and Cortina grilles must be worth a bit or make great man cave decorations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 Thought about cleaning these up and put on the shelf in the front room loserone and paulplom 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyersey1234 Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 I received a summons for jury service on Saturday to take place at the end of next month, has anyone on here done it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymous user Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 On 5/7/2022 at 3:31 PM, High Jetter said: Did you take them there for a service? Getting some holy water to treat the holey bodywork. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandeth Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 Well crap. The AC compressor in the Caddy isn't pumping. That would be why the system doesn't work then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 5 hours ago, Eyersey1234 said: I received a summons for jury service on Saturday to take place at the end of next month, has anyone on here done it? There's a few threads on the Open Forum about it - this is the most recent, I think. Pro tip seems to be - bring a book. Eyersey1234 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 Both Chieveley and the green Favorit are on their first holiday with us. Of sorts. We thought we'd start small so it's just a couple of nights in a cabin on a farm in Dorset, less than two hours drive away. You have to think about what you're packing more when the dog is taking up the back seats. It looks very farmy in this direction. There's also an interesting looking Merc 190 round the corner which I shall have to investigate later. The view the other way is much greener. The paddock up to the fence is ours. It is supposed to be dog proof but we don't entirely trust Chieveley, he can be very inquisitive so we've got him on a 60ft lead. Mrs Yoss has gone for a walk down to the local Spar so he is ignoring me completely at the moment. Edit: The Merc. mercedade, Steviemillar, Back_For_More and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 8 hours ago, stuboy said: Thought about cleaning these up and put on the shelf in the front room Definitely yes. My wife bought me two of those Castrol tins for my Xmas present. She didn't say how much she paid from a antique shop but we usually spend £30 on each other. So likely 15 quid a piece. Don't go too crazy cleaning them though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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