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[horriblemercedes]

3 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Kevin's latest video and this is scary that something like this is on the road, we should be glad that things like MOT and similar exist and that's why I'm posting this here.

And it is not necessary to see the whole thing, just the first few minutes show enough.

 

I'm surprised how difficult it was to break it on the farm

[Dyslexic Viking]

7 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said:

I'm surprised how difficult it was to break it on the farm

I'm surprised by that too. But as someone said in the comment section, the frame is probably so flexible now that it behaves like a leaf spring.

9.30 in the one below, there is another one from the US and this one is even worse, but fortunately it is no longer on the road.

 

[Zelandeth]

It wasn't at all unusual when we visited Michigan to see pickups being driven which were visibly bending in the middle.

This parked just before I took the photo.

Kinda unnerving when it wobbles past you doing probably 90 or so on the freeway.

[wuvvum]

Michigan definitely the worst state I've been to for terminally rusty vehicles.

[wuvvum]

I have a bit of a dilemma.  Cartakeback have offered me £300 for the Mazda 121.  The money would be useful, it'd free up some space, I'm not sure whether I'm ever going to get around to getting it MOTable again (especially now I have the Visa to get back on the road), and on top of that in the last couple of weeks it's started to be a pain in the arse to start from cold.  Those are the arguments in favour of scrapping it.  In the against column are the fact that it's a rare beastie and I'd probably get major guilt if I sent it off to be bean tins, and the fact that I still rather enjoy driving it and in fact quite like it despite its shonkiness and current uselessness as a road legal means of transport.  Ho hum.

[wuvvum]

Oh yeah, and it's the Visa's 40th birthday today.

[Rust Collector]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

I have a bit of a dilemma.  Cartakeback have offered me £300 for the Mazda 121.  The money would be useful, it'd free up some space, I'm not sure whether I'm ever going to get around to getting it MOTable again (especially now I have the Visa to get back on the road), and on top of that in the last couple of weeks it's started to be a pain in the arse to start from cold.  Those are the arguments in favour of scrapping it.  In the against column are the fact that it's a rare beastie and I'd probably get major guilt if I sent it off to be bean tins, and the fact that I still rather enjoy driving it and in fact quite like it despite its shonkiness and current uselessness as a road legal means of transport.  Ho hum.

I can't remember but did this go up for roffle? I kept hovering over the listing each time I got knocked back on another purchase, looks a cracking little car for not very much money.

[Dyslexic Viking]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

Michigan definitely the worst state I've been to for terminally rusty vehicles.

I think that may be true because one in Ontario said that the vehicles there rusted extremely due to humid air from The Great Lakes and a lot of road salt in the winter.

[vulgalour]

On 11/27/2022 at 12:23 PM, MJK 24 said:

 

I'd totally forgotten about these stickers until seeing this.  Hopefully someone out there is doing replicas so I can get one for the Maestro, it would be a fine addition to the tat collection.

[wuvvum]

26 minutes ago, Rust Collector said:

I can't remember but did this go up for roffle? I kept hovering over the listing each time I got knocked back on another purchase, looks a cracking little car for not very much money.

It did, but the tickets failed to sell out before the MOT expired, so I cancelled the roffle on the assumption that people probably wouldn't want an MOT-less car, and even if they did it's worth less without MOT than with.  Also I found some additional grot which would need sorting before it would pass another test.

[louiepj]

My mighty Megane hit a mileage of note.

[wuvvum]

Have a shit video of the birthday girl.

 

[SiC]

Not rusty that I could see but beaten up it was. Saw it on the streets of San Fran with the owner behind. I had to take it quickly and scoot as I don't think he appreciated me taking a photo of his car.

 

[hairnet]

7 hours ago, wuvvum said:

*dave cries

squash it

sentimentality sucks

[hairnet]

3 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Have a shit video of the birthday girl.

 

bassa

❤️

 

[Zelandeth]

Ooohh carp...

Someone has just pointed me at a Renault 25 Monaco for sale.

Bit scruffy, a grand, MOT to July, and relatively local.

I owned that one very briefly back around 2003, only got to drive it once.  Always vowed I would have another one...but have absolutely got no room.  Never mind room for a car that's not been in regular use for a long while.

I absolutely have no room at the inn, and the Cavalier is already lined up to be the project for this year.  However I am still having to fight myself out of thinking about looking at it.

[Spottedlaurel]

Neither grin nor grump on this one, so I'll put it here as a 'neutral' place. I didn't realise my old Sunny got sold again back in March, apparently reaching a heady £3,500 this time around: https://www.mathewsons.co.uk/auction/lot/299-1988-nissan-sunny-lx/?lot=3518&sd=1

All I can say is I certainly didn't sell it for that much, and even at an ACA sale in january it only made half that.

It had to go when it did last summer, I'd had my fun with it and hopefully helped to keep it going.

[stuboy]

Long day....

Up 4am for work....finish at 2pm, skool run, then FiL asked me to help clear out the caravan, dam that took over 3 hours, and cause he's a nice guy he offered to deliver it too, dude gonna live in it outside his mums flat, so it had to be maneuvered into a corner space and quick run down refresher of how to do what and we left, I got home after 10pm and now I'm overtired...

 

Family eh...

[RoverFolkUs]

Not a grump, a sad sign of the times and a shift in affairs. So I've put it here and not the grumpy thread

Just heard of a local village family run greengrocer closing after more than 50 years trading

The sort that has "that smell" of a greengrocer, twisted paper bags, old fashioned cash register etc etc

[Ghosty]

Type R has now passed its MOT with my local tester, should have gone there in the first place. All I did was take off the exhaust bracket and rubber that weren't attached to the exhaust. 

It's now for sale as my mum's old F reg Civic is replacing it. 
I might use some of the funds it raises to get myself a better MX5... 

[Ghosty]

and the 300E now has a years' ticket too. 

[Zelandeth]

I have no room for another car.

I already have a project parked out the front of the house planned to be my main spannering target for spring 2023.

I will be murdered with dull spoons by the rest of the family (and probably our neighbours) if I buy another car.

...So of course have just sent an email inquiring about viewing another car.

Life, why are you like this...?

[Schaefft]

1 hour ago, Zelandeth said:

I have no room for another car.

I already have a project parked out the front of the house planned to be my main spannering target for spring 2023.

I will be murdered with dull spoons by the rest of the family (and probably our neighbours) if I buy another car.

...So of course have just sent an email inquiring about viewing another car.

Life, why are you like this...?

This is perfectly normal behavior, right...? The only solution is to lock your money away.

[Zelandeth]

22 minutes ago, Schaefft said:

This is perfectly normal behavior, right...? The only solution is to lock your money away.

Hahahaha...yeah, the house is doing a good job of that.  £30K worth of roofing work and counting and it's not actually sorted the issue we set out to fix.

[MrGTI6]

2 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

I have no room for another car.

I already have a project parked out the front of the house planned to be my main spannering target for spring 2023.

I will be murdered with dull spoons by the rest of the family (and probably our neighbours) if I buy another car.

...So of course have just sent an email inquiring about viewing another car.

Life, why are you like this...?

I can relate! 

A couple of weeks ago I bought a Saab 9-3 Aero convertible. It's a lovely car but I have no need for it and it's hardly getting used. 

Today, someone at work mentioned that she's looking to sell her Citroen C1 to WBAC. I asked how much they offered for it. I thought it seemed cheap so offered a little bit more. So I think I've just bought that as well...

[BorniteIdentity]

Seen some top* motoring** over the last 24 hour… 

[stuboy]

God fed up with the single din stereo, and not being able to see the buttons, so dug out old Faithfull stereo, a hacksaw and spaghetti wiring,  hacksaw as double dins don't fit so have to disregard the cage and enlarge the hole ohh err missus.. still got to sort out a surround trim ..

[Spottedlaurel]

3 hours ago, BorniteIdentity said:

Seen some top* motoring** over the last 24 hour… 

Looks familiar!

Saw it when filling-up the Avensis the day we collected it from you.

[Zelandeth]

23 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

I have no room for another car.

I already have a project parked out the front of the house planned to be my main spannering target for spring 2023.

I will be murdered with dull spoons by the rest of the family (and probably our neighbours) if I buy another car.

...So of course have just sent an email inquiring about viewing another car.

Life, why are you like this...?

...Aaaaand have just arranged a viewing for Saturday afternoon.  I may be about to do something very stupid.

Crap.  I'm doomed.

Unless the car is a real rot box, in which case I'll be walking away.  At least that's what I'm trying to be *really* strict with myself on, despite knowing that this is basically the last shot I'll get at one of these with there being nine left (two currently taxed) according to Howmanyleft.

[barefoot]

All xmas cards in the village delivered this morning and all others chucked in the post box. This evening the fair wife will be installing decorations and I shall be watching her, whilst consuming my first alcoholic drink in 3 months. Although I haven't actually had a drink I haven't stopped buying the stuff, so I've managed to build up a bit of a buffer for the xmas period.

 

Today is the first day of xmas, so let me be the very first to wish you all a reasonable festive period.