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Some news on Kent classic shows this year.

www.classicmusicandmotors.com 

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I am pleased to confirm the Classic Motor Shows for 2023. We will be holding the DEAL Classic Motor & Music Show on Saturday 20th May 2023 at Betteshanger Park, Deal. The CANTERBURY Classic Motor Show on Saturday 24th June 2023 at the Canterbury Rugby Club, Canterbury and The SANDWICH Classic Motor Show on Saturday 8th July 2023 at the Sandwich Technology School, Sandwich. We will be announcing an additional show by the end of January.
All shows will include The Classic Music Show, , retro stalls, quality refreshments, children's entertainers and rides. We welcome classic club stands, individual classic exhibitors and interesting vehicles, including military, horticulture and commercial vehicles. Each entry fee includes all passengers in the vehicle and dogs are welcome on a lead.
Entry passes will be sent to you, four weeks before each show. If you would like to receive your entry by post, please include with your entry form, a stamped address A5 envelope for each show.
I know many classic owners are disappointed, as I am, the shows are not taking place on Walmer Green, Deal, Herne Bay Seafront or Tankerton Slopes, Whitstable. This is due to the current economic situation, we have been unable to attract the required sponsorship to hold the shows in public open spaces. I do hope, when the economy improves we will be able to once again hold the shows in these great locations.

 

[auntiemaryscanary]

My mate had Granada's and Consul's in the 90's when they were dirt cheap. Since being a grown up he's done a full nut and bolt restoration on one and has bought another in running order.  What an interior!

[andyberg]

Right, I'm not that good at searching through threads so I may* have missed it, but...

Any news on the famous autoshite calendar this year? January is upon us and a suitable replacement must once again hang in pride of place.

[Ghosty]

 

3 hours ago, andyberg said:

Any news on the famous autoshite calendar this year? 

Calendar hasn't happened this year. Not sure why. 

[High Jetter]

Isn't it t'early? IIRC @brownnova is the calender guru?

[Ghosty]

I don't think anyone even did calendar threads this year though.... 

[HillmanImp]

I'm off work as I've finally got covid and whilst its passed, it got into my lungs which were infected from that other bugger going round, before I got it and they're well bad now just fucking coughing constantly. 

Anyhow, because of this I've been sat on the sofa all day watching shite repeats. 

Selected highlights are two episodes of The Sweeney, some Minder and I'm just watching New Tricks.

I'm starting to be glad Dennis Waterman's dead to stop him making anything else if I'm ever ill again. 

[Ghosty]

10 minutes ago, HillmanImp said:

I'm starting to be glad Dennis Waterman's dead to stop him making anything else if I'm ever ill again. 

Can I write the theeeeme tuuuune, sing the theeeeeme tuuuuuune? 

[wuvvum]

*feeeem toooon

[HillmanImp]

10 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

Can I write the theeeeme tuuuune, sing the theeeeeme tuuuuuune? 

ImpJr got a keyboard for Christmas. Depending on how I feel I might try and learn the piano part of the Minder theme. 

I mean, I won't but its something to aim for and miss for half an hour before I put ITV4 back on. 

[brownnova]

4 hours ago, andyberg said:

Right, I'm not that good at searching through threads so I may* have missed it, but...

Any news on the famous autoshite calendar this year? January is upon us and a suitable replacement must once again hang in pride of place.

 

1 hour ago, High Jetter said:

Isn't it t'early? IIRC @brownnova is the calender guru?

 

58 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

I don't think anyone even did calendar threads this year though.... 

I’ve done it the last three or four years, but I really don’t have the capacity to do it this year.

There did seem to be a lack of enthusiasm on the calendar threads this year I noticed… sadly… 

I’ll post a thread to all for a willing victim volunteer, happy to talk anyone through the process.

[Snake Charmer]

29 minutes ago, HillmanImp said:

Selected highlights are two episodes of The Sweeney, some Minder and I'm just watching New Tricks

I purchased The Sweeney boxed just yesterday from @dozeydustman. No more fekkin adverts for me and definitely Scotch for breakfast Saturday morning.

BBC iPlayer 'Time'. 👍

[barefoot]

I had some coal delivered last night, did you know that you can get 150kg into a standard wheelie bin? Anywhoo, whilst I was busy concealing said bin behind its camouflage net, I heard the wuffle of something really quite interesting, manoeuvring around at the bottom of the cul de sac. Imagine my surprise when the fair wife wandered down the drive a few moments later. I'd heard our old 75, but through fresh ears.

[AnnoyingPentium]

9 hours ago, HillmanImp said:

I'm off work as I've finally got covid and whilst its passed, it got into my lungs which were infected from that other bugger going round, before I got it and they're well bad now just fucking coughing constantly. 

Anyhow, because of this I've been sat on the sofa all day watching shite repeats. 

Selected highlights are two episodes of The Sweeney, some Minder and I'm just watching New Tricks.

I'm starting to be glad Dennis Waterman's dead to stop him making anything else if I'm ever ill again. 

Watched New Tricks last night, possibly the same one, was a late episode on God knows what channel. 

[HillmanImp]

38 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Watched New Tricks last night, possibly the same one, was a late episode on God knows what channel. 

Yeah, sounds like it. Missing girls from Scottish care homes. 

Wasn't a bad episode to be fair, theme tunes not very good though. 

[Metal Guru]

36 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Watched New Tricks last night, possibly the same one, was a late episode on God knows what channel. 

New Tricks was a decent show until the characters changed. The original three guys and Amanda Redman worked well but it went down quickly when they replaced the characters. Apart from Tamsin Outhwaite , the others were decent actors but it was never the same.

[AnnoyingPentium]

19 minutes ago, HillmanImp said:

Yeah, sounds like it. Missing girls from Scottish care homes. 

Wasn't a bad episode to be fair, theme tunes not very good though. 

Aye, that's the one. The episode itself was alright I reckon.

11 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

New Tricks was a decent show until the characters changed. The original three guys and Amanda Redman worked well but it went down quickly when they replaced the characters. Apart from Tamsin Outhwaite , the others were decent actors but it was never the same.

Agreed, it was never quite the same when the characters started changing.

[Noel Tidybeard]

[tooSavvy]

My Sky 'superfast bb' kicked in yesterday, new Hub all set-up👍

Uploaded some piccies to another forum.... Like a flash!!

Happy Bunny 👌🏆

[junkyarddog]

Spotted this little gem whilst out and about the other day.

[wesacosa]

4 hours ago, HillmanImp said:

Yeah, sounds like it. Missing girls from Scottish care homes. 

Wasn't a bad episode to be fair, theme tunes not very good though. 

the pilot episode feeme tune was actually Dennis Waterman singing a cover of the Travelling Wilbury's End of the Line but by the first proper series it had changed to Dennis Waterman singing a rip off of the Travelling Wilbury's End of the Line

 

[Barry Cade]

All this talk of the Sweeney.. Here's me doing my best Regan impression with my uncles 2.0L...

SHUUUT IT..

 

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, junkyarddog said:

Spotted this little gem whilst out and about the other day.

No little gems are lettuces.

[MiniMinorMk3]

21 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

No little gems are lettuces.

I prefer these

[EyesWeldedShut]

25 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

No little gems are lettuces.

 

2 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

Spotted this little gem whilst out and about the other day.

That should be in the 'not so very good parking' thread?

[wesacosa]

I have a vague memory from late last year that someone posted on here they had just bought a Lada Riva but can't seem to find the post or any further mention of it so wondering if I imagined it now

[DVee8]

After 10 weeks off, I'm back to work tomorrow. Diesel in the car  for the first time in weeks. My uniform found. 

[Stanky]

What happens if you have a car stuck in limp mode and you just keep driving it? A colleague has a W211 E220cdi which has thrown fault codes for a while relating to fuel rail pressure, he's cleared them as they come on. Initially intermittently, now permanently.

The car has now gone into, and stays in, limp mode. RPM restricted to 2500rpm, seemingly no boost. He's driving it to and from work, a 12 mile mix of local roads and motorway. Slowly. 

Codes seem to indicate that its the filter (?) on the HP fuel pump, the part can be bought separately from the HP pump itself (which is just as well, because a recon fuel pump is the wrong side of £2k for the part alone).

Anyway, are there consequences of continuing driving it? Keen to help him, or at least give helpful suggestions. Not flush with cash currently to get the part, or farm it out to someone to fix.

[horriblemercedes]

18 minutes ago, Stanky said:

What happens if you have a car stuck in limp mode and you just keep driving it? A colleague has a W211 E220cdi which has thrown fault codes for a while relating to fuel rail pressure, he's cleared them as they come on. Initially intermittently, now permanently.

The car has now gone into, and stays in, limp mode. RPM restricted to 2500rpm, seemingly no boost. He's driving it to and from work, a 12 mile mix of local roads and motorway. Slowly. 

Codes seem to indicate that its the filter (?) on the HP fuel pump, the part can be bought separately from the HP pump itself (which is just as well, because a recon fuel pump is the wrong side of £2k for the part alone).

Anyway, are there consequences of continuing driving it? Keen to help him, or at least give helpful suggestions. Not flush with cash currently to get the part, or farm it out to someone to fix.

It'll depend what the fault is, but I wouldn't want to keep driving it with a fuel-related fault. At best, it'll keep going for now and he'll need a new filter. At worst, it breaks up or kills the pump and sends bits of metal throughout the system, buggering it right down to the injector nozzles. Or anything inbetween

 

Edit: that worst case might be unlikely, but it is a really bad outcome if it happens. I don't know how much a new filter is, but I changed the one on my BMW 320d recently because it had a very occasional stutter and I suspected filter. 30 minutes and a Bosch filter was about £22 (I think) from a trusted ebay seller. So assuming it's not too different, this might not be the end of the world to just fix 

[HarmonicCheeseburger]

1 hour ago, Stanky said:

What happens if you have a car stuck in limp mode and you just keep driving it? A colleague has a W211 E220cdi which has thrown fault codes for a while relating to fuel rail pressure, he's cleared them as they come on. Initially intermittently, now permanently.

The car has now gone into, and stays in, limp mode. RPM restricted to 2500rpm, seemingly no boost. He's driving it to and from work, a 12 mile mix of local roads and motorway. Slowly. 

Codes seem to indicate that its the filter (?) on the HP fuel pump, the part can be bought separately from the HP pump itself (which is just as well, because a recon fuel pump is the wrong side of £2k for the part alone).

Anyway, are there consequences of continuing driving it? Keen to help him, or at least give helpful suggestions. Not flush with cash currently to get the part, or farm it out to someone to fix.

He looses a drag race with a Citroen Ami.