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[Austat]

Work in progress...

[MJK 24]

This fine machine resides on here?!

 

[richardmorris]

Live scenes....

[richardmorris]

 

 

[outlaw118]

3 hours ago, MJK 24 said:

This fine machine resides on here?!

 

@320touring

[outlaw118]

Had to go to the tip due to SWMBO having an incident with the microwave door and a jar of peanut butter (sigh) so on the way back i decided to investigate a "Green Lane" I found via that Google.

It was gated and locked unfortunately, but the roads round it gave me the opportunity to channel my inner Colin McRae.

Some cars, just look better dirty.

 

[brownnova]

I’m glad XC90s look better dirty because mine is filthy! 

[cobblers]

7 hours ago, Austat said:

Work in progress...

Didn't realised you worked at retropower 😄

[hairnet]

richard that rev counter

i didnt have ocd but i might have now 😕

 

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, hairnet said:

richard that rev counter

i didnt have ocd but i might have now 😕

 

It’s great. You can get the rev counter and Speedo cross-eyed!

[hairnet]

hate aston martins for this reason (and others)

 

[GMcD]

Sold my Cav this morning to @JMotor, then spent the rest of this afternoon swapping all the bits from the passenger door of the blue mx-5 into another one of the same colour that I picked up on f/b marketplace for £40 quid. 

The existing one had a wavy crease in it, and was the worst bit on an otherwise extremely tidy car.

Quite an enjoyable job, except for getting a huge glob of the gunk used to seal the waterproof membrane stuck in my beard. Brake cleaner to the rescue again 🤣

Superleggera:

 

Damage:

[Austat]

15 hours ago, cobblers said:

Didn't realised you worked at retropower 😄

I'm drawing an estate version, and then a 4 door saloon. It's for a 50th anniversary illustration.

I also despise Retropower.

[richardmorris]

[EyesWeldedShut]

4 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

I'm squinting at the picture (not reading your sig) trying to work out if its an X 1/9 or a wee scimitar baby thingy when my wife walks in, glances at the screen and says "Oooh, an X 1/9, I always wanted one of those. Much better than that barge you just bought."
She's a good cook if you want her ...

[richardmorris]

 

ask mid because we can’t find the insurance certificate. Dad has kept all the renewal docs pages 3 to 22, but we can’t find 1 and 2 which have the certificate! Footman James do everything by post too, so it’s not on-line to download.

[HMC]

“Gran finale”? there was one on my paper round c.1990

[richardmorris]

28 minutes ago, HMC said:

“Gran finale”? there was one on my paper round c.1990

Almost. An SE ( special edition) being an F reg. they are basically the GF but without the plastic badges. Sales receipt below ( my godparents would have been a near neighbour to Ryan Reynolds’ new house too had they been alive now).

[richardmorris]

While I’m here, so to speak. I have a new pair of door strap hinges to fit as the old ones have both snapped an arm. I need a tool to compress the prongs together in order to fit into the clips on the door. Any ideas? Is there any sort of rubber pronged locking pliers about?

[cobblers]

Just been to look at a van with my mate - he wants a camper and I can't let him buy owt without having a look over it first.

we went to look at a 145k mile, 2011 VW T5. 

Lotsamoney for an old van, but it looked OK in pictures.

In person it was the most filthy disgusting thing, it absolutely hummed of dogs, covered with dog hair. The bed in the back had dog grime ground into them, the bloke had a saucepan of soapy water and an old sock and was scrubbing the floor when we got there, but the van was parked on a slope and all the water was just running into the cupboards. WTF?

There were knobs missing, cupboard doors hanging off, all 4 wheels were kerbed to absolute fuck, there was rust all over it,  a scrape all down the passenger side and the roof canvas was mouldy and torn. 11 days MOT!

Filthy outside as well, moss all over the roof. just fucking minging. He'd got it parked on his drive which absolutely stank of dog piss as well.

TWENTY GRAND!!!! AND THERE WAS A HUMAN PUBE IN THE FUCKING FRIDGE

I'm no prude, but this thing was just fucking disgusting, genuinely seemed like he had been using it as a dog kennel. Surely for 20 grand you'd spend £45 and send it through the polish car wash first? We only drove an hour to see it, but it was an afternoon wasted.  I just can't fathom how anyone would think that was an acceptable way to market something like this.

I've told him to just buy a panel van and I'll help him convert it.

[timolloyd]

20 large, a pube in the fridge but don’t worry mate cause it’s got a pineapple gear knob!!

[Split_Pin]

2 hours ago, cobblers said:

Just been to look at a van with my mate - he wants a camper and I can't let him buy owt without having a look over it first.

we went to look at a 145k mile, 2011 VW T5. 

Lotsamoney for an old van, but it looked OK in pictures.

In person it was the most filthy disgusting thing, it absolutely hummed of dogs, covered with dog hair. The bed in the back had dog grime ground into them, the bloke had a saucepan of soapy water and an old sock and was scrubbing the floor when we got there, but the van was parked on a slope and all the water was just running into the cupboards. WTF?

There were knobs missing, cupboard doors hanging off, all 4 wheels were kerbed to absolute fuck, there was rust all over it,  a scrape all down the passenger side and the roof canvas was mouldy and torn. 11 days MOT!

Filthy outside as well, moss all over the roof. just fucking minging. He'd got it parked on his drive which absolutely stank of dog piss as well.

TWENTY GRAND!!!! AND THERE WAS A HUMAN PUBE IN THE FUCKING FRIDGE

I'm no prude, but this thing was just fucking disgusting, genuinely seemed like he had been using it as a dog kennel. Surely for 20 grand you'd spend £45 and send it through the polish car wash first? We only drove an hour to see it, but it was an afternoon wasted.  I just can't fathom how anyone would think that was an acceptable way to market something like this.

I've told him to just buy a panel van and I'll help him convert it.

It's beyond words the level of disdain I have for people who can't even be bothered to clean or even clear the crap out of a vehicle prior to sale. The VW Camper above is absolute epitome of someone expecting a return for zero effort and it literally says everything about that person.

I hope you shook your head as you walked away.

[Jazoli]

5 hours ago, richardmorris said:

While I’m here, so to speak. I have a new pair of door strap hinges to fit as the old ones have both snapped an arm. I need a tool to compress the prongs together in order to fit into the clips on the door. Any ideas? Is there any sort of rubber pronged locking pliers about?

Some fat cable ties to hold them together then cut them when in position?

[stuboy]

More trailering today collecting slabs , only casualty was I snapped off one off the missus mudflaps...

[cobblers]

36 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

It's beyond words the level of disdain I have for people who can't even be bothered to clean or even clear the crap out of a vehicle prior to sale. The VW Camper above is absolute epitome of someone expecting a return for zero effort and it literally says everything about that person.

I hope you shook your head as you walked away.

Honestly the bloke selling it seems to just doing things totally backwards, I don't get it.

He advertised it last week, then immediately went away for a week for easter. When we came to see it today and he said he was going to get the rust touched up and put an MOT on it this week "if it didn't need too much"

 

 

[stuboy]

3 hours ago, cobblers said:

looked rank from pictures... then read post.... shouldve took blue light for dream juice..lol

[Ghosty]

Bank holiday weekend has seen dad and I fitting new discs, pads and dampers to the MX5. Braided lines fitted on the front too - haven't dare touch the back hoses yet as there's a distribution block on the nsr that all the lines are seized into.
Droplinks are on order as all four are shot, only a tennner each, and a new clutch slave - access is easy and a new slave makes it very easy to fit a braided line. The standard clutch line involves a steel section that takes a circuitous route involving the passenger side of the bulkhead (?!), but a braided hose bypasses this and goes straight down, much improving pedal feel. That's on next week's to do list.

 

[High Jetter]

7 hours ago, richardmorris said:

While I’m here, so to speak. I have a new pair of door strap hinges to fit as the old ones have both snapped an arm. I need a tool to compress the prongs together in order to fit into the clips on the door. Any ideas? Is there any sort of rubber pronged locking pliers about?

Why locking? How did they do it at factory? If waterpump grips too thick, maybe angled pliers if a thin nose pair doesn't work?

[wuvvum]

Another 500-mile round trip to Somerset and back completed without incident in the 75.  Traffic was shite on the way down (on Good Friday) but there were a few interesting cars out and about, and I got a nod of appreciation from a chap in a CX estate whilst waiting to turn onto the A420.  Bugger all on the way home other than a Commer PB camper going the other way in the roadworks on the A11.  Definitely glad I chose to take the Rover rather than the 107 - being auto it's a lot easier in traffic, and it's also a lot better in crosswinds, of which there were a fair few on the return trip.

[SiC]

Started tidying my garage this weekend. It was a right tip from many months of stripping the parts Dolomite down, fixing the TT and sorting the P4. At the end of a fixing session I'd dump parts and fluids inside then shut up for the night.


Even managed to make an oil slick from an old oil filter I managed to knock over at some indeterminate time. A right awkward mess to sort.


Most people would be done in a few hours. Unfortunately I'm not one of those people. So I end up either spending an hour being distracted trying to fix my retractable air hose reel (which I found it's designed not to be fixed) and countless tens of minutes holding one piece of metal trying to decide where it should live (probably really should be in the bin)

Anyway the floor now has room that I can work again. Next I need to clear off everything stacked on the car and tidy up the scrap under the car. Then I can finally start working back on the Midget. I really want to get back on it and done this year for sometime in the summer.