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17,396 · April 29, 2023

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

Collectioned.

That is fucking superb

21,076 · April 29, 2023

On 4/26/2023 at 9:36 PM, UltraWomble said:

https://classicoilsshop.co.uk/gtx-classic-10w40

Castrol GTX in proper tins.

🤔

...

😄

31,361 · April 29, 2023

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

Collectioned.

Dibs please

26,723 · April 29, 2023

Had a weird but funny one today!

Sat indoors and the door bell rings.
Look out the front window and there’s two young kids at the door, must have been 12 or 13, something like that.
Answer the door and they’re really nicely spoken polite kids that have been passing by for the last few months on the way to school.
Turns out they’re both really into cars, and old cars in particular!
They’d seen the Mercury on the drive and wondered what it was and were wondering if they could have a look at it!
One of them asked if it was a Lincoln, which he was actually very very close to being right about. Since they seemed so interested and keen I opened it up and let them have a sit in it and take a few pics.
They were absolutely over the moon!😁

It’s actually so nice to see the younger generation get excited about stuff like this! Reminds me of how I was at that age. Maybe, hopefully letting them have a proper look will spark a lifelong interest in cars. Hopefully it’ll be those kids looking after these old cars in the future.
Im a bit surprised they had the balls to knock the door tbh, but fair play. Hopefully that’s not something that gets them in trouble some day though.

28,521 · April 29, 2023

Not so much at home, but certainly at shows, I was always happy to let the youngsters sit in Huggy. As you say, that little experience might just give one of them the bug (or nurture it, because it sounds like it's already taken root!). Maybe in 30 years one of them will remember that eccentric old bloke with the big green car, find you, buy the car off you and restore it! If we're still allowed to do such things...

12,343 · April 29, 2023

When I was about 9, I saw an old gadger down the bottom of our street with his garage doors open and he was polishing his car..... Hmm, 'lookinn cool, thinks I'..... Bold as brass I asked what it was and if I might look a little closer??

Nice as 9pence, he was.... Only an ffin Holbay Rapier, in silver.

*Yep, didn't know it was a Hunter estate underneath [then...] 🤣🤣

🚙💨

62,287 · April 29, 2023

And home.

Fuck me, what a drive! What a heap! I need a drink and some Paracetamol...

It actually made it back fine, although it needs some looking at. It's an absolute twat to drive in traffic because it isn't idling properly, and very few of the dashlights work. Also the speedo is comically optimistic - 85 on the speedo corresponds to 62 on the sat nav... It has a few other issues that I'll try and look into tomorrow, including a couple of interesting noises that it developed on the way home, but hey, it was a cheap (by today's standards...) Renault 4 so I expect it to need some loving. It's MOT'd until June and after then it'll be exempt anyway. The seller spent a lot of money having structural welding done so it should be rather more solid than the 6 even if it is cosmetically (even) rougher.

Plenty of interesting stuff on the roads too - unsurprisingly seeing as it's a sunny Bank Holiday weekend. The R4 got plenty of looks as you'd expect, and I got a thumbs up (which I returned) off a bloke in a floppytop E30 on the A1M (M11 was closed so got diverted) - that was one of two convertible E30s I saw on the journey. I also saw two Alfa 8Cs, which was impressive as I've never seen any until now. And at one point on the M25 I had a black Ferrari either side of me - a 430 Spider on the right and a 400i on the left.

Dinner now, then bike ride to collect the 107 from the station. Then sleep.

23,819 · April 29, 2023

2 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

Had a weird but funny one today!

Sat indoors and the door bell rings.
Look out the front window and there’s two young kids at the door, must have been 12 or 13, something like that.
Answer the door and they’re really nicely spoken polite kids that have been passing by for the last few months on the way to school.
Turns out they’re both really into cars, and old cars in particular!
They’d seen the Mercury on the drive and wondered what it was and were wondering if they could have a look at it!
One of them asked if it was a Lincoln, which he was actually very very close to being right about. Since they seemed so interested and keen I opened it up and let them have a sit in it and take a few pics.
They were absolutely over the moon!😁

It’s actually so nice to see the younger generation get excited about stuff like this! Reminds me of how I was at that age. Maybe, hopefully letting them have a proper look will spark a lifelong interest in cars. Hopefully it’ll be those kids looking after these old cars in the future.
Im a bit surprised they had the balls to knock the door tbh, but fair play. Hopefully that’s not something that gets them in trouble some day though.

Our first family trip to france in 1979 , when I was 7, there was a couple with a green Morgan at the same hotel . I was obviously looking at it (things being unheard of in wales at the time ). Owner let me sit in it for a bit. Passion for old cars certainly helped along there.

3,288 · April 29, 2023

It seems to be the week of MOTs for my fleet, as it was time to put my immaculate E36 Ti through the ticket.

I needn’t have worried though, as she went straight through without an advisory, although on the the journey over, I did get a slight shake from the steering, which disappeared after about 10 miles, which I put down to a flat spot on one of the tyres, as all I have done in a year is about 500 Miles and 45 miles were for the MOT.

Then on the way back, I had to stop off and repair my Girlfriends son’s yellow mini R50 , as it had an SRS light on and I also pulled a dent out the roof which came out perfect with a big suction cup, plus fitted some new speakers for him.

I will also need to fit a new lcd in his rev counter and fit a new cigarette lighter socket plus a new interior light, as the circuit board inside has a dodgy solder joint.

A new light is so cheap, though it’s not worth my while trying to find my soldering iron, so all in it should cost about £25 to fix everything.

23,819 · April 29, 2023

23 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

And home.

Fuck me, what a drive! What a heap! I need a drink and some Paracetamol...

It actually made it back fine, although it needs some looking at. It's an absolute twat to drive in traffic because it isn't idling properly, and very few of the dashlights work. Also the speedo is comically optimistic - 85 on the speedo corresponds to 62 on the sat nav... It has a few other issues that I'll try and look into tomorrow, including a couple of interesting noises that it developed on the way home, but hey, it was a cheap (by today's standards...) Renault 4 so I expect it to need some loving. It's MOT'd until June and after then it'll be exempt anyway. The seller spent a lot of money having structural welding done so it should be rather more solid than the 6 even if it is cosmetically (even) rougher.

Plenty of interesting stuff on the roads too - unsurprisingly seeing as it's a sunny Bank Holiday weekend. The R4 got plenty of looks as you'd expect, and I got a thumbs up (which I returned) off a bloke in a floppytop E30 on the A1M (M11 was closed so got diverted) - that was one of two convertible E30s I saw on the journey. I also saw two Alfa 8Cs, which was impressive as I've never seen any until now. And at one point on the M25 I had a black Ferrari either side of me - a 430 Spider on the right and a 400i on the left.

Dinner now, then bike ride to collect the 107 from the station. Then sleep.

My parents first new car was a white Renault 4, it failed its first mot when the floors fell off the sills. They did I think get some money back from Renault.

26,723 · April 29, 2023

4 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Our first family trip to france in 1979 , when I was 7, there was a couple with a green Morgan at the same hotel . I was obviously looking at it (things being unheard of in wales at the time ). Owner let me sit in it for a bit. Passion for old cars certainly helped along there.

That’s exactly what I was thinking when they asked.
If it’d been some gobby oik I wouldn’t have entertained it, but they were so polite and enthusiastic I just couldn’t say no! You could just tell they were little petrol heads in the making so I thought I’d let them see it and get in.
I think we should give kids or even adults like this the experience when we can. Not only to be nice but hopefully encourage what is a great hobby and one that’s running a risk of dying out if it’s not encouraged. Besides that, not everyone can have these things so it’s nice share it sometimes with others.

24,374 · April 29, 2023

3 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

Had a weird but funny one today!

Sat indoors and the door bell rings.
Look out the front window and there’s two young kids at the door, must have been 12 or 13, something like that.
Answer the door and they’re really nicely spoken polite kids that have been passing by for the last few months on the way to school.
Turns out they’re both really into cars, and old cars in particular!
They’d seen the Mercury on the drive and wondered what it was and were wondering if they could have a look at it!
One of them asked if it was a Lincoln, which he was actually very very close to being right about. Since they seemed so interested and keen I opened it up and let them have a sit in it and take a few pics.
They were absolutely over the moon!😁

It’s actually so nice to see the younger generation get excited about stuff like this! Reminds me of how I was at that age. Maybe, hopefully letting them have a proper look will spark a lifelong interest in cars. Hopefully it’ll be those kids looking after these old cars in the future.
Im a bit surprised they had the balls to knock the door tbh, but fair play. Hopefully that’s not something that gets them in trouble some day though.

I’ll bet they’ve taken ages to build the courage to knock on. Fair play to them.

24,374 · April 29, 2023

34 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

And home.

..

This is properly superb! R4s are ace.

I saw a white one parked up by the garage I usually use today, I said I might have to pop in and try and buy it, the wife game me a withering look… but she knows I’ll probably try.

13,075 · April 29, 2023

I once came upon a couple of kids peering into my dads CF Camper Van.

It was brand new and posh for it's time. I knew them slightly, and their dad well, so I let them have a sit inside.

3 months later it was broken into and the Radio and a distinctive clock stolen.

A while after that their dad gave me a lift.

Strangely he had an identical clock in his very old Mini.

I said nothing, but had to bite my tongue.

22,213 · April 29, 2023

3 hours ago, wuvvum said:

I also saw two Alfa 8Cs, which was impressive as I've never seen any until now.

That would be an absolute how the fuck moment, as they didn't even make a thousand 8Cs.

Are you thinking of 4Cs?

21,097 · April 29, 2023

23 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Collectioned.

thats superb! tbh I was expecting this collection caper to be some sort of suitably shonky more modern car, an old BMW Mini or K11 Micra

cant say I was expecting a Renault 4, did not realise there where any left still in autoshite price range (that still have a floor)

the only foreign car supplied by the DHSS on the Invalid vehicle scheme (issued because of being uniquely adaptable due to the dash gear change and some other small details)

also so my mum has told me in the past quite common in Israel back in the day as a governmental or military staff car of sorts (I cant quite recall the exact details, but she said they where always a few running around, and always white)

62,287 · April 30, 2023

1 hour ago, Ghosty said:

That would be an absolute how the fuck moment, as they didn't even make a thousand 8Cs.

Are you thinking of 4Cs?

That's the one.

62,287 · April 30, 2023

1 hour ago, LightBulbFun said:

also so my mum has told me in the past quite common in Israel back in the day as a governmental or military staff car of sorts (I cant quite recall the exact details, but she said they where always a few running around, and always white)

White Renault 4s are used as official transport for heads of state too.

26,723 · April 30, 2023

8 hours ago, wuvvum said:

White Renault 4s are used as official transport for heads of state too.

My grandad had a white Renault 4 in Cyprus when he was over there working at RAF Akrotiri. He bought a brand new Morris Marina while he was there and intended to ship it home after his period in Cyprus was over, but it unfortunately got written off before that happened.
As a stop gap he bought the Renault 4.

This was the early 70’s, and was also the same time the Turkish army invaded the island.
There was a lot of fighting and it was decided to evacuate British personnel and their families so the Renault was loaded up with whatever it could carry, my grandad, grandma, mum, auntie and uncle and they joined a British evacuation convoy from where they lived off base towards Akrotiri for evacuation by air.
The little 4 didn’t put a foot wrong despite, literally a war going on around it!

Here it is with the Union Jack in the window shortly before the evacuation.

No idea what happened to it after they left. Although knowing the Cypriots it’s probably parked up on some wasteland somewhere!

23,819 · April 30, 2023

11 hours ago, Ghosty said:

That would be an absolute how the fuck moment, as they didn't even make a thousand 8Cs.

Are you thinking of 4Cs?

Auto Italia at brooklands yesterday.

3,651 · April 30, 2023

Test fitted the new wheels to the van. Very happy.

5 wheels with a 5 different budget tyres on though, so I'll have to sort that.

12,708 · April 30, 2023

Washed the 205 prior to getting it running again, testing it and selling it.

Actually my wife did it while I got the strimmer running properly and strimmed all the garden edges.

14,362 · April 30, 2023

Went to Homebase and bought a shed as they’re on offer this weekend.

Now all the gardening type shit can go in there and the garage can be my man cave.

3,385 · April 30, 2023

On 4/28/2023 at 11:26 AM, Weird Car said:

My daily driver until Sunday, it’s like a childhood dream come true, it’s really quite nippy for a 1.3 though I guess it’s the stickers that make it feel faster than it is

So I just handed the Beetle back to my dad with 350 extra miles on it, considering he usually adds 70 miles a year to it it handled it perfectly fine, always started without drama, I spent Friday just using it as an car by taking it shopping.

I had to get a new UVB lamp for my Tortoise. so being in Chichester and having a ‘Racecar’ I thought it wise to head to Goodwood, snapped a couple pics

then I thought I’d tackle some of the beautiful southdowns roads surrounding Goodwood, didn’t get many pics as I was really concentrating on driving but here’s a few from a lake I stopped at

so that ended that lovely day

come Saturday and I ventured into work where I met @calebaaront who greeted me with his Trabant and we had a kind of East Vs West thing going on.

Sunday ‘today’ marked the day I had to return Herbie but not before taking him to a local car meet at Port Solent where it was crazy busy but we got in and parked

All in all a brilliant weekend, it’s a really surreal experience driving a movie car, the whole weekend reminded me of this Peugeot 205 advert lol

https://youtu.be/Aw68Smqzfq8

I do generally want a Beetle now, they just have a strange charm about them.

28,521 · April 30, 2023

I went to Port Solent with my Cadillac some years ago. It's a great meet, very well attended.

And, kudos for using Herbie as "An car." That's something else I often did with the Cadillac, they need to be out-and-about getting used!

17,758 · April 30, 2023

I live in Port Solent and noticed the Beetle while.walking the dogs earlier - I used to have a '67 1200 back in the day.

The car meet is going from strength to strength, usually with a good selection of "our type" of cars

17,396 · April 30, 2023

9 hours ago, w00dy said:

That is far better looking on those wheels than it has any right to be. Damn

2,427 · April 30, 2023

19 hours ago, wuvvum said:

That's the one.

As @richardmorrisnoted, it was Italian car day at Brooklands. I followed this 8C on my way home. I figured you were collecting from somewhere nearish to me having seen the old SW train interior.

62,287 · April 30, 2023

Yes, R4 was about 6 miles from Brooklands and the sat nav spat me out onto the M25 one junction north of where the Brooklands traffic would have been joining - that'd explain the amount of Italian exotica I saw.

44,508 · April 30, 2023

On 4/29/2023 at 7:40 PM, wuvvum said:

And home.

Fuck me, what a drive! What a heap! I need a drink and some Paracetamol...

It actually made it back fine, although it needs some looking at. It's an absolute twat to drive in traffic because it isn't idling properly, and very few of the dashlights work. Also the speedo is comically optimistic - 85 on the speedo corresponds to 62 on the sat nav... It has a few other issues that I'll try and look into tomorrow, including a couple of interesting noises that it developed on the way home, but hey, it was a cheap (by today's standards...) Renault 4 so I expect it to need some loving. It's MOT'd until June and after then it'll be exempt anyway. The seller spent a lot of money having structural welding done so it should be rather more solid than the 6 even if it is cosmetically (even) rougher.

Plenty of interesting stuff on the roads too - unsurprisingly seeing as it's a sunny Bank Holiday weekend. The R4 got plenty of looks as you'd expect, and I got a thumbs up (which I returned) off a bloke in a floppytop E30 on the A1M (M11 was closed so got diverted) - that was one of two convertible E30s I saw on the journey. I also saw two Alfa 8Cs, which was impressive as I've never seen any until now. And at one point on the M25 I had a black Ferrari either side of me - a 430 Spider on the right and a 400i on the left.

Dinner now, then bike ride to collect the 107 from the station. Then sleep.

Odd. Someone messaged me yesterday to say they'd seen me driving a white Renault 4...

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