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[Austat]

On 4/9/2023 at 9:56 PM, Austat said:

Work in progress...

Finished: 

[wuvvum]

4 hours ago, The Vicar said:

Quick recap on the 164:

Is it an amazing, factory finish job? Far from it, but I’m glad that there is actual metal under the windscreen now and I hope it has given the old girl a few more years yet. 

Maiden voyage to Halfords yesterday for bulbs and trinkets:

 

 

 

Have you tried the heater since it was done?  Be interesting to see how the loss of the scuttle vents affects the airflow.

[Ghosty]

Found a Honda Ballade at the side of the road with a for sale sign in the window.

Oh fuck.

[Ghosty]

just sitting there!

Reg check reveals it's auto, on about 84k, hasn't been MOTd for four years and hasn't been V5d since 2005. The for sale sign has nothing but a mobile number on it.

Sent a text, natch. Wondering what the deal is as the trade plate is curious. If it's cheap I'll have it, it's only in Stockport.

[Pat Earrings]

17 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

just sitting there!

Reg check reveals it's auto, on about 84k, hasn't been MOTd for four years and hasn't been V5d since 2005. The for sale sign has nothing but a mobile number on it.

Sent a text, natch. Wondering what the deal is as the trade plate is curious. If it's cheap I'll have it, it's only in Stockport.

That is a sweet thing. Lots of little green flags there..tax holder/original plates/seemingly rust free steelies/those stupid door bumper things

[SiC]

55 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

just sitting there!

Reg check reveals it's auto, on about 84k, hasn't been MOTd for four years and hasn't been V5d since 2005. The for sale sign has nothing but a mobile number on it.

Sent a text, natch. Wondering what the deal is as the trade plate is curious. If it's cheap I'll have it, it's only in Stockport.

Probably someone in the trade has bought and flipping it. 

[GingerNuttz]

Old pillar 

New pillar 

Just need to bodywork the pillar and get it ready for painting.

[Ghosty]

36 minutes ago, SiC said:

Probably someone in the trade has bought and flipping it. 

I'm suspicious of that. There's one on C&C for £2500, ULEZ victim.

 

[w00dy]

A serious lack of space for my leg to operate the brake pedal gave me all the excuse I needed to fit one of my favourite wheels of all time.

[Split_Pin]

1 hour ago, GingerNuttz said:

Old pillar 

New pillar 

Just need to bodywork the pillar and get it ready for painting.

There wasn't much left of that! Looks great now though.

[GingerNuttz]

19 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

There wasn't much left of that! Looks great now though.

Hopefully the other side isn't as bad 🤣

[The Vicar]

5 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Have you tried the heater since it was done?  Be interesting to see how the loss of the scuttle vents affects the airflow.

Honestly, I didn’t realise there were no vents on the new scuttle until it was too late. In any case, the budget definitely didn’t allow for the effort required to put them in. Will have to see how it affects things 

[richardmorris]

3 hours ago, Ghosty said:

just sitting there!

Reg check reveals it's auto, on about 84k, hasn't been MOTd for four years and hasn't been V5d since 2005. The for sale sign has nothing but a mobile number on it.

Sent a text, natch. Wondering what the deal is as the trade plate is curious. If it's cheap I'll have it, it's only in Stockport.

 

[Stanky]

Took the Daihatsu out for a run in the downs today, lots of people out and about in the sunshine but no major dawdlers. I saw a TR6, a Bristol 411 (I think?) and a Volvo Amazon in convoy, lots of motorbikes and a morris minor convertible on my route. I ended up driving one of my favourite routes but backwards, a motorhome a couple of cars in front of me turned off where I usually would, so I decided to go the other way around. I even stopped and got a couple of scenic photoa near-ish to Winchester

 

 

[morrisoxide]

Well that's the 6 Series  gone to it's new home, an Oxford going back to Oxford.

I've had it for 14 years I got it when I was 18 and I've had some good times with the old Farina but it's time for it to move on. My Dad and I have too many old cars (well too many cars in general).

It's going to a good home a nice chap on the Farina Forum bought it straight away, a queue was forming to buy it amazingly! Even a very friendly chap from Miami was after it. 

It didn't want to leave as the wipers packed in just before the trailer (bloody lovely trailer) showed up, it was sulking I'm sure of it. It's strange it has had more attention and tinkering with in the few days that it was for sale than in years. You know the little things a screw missing here a broken clip there etc. I wonder what it would be like to have a car with no niggles and missing screws etc?

[High Jetter]

An A60 was first car I ever drove*, age 3 or 4 on Dad's lap. G reg is very late, tho?

[sdkrc]

14 hours ago, Ghosty said:

 

https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1585486

I was convinced that was this low mileage beauty on C&C, obviously not though. Love the look of these, hope you manage to get it

[andyberg]

Today I will mostly be riding this on the Distinguished Gentleman's Ride in aid of Prostate cancer and men's mental health. Both things close and personal to me. There should be about 200 other classic and unusual bikes on the Bristol run, should be a good ride. The weather couldn't be better.

Shameless plug for my page below 

https://gfolk.me/andrewbergin494637

[artdjones]

7 hours ago, High Jetter said:

An A60 was first car I ever drove*, age 3 or 4 on Dad's lap. G reg is very late, tho?

I think the last were J reg.

[Saabnut]

14 hours ago, GingerNuttz said:

Old pillar 

New pillar 

Just need to bodywork the pillar and get it ready for painting.

This makes me happy

[Saabnut]

12 hours ago, GingerNuttz said:

Hopefully the other side isn't as bad 🤣

This makes me nervous.....

[Split_Pin]

1 hour ago, andyberg said:

Today I will mostly be riding this on the Distinguished Gentleman's Ride in aid of Prostate cancer and men's mental health. Both things close and personal to me. There should be about 200 other classic and unusual bikes on the Bristol run, should be a good ride. The weather couldn't be better.

Shameless plug for my page below 

https://gfolk.me/andrewbergin494637

Have a grand day man, looks lovely weather.

[andyberg]

37 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Have a grand day man, looks lovely weather.

Thanks I am really excited.

[BeEP]

With the 1300 sold, this morning I had a lovely 80 mile pootle around Norfolk in the LDV and along the way wisely* invested some of the proceeds in this...

...will probably be up for sale/roffle in a month or so!

[RoverFolkUs]

It's finally car boot sale season

Pretty chaotic today

You had the obligatory plethora of people lugging flatfaced dog breeds about while you hear then screaming and gasping for air 

The people aggressively haggling over a £1 monopoly game at a charity stall. This chap was insisting to pay 50p, at which point despite having no desire to have it I handed the lady £1 and took it off the table from in front of him. Once he'd stormed off in a strop, I re-donated it to them to sell again.

I got some steals though, a joblot of Halfords advanced tools for £30 which was too good to refuse, loads of larger odd size spanners for 50p each, a diecast MGB for 10p

And a few electronic bits and pieces.

What made my day was a beautiful golden retriever coming over to see what I had, and generally lapping up any fuss that was going. Yes I have a soft spot for dogs!

A nice morning out

[richardmorris]

Just changed the dashboard bulb in the x1/9. All other illumination comes from this via fibre optic cables. After 35 years it was a little past its best. Black with thermal desorption of the filament. 
if anyone knows what the equivalent led bulb would be I may try one of those.

 

[artdjones]

4 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

You had the obligatory plethora of people lugging flatfaced dog breeds about while you hear then screaming and gasping for air 

It's more likely to be the owners. I don't know what's happened in the UK, but when I visit the town streets are a traffic jam on mobility trolleys. I hardly see any in Ireland, and I just spent a week in France without seeing any at all.

Seriously though, breeding pugs and bulldogs and the like is canine abuse.

[RoverFolkUs]

14 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

It's finally car boot sale season

Pretty chaotic today

You had the obligatory plethora of people lugging flatfaced dog breeds about while you hear then screaming and gasping for air 

The people aggressively haggling over a £1 monopoly game at a charity stall. This chap was insisting to pay 50p, at which point despite having no desire to have it I handed the lady £1 and took it off the table from in front of him. Once he'd stormed off in a strop, I re-donated it to them to sell again.

I got some steals though, a joblot of Halfords advanced tools for £30 which was too good to refuse, loads of larger odd size spanners for 50p each, a diecast MGB for 10p

And a few electronic bits and pieces.

What made my day was a beautiful golden retriever coming over to see what I had, and generally lapping up any fuss that was going. Yes I have a soft spot for dogs!

A nice morning out

Oh, how could I forget! 

Easily the find of the day, I'm actually over the moon at getting this: 

A good old Autodata catalogue. From a cursory flick through it's got Daewoo's in there so there's bound to be gems of information that you'd never find anywhere else easily. Also from Citroen Xantias to the C4 Picasso, so basically late 90's to early 10's

Well worth the fiver I gave for it! No idea what it would be worth, but I think my money is safe. 

[RoverFolkUs]

21 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

It's finally car boot sale season

Pretty chaotic today

You had the obligatory plethora of people lugging flatfaced dog breeds about while you hear then screaming and gasping for air 

The people aggressively haggling over a £1 monopoly game at a charity stall. This chap was insisting to pay 50p, at which point despite having no desire to have it I handed the lady £1 and took it off the table from in front of him. Once he'd stormed off in a strop, I re-donated it to them to sell again.

I got some steals though, a joblot of Halfords advanced tools for £30 which was too good to refuse, loads of larger odd size spanners for 50p each, a diecast MGB for 10p

And a few electronic bits and pieces.

What made my day was a beautiful golden retriever coming over to see what I had, and generally lapping up any fuss that was going. Yes I have a soft spot for dogs!

A nice morning out

Something which I'm really kicking myself about was a Cisco cloud router/WAP doowhacky. The guy was asking £3 which my gut feeling told me was an absolute steal. But I'm sick to the back teeth of buying things for the sake of it so I tried to look it up on the spot but I had no phone signal. 

Eventually I had signal and upon looking it up, yep, £60-120 online. 

Could I remember where it was? No. Fuck. 

An hour or so later I stumbled across the stall. Except a lady had it in her hands and was also on her phone. I saw her eyebrows raise slightly and she quickly handed him £3. 

Fair play... Fair play... You snooze, you loose. That'll teach me, but it probably won't! 

[GingerNuttz]

3 hours ago, Saabnut said:

This makes me nervous.....

At least the other side has a pillar......

Fair play that pillar has a big hole in it and the sill looks made of cheese but it's still a win over the passenger side 🤣