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[andyberg]

Shit. The 75 has let itself down 

[andyberg]

56 minutes ago, andyberg said:

Shit. The 75 has let itself down 

Just spoke with the garage, cost will be £850. I'm not sending her to the bridge. I love driving her and right now where I am in life she fits perfectly. I have left her at the garage to be fixed.

[andy18s]

To do everything? Or just the failures?

[andyberg]

 

3 minutes ago, andy18s said:

To do everything? Or just the failures?

Just the failures. But that does include an intermediate service and the cost of the MOT. The sill has a hole the size of a fist in it and the ball joint and brake pipe are very knackered.

[TheOtherStu]

6 minutes ago, Nyphur said:

Do you have any pics of the light blue/silver MK1's there at all? Trying to see if my mates old one which got restored after he sold it is one of the ones in attendance so I can show him some piccies. 

I happen to know the owner of that one quite well

If you want to see what's available generally though, we had about 100 Mk1s turn up to National Day at Hatton Park in June.
All 4 hundred and something cars are pictured on the Facebook group (you might need to join, but there's no pre-req - it's a free to join FB group, it's just the club that costs money)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/69755020269/media/albums

[beko1987]

2 hours ago, andyberg said:

Just spoke with the garage, cost will be £850. I'm not sending her to the bridge. I love driving her and right now where I am in life she fits perfectly. I have left her at the garage to be fixed.

Nice one! 

Those failures would all be stuff you'd worry about sending it's random replacement in for its first test in your hands for anyway 🤷 Once their done their not going to need doing again*

Plus - £50 for the test and £130 for the service and the cost doesn't look as huge. Probably a fair bit of labour and swearing at rust you don't have to bother with too! 

[stuboy]

Swapped the rear shock over after working 430am to 2pm... God it was a challenge... im tired and not test driven it...

 

Had too use some heat on the pinch bolt and the little tool to seperate it was a god send...

 

Still gotta do the other side.... one day

[andyberg]

37 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Nice one! 

Those failures would all be stuff you'd worry about sending it's random replacement in for its first test in your hands for anyway 🤷 Once their done their not going to need doing again*

Plus - £50 for the test and £130 for the service and the cost doesn't look as huge. Probably a fair bit of labour and swearing at rust you don't have to bother with too! 

That's exactly how I am looking at it. Even 5 hours labour will be about £300. 

[MrGTI6]

3 hours ago, andyberg said:

Just spoke with the garage, cost will be £850. I'm not sending her to the bridge. I love driving her and right now where I am in life she fits perfectly. I have left her at the garage to be fixed.

Definitely worth getting it done if it's a car you enjoy owning/driving. £850 wouldn't buy you a lot of car if you were to replace it, and that £850 car might need the same spent on it anyway. Better the devil you know, etc. 

 

[Sunny Jim]

After all the miserable weather we've had recently it cleared up here this afternoon and has been a beautiful evening. Left work at 5pm and set off up the A5 to Betws Y Coed then A470 to Blaenau Ffestiniog to pick up a light stalk for the BX from mat_the_cat. The roads were fairly quiet and I was enjoying the drive so on a whim instead of heading home when I got to Portmadog I took a turning down a little lane I've never been down before. Just followed my nose through the countryside with the rough idea that if I kept the mountains behind me I'd eventually end up at the sea.

Found just what I didn't realise I was looking for at a place called Abererch, a deserted beach to walk along. A great evening spent getting lost/exploring cruising and playing the radio with no particular place to go. It's a long time since I enjoyed driving for the hell of it.

The dog enjoyed it too

and I got to watch the Coast Guard heli and RNLI practise some drills

Fair play to whoever built this wall, this chunk looked like it had been in the sea for a while.

[andy18s]

Midnight and it's still a tad warm...

[wuvvum]

Another 500 miles in the 107 over the weekend, to my parents' in Somerset and back.  Used about 60 quid in petrol, which isn't too bad considering I wasn't exactly sparing the horses on the way back.  The little buzzbox continues to impress me with how well it keeps up with traffic - I don't often get to drive it on the motorway but it feels perfectly at home there, and after getting stuck behind a dawdler on the M40 slip road I made it perform one of its party tricks - 50 to 80 in third gear in an incongruously short time for a 1-litre city car.

Very little chod spotted on the drive but I did pass an Allard on the A420 - first time I've seen one on the road - and a Healey Silverstone on the A428.  Also lots of dubbers, but then you expect that on a summer* weekend.

[HillmanImp]

This just popped up on Facebook. 

Whats the blue car? 

[Split_Pin]

3 hours ago, HillmanImp said:

This just popped up on Facebook. 

Whats the blue car? 

It looks like a 1960 Ford Taunus Estate.

[w00dy]

Yellow or clear? Vote heart for clear or a yellow emoji face thing for yellow if you like. 

[wuvvum]

I reckon yellow.  It'll look like it has too many eyes otherwise.

[artdjones]

6 minutes ago, w00dy said:

Yellow or clear? Vote heart for clear or a yellow emoji face thing for yellow if you like. 

Normally I'd say yellow, but those late model Westfalia front end are fussy enough as it is. And yellow doesn't chime with that red. So, clear.

[vulgalour]

24 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

I reckon yellow.  It'll look like it has too many eyes otherwise.

Spidervan, Spidervan

Does whatever a Spidervan can

Can it swing from a web?

No it can't 'cause it's a van.

Look out! Here comes the Spidervan.

[Hertz]

56 minutes ago, w00dy said:

Yellow or clear? Vote heart for clear or a yellow emoji face thing for yellow if you like. 

Is that one complete grill or are the fogs a separate add on? Ours just has the standard grill, wonder if it was an option at new?

 

[stuboy]

Decided I'd swap over the other shock absorber all kinda went OK, bare losing a wheel nut.. ffs.. so no test drives..

 

[Yoss]

Just let the dog out for his pre bedtime wee. Nice weather for frogs. There were two of them hanging around on the patio. One scarpered smartish but the other one stayed and was happy to pose for photos. Even waited while I tried different lighting arrangements.

[w00dy]

3 hours ago, Hertz said:

Is that one complete grill or are the fogs a separate add on? Ours just has the standard grill, wonder if it was an option at new?

 

Lovely Bluestar! They are replica Projektzwo housings with the original lower grille.

[RoverFolkUs]

2 hours ago, stuboy said:

Decided I'd swap over the other shock absorber all kinda went OK, bare losing a wheel nut.. ffs.. so no test drives..

 

Those aren't knackered, but not in their finest flush of youth either. You may notice a slight difference with new ones but it's not exactly likely to be a transformation

[RoverFolkUs]

On 7/25/2023 at 2:13 PM, andyberg said:

Shit. The 75 has let itself down 

Fails like that are seeing most 75s off now unfortunately, really glad to see you are saving it. It's not really a lot wrong with it and I think the same defects could be found on pretty much any other car of a similar age as others have mentioned above 

[andyberg]

5 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Fails like that are seeing most 75s off now unfortunately, really glad to see you are saving it. It's not really a lot wrong with it and I think the same defects could be found on pretty much any other car of a similar age as others have mentioned above 

You are right. Take of the cost of labour (there's no way I could do this work anyway) and the service and the MOT, then it's not that much really.  

[goosey]

Charnie loves Peck

[barefoot]

Nicely spaced at the ends. These can be tricky to get properly centred, you know.

[EyesWeldedShut]

13 minutes ago, goosey said:

Charnie loves Peck

[cobblers]

19 minutes ago, goosey said:

Charnie loves Peck

Being referred to in a "Little man on board" sticker is a 100% nailed on, cast iron guarantee that the kid will have a criminal record before he's 18. 

[goosey]

6 minutes ago, cobblers said:

Being referred to in a "Little man on board" sticker is a 100% nailed on, cast iron guarantee that the kid will have a criminal record before he's 18. 

Oh yeah