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[MrBiscuits]

On 31/12/2024 at 13:46, omegod said:

I took a load of tiles from my floor and took them the tip,  as I was emptying the last of them into the container the attendant spotted them and went absolutely bananas saying I couldn't dump them as they are possibly made of  the most dangerous type of asbestos, I said he was welcome to fish them out himself as I certainly wasn't now he had told me! 

Prior to this I wasn't aware of the possible issue ! 

 

All this has just reminded me, back in the 80s my grandad cut a disc out of what must have been a 60s asbestos floor tile to make me one of these  

[hairnet]

10 hours ago, chaseracer said:

2CVGB Raid Tan Hill this weekend: a jolly outing from 'the moonstruck outer limits of Leeds' (thank you, Alan Plater) to the highest pub in England.  The Dyane is ready.  There may be snow...

 

[paulplom]

11 hours ago, MrBiscuits said:

All this has just reminded me, back in the 80s my grandad cut a disc out of what must have been a 60s asbestos floor tile to make me one of these  

Did he not like you?

[lesapandre]

More  debate about hybrid and electric cars.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/02/uk-needs-to-ban-full-hybrid-cars-by-2030-or-face-net-zero-catastrophe

Press release by 'Electric Vehicles UK':

"Electric Vehicles UK is a not-for-profit collective of EV Drivers and EV Industry Stakeholders"

https://electricvehicles.uk/about/

Anyone any idea how the ban on the sale of IC vehicles on 1st Jan 2030 is going to work legally and administratively? Is there a web-link to the specifics. This is only 4 years and 363 days off.

Will it for example ban the import and registration of 'classic' petrol vehicles? Or just new stuff. I'd guess the latter. How about car-derived vans? 

Or am I expecting too much forethought 😂

[richardmorris]

-1 this morning

[lesapandre]

21 hours ago, richardmorris said:

V8 interceptor ( it said on the back) Spotted this morning in the wilds of cilcain.

Look at the bullbar! I'm assuming it's ex-police? 

Not legal I'd hazard?

[Stinkwheel]

1 minute ago, lesapandre said:

 legal In hazard? - Yeee Haw

FTFY

[richardmorris]

4 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

Look at the bullbar! I'm assuming it's ex-police? 

Not legal I'd hazard?

It is hillbilly country. About a mile down a dirt track. The rear bootlid said v8 police interceptor lpg.

[richardmorris]

11 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

-1 this morning

Having got it out and warmed up and checked everything electrical was ok I noticed that the handbrake warning light wasn’t working. Handbrake is not left on and I’m assuming it’s grumpy because of the cold and damp but Haynes seems light on info about accessing the switch and presumably relay.

 

[MJK 24]

8 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Having got it out and warmed up and checked everything electrical was ok I noticed that the handbrake warning light wasn’t working. Handbrake is not left on and I’m assuming it’s grumpy because of the cold and damp but Haynes seems light on info about accessing the switch and presumably relay.

 

Did you go out for a spin?

I’d have thought that last thing an X19 needs in it’s life is salty roads?!

[richardmorris]

10 minutes ago, MJK 24 said:

Did you go out for a spin?

I’d have thought that last thing an X19 needs in it’s life is salty roads?!

About twenty feet- out of the garage onto the drive and back after it had warmed through. I’m mad, not insane!

[chaseracer]

28 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

I’m mad, not insane!

Can confirm.

😁

[hairnet]

9 hours ago, richardmorris said:

 

 

that rev counter ffs - how hard to make it work properly

[stuboy]

Another manky MG that needed to be jump started due too lights being left in.... drive back from near medway river.. no probs so I cleared the codes..  another 2 hours drive and all seems fine

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, hairnet said:

that rev counter ffs - how hard to make it work properly

It gets quite interesting when you get the rev counter and speedometer arms to touch.

[SiC]

12 hours ago, richardmorris said:

-1 this morning

Why do speedometers and rev counters in Italian cars of that era not sit at zero when they're reading zero?

[crad]

great success!

[richardmorris]

9 hours ago, SiC said:

Why do speedometers and rev counters in Italian cars of that era not sit at zero when they're reading zero?

To be fair the car was revving with the choke,  but the answer is because Italian.

[320touring]

Had a bit of a spotting frenzy today

London spots. Saw the Fulvia draw up and spoke to him. The owner of the 2000 and the Porsche came out to chat to him. The 2000 was apparently originally sold from the Alfa dealer along the road.

[hairnet]

17 hours ago, richardmorris said:

It gets quite interesting when you get the rev counter and speedometer arms to touch.

pointed a fair few things at 4 and 5 o clock

one did half past five and it wasnt scary

[Stinkwheel]

13 minutes ago, hairnet said:

pointed a fair few things at 4 and 5 o clock

one did half past five and it wasnt scary

Time for me to be boring again, 

early 2CV -  right to left

 

late 2CV -  Left to right

 

Club/Charleston models Only ever went  left to right  

 

And if you tried really hard (not that hard actually) on the small type speedo you could pin the needle off the scale at the stop pin in the R of 'Jaeger'

(none of this will be news to @richardmorris and a few others)

[richardmorris]

34 minutes ago, Stinkwheel said:

Time for me to be boring again, 

early 2CV -  right to left

 

late 2CV -  Left to right

 

Club/Charleston models Only ever went  left to right  

 

And if you tried really hard (not that hard actually) on the small type speedo you could pin the needle off the scale at the stop pin in the R of 'Jaeger'

(none of this will be news to @richardmorris and a few others)

I have the small jaeger dash. Pinning the needle to the end stop was about 80mph on the satnav gps. Nothing left on the clock but the maker’s mark! Passenger screams then become louder than the engine!

[Stinkwheel]

1 minute ago, richardmorris said:

I have the small jaeger dash. Pinning the needle to the end stop was about 80mph on the satnav gps. Nothing left on the clock but the maker’s mark!

I once ran down the motorway (M1) from Leeds to back down to the midlands with the needle pinned to the stop on my old red 2CV special for just over an hour. Just didnt have to lift off for that whole time, only gradient ever bled a bit of speed off but at no point did the needle move back into the actually reading on the speedo. I was quite impressed/smug

Had been doing the Raid Tan Hill that the 2CV club do every year 1st weekend of jan.

[somewhatfoolish]

It's that time of year again, the media lose their collective braincell down the back of the sofa and declare a weathergeddon warning so here's the Mash's offering from so long ago the page no longer exists and the archive is all that's left; Britain to be hit by entirely typical weather.

[EyesWeldedShut]

2 hours ago, Stinkwheel said:

I once ran down the motorway (M1)

I (literally) ran down a bit of the M25 back in 1984   
https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/nostalgia/gallery/m25-fun-run-marked-opening-23247671
Stole a picture from the above article of the competitors' car park - no idea who anybody is in it - especially the bloke signing autographs in the C5?

[Dyslexic Viking]

-20c reached for the first time this winter.

[danthecapriman]

2 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

-20c reached for the first time this winter.

Christ that really is cold!

I was out today cleaning out the garage at the new house, building up some racking and generally just getting stuff back in where I want it. It was cold here, the ice and frost on the ground and the cars didn’t melt all day despite it being sunny. Nothing even close to that though!

Here’s my new set up anyway. Not the biggest or most impressive garage ever but it’s mine!

Still lots to do but it’s a million times better than it was. 
There’s a nice sturdy timber work bench in the back where the window is, so I’ve put my pillar drill and vice there. 
Racking down the opposite side is all attached to the wall to prevent unfortunate accidents. Lighting is absolutely crap, but I’ll get a couple of LED strip lights to replace the little single bulb units it currently has.

Capri lives in there too. It was out on the driveway today and started frosting over after only a few hours. Fired right up and ran like a champ though.

Starting to feel more like home here now. Surprising how a damn good clean and unpacking your things can help with that.

[PhilA]

I now have a stationary engine.

1.0 v-twin. 35hp. 

Can now keep the lights on when the power goes out. Win.

[320touring]

In an excellent end to the day, I managed to catch up with an elite core of shiters for dinner and a small libation.

L to R

@RobT @Skizzer @meshking @Kiltox and moi.

 

Grand evening, and the Kings Arms on Roupell St is a great wee boozer.

[hairnet]

whats kiltox doing at the wrong end of the A4