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[comfortablynumb]

I really need to make it to one of these events, keep looking at other people's pics 

Maybe once the cortina estate is back in one piece again....🙄

[paulplom]

Saved £100 over qwikfit by buying tyres on ebay and having them fitted here. £15 if I took away the old tyres or £20 if they dispose of them.

I've been coming here for ten years and they've always been spot on. It was the first place I've seen anyone fix a puncture without deflating the tyre! Just up from Northumberland Park on Tynemouth Road.

[Christine]

Got a new toy ..   tiny innit 

 

[stripped fred]

I was demonstrating the pull in 2nd gear in the TT to my son the other day after which the low oil pressure light came on. It's common for the oil pickup in the sump to become blocked and sure enough it was. My other son is fitting a new one now along with new poly dogbone mount bushes.

[Snake Charmer]

2 hours ago, Christine said:

Got a new toy ..   tiny innit 

 

Flash one with power feed! I had an older one in green, do you have the  drilling and milling attachments?

[Christine]

Yes ,  mill is a bit naff really though .  I've got a dedicated mini mill  anyway,  and a proper big  lathe .  I bought it for my dads 50th , but he died 10years ago at 86 .. and i've just reaquired it .. They're very accurate..

I need a small rotary table ..then i can make just about anything ..

 

[tommotech]

Boost leak found on the Polo that I fetched from Truro, new hose required. (yes, there are axle stands in place!)

[Morris 63]

10 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said:

Good to catch up with everyone last night.

 

 

Love this Triumph, I learnt to drive in one on Westonzoyland airfield. Haven't seen one in ages. Dad's was STK 7 L.

I'd have another for sure.

[Snake Charmer]

1 hour ago, Morris 63 said:

Love this Triumph, I learnt to drive in one on Westonzoyland airfield. Haven't seen one in ages. Dad's was STK 7 L.

I'd have another for sure.

One of the cars l always thought was cool as a kid, particularly in that colour. I saw one for sale a few years ago for restoration, l would have bought it had the money been available as it had a Stag V8 and Ferguson 4wd.

Westonzoyland airfield looks an interesting place.

[Morris 63]

1 hour ago, Snake Charmer said:

One of the cars l always thought was cool as a kid, particularly in that colour. I saw one for sale a few years ago for restoration, l would have bought it had the money been available as it had a Stag V8 and Ferguson 4wd.

Westonzoyland airfield looks an interesting place.

I'm colour blind, but if it's brown it's likely Mink brown. Dad had 2 estates at the same time for some reason; a mk1 in green and the mink brown mk2. I used to get the colours mixed up

The airfield was great fun, every Sunday you'd see a collection of cars pogoing around the old runway as us 15 to 17 year olds learnt clutch control!

[robt100]

20 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Heading to the ACA classic auction in King's Lynn tomorrow morning - I haven't decided what to take yet, 

I'd take a wodge of cash😄, some very nice cars with no reserve in that auction, be prepared to bring back 3 or 4 cars 🙈

[wuvvum]

Calling our resident Saab experts - what does this button do?  In a 900 T16S at ACA this afternoon. 

[robt100]

It does more...

[jonathan_dyane]

I think they were a spare 'extra' switch in case you fitted an accessory.

Superb cars.

[Dyslexic Viking]

Auxiliary lights have long been common to retrofit on cars here in Scandinavia, so it's possible Saab thought of that with that switch.

[dome]

 

53 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Calling our resident Saab experts - what does this button do?  In a 900 T16S at ACA this afternoon. 

That is very cool but I prefer this button in Audis from the early 2000s

 

[Zelandeth]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

Calling our resident Saab experts - what does this button do?  In a 900 T16S at ACA this afternoon. 

They were just a factory available option for dealers to hook anything up to.  In my case I had it set up as an override for the cooling fan thermoswitch as it got warmer than I liked before it would turn the fan on itself.

[artdjones]

9 hours ago, Christine said:

Got a new toy ..   tiny innit 

 

45 years ago I was working for a firm that were selling grey import Unimat lathes via mail order. The official importer would only wholesale the Unimat 3 to suppliers who would agree to take the bigger machines in the range, which were much more expensive, and therefore slow sellers. The small lathes would fly off the shelves. The firm used to phone around Europe buying up surplus stock of Unimat 3s, and import them to retail.

[tooSavvy]

9 hours ago, Christine said:

Got a new toy ..   tiny innit 

 

Moar pls...... cos 😋

🚙💨

[alcyonecorporation]

3 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Calling our resident Saab experts - what does this button do?  In a 900 T16S at ACA this afternoon. 

Short for 'extraljus' or foglights, in case you wired some in later on.

[Moneypit]

On 27/08/2025 at 15:48, Momentary Lapse Of Reason said:

(Sorry if this is the wrong section for this).

Can anyone identify what these seats were originally from?

They are being removed from a Series Land Rover which was abandoned in 2001, so they are older that then.

They are scrap, just wondering what they were from.

I would be interested in these for my fiesta, do you have better pics of both? Would even give you money if there both in same cond as this one. 

[comfortablynumb]

I think Ive just found my vocation 🤔 

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

8 hours ago, Moneypit said:

I would be interested in these for my fiesta, do you have better pics of both? Would even give you money if there both in same cond as this one. 

I will get some pictures of both seats, however it may be a few weeks.

I have to have the Land Rover away from where it is by the end of September (No possibility of a time extension).

and, for reasons, it is having to be dismantled in situ, for removal in lumps.

So my focus is in getting the Land Rover apart and away.

 

Please don't get your expectations of these seats up, IMO they are scrap.

They had been fitted (badly) into a Series Land Rover, sometime before it was abandoned in 2001.

The driver's door and the passenger's door top had rotted off, so the seats were exposed to the elements from about 2015, till the Land Rover came into my ownership last year.

The one pictured above (Passenger's side in the Fiesta) is in better condition than the other one.

Both are filthy, stained, badly faded, there is a fag burn type hole in the base of the one pictured above.

Neither seat back tilt seems to be doing anything.

[Moneypit]

31 minutes ago, Momentary Lapse Of Reason said:

I will get some pictures of both seats, however it may be a few weeks.

I have to have the Land Rover away from where it is by the end of September (No possibility of a time extension).

and, for reasons, it is having to be dismantled in situ, for removal in lumps.

So my focus is in getting the Land Rover apart and away.

 

Please don't get your expectations of these seats up, IMO they are scrap.

They had been fitted (badly) into a Series Land Rover, sometime before it was abandoned in 2001.

The driver's door and the passenger's door top had rotted off, so the seats were exposed to the elements from about 2015, till the Land Rover came into my ownership last year.

The one pictured above (Passenger's side in the Fiesta) is in better condition than the other one.

Both are filthy, stained, badly faded, there is a fag burn type hole in the base of the one pictured above.

Neither seat back tilt seems to be doing anything.

No bother, Ive good frames so if material is in 1 piece it may wash. 

Message me when your ready if you manage. 

Cheers Alistair 👍.  

[comfortablynumb]

@Momentary Lapse Of Reason any chance of pics of the landy too?

Just because...🙏

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

1 hour ago, comfortablynumb said:

@Momentary Lapse Of Reason any chance of pics of the landy too?

Just because...🙏

OK here you are;

 

[comfortablynumb]

Thanks. Did the damp start work? 🥺

[Moneypit]

2 hours ago, Momentary Lapse Of Reason said:

OK here you are;

 

Your right, seats are beyond it 🤣. 

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

1 hour ago, Moneypit said:

Your right, seats are beyond it 🤣. 

Told you.

That saves me taking more photos then! 👍

[Christine]

That's a shame ..