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[HMC]

^ many years ago I managed to spin a saab 900t16 on a roundabout, was on a trailing throttle as I entered it which made it a bit light at the back and before I knew it I was winding off the lock and failing to catch the rear end. Thankfully no other cars or scenery became part of my pirouette routine!

[dollywobbler]

2CV has fresh gearbox oil, and vegetable oil in its suspension cans. That has stopped it groaning quite so much.

 

However, the exhaust swan neck looks like this.

 

I'm hoping it lasts until I reach Anglesey on Friday, where my preferred supplier of 2CV parts can supply me with another one. And possibly a set of tyres as well, as they're all knackered! I was hoping to splash out on a set of lovely Michelins, but I fear skintness will see me opt for the surprisingly good Toyos instead.

[barefoot]

FAIL.

Not the end of the world, rear brake inbalance, leaking shock absorbers and a front jacking point needs a tickle with the welding stick.

Chap is busy, back by Friday.

Looks like I'm out and about in the super fuel efficient T2 this week then.

[dugong]

Charade will encounter Ellingworth's for the first time on Thursday.

 

I got the fuel pump relay to work as well.

 

[barrett]

I managed to spin the Standard twice, but I'd say that was more down to a combination of it being totally unsuitable in ecery way as a motor car and utterly inept driving (and once, quite a lot of red wine) than anything else. And also crossplies.

[Shep Shepherd]

 

Me too, which was why I was so surprised to see it! Strangely it's registered as a 'VOLVOV70' but is taxed and MoT'd into next year.

 

Vehicle enquiry

Registration number: P979 UTM

✆Taxed

Expires: 01 February 2015

✆MOT

Expires: 29 May 2015

Vehicle excise duty Vehicle excise duty rate for vehicle 6 Month rate £126.50 12 Month rate £230.00 Vehicle details

• Vehicle make VOLVOV70
• Date of first registration 17 April 1997
• Year of manufacture 1997
• Cylinder capacity (cc) 2500cc
• COâ‚‚Emissions Not available
• Fuel type PETROL
• Export marker No
• Vehicle status Tax not due
• Vehicle colour SILVER
• Vehicle type approval Not available

 

 

That's definitely TV2!

 

When I owned it, the car's make was 'VOLVOV70' as opposed to 'VOLVO' on both its V5 and tax disc. I imagine that some sort of admin blunder occurred when the car was brought into the country from Germany in the early 2000s...

 

I wonder if the car still has all the weird stickers on its tailgate?

[Bucketeer]

No, but I do have Mrs Ratdat who kindly came out to the workshop at 6:30 this morning to help me refit the rear screen ....and then volunteered to  wash off all the polish residue out of the door shuts. What a star she is   

 

Aaaah, now we know where the power behind the throne is.

'Excuse me sweetheart, could you just weld up the chassis on the Datsun and repaint the Hyundai this morning, I have other important man stuff to do.'

[barefoot]

I'm putting this down to diesel on the carriageway.

I've circumnavigated that roundabout a millionty times and it's not happened before.

My tyres are not soft and moreover,

the Subaru boys pour oil onto it so they can go around it sideways for fun.

[vulgalour]

DONE!

 

 

Managed to liberate some brake lines (for pattern making), a pair of inner arch crud catchers, full front valance, slam panel, front wing, 2 displacers, upper and lower wishbones, hubs, steering rack, heater matrix, hinges (for the pins only), front floor pan repair sections and some hydragas pipes and unions.  The bumper was really straight but completely rotten, which was a shame.

 

I'd say I got my money's worth out of this.  I also found one hydragas displacer pocket was jam-packed with acorns, hazelnuts, bits of tree and fur as were the chassis legs and the A pillars.

[Lord Sterling]

Well, phase 1 of my parts clear-up programme has actually started. I had a load of wheels under a rather old and falling apart tarpaulin. Seeing as I have some time on my hands, I dug 'em out, cleaned 'em up a bit (to get all the soil/spiders/webs off them) and loaded them into my car. The 4 Ford Pepperpots with thier tyres fitted like a glove inside the boot of the 827 despite there being a great hunch of LPG gas tank in the way but thats as much as I could get in.

 

I then loaded a Micra bonnet into the back and an extra early Rover 800 wheel into the back:

 

 

Getting the bonnet into the car was easier than getting it out, an old lad walking by offered to help me get it out which was duly did. Turns the fella is an ex-Brummy living in Telford, he used to work at Land-Rover in Solihull working on the prototype in 1971.

 

It was great to see my 820E again, sitting in was fantastic, bringing back all these memories I have of MK1s. It needs a minor bit of fettling but looks as if it could go back on the road tomorrow. All the oils/waters looked fresh too.

 

 

A few days back, I visited an auld_boy who lives near Halesowen, he owns an identical N-reg Rover Sterling to what I've got tucked away in Worcester. I bought some door handles for him as his drivers one was near breaking.

 

 

I was looking to do all of this before I left for France but simply ran out time. At least some it is done.

[andy18s]

Stupid question probably but did Honda make their own version of this  ^^  ?

pretty sure i know of a dark/wine red coloured coupe parked up but as I can only see it from a distance it doesn't appear to have a Rover grille

[Shep Shepherd]

Used some of the rustproofer I bought from Lidl on the Volvos' door bottoms. It's brilliant stuff which is easy to apply, doesn't run very much, is almost odourless and goes a long way; I managed to treat six of the cars' doors* with one can. Next time I'm at my local Lidl, I'm going to buy any remaining stock

 

 

 

*I had to start another can to treat The Wentworth's N/S/R door, but only used about a fifth of it. The N/S/F door was left untreated as it's knackered due to heavy surface rust around its periphery; I suspect that the panel is a replacement which was fitted in the 1990s and not painted or rustproofed properly. If anyone knows of a good N/S/F door for a Volvo 940 in 130 Silver Metallic going spare, please let me know. I'll be your friend for life if you do*wag*

[cms206]

... and if theres a pair of good front wings and a bonnet with them in the same colour, let me know. It's about all that lets down my 940 Classic

[Lord Sterling]

Stupid question probably but did Honda make their own version of this  ^^  ?

pretty sure i know of a dark/wine red coloured coupe parked up but as I can only see it from a distance it doesn't appear to have a Rover grille

 

Honda did make a Legend Coupe from about 1986 to around the early 90s. Rover never made the 800 Coupe until after 1991 in the shape of my car when Honda started to break away. The Rover 800 Coupe looked the same from first release to the very last one made. Only changes made were to engines/gearbox combinations and sometimes wheels. Everything else, including the interior was exactly the same.

 

Rover never made a Coupe in Mk1 shape though there are photos on AROnline of one being developed which never happened.

 

By the time the Mk2 800s were released, Honda had moved onto using a 3.2 V6 in their Legends. Rover were just about using the old Honda V6 still whilst developing the KV6 engine. 

[Angrydicky]

Drove the Maestro down to Canterbury yesterday to find somewhere to live. Found somewhere that seems decent enough, in a quieter area a bit further from the city centre than the old place. It's got a driveway which I have obviously put dibs on, and there's plenty of unrestricted parking in nearby streets. I also saw a few older cars in the area, including a scruffy Subaru Brat with a different coloured passenger door, so it looks like that particular part of town is the best for older cars.

It ran well enough, but the knock from the exhaust was really bad by the time I got home. The new exhaust was in three pieces, and two of the pieces that were supposed to join together had the same diameter pipe so to bodge it together for the MoT I cut slots in one of the pieces with the angle grinder, forced the other piece in and wrapped a load of exhaust bandage and jubillee clips around it. This wasn't ideal, so today I got the car on the ramps and carefully welded the exhaust together, in a position where it was no longer knocking on the front crossmember. It was also blowing a bit behind the silencer as well, so I welded a slot that was in the wrong place and remade the joint. The car is now transformed, with no knocks, clonks or blowing at all from the exhaust. I also swapped the wheels front to back as there was a slight wheel wobble over 60mph. The wheels on the back were a matching pair with even tread and I'd clipped the kerb a few weeks back and knocked the balancing weight off the front NS wheel

I also got the horn working again, that was just a plug I'd accidentally disconnected when removing the indicators for the respray. And the clonk into second gear? Incredibly, the O/S engine mounting had worked loose where it's bolted to the block, so every time I changed gear the engine rocked about. That just needed tightening up.

[trigger]

This afternoon after a hospital appointment I stopped off in Dedham for a pub lunch with 'er indoors and spotted this rather nice BMW 318iS in the car park.

 

 

A coupe of hours later we came back to the car (after a nice bacon and brie baguette and a few pints of cider, yum yum!) And I saw the elderly lady owner of the BMW sat inside doing a crossword.

 

Mrs Trigger talked me into having a chat with the lady and giving her my phone number in case she wanted to sell it, it turns out that she's had it 10 years and never had any problem with it but she's thinking of selling it as she's moving to Scotland.

 

It's done 145000 miles but other than needing a polish it looked pretty mint, annoyingly as we were chatting her husband rang her on her mobile so I had to go but hopefully I'll be hearing back from her and that it won't be too expensive, anything under £1000 and it should be worth a punt.

[Hertz]

/\ /\ He who dares Trigger 

[Timewaster]

Today I finally opened the bonnet on the company car. 6 months old and the screen wash has run out. Tut!

 

Anyway, expecting to see acres of shiny black plastic and bright metal.

 

Discovered the dipstick has popped out of the holder and black oil everywhere.

 

All new cars are........ Etc etc

[derskine]

Did most of the head gasket change and then realised my torque wrench broke.

Borrowed one from Nisfan and will finish it off tomorrow.

 

[cobblers]

Got back from a "lovely" week camping with our lass and went straight to Eurocarprats for a (wrong) clutch to fit the licence loser 106. Anyway two hours into the job I had only just finished hammering a smaller socket over the locking wheel nuts before finding someone had lent my axle stands out and my jack is fucked.

[vulgalour]

Today I learned that Mk5/6 Escorts with boots are not in fact Orions.  I still called it an Orion though, because I'm a rebel or something.  Picture proof in a few days in my spotted thread.

[trigger]

After 1993ish they dropped the Orion name and just called it a Escort saloon. I used to have a L reg 1.8TD LX model many moons ago.

[Honey Badger]

Stupid question probably but did Honda make their own version of this  ^^  ?

pretty sure i know of a dark/wine red coloured coupe parked up but as I can only see it from a distance it doesn't appear to have a Rover grille

 

Honda made the Legend coupe as LS pointed out, could have been an Accord Coupe as they are both quite a bit bigger than the relative uk accords.

[andy18s]

I'll try get a pic on the way home

It's parked up next to a sad looking P38

[fordperv]

This afternoon after a hospital appointment I stopped off in Dedham for a pub lunch with 'er indoors and spotted this rather nice BMW 318iS in the car park.

 

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A coupe of hours later we came back to the car (after a nice bacon and brie baguette and a few pints of cider, yum yum!) And I saw the elderly lady owner of the BMW sat inside doing a crossword.

 

Mrs Trigger talked me into having a chat with the lady and giving her my phone number in case she wanted to sell it, it turns out that she's had it 10 years and never had any problem with it but she's thinking of selling it as she's moving to Scotland.

 

It's done 145000 miles but other than needing a polish it looked pretty mint, annoyingly as we were chatting her husband rang her on her mobile so I had to go but hopefully I'll be hearing back from her and that it won't be too expensive, anything under £1000 and it should be worth a punt.

Why not get her a nice volvo to swap for the BMW then she can join the svm

[dugong]

 

Charade passed its MoT today!

[cms206]

Tomorrow might see the most mental collection I think I've ever partaken in...

[Shep Shepherd]

Just booked a long weekend in Berlin in mid-September. Expect photos of tat to follow shortly afterwards

[dollywobbler]

This morning, we set off for the 2CVGB National/24hr race on Anglesey. Only we don't seem to have managed to finish packing the car yet and are still at home. A spot of lunch and then we'll see if we can actually get on the road!

[cobblers]

As anticipated, the useless scrotehounds at euro car parts gave me the wrong clutch, so now I'm in a queue 8 deep waiting to swap it. Shite patience levels approaching zero. Expect a 106 gti for sale thread soon