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[Bucketeer]

I found this in the sink this morning.

WTactualF?

 

[Semi-C]

^^

Is it a facehugger?

[dave21478]

Its a type of centipede - harmless to humans. If possible, leave it alone - they like to snack on bugs, mites and other undesireables around your house.

[HMC]

On the homeward leg to West Devon now; half an hour north of Edinburgh- the 220 is drinking at 39MPG and I'm downing a coffee

 

Edit - bloke filling up clearly wondering WTF is going on

[HMC]

Obs recons it's a car collection thread and I'm doing the forecourt money pic.

[RobT]

Safe journey Matthew.  Have you given the 220 a clean, as it looks tidy despite the mega mileage you've been doing!

[HMC]

Cheers Rob, thanks for putting these new front tyres on they're grippy as fuck!

 

Also thanks to phil for the new rad and waterpump- this thing never overheated nor used water despite some hard use the last few days, and obviously thanks to Mr_b0110x for the POWERTRAIN

[RobT]

An Autoshite legend, that's what it is.

[phil_lihp]

Brilliant stuff.  That car just won't stop, wasn't Mr B taking it on pan-European road trips right to the end?

 

It is just as well that the rad and waterpump were done, as it got to the point where it was getting through over a litre of water every 10 miles when I finally relented and got it fixed!

 

It's no good, when this next comes up for sale I'll be on the bus to Tiverton before you can say 'this forum'.

[brickwall]

Poking around the wheel arch there was the dreaded crunching sound. Ugh. Here we go again; stupid drains.

[gordonbennet]

I'll never have any money at this rate, increasingly frustrated by me toy halfords pressure washer which i could piss faster than, just splashed out on a Kranzle K2160TST, hopefully that'll be a somewhat more satisfying machine.

 

The bloke who services our work steam cleaner gave me some pointers what to look for, we'll see if it's a good choice or not.

[captain_70s]

Driving home from work today, 15C which isn't exactly hot weather but I have to keep the Doloshite's heater on full blast or it overheats. The joys...

[HMC]

One thing that just crossed my mind as I drove toward Edinburgh was a pic I saw in a classic car mag a few years ago. The car in question was an Austin Healey, not a Rover 200 series! But, seeing as I was passing near the Forth Rail bridge, the weather is still nice and a passing local obliged after I set the shot up........

Part of our 'heritage' though needing constant attention to the metalwork, but still in use as intended. And a bridge.

[DodgyBastard]

You could have stopped by at our unit when you were in Fife.

[vulgalour]

I poked the rust bubbles on the roof of the Xantia.  Why did I poke the rust bubbles on the roof of the Xantia?  Going back after food to get some white paint on it after spending much longer than I wanted to cleaning it all up.  What a mess.

[Ghosty]

Wheelz:

 

 

This is me demonstrating said new wheels to the mother.

[dollywobbler]

I never thought I'd say this, but those are much nicer wheels.

 

My news is trailer tent related. It's been up for a couple of days. Gave it a darned good soaking with a hose last night and none of the water came in. Impressive given there are a couple of holes in it. I now have a new plug, so I can see if I can get the rear lights working. Wonder which wire does which light...

[hairnet]

Apparently, I'm calling up the owner of this van on behalf of the business with a possible view to purchase.  Mike and I nearly rented the house next door to the owner, but the overall condition put us off.  The house was pretty rough too.

 

IMAG1169.jpg

 

Now viewing at midday on Wednesday.  We shall see what happens.

run miles buy hiace

[hairnet]

IMP News......

 

A guy in the imp forum, bodyshop/restorer of excellent repute, has just launched [very appropriate verb] a BMW bike engined Clan.

 

The flat K100BMW engine fits totally as a replacement of the Rootes all-ally 875.

 

 

..looking forward to him fitting out some of the HotShoes in the club.

 

 

TS

k100 = brick

 

not flat twin - but need pics.........

 

sparrow has flat twin 2cv - trackdays it goes like feck

[twosmoke300]

There is an engineer chappy near me with a race motored clan . He is currently working out how to fit a zx10r bike head onto the imp motor . All I know is that it involves lister conrods !

[Rusty Pelican]

Totally off topic but i need to get stuff written down

A week ago last Monday 

First i knew about stuff  was Monday when  a colleague never showed up for work even the boss trying to contact him proved fruitless, most unlike him TBH .

Tuesday we get a call from his wife .

Hes had a fall , it was Saturday night and he had had a pint or two ,

Wednesday of last week , His wife calls , hes in Bristol hospital -- a brain bleed or swelling or something along those lines .

Thursday and Friday no news other than hes in an induced coma with a drain fitted and on stuff to reduce the swelling which they will take him off the weekend ( just gone ) and see if the swellings improved 

Yesterday - stuff to reduce swelling has not worked and he has to stay on - talk of rehabilitation

Today - They dont think theres any hope 

 

sorry to blubber on but i needed to get this off my chest 

[hairnet]

There is an engineer chappy near me with a race motored clan . He is currently working out how to fit a zx10r bike head onto the imp motor . All I know is that it involves lister conrods !

bmw bike head onto a series is a well known mod

[rrsix]

Totally off topic but i need to get stuff written down

A week ago last Monday 

First i knew about stuff  was Monday when  a colleague never showed up for work even the boss trying to contact him proved fruitless, most unlike him TBH .

Tuesday we get a call from his wife .

Hes had a fall , it was Saturday night and he had had a pint or two ,

Wednesday of last week , His wife calls , hes in Bristol hospital -- a brain bleed or swelling or something along those lines .

Thursday and Friday no news other than hes in an induced coma with a drain fitted and on stuff to reduce the swelling which they will take him off the weekend ( just gone ) and see if the swellings improved 

Yesterday - stuff to reduce swelling has not worked and he has to stay on - talk of rehabilitation

Today - They dont think theres any hope 

 

sorry to blubber on but i needed to get this off my chest

 

Terrible news, a sharp reminder of how fragile we all are. My sympathies to all involved.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I've just bought a little car transporter trailer!!!!

 

http://ebay.us/oLZjde

[vulgalour]

Bollox in definitely legal towing shocker!

 

Mike and I are off to view this '71 van in a few minutes.  I wonder how bad it is?  Can't be too terrible, it's got an MoT until December.

 

[barefoot]

Fucking car sellers...

 

You may remember a couple of months ago, I had the leaking rocker cover gasket thing replaced on the Scirocco when it went in for a bit of a service.

The bastard is leaking again.

& what is worse, the garage is denying all responsibility for a crap repair since they didn't supply the gasket. 

They're saying that I did.

Well I didn't.

It came with the car when I bought it nearly five years ago from Hillman Imp.

 

I'll have a few choice words when I next see him - Chucking crap components in for free to make me think I got a better deal - Bastard.

 

 

 

 

Good luck with the early bay above, it looks very like one a friend of mine, Neil used to own - and Rusty,

I'm sorry to hear about your mate, it must be very grim.

[messerschmitt owner]

IMP News......

 

A guy in the imp forum, bodyshop/restorer of excellent repute, has just launched [very appropriate verb] a BMW bike engined Clan.

 

The flat K100BMW engine fits totally as a replacement of the Rootes all-ally 875.

 

 

..looking forward to him fitting out some of the HotShoes in the club.

 

 

TS

HOw was Imp Ecosse - my pal was there with his 6000 mile from new red Imp - he bought it with 600 miles on the clock. running an imp sport now and roll cage - used in anger as well.

[vulgalour]

The van it turns out was originally plain white and is a Devon Sundowner, which I'm told is the billy basic version of the conversions that were available.  It's had work to the front steps and rear corners and been repainted from the original plain white.  Pop top does the popping but needs a seal as it's started to leak and the seal is perished in a number of places.  Sliding door slides as it ought, everything opens and closes that should and the engine sounds pretty nice and smells good though does have an oil leak or two.

 

It needs, ideally, both front steps rebuilding properly, work to both rear lower quarters and a bit of work on the front panel.  It needs the rear hatches repairing or replacing too due to the usual rust issues.  It's missing the front badge, though it's also possible it had a front mounted spare.  Gutters have gone through in a couple of places, again as standard for these, but overall it's a fairly solid and reasonably honest looking van with not too many horrors hiding.

 

Only problem is the seller is asking rather more for it than its worth, he clearly doesn't really want to sell it and I know that feeling.  If we can get it for less than the current asking it could be a very viable project for the garage.  I've got to do the maths on the repair panels and whatnot that I know it needs and get back to him with a price and go from there.  Early bays are going up in value but it does seem very easy to buy a bad one so this has to be gone into with head rather than heart.

 

I'd far rather it were a Commer, I love rolypoly campers, but I know I'd spend too much on one of those if I was told to buy one.

[dollywobbler]

I R AUTO ELECTRISHUN.

 

Apart from the earth wire being blue rather than the correct white, all I had to do was wire up a new plug, bend a contact on a tail light and make a new earth for the number plate lights. Actually, that unit needs replacement, as I only managed to get one bulb working (the internals are all corroded and manky). I'm still calling it a result.

 

Need to get our hands on some canvas so we can repair the holes, but a soaking with a hose at least proves that the water beads off nicely.

[HillmanImp]

Fucking car sellers...

 

You may remember a couple of months ago, I had the leaking rocker cover gasket thing replaced on the Scirocco when it went in for a bit of a service.

The bastard is leaking again.

& what is worse, the garage is denying all responsibility for a crap repair since they didn't supply the gasket. 

They're saying that I did.

Well I didn't.

It came with the car when I bought it nearly five years ago from Hillman Imp.

 

I'll have a few choice words when I next see him - Chucking crap components in for free to make me think I got a better deal - Bastard.

 

 

 

 

Good luck with the early bay above, it looks very like one a friend of mine, Neil used to own - and Rusty,

I'm sorry to hear about your mate, it must be very grim.

 

That gasket was fine when I gave it to you. Were you storing it in sunlight? They don't like that, although not as much as storing it in the shade. If you kept it in an enviroment that was too damp, it might have persished. If it was to arid, it might have dried out. If it was just right it will probably have been eaten by a bear.

 

Any guarantee and storage instructions were writren on the packaging.Unless you have receipts to prove that you cryogenically froze the gasket within 24 hours of picking up the car I am afraid I am not liable.

 

SOULED AS SCENE!