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[Inspector Morose]

You used to be able to get double enders, my A30 had them. Probably those as I can't imagine Dicky doing that schoolboy error!

[fred]

Just spent today watching my seedlings pop up in my newly made 'Bee garden' drinking ale and doing pretty much feck all else - Nice olde simple day - love em

[dugong]

 

LBL helped set the world record for the largest parade of MG cars in a single event yesterday.

For some reason I was shoved right at the front, taking this shot before most of the other cars arrived.

 

I'm still very much enjoying the ownership experience - even if the parade laps themselves were cripplingly slow trudges around Rockingham's outer bowl.

The odometer clicked round to 65,000 miles heading home on the A43, too - shows you how little I've used it since buying it from Mr. Shitpeas [NE] last December.

It scrubbed up pretty well for the occasion even though it was by far the scruffiest 'F there by some considerable margin.

 

Hope Mr. PBK approves....

[fordperv]

That picture would be a good advert for k seal

[Angrydicky]

You used to be able to get double enders, my A30 had them. Probably those as I can't imagine Dicky doing that schoolboy error!

Spot on, yes they're double-ended wheelnuts. I think a lot of cars of this age have this style.

[mat_the_cat]

Spent the whole of yesterday (9 till 7) working on Lana's MINI after it failed the MOT. Only on two brake pipes, a front suspension bush and the power steering pump - which failed on the way to the test centre! Didn't sound too bad, except that to get the old bush housing out you have to lower the front subframe...

 

Leaving it attached at the front and letting it drop at the back meant I could get at the bolt heads, but only with a ring spanner which wasn't enough, so the whole thing had to come out to let me get a breaker bar on it. Brake pipes were pretty simple, apart from the fact that one of the unions was a random different thread to the rest, so I didn't have a male nut for it

[richardmorris]

Spotted this little "gem" near Albury on my ramble this morning. Last taxed in 2000!

[plasticvandan]

Cleaned the Polo today,shame I've got to sell it

[Bren]

Got this off ebay because it has SD1 porn - I remember buying a copy of this issue when it came out in 1991.

 

 

Magazine was spotless and even had this inside -

 

 

I used to get CD's from Brittania - now consigned to history.

[HillmanImp]

Got the GT6 out for the first time this year.

 

 

I need to get it lashed together well enough to get it up for sale methinks.

[dollywobbler]

Visited a friend in the village. He owns an AEC RT, which he said he'd let me drive one day. Preselector FTW! Sharing his wonderful barn (big enough to take a double-decker!), carefully wrapped in car covers with battery conditioners attached were a red Ford Ka and a Ford Escort Mk255 (or whatever the late ones were) 1.6 petrol. Magic. Sadly, the only pic I took was this one.

 

 

Sorry.

[richardmorris]

 

 

Sorry.

Ooh, fresh Sunday lunch!

[Pillock]

That dog makes Billy's look sensible.

[fordperv]

I'm sure my mates mk3 cortina is cursed, i put the new carb on yesterday and all was good, today he's rung me whilst I'm at work saying it won't start, i go out to him when I finished work and there's no spark from the coil, i wonder whats going to break when this problem is fixed

[dollywobbler]

That dog makes Billy's look sensible.

 

Oi! I won't have a baaaaa-d word said about it!

[HillmanImp]

Think I saw his brother walking down the street near me earlier. 

 

 

I have no idea what was going on there.

[twosmoke300]

Ahh orphan lamb , I can smell it from here

[stuboy]

building a roof over bike shelter down side of my shed..

 

im no joiner...

 

and floor previous done..

[HMC]

 

 

Brilliant fleet shot, and a great fleet; something for any eventuality or mood basically.

[HillmanImp]

Brilliant fleet shot, and a great fleet; something for any eventuality or mood basically.

 

GT6 is only any good if you fancy welding at the mo. Needs the O/S sill (and strengthener) doing and a little bit of floor, I did the N/S before I moved over here but due to location am not in a position to finish it. It runs nicely though. Started up with very little coaxing after reconnecting the battery and boshing some fresh fuel in. 

[derskine]

How much does a GT6 cost these days?

[HillmanImp]

How much does a GT6 cost these days?

 

A lot (well by my standards). I bought this one as I saw the prices going up and realised it was the last chance to own one before the went out of my league. Sadly circumstances dictate it needs to move on.

 

I want £3k as is. It has rust on the floor, needs one sill, the windscreen lip needs doing and it needs a repair to the A pillar (last two not a failure but will need doing at some point) but it runs nicely but needs a paint job after a few years under a tarp. For an extra £500 I can do the other sill and the floor too and MOT it? 

 

I will probably lob it on car and classic and see how I get on TBH. There is no rush, it will only pay off an interest only credit card the only real reason that I would be happy to see it go is getting my Imp back as when this goes its coming home.

[Inspector Morose]

GT6s are a strange beast. You get the Heath Robinson driving experience of a spitfire but with added smoothness of one of the best sixes of the period. And they shift when treated well.

One of those "you must own one one day just for the experience" kind of cars. I loved mine. A friend said when following on an A road "it's got a revolving number plate on the back of that. When you press the accelerator it revolves to say fuck off and just shifts into the distance"

He was driving a maestro 1.3 at the time though.

[dugong]

I'd drive a GT6.

 

If there was nothing to hit within a 2 mile radius.

[HillmanImp]

I'd drive a GT6.

 

If there was nothing to hit within a 2 mile radius.

 

I have just checked and its 12.1 miles to where I stuck it backwards through a fence.

 

[Inspector Morose]

They do bite, don't they? (Especially when fitted with a 2.5 with fuel injection). I refuse to say how I know either.

[captain_70s]

I have just checked and its 12.1 miles to where I stuck it backwards through a fence.

I think going through a fence backwards is a right of passage for Triumph owners...

 

Was late for work 'cause I guy I was supposed to be giving a lift to never showed up, it was raining. Figured I'd turn left at a mini roundabout from crawling speed without bothering to change down to first gear. Result was a botched take off in 2nd and just as I was about to straighten out I lost the back end, over corrected and started a tank slapper ending in a 180 spin across the oncoming lane and backwards into a fence.

 

Although I'm glad my fence was a bit more sturdy or it could have been considerably worse... I'm also glad it was 7am so there was very little traffic on the road and no pedestrians.

 

That was three weeks into ownership of the 1850. I was so fucked off with myself and given various lectures on my lack of driving ability, not maintaining my car properly (all tyres had good tread but were all completely different brands) and how it was people like me who ended up killing people that I briefly put both of the Dolomites up for sale and figured I'd give up on cars entirely.

 

Bad times.

[skattrd]

Yo Imp, why not lob it in ACA? you might be surprised with what you get for it.

This is my cunning plan for any "classics" next time I need to thin the fleet.

[Six-cylinder]

The lightness of the GT6 makes it a joy to drive.

 

It was only the MK1 GT6 that could bite with surprise, latter Rotorflex cars have progressive breakaway with lots of warning with understeer to oversteer before they let go. The final pivot spring cars I believe again don't bite but I have never driven one fast enough to try for myself. They all have relatively low levels of grip by todays standards and therefore it is easy to be going too fast!

[dollywobbler]

Liftoff oversteer is a bit different to power oversteer. The light back end means you do have to be wary in a GT6, though I discovered liftoff brown trousers in a Subaru Impreza. Non turbo. Wuss.