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[r.welfare]

Big Ron by E Honda, on Flickr

Big Ron? No - surely Uncle Buck?

[HMC]

Just had a shuffle about of the fleet, so thought I'd line them up for a quick photo in the non stop drizzle.........

 

[cort16]

I bet your glad petrol prices have came down.

[cms206]

Baltic outside?

 

Sheepskin - check

Trilby - check

Volvo WITH a stoater of a heater - check.

 

Big Ron by E Honda, on Flickr

Can you send Big Ron round to have a go at getting my bloody heating working ?!

[oldcars]

I spent today in approximately 1985; got up, found it was -6 outside, had to use a lighter heat the key to get the door of the car open. I then sprayed deicer on the outside windows, then more deicer onto a cloth to take the ice off the inside of the windscreen. I then drove to work with the windows open, periodically stopping to further deice the inside of the windscreen as I have no heaters or demisters, all whilst my arse was roasted off me in the only heating the car has.

 

Naturally I got to work, found it was too fucking cold to cock about in the workshop, spent most of the day in the office doing all the paperwork I've been putting off before having to drive home with the window open again, in the snow this time, still with no heating or demisting, because I am the twat who thought it was too cold to work on the car inside during the day.

 

I bloody love the 340 but it's too fucking cold for this shit.

me to.

Out to Reliant this morning, door frozen shut. Heater does not work at all and i don't like leaving it to idle early sat morn. Wifes hairdryer out to melt the insides  . Full choke starts a treat but on way in inside of screen freezes a bit more. Quick stop and get ice scraper out on inside of screen. Bits of snowy ice everywhere. Go for petrol, fuel up, pay go back to car and door frozen shut again. Folk moaning as i get in and fired up again. Finally windows defrosted and i can dry them off. It also makes odd cracking noises in the cold, bit like on iceroad truckers when they drive over the lakes. Must be the flex in the grp when cold popping the ice i guess. I love old cars, much more fun.

[LC Torana]

Back when I first joined this esteemed forum, I was looking for my dream car, a Morris Isis.  The one I was looking at, which is still my avatar, was terminally rusty and I am afraid I didn't stand in the way of it being scrapped.  (If I lived on a farm, and had somewhere to leave it to rot I might have bought it anyway for parts.  But my driveway is full of Rovers and the garage is occupied by the Antediluvian Rover.)

 

Anyway, I set eBay to email me if another appeared, as you do.

 

Yesterday, for the first time, eBay saluted.  An email in my inbox that a Morris Isis has been listed.

 

Be still, my beating heart.  Where is it, is it a S1 or S2, what condition is it in, is it original and how much?  It's like getting an unexpected letter from a loved one.

 

So, all a-flutter, I clicked the link...

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...and...

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...to be confronted with, well, I'll let you see for yourself:

 

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/121858938979

 

Bah.  Morris Isis' are probably extinct.  I can still dream.

[cort16]

You're probably on a CIA black list if you spend your time googling "looking for ISIS"

[Urko]

Seen this behemoth in our works car park and was chatting to the owner today, very appealing and looks in VGC , he wants £1500 for it

 

 

I bloody love these, me I do.  Never actually had one but ridden in a few and seen loads in US cop shows and on that Roadkill cop car shoot out.  I will have one one day.

[twosmoke300]

Essex man - that Range Rover looks soooo out of place

[anonymous user]

Yes he should give me the Range Rover and replace it with one of those shonky Alfa Romeo Jeep type things

 

In other news, I have crawled under the Land Rover and can't find anything obviously making the noise, I took it down to the 4x4 people in Cowbridge and they stuck it on the ramp for me, still can't see anything and, surprise, surprise, it didn't make the noise on the way down there.

It did start again making it now and then on the way back, I have decided it is nothing to worry about and am wondering if it is something like a loose baffle in the exhaust.

[twosmoke300]

Dying prop ujs make some bloody strange noises

[anonymous user]

Don't tell me that, now I'm going to have to worry about it again

[LC Torana]

You're probably on a CIA black list if you spend your time googling "looking for ISIS"

Yes, you'd think if there was a car that would make you nervous of running the terrorist gauntlet it would be this, rather than the Renault 20.

[3VOM]

Big Ron? No - surely Uncle Buck?

Big Vern without his glasses?

[fordperv]

Back when I first joined this esteemed forum, I was looking for my dream car, a Morris Isis. The one I was looking at, which is still my avatar, was terminally rusty and I am afraid I didn't stand in the way of it being scrapped. (If I lived on a farm, and had somewhere to leave it to rot I might have bought it anyway for parts. But my driveway is full of Rovers and the garage is occupied by the Antediluvian Rover.)

 

Anyway, I set eBay to email me if another appeared, as you do.

 

Yesterday, for the first time, eBay saluted. An email in my inbox that a Morris Isis has been listed.

 

Be still, my beating heart. Where is it, is it a S1 or S2, what condition is it in, is it original and how much? It's like getting an unexpected letter from a loved one.

 

So, all a-flutter, I clicked the link...

.

.

.

.

.

...and...

.

.

.

.

.

...to be confronted with, well, I'll let you see for yourself:

 

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/121858938979

 

Bah. Morris Isis' are probably extinct. I can still dream.

I didn't even know they existed, that's why I love this place, I just Googled them and found this that made bbcnews, it must have been a quiet day that day

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-25934347

[Cavcraft]

Went out in the 306 earlier (the n/s/f tyre is a different size to the rest) came to a mini roundabout, accelerated away and the bastard started a bit of a slide that was hard to control. I've given it more than this before (and it's not exactly fast) and it's been ok, so unsure if because of the tyre or there was diesel on the road. The bloke behind me absolutely shit himself and kept a very safe distance afterwards!

[dollywobbler]

I drove a Morris Isis a couple of years ago. Was a fine old thing. Rather than fit crossplies or too-shallow radials, the chap had fitted all terrains! He was struggling to get £7k for it if I remember rightly.

[Inspector Morose]

Gearchange to the right of the driver, if memory serves me right. Part of the seat base was cut out to facilitate it as well. Or am I dreaming again?

[dollywobbler]

Nope. Spot on. 

[Bobthebeard]

Bit more Oldsmobile fun. Have removed the tin plate number plates as apparantly not legal and fitted some UK legal plates. Same size but legal font and spacing. One step closer to an MOT.

Removed the odd switch that remotely operated the starter motor as that was weird. No idea why that was done. Now back to normal. Also new ignition switch barrel fitted and working. The car seems to be much like many US imports. Running on borrowed time, filthy and bodged. A bit of internet research and eBay purchases sorts out the neglect. Plenty of cleaning and love should have the old (smobile) girl back in daily use.

[dome]

Replaced the wishbone bushes on the e46 today- what an arse of a job. Undertrays need to come off to get near the crossmember to put the axle stands which means jacking it up, axle stand under the wishbone, remove undertrays, then back off the axle stands to move them to the right place.

 

Decided to make life easy for myself by going to local factors (TMS) to buy a puller. Except what they sold me was a cheap Chinese approximation of one. Quality so shit you wouldn't believe. I'll need to take that back on Monday.

 

I'm not ashamed to say that Mr Angle Grinder came out to play-it took me half the time to do the second one.

 

 

At least it drives better now...

[RobT]

Just had a shuffle about of the fleet, so thought I'd line them up for a quick photo in the non stop drizzle.........

 

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Is the 155 on a '96 P plate? If so I could be interested when you're done with it!

[trigger]

Just had a shuffle about of the fleet, so thought I'd line them up for a quick photo in the non stop drizzle.........

 

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Another username change to Italianman?

[EssDeeWon]

Replaced the wishbone bushes on the e46 today- what an arse of a job. Undertrays need to come off to get near the crossmember to put the axle stands which means jacking it up, axle stand under the wishbone, remove undertrays, then back off the axle stands to move them to the right place.

 

Decided to make life easy for myself by going to local factors (TMS) to buy a puller. Except what they sold me was a cheap Chinese approximation of one. Quality so shit you wouldn't believe. I'll need to take that back on Monday.

 

I'm not ashamed to say that Mr Angle Grinder came out to play-it took me half the time to do the second one.

 

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At least it drives better now...

 

I hope you used genuine BMW bushes or they'll likely be shot again in a few months. E46's eat through those bloody wishbone bushes but genuine parts should give you a couple of years.

[DeeJay]

Another username change to Italianman?

Alfa Male? (sic)

[richardmorris]

Trying out the new camera this morning - found this in woods near whitley for those interested in vintage sewing machines, and then poked a hole in the Mercedes when giving it a quick look over for the mot on Wednesday. Oh dear!

 

Will this be an issue for the mot (ie fail) ? It's n/s behind the headlamp. Seems localised to just the wing not the chassis leg.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[richardmorris]

Edit, the machine was supposed to be in focus, not the tree stump behind! Doh!

[Alfamale]

Alfa Male? (sic)

Not me. For the first time in almost 10 years I am currently Alfaless. I'm very envious of that line up though.

[wuvvum]

Removed the odd switch that remotely operated the starter motor as that was weird. No idea why that was done.

I don't know if this was the reason behind it or just happy coincidence, but when the car used to cut out at junctions when cold it was a lot easier to just flick that switch whilst giving it some gas than stop, put it in park, switch ignition off and on again, fire the engine up then try to find the right balance between stalling and revving the nads off it as I slotted it into drive.  Having said that, the cutting-out issue seemed to gradually sort itself out the more I drove the car.

[wuvvum]

Went out in the 306 earlier (the n/s/f tyre is a different size to the rest) came to a mini roundabout, accelerated away and the bastard started a bit of a slide that was hard to control. I've given it more than this before (and it's not exactly fast) and it's been ok, so unsure if because of the tyre or there was diesel on the road.

I got OMGLIFTOFFOVERSTEER in the Perodua on the way round a roundabout the other day - that's never happened before.  The roads do seem quite slippery at the moment.

 

 

 

 

The 17psi in the nearside rear tyre probably wasn't helping much, mind.