stereotype Posted June 23, 2020 Posted June 23, 2020 Sometimes you just need ice cream and to consider the smaller things, you know?
Jerzy Woking Posted June 27, 2020 Posted June 27, 2020 Some nice shite videos and good stories on his old cars too.
St.Jude Posted June 27, 2020 Posted June 27, 2020 On 6/17/2020 at 2:34 PM, Spurious said: I do like this channel. Leon seems like a decent chap. And it says a lot for Irish car drivers. Don't do nothing unless it fails the NCT. deathtrap isn't an exaggeration here ??? A gallon drum of Holy water can cure many an ill, especially dodgy brakes.
JeeExEll Posted June 29, 2020 Posted June 29, 2020 This is a bit of a mess but it's all there is after 47 years. About a minute of Consul 3000GT saloon car racing from 1973. Two versions, the first link is black & white with sound, second vid is same in colour but has no sound. http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/6da5a49fc58a4a9e862d444247e8e3fc sheffcortinacentre 1
sheffcortinacentre Posted June 29, 2020 Posted June 29, 2020 Wonder if there's any footage of the similar MK3 Cortina race?
JeeExEll Posted June 30, 2020 Posted June 30, 2020 I haven't found any vids of the Cortina 2000GT race (maybe more than one race), although there are various pics around of the LVX Cortinas. Reminds me of Grandstand or World Of Sport when I was a wee lad. There are some vids of the Avon Tour of Britain 73, 74, 75 on Youtube, vid quality not always good but some great stuff there if you like that sort of thing. Australian F1 driver Vern Shuppan drove a Consul GT on plain steelies in 1973. Borsuq 1
Borsuq Posted June 30, 2020 Posted June 30, 2020 A Canadian friend of mine recorded this tour of a scrapyard in Nova Scotia. Definitely some mildly interesting shite to be found there. Remspoor 1
Fumbler Posted June 30, 2020 Posted June 30, 2020 Now this is cool! sheffcortinacentre and inconsistant 2
sheffcortinacentre Posted June 30, 2020 Posted June 30, 2020 Yep got those tour of Britain on VHS from the 90's ,one of those GT's became the first MK3 savage (been reshelled twice but still original like triggers broom).
Remspoor Posted July 1, 2020 Posted July 1, 2020 23 hours ago, Fumbler said: Now this is cool! That guy does not wear any goggles when welding. ? I do like the way he cuts the metal after tack welding. But there is a minor problem with that method. If you have a double skin. Welding up the second skin can not be done the same way or you will end with a load of metal rattling around the body.
Fumbler Posted July 1, 2020 Posted July 1, 2020 41 minutes ago, Remspoor said: That guy does not wear any goggles when welding. ? I do like the way he cuts the metal after tack welding. But there is a minor problem with that method. If you have a double skin. Welding up the second skin can not be done the same way or you will end with a load of metal rattling around the body. It was a double skinned pickup body and he did pull out a giant square after he did all the cutting and welding. My idea of "double skin" might be wrong though. In other videos and in timelapses he uses welding goggles, but I too found it a bit erking to see no protection from the light and UV radiation in this one...
Remspoor Posted July 2, 2020 Posted July 2, 2020 On 7/1/2020 at 10:42 PM, Fumbler said: It was a double skinned pickup body and he did pull out a giant square after he did all the cutting and welding. My idea of "double skin" might be wrong though. In other videos and in timelapses he uses welding goggles, but I too found it a bit erking to see no protection from the light and UV radiation in this one... He never did show how the inner bed side panel was welded. He had a lot of difficulty removing the spare metal from gap with the largish hole cut for this work.
Fumbler Posted July 2, 2020 Posted July 2, 2020 1 minute ago, Remspoor said: He never did show how the inner bed side panel was welded. He had a lot of difficulty removing the spare metal from gap with the largish hole cut for this work. Indeed he didn't, but I suppose it didn't tie in with the video he wanted to make. He even said he'd take a grinder to the piece of metal he cut out in the void, and then decided to persevere with just bending it and pulling it out. Less effort than getting the tools out to make the job easier.
bunglebus Posted July 3, 2020 Posted July 3, 2020 The loaction has been seen before, but it's a great one
cort16 Posted July 4, 2020 Posted July 4, 2020 I'm enjoying this channel of late, he has loads of British shite but he's in the states. He's got some really nice stuff but still seems to be compulsively buying fucked Land Rover Discovery's
Remspoor Posted July 4, 2020 Posted July 4, 2020 3 hours ago, cort16 said: I'm enjoying this channel of late, he has loads of British shite but he's in the states. He's got some really nice stuff but still seems to be compulsively buying fucked Land Rover Discovery's Yer but those red frog eyes ( to which I Posted a link to previously) is really something.
LightBulbFun Posted July 8, 2020 Posted July 8, 2020 I thought this was pretty cool to see a short video on the production of those reproduction Peel P50's you can get today I also used to watch a load of these how its made videos as a kid, so its neat to see they still make em! sadly all these how its made videos are like 5 minutes long, do wish this one was longer! its particularly interesting to see how the fibreglass body shell together, I never realised the gelcoat was literally brushed onto the inside of the mould like that! (but I guess it really does not matter how the gelcoat is applied since what you see on the completed car is the side that was up against the mould and obviously takes the exact shape of said mould so you dont have to worry about "paint" runs and things like you do when your just painting a car!)
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