We're off to see the Skizzer, PT 2.

[320touring]

Today is the 10th anniversary of the Burd and I's first date. She appears to be a keeper!

 

We're currently in the £150 Audi, boot loaded thusly:

 

 

We're off on a quasi "Anniversary trip/kullekshun mission". This will be a slow burner - don't expect instant payoff, but hopefully it'll ultimately be worthwhile..

 

Next stop Tebay..

[HMC]

Chod speed!

 

(Views skizzer’s signature to consider what may be heading north...)

[Tickman]

I cannot see the 'collection coat hanger' hope it is just hidden!

[davehedgehog31]

Chodspeed geezer. 

 

Glad to see old faithful toolbox still doing good service. It put a crease in the nearside wing of my MX5 when I achieved opposite lock on the roundabout near Dunblane forgetting it was in the boot. 

[Guest Hooli]

Chods away & chod speed old chap.

[Jim Bell]

That's some kit! I guess the collection car is expected to be higher maintenance than the missus!

[Tickman]

That's some kit! I guess the collection car is expected to be higher maintenance than the missus!

 

That is 320's if I have it I won't need it kit.

 

Worked well for the Oxford

[320touring]

That's some kit! I guess the collection car is expected to be higher maintenance than the missus!

Oi! She resembles that remark..

 

Anyway, weather decent and first stop has been achieved

 

#tradition/oldcharteretc

 

[dome]

Whatever happened to Skizzers Ranchero? There would be much win in that.

[davehedgehog31]

Oi! She resembles that remark..

 

Anyway, weather decent and first stop has been achieved

 

#tradition/oldcharteretc

 

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That's some amount o' beans man. 

 

Looks magic, only criticism would be distance between the hash brown and beans, should have used the sausage as a breakwater.

[eddyramrod]

Whatever happened to Skizzers Ranchero? There would be much win in that.

Surely you mean Rancho?  Or have I somehow slept through him buying an American Ford pickup?

[Parky]

Is that a Gunson easibleed i see? Anticipating bleeding the brakes at the roadside, now that’s being prepared!

 

“This ones for helping old people across the road, this ones for raising money for charity, that one there is for changing a Fiesta Zetec cambelt in the rain, and this ones for hammering smaller sockets over larger items”

 

Maybe we should have Autoshite badges? This ones for evading ISIS in order to buy a Renault 20 in Paris, one for removing 20p from a handbrake, that sort of thing?

[eddyramrod]

This one's for dailying a V8 on Minimum Wage...

This one's for giving over a whole room in your house to models...

This one's for decorating your yard wall with number plates from your old cars...

[dome]

Surely you mean Rancho? Or have I somehow slept through him buying an American Ford pickup?

Sorry, Freudian slip/autocorrect. If 320 comes back with a Ranchero I'll be licking it. After that it becomes mine.

[vulgalour]

This one's for changing a head gasket on a K series rather than putting K-Seal in it

This one's for going all the way to Romania for a car nobody wants even there

This one's for going all the way to Finland for a car everybody wants but nobody knows what it is

This one's for honouring an eBay bid you made while drunk for a badly described car with only one blurry photograph

This one's for driving that car home afterwards while hungover and fuelled only by a soggy train station sandwich

This one is for entering and losing 7 raffles in a row

[Parky]

This ones for buying all the vegetable oil in Costco

 

This ones for rescuing something nobody has ever heard of and fixing it to concours standard in an afternoon (aka Bollox Badge)

 

This ones not for anything in particular, it says “Vauxhall” and above it I have written “all” and underneath it I have scrawled “r shit” in biro. Because....

 

This one is for posting pictures of breakfast consisting of 20 Silk Cut, a lighter, and a coffee

[HMC]

My gut feeling is it’s going to be French more likely than Italian or British; going off Skizzer’s fleet and 320touring’s je ne sais quoi.

[meshking]

This one is for wearing white moccasins for photos.

[davehedgehog31]

This ones for topping up the coolant on a MGF with HGF using sparkling raspberry flavoured water because it's all you have to hand.

This ones for navigating your way to Shitefest following a trail of LHM. 

This ones for tying up an exhaust with the laces out your boots. 

This ones for jimmying up a drivers window with half a clothes peg.

[andy18s]

 

This one's for honouring an eBay bid you made while drunk for a badly described car with only one blurry photograph

 

Got this 1 whilst playing drunken EBay chicken with friends....

She only mk3 Golf Gti in various shades of red,sunroof that only half shut( or open depending on your pov) and an immobiliser with a mind if it's own

[Parky]

Didn’t Skiz have a Dedra at one point? Or am I imagining that?

[Parky]

Here’s some

 

TOP LEFT to RIGHT

 

Take several photos of a car, not one managing to include the whole car. Awarded with Knights Cross if interior shot consists of standing by the drivers window taking a grainy shot of yourself holding a camera vaguely towards a car

 

Tie an exhaust back on. Awarded with Oak Leaves if hairy string found by the roadside is used

 

The “Dropped the heavy thing on my bloody foot” badge. Awarded with MBE if Talbot based

 

BOTTOM LEFT TO RIGHT

 

Awarded for timely updates on collection missions or friendly chats with the RAC. Awarded with DSO if your phone actually looks a bit like a bat

 

The Microscope and Scissors award. Given for diagnosing and then fixing a head gasket failure by the road using just these two pieces of kit. Awarded with Knighthood if a KV6 was involved

 

The “why the fuck do I bother with cars” badge. Awarded to all with bonus Fray Bentos pie tin lid if bike concerned has been retrieved from a skip in front of the bloke with the skip and in view of your wife, kids, and half the neighbours.

[320touring]

Our overnight halt has been reached! Still almost 4hrs from Skizzerland..

 

We landed about 2.30pm and went for a wander.. can anyone guess where we ur?

 

 

 

We also went material shopping, though I was not allowed to buy fabric for recovering the GSA's interior.

 

 

Additionally, no-one has been correct on the tool guesses:)

[Supernaut]

Durham?

 

Wait, no, that's not Durham cathedral.

 

Also, I'd hope you'd got much further south than that in the time you were travelling.

[Cavcraft]

Lincoln? Though God know how/why that's half way to Martin's.

[320touring]

Lincoln? Though God know how/why that's half way to Martin's.

Lol

 

[vulgalour]

This is the one for visiting France with Junkman.

 

EDIT: Lincolnshire always reminds me of Junkman, you see, which in turn always reminds me that France is closed when he goes there.

[hairnet]

This one is for wearing white moccasins for photos.

no neil then - no wai hipster

[Skizzer]

Didn’t Skiz have a Dedra at one point? Or am I imagining that?

I already swapped the Dedra for a cheese and ham toastie. It’s still in the AS family though - new owner Dermist has nearly finished restoring it now.

[Split_Pin]

I was going to suggest Chester but Billy would have got it straight away if it was.