A long time ago in a Galaxie far, far away (and other shit)

[captain_70s]

It's really digging this whole being stored indoors shit. Fucking diva.

[sdkrc]

Good news everyone, replacement radiator available from wish.com

[GingerNuttz]

It's over. 

https://images.app.goo.gl/5phBmrunb4rLQJgZ6

 

 

[eddyramrod]

Looks a treat!

[Andyrew]

Thats some cracking work you have done!

[GingerNuttz]

It's not perfect and I could have spent another 8 month on the body but it's presentable. 

It got stage fright again and didn't want to leave 😂 

Battery died and it wouldn't idle after running for an hour yesterday with no issues. 

[sdkrc]

[anonymous user]

I hope you left a bit of petrol for everyone else

[juular]

1 hour ago, sdkrc said:

Thing of beauty!

[captain_70s]

Total beast, nightmare to drive, not a single piece of intact rubber, world's quietest horn.

Very fucking cool.

[sdkrc]

Words cannot explain how fucking cool this car is, such a massive buzz driving it.  

✓ loud as shit

✓ much faster than you think

✓ handles like a cruise liner

✓ cruise liner dimensions

✓ eats potholes and speed bumps 

Massive shout out to @GingerNuttz for taking on a non-running car with significantly more rust than I knew about and then giving me back a car I could legally drive home in and which has no unintentional holes in it. Love the paint job too. Monstrous effort.

Also thanks to @captain_70s for support vehicle duties and picking up my hubcaps.

 

Here's me trying to identify the mystery fluid used by the Disco 2 to create this beautiful street art.

[JeeExEll]

Captn 70s pic.

WTF can you say after seeing that?

Fantastic.

[PhilA]

Looking great! You know you're driving a proper car when you have to put your card in the pump twice to fill the tank.

 

Horn should adjust, mine made that pathetic doot noise when I got it. From memory it should have a twin tone.

[juular]

9 hours ago, sdkrc said:

Words cannot explain how fucking cool this car is, such a massive buzz driving it.  

✓ loud as shit

✓ much faster than you think

✓ handles like a cruise liner

✓ cruise liner dimensions

✓ eats potholes and speed bumps 

Massive shout out to @GingerNuttz for taking on a non-running car with significantly more rust than I knew about and then giving me back a car I could legally drive home in and which has no unintentional holes in it. Love the paint job too. Monstrous effort.

Also thanks to @captain_70s for support vehicle duties and picking up my hubcaps.

 

Here's me trying to identify the mystery fluid used by the Disco 2 to create this beautiful street art.

Blub blub blub blub blub blub blub blub 🥰

Have you been through the clyde tunnel yet?

[sdkrc]

On 8/7/2021 at 9:10 AM, Jim Bell said:

Sir, I say sir. I do declare I owe you one fine new hat.  

I forgot to say, @Jim Bell is a world class follow-througher.

Here's 50% of my head (I'll let you guess which half) in the fine new hat he bought me last year.

[SiC]

10 hours ago, JeeExEll said:

WTF can you say after seeing that?

'70s Triumph panel alignment. Wrong out of the factory and huge work to correct that no one will notice anyway. 

[GingerNuttz]

7 minutes ago, SiC said:

'70s Triumph panel alignment. Wrong out of the factory and huge work to correct that no one will notice anyway. 

Soon as he can find suitable seals I said I'd line them up better. 

Theres no seals on the car at all as they had turned to dust. 

[sdkrc]

I'm working up the courage to get new door seals (£230?!) so we can rehang the doors.

All of the seals are fossilized and surprisingly pricey. In the meantime they're going to be slightly wonky.

I've found someone local who is willing to make seat covers in this but that'll be later in the year. 

 

 

List of shit to do:

• New dizzy cap 
• Re-core the original radiator
• Door seals
• Windscreen
• Seat covers

[Asimo]

Oooh, District Line moquette!

[dome]

Looking amazing! ATCNBE

Must be the hat...

For seals, it's worth looking here to see if you can get a universal one that'd do the job.

https://www.eastkenttrimsupplies.com/

https://www.carbuilder.com/uk/car-boot-and-door-seals

 

[big_al_granvia]

couldnt star radiators near castle greyskull in govan overhaul the rad

[PhilA]

2 hours ago, sdkrc said:

 

• Seat covers

With the burgundy, I would say absolutely. With the blue? No. Dark teal crushed velvet is your friend. Works with blue, works with brown. Match in with light blue carpet.

[SiC]

2 hours ago, dome said:

Looking amazing! ATCNBE

Must be the hat...

For seals, it's worth looking here to see if you can get a universal one that'd do the job.

https://www.eastkenttrimsupplies.com/

https://www.carbuilder.com/uk/car-boot-and-door-seals

 

Or Woolies

https://www.woolies-trim.co.uk/

[sdkrc]

4 hours ago, PhilA said:

With the burgundy, I would say absolutely. With the blue? No. Dark teal crushed velvet is your friend. Works with blue, works with brown. Match in with light blue carpet.

It's just seat covers and not a full blown retrim just yet. Dark teal crushed velvet may be a good shout though. I remain open to ideas.

There's a company who will recore the radiator opposite my flat so will try them first.

Just ran out of battery 5miles from home. No lights so couldn't drive home. I was ambitiously taking it out for another run on @captain_70s dolomite battery despite several warnings.

In other news, Galaxie officially bigger than an LS400.

 

Listen to these beans...and backfire

[GingerNuttz]

The alternator must not be charging, it drained that big battery with just a couple of starts too. 

[stuboy]

19 hours ago, JeeExEll said:

Captn 70s pic.

WTF can you say after seeing that?

Fantastic.

the above picture keeps reminding me of the below picture... yeah i know not the same.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

I must admit I wasn't convinced about losing the original ratty look in favour of an immaculate baby blue hue. However, it's clearly needed some major hole filling and I guess it was just simpler to repaint the whole lot rather than patch bits in? 

I love the black steel look - bin* those hubcaps and fit some straight through pipes for maximum anti-social antics 😉

[captain_70s]

3 hours ago, sdkrc said:

Just ran out of battery 5miles from home. No lights so couldn't drive home. I was ambitiously taking it out for another run on @captain_70s dolomite battery despite several warnings.

This is why I stole your keys. 😂

It was so close to not turning over yesterday, hence my ditching the test drive after about 800 yards.

[sdkrc]

Had to get a lift home with @davehedgehog31, get the battery out of the V90 and charge it, then head back to the station in the Disco. 

When I arrived there were a few lads on bikes taking photos.

slapped in the battery, attached the jump pack for extra cranking and let her warm up.

Had to use half a bottle of deicer on the windows, both inside and out. Visibility was a solid 1/10 afterwards, up from 0/10. This process took 15mins. 

Got a round of applause from teenage bike gang on the way out and drove with the window down in -1C weather. 

 

Returned after the darts to pick up the disco and the door handles had frozen shut. Belter.

All this brings me back to when my dad got his Nova Merit taken off him for driving with his head out of the window because his windscreen was frozen and heavily misted. Luckily he had all of the family in the car so didn't need to explain the whole thing later.

[captain_70s]

Imagine if your only functional car was a '66 Ford with no heater, a non functional alternator and fossilised wiper blades... That'd be crazy.