A poor collection thread

[drewd]

I think this may be my first collection thread and I'll warn you now it's not exciting. 

First leg was via Stagecoach gold to Preston. No pics of the bus as it was freezing 

 

[drewd]

Then a train from Preston

[drewd]

Signal on the train is patchy. PC 1

[DaveDorson]

I totally forgot you were doing this today!

[Jim Bell]

Safe journey dude. Hope it's something terrible .

[Twiggy]

Good luck - hope it all goes well ! When do we get to know (a) your final destination and (b) what sort of luxury conveyance you are about to collect ?

[DaveDorson]

1 minute ago, Jim Bell said:

Safe journey dude. Hope it's something terrible .

I'm at a bit of an advantage in that I already know what he's getting.  I actually think it's alright, but then my standards are properly in the gutter.

[drewd]

17 minutes ago, Jim Bell said:

Safe journey dude. Hope it's something terrible .

Thanks. It's actually quite nice by my standards, but I've been avoiding taking this one on for about 2 years!

[drewd]

15 minutes ago, Twiggy said:

Good luck - hope it all goes well ! When do we get to know (a) your final destination and (b) what sort of luxury conveyance you are about to collect ?

I've another train to catch, I'll reveal the destination around lunch time. Same for the reveal of the car.

I'm not driving back to Preston till Sunday as I've got some family stuff to do in Hertfordshire this weekend. The new steed has been parked up for 2 years baring it's MOT in October. So I'm doing the sensible thing and driving it further south to test it's reliability.

[grogee]

Not certain here but the timeline suggests the poo may have happened in a train... If so, commiserations.

I think it's a 1982 FSO Polonez.

[MJK 24]

If it hasn’t got four recent Cross Climates, you’re not gonna make it home.

But good luck anyway!

[DaveDorson]

4 minutes ago, MJK 24 said:

If it hasn’t got four recent Cross Climates, you’re not gonna make it home.

But good luck anyway!

He can stop over at mine on the way back if he has to.

[drewd]

Now at Birmingham New Street. 

My train somehow lost time, so I've now missed my connection and have an hour wait...

[drewd]

46 minutes ago, MJK 24 said:

If it hasn’t got four recent Cross Climates, you’re not gonna make it home.

But good luck anyway!

It has 4 recent tyres, but they're summer tyres. 

[DaveDorson]

Just now, drewd said:

It has 4 recent tyres, but they're summer tyres. 

Chinese death rings too.

[sutty2006]

Chodspeed. May the tyres be round, and may the tank have enough fuel to get you home. 
 

 

 

asking too much again. Sorry. 

[New POD]

46 minutes ago, drewd said:

Now at Birmingham New Street. 

My train somehow lost time, so I've now missed my connection and have an hour wait...

Currently about 2 miles from there having my lunch.  I hope you had time to do some shopping at John Lewis. 

[drewd]

Now on my last train. Just about to leave Birmingham New Street 

[Pieman]

If you're on Platform 8, that's usually the Cross-City line trains to Lichfield - are you heading to my neck of the woods?

[drewd]

22 minutes ago, Pieman said:

If you're on Platform 8, that's usually the Cross-City line trains to Lichfield - are you heading to my neck of the woods?

Platform 9a. The train terminates at Stansted airport, but I'm not travelling that far.

[DirtyDaily]

Intrigued.

[drewd]

Now a walk to the prize

[drewd]

Sadly it's not this

 

[drewd]

Ta da

 

 

[sutty2006]

Frozen panzerkampfwagon. Sehr gut! 

[drewd]

So the story with this is that my Dad bought it with the intention of passing it on to me. At the time I was saving for a house and had other commitments so didn't want to take this on.

My Dad is now wanting to reduce his fleet and clear some space so he can sort his gardens etc. So I'm taking it on.

I'm planning on checking it over etc today, using it to pop down to Herts tomorrow for some family stuff then head home in it on Sunday. All pretty boring as per the thread title, but the current road conditions may make it entertaining. My plan may change as the weekend goes on.

[DirtyDaily]

Belting engine in them. V nice.

[DaveDorson]

It's the 5 pot dirty denzil.  

 

By the way, that LWB Frontera will be for sale soon, hopefully with a ticket, if it's not too shagged after sitting forever while my Dad got the brakes done..

Details to follow.

[DaveDorson]

35 minutes ago, drewd said:

Sadly it's not this

 

Tim's place looks better when he's got the Cortina in the window.

[Twiggy]

Excellent ! Glad it all went well.