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On 05/09/2024 at 19:19, grogee said:

 ...Looking at this I'm taken straight back to working in a garage as a teenager and servicing loads of Mum Metros. I can clearly remember hooking one up to the COMPUTERIZED ignition tune thing... Big blue thing with an oscilloscope. 

Something like this?

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Really do need to finish dragging this back into the land of the living at some point.

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9 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Something like this?

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Really do need to finish dragging this back into the land of the living at some point.

Yes much like that but older, it sat on a cabinet with castors. Pretty sure it didn't have a text readout, only an oscilloscope screen and a load of knobs and buttons. 

Good luck with the resurrection. Will it be something you actually use in anger? 

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On 10/09/2024 at 07:45, grogee said:

Yes much like that but older, it sat on a cabinet with castors. Pretty sure it didn't have a text readout, only an oscilloscope screen and a load of knobs and buttons. 

Good luck with the resurrection. Will it be something you actually use in anger? 

It should be a genuinely useful tool given the amount of data it can show you.  Especially if I can get the gas analyser properly working as well.

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There are some other deeper tests which it can do, but I'm not going to drag this thread any further off topic with it!

I'm still quite surprised by how sophisticated the computer side of things is, with a National INS8900D running the show rather than something more mundane like a Z80 or Intel 8080 which I'd have expected by 1984.

Thankfully that side of things seems to be fine, it's just going to be getting the various analogue systems reliably back into the land of the living.

Actually moving it back into the garage is going to be a "fun" task given that the thing weighs about as much as a small moon.

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On 09/09/2024 at 22:43, Minimad5 said:

Never really given a Metro much thought, but damn your example looks like a good'un.
What sort of pennies do these fetch ?

In Ireland, I have no idea. I genuinely can’t remember the last time I saw an Irish registered Metro for sale at all. When I get this one registered, taxed and tested etc I think it might be worth about €2-2.5k to someone looking for a quirky runaround/modern classic. But I might be proven wrong!

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Another sporadic update, which can only mean one thing - something else has arrived at the inn..

 I was mindlessly scrolling the classifieds and came across an ad, 12 hours old, for this. The photos weren’t great and the ad lacked detail, but something was telling me it merited more investigation. I gave the seller a call, not expecting much, but within 20 minutes I was on my way to see it and not much longer after that I was taking post-purchase pez shots:

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Long term owner, 2.0 3sge (Carina GTI) manual, 64k miles, everything works and it’s in mint condition, and I don’t use the term lightly! 

A bit of an ugly duckling, and not much use in Ireland in November, but it was just too nice to turn down!

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  • The Vicar changed the title to Shite at the Vicarage: A convertible in November? Yes!

Roof down, heaters on full blast on your feet, coat and hat. 

It’s how I do topless motoring in the Welsh Winter!

Looks a cracking little thing that. I like it a lot! 

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