F1 drivers Rover 620i / racing at 24h of lemons

[motorpunk]

Car with cage builder. Needs a week or so. Dash out. Sunroof hole getting riveted plate over it. Longer wheels studs coming. All good!

[motorpunk]

Bender 

[motorpunk]

We are aiming to picket the organisers office, BL strike style, to support the general Rover theme. They don’t know it yet. I’m after any militant union materials I can get my hands on to support the idea. Surprisingly slim pickings in eBay. I’d love a large banner with TGWU or communist party slogans on it. Braziers and stuff I can knock up over there. Any tips anyone?

ps - have been told we may get shot (properly shot) if we do this outside the circuit anywhere. We’ll be in the pit lane causing Red Robbo style chaos.
 

[Matty]

14 hours ago, motorpunk said:

Bender 

Take that back at once!

 

Ah, I see, you mean the tooling.

[St.Jude]

2 hours ago, motorpunk said:

We are aiming to picket the organisers office, BL strike style, to support the general Rover theme. They don’t know it yet. I’m after any militant union materials I can get my hands on to support the idea. Surprisingly slim pickings in eBay. I’d love a large banner with TGWU or communist party slogans on it. Braziers and stuff I can knock up over there. Any tips anyone?

ps - have been told we may get shot (properly shot) if we do this outside the circuit anywhere. We’ll be in the pit lane causing Red Robbo style chaos.
 

You'll get the car there to the track and to mask the fact it doesn't work you're just going to all go on Strike?

[motorpunk]

1 hour ago, St.Jude said:

You'll get the car there to the track and to mask the fact it doesn't work you're just going to all go on Strike?

Exactly that. Megaphone, Brummie accents, Maggie Thatcher milk snatcher chants, the lot. Need props!

[Pieman]

23 minutes ago, motorpunk said:

Exactly that. Megaphone, Brummie accents, Maggie Thatcher milk snatcher chants, the lot. Need props!

If you wanted an authentic West Midlands accent you should have taken me with you!

[St.Jude]

24 minutes ago, motorpunk said:

Exactly that. Megaphone, Brummie accents, Maggie Thatcher milk snatcher chants, the lot. Need props!

They all seem fairly homemade. So probably why eBay is coming up short.

Wouldn't be beyond anyone here with a bit of cardboard from Aldi and poster paint to make one of these. I might even scrape off some of the rust and shit from my own Rover and mix it in to the paint for authenticity.

[Surface Rust]

Stencilled donkey jackets required as well.

 

[motorpunk]

2 hours ago, Pieman said:

If you wanted an authentic West Midlands accent you should have taken me with you!

You’re all invited! If you’re not striking already.

[Urko]

I'm going to forgo the opportunity to pretend to be a communist in a country where they are feared and hated

[chaseracer]

32 minutes ago, Urko said:

I'm going to forgo the opportunity to pretend to be a communist in a country where they are feared and hated

I survived... 😁

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, chaseracer said:

I survived... 😁

Alright, Gloria... 😀

[motorpunk]

Look at my hoop!

[St.Jude]

12 hours ago, Urko said:

I'm going to forgo the opportunity to pretend to be a communist in a country where they are feared and hated

Faint heart never won fair means of production comrade

[motorpunk]

5 minutes ago, St.Jude said:

Faint heart never won fair means of production comrade

Thanks comrade. I shall hold endless meetings on that theme and, together, we shall smash our capitalist overseers. After tea break. Perhaps. A bit.

[somewhatfoolish]

Do you have a glowing brazier? I bet Walmart or Harbour Fright will sell you one, scabs that they are.

Here we go, finest mexican glowing brazier.

[motorpunk]

6 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Do you have a glowing brazier? I bet Walmart or Harbour Fright will sell you one, scabs that they are.

Here we go, finest mexican glowing brazier.

Thanks. That’s expensive. Might just use a wheelie bin and some petrol.

[somewhatfoolish]

It is a bit salty; Walmart's extensive range of galvanized trash cans turns up the same thing* for a third of the price.

[motorpunk]

On 06/02/2024 at 23:19, loserone said:

What a brilliant thing!  Do you offer sponsorship?

Yes. Send monies. I will do literally anything to help fund this stupidity 

[motorpunk]

Cage almost ready. Electrical safety shit plugged in. New dash panel created from a cake tin courtesy of a team member who works for a cake tin manufacturer. Sunroof plated over with other cake tins. Cake tins are excellent for repair panels for racing Rovers.

Plus…. There’s a button labelled Slim Jams which, when pressed, plays a Bluetooth stereo system of pre-set Jazz funk tunes where our hero played the drums. This is important.

And - there’s a spare mechanics spot if anyone else is as stupid as us. 

[Dyslexic Viking]

10 minutes ago, motorpunk said:

I will do literally anything to help fund this stupidity 

Too bad I'm broke, because I'd pay well if you'd dressed like below for a month. 

[motorpunk]

8 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Too bad I'm broke, because I'd pay well if you'd dressed like below for a month. 

Name your price. 

[Dyslexic Viking]

4 minutes ago, motorpunk said:

Name your price. 

I think it's better if you give us a price so people here can join together if needed, crowdfund?

[High Jetter]

Roffle? 🤣

[loserone]

7 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Roffle? 🤣

Winner gets a co-op cake?

[High Jetter]

21 minutes ago, loserone said:

Winner gets a co-op cake?

They do a really good choccy one!

[motorpunk]

And the cage is finished. So shiny! So nice! So expensive! (Actually we got a good deal on the cage although it cost 6 X what we paid for the car itself).

 

[EyesWeldedShut]

8 minutes ago, motorpunk said:

cost 6 X what we paid for the car itself

US $75.20? Wowsers
(That's the sort of welding that (1) I would love to be able to do (2) failing that, just sit and stroke it. Does that make me weird?)

[Westbay]

19 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

US $75.20? Wowsers
(That's the sort of welding that (1) I would love to be able to do (2) failing that, just sit and stroke it. Does that make me weird?)

No, but definitely someone to keep an eye on ... 🤣