collection mission to SPAIN!!!! COMPLETED IT M8

[camryv6]

Hairy ?

[High Jetter]

Oh ok....It's a dog, comparing the Simca to his testicles. Another term for canine testicles is.....?

(PS there's a clue in the name of the dog's owner)

[camryv6]

The dog thought the Simca is the bogs bollocks  ?

[loserone]

Oh god that took way too long

[jim89]

13 minutes ago, loserone said:

Oh god that took way too long

Some fall on stony ground 🤷🏼‍♂️

[dollywobbler]

Time to drive back to France?

[jim89]

10 minutes ago, dollywobbler said:

Time to drive back to France?

Just down (36 miles) from le Havre 👍🏻

[Mr_Bo11ox]

NOT TODAY THANK YOU

[tooSavvy]

Oil change shenanigans interrupted 'bodyshop' activities... 😕

Normal service resumes L8R ✔️♥️

🚙💨

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Sent off my docs to DVLA this morning so fingers crossed for a speedy turnaround. Also been on garden centre duty:

[jim89]

2 hours ago, Mr_Bo11ox said:

Sent off my docs to DVLA this morning so fingers crossed for a speedy turnaround. Also been on garden centre duty:

That's the Flash speedmop dog AICMFP !

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Often, 'being me' feels like I'm trapped playing some sort of bit part character in an incredibly tedious soap opera where all the storylines whizz past every week and fuck all happens to my character except he feels older and more knackered every episode. But I just had a look down my drive on this sunny evening and briefly felt like a winner.

[sdkrc]

I'm enjoying the POO SEQUEL numberplate more than I should. Hopefully the DVLA will give you something fecal adjacent to replace it

[2flags]

On 15/05/2024 at 13:34, horriblemercedes said:

I've had some dirty thoughts about bringing a diesel Ital back from Portugal

 

Probably none left anyway though

Just how long would that take??? If it's the B series diesel, well, they were great at powering canal boats!

[hairnet]

On 17/05/2024 at 19:08, High Jetter said:

"It's like my testicles..."

Complete or the dogs

[High Jetter]

53 minutes ago, hairnet said:

Complete or the dogs

I quoted the dog. Not the bog, they can't speak.

[Noel Tidybeard]

On 12/05/2024 at 19:14, Mr_Bo11ox said:

those rubber buffers look designed for the job!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

If anyone wants to attempt to be as cool as I am, heres your chance

https://www.leboncoin.fr/ad/voitures/2704640506

2000€

[tooSavvy]

4 minutes ago, Mr_Bo11ox said:

If anyone wants to attempt to be as cool as I am, heres your chance

https://www.leboncoin.fr/ad/voitures/2704640506

2000€

Yupp..... That can go, with mine, in the 'mismatched panel' thread 😕

✔️👍

🚙💨

[N Dentressangle]

19 minutes ago, Mr_Bo11ox said:

If anyone wants to attempt to be as cool as I am, heres your chance

https://www.leboncoin.fr/ad/voitures/2704640506

2000€

Cooler, I'd say. Check out the foglights:

[lesapandre]

Seems to have had a grille change. Probably they thought it looked cooler.

BMC and Simca were in the same place in the 60's - well designed big selling 4-door popular family cars - and both replaced them with cars that in hindsight were not as good - ADO16 to Allegro and 1100 to Horizon.

[hairnet]

25 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

not as good - ADO16 to Allegro and 1100 to Horizon.

100% vraiment

[MarinaJosh]

On 15/05/2024 at 13:41, LightBulbFun said:

im really quite surprised no ones done this already, or brought one back from Malta, or whatever it is they exist also, I mean a Diesel Morris Marina/Ital surely has to be one of thee most Autoshite vehicles out there? has anyone imported  and registered one in the UK at all, as in are any known in the UK, guess thats a question for @MarinaJosh  

 

Now values have risen enough to make it worthwhile a few have made it over here, including a few commercials. Some have been registered properly, some have just had a UK car ID put on. A few have retained their diesel engines, others have been converted to A or B series petrol engines.

On the other hand, I have some Marina friends in Malta who have imported several UK Marinas over the past few years including a couple of TCs and a Jubilee special edition.

[bezzabsa]

On 18/05/2024 at 20:04, Mr_Bo11ox said:

Often, 'being me' feels like I'm trapped playing some sort of bit part character in an incredibly tedious soap opera where all the storylines whizz past every week and fuck all happens to my character except he feels older and more knackered every episode. But I just had a look down my drive on this sunny evening and briefly felt like a winner.

Ooooh whats the green thing??

[hairnet]

54 minutes ago, bezzabsa said:

Ooooh whats the green thing??

specialty item

[cobblers]

1 hour ago, bezzabsa said:

Ooooh whats the green thing??

it's a wheelie bin

[Sham]

1 hour ago, bezzabsa said:

Ooooh whats the green thing??

A hedge

[colino]

I find it extraordinary that this thing exists at all.  Shows the difference between a kind climate and Scotland.  As a precocious, wannabe car dealer aged 16, my second car was one of these.  It was an N reg (1975) and it failed its mot in 1979 due to corrosion and also had a rattly engine.  A bargain to me at £25.  That's right, a throwaway at 4 years old.  Fortunately new piston rings and shells, araldited on sills and a colour change thanks to Parsons repaint made it fit for its new buyer.

[Dave_Q]

Not the exact same area but similar part of the world, we went on holiday to Portugal, the Algarve.

The jeep tour bloke told us they normally get a total of 2 weeks rain a year there. I imagine parts of Spain are very similar.

[wuvvum]

On 14/05/2024 at 00:07, Mr_Bo11ox said:

Re. French language. Any shiters know this YT channel??

https://youtube.com/@smellslikegasoline?si=q142Mv3fyM6VDTK6

if not, let me tell you now: it's friggin fantastic. It's basically this French lad repairing cars in his garden. He's honestly king of the shiters. He's completely fearless. Merc CL500 with a busted auto box? He just buys a gearbox on a pallet from Lithuania and fits it. Audi 200 turbo with rusty screen pilllars and almost no electrical functions working at all? Out comes the multimeter and cheese wire. Alfa 33 with worn out engine? He'll spend ages rebuilding the engine only to find it runs and sounds like absolute shite, forcing him to buy a spares car and nick its engine. Respraying the side of an MGF outdoors in freezing conditions? He's your man.

The best thing I've seen him do is get a very ordinary Peugeot 605 2.0 8v that's been sat in a field for 3 years, and gradually fix it right up, to the extent of driving it to Tunisia for a full respray!!!! When it's all done he takes it to a track day where it amazes him with its handling, and you also see that this guy can seriously DRIVE.

There's nothing he won't have a go at, and he's not afraid to show you when it goes pear shaped. He buys cheap tools off eBay and shows you how he gets on with them. He's super modest and his videos are quiet, thoughtful and very well made. No shouting, silly faces or 'OMG U WONT BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT' bollocks. He has something like 300k subscribers but he doesn't have any sponsors except one company that supply him with engine oil and brake fluid. 

Anyway I highly recommend watching his channel,  obvs its all in French but the automatic YT subtitles are really excellent nowadays so just bosh them on. I think once you've chewed through all his content you'll be fluent speaker too, so tell your lass you're having a language lesson and not just watching any old 'shite car fix-up vids'. Get it in your eyeballs!!!!!

Just coming back on this thread to say thanks for the recommendation - I've been working my way through this dude's videos and they're fantastic, not just his skills and the amount of time and effort he spends on hopeless old chod but I really like his presenting style and sense of humour as well.  Definitely a new favourite channel.