Star garages - The Good, the Rusty, and the Delayed - Fo(Serbian)D 1.1 - The temporary shelter

[IronStar]

The lease on the garage where non-runners are stored is expiring in 20 days, so a plan has been mustered to move them to Brother Star’s place to store them over the winter.

But, not so fast! I decided that despite not having time or money to throw out the window, 155 shouldn’t need much to get it recomissioned, and gives me something to do over the winter months. However, before anything can be done, LPG needs to be removed from the car and the paperwork.

So today was day 1 of shiffling the cars

Put the air back in the rear tyres and battery in. It started after sitting for ages with some* persuasion.  Took minimal* amount of cranking, and it didn’t run like shit or stall X times. First impressions are that has no brakes and there’s a burst fuel hose somewhere in the engine. Nevermind, asked LPG guys to take a glace if it’s something they can fix in the garage as they do an odd bit od mechanics on the side, and if not it will be shipped to my old car specialist.

In the position to be loaded onto a truck here.

And away it goes

The plan is to do bare minimum to get it through the tehnical inspection and plated so I don’t have to pay the tow for it to be moved around and go from there.

Today also saw me loading friend’s E24 on a tow truck and to his BMW specialist and brother Star’s Astra G on a tow tuck away to his mechanic.

3 down, 7 to go. Watch this space. 

[loserone]

Holy fuck, how did I miss this thread. 

 

What a fleet.

[wesacosa]

My old 155 V6 Sportpack is definitely one filed close to the top of the I wish I'd never sold it list 

 

[IronStar]

4 minutes ago, wesacosa said:

My old 155 V6 Sportpack is definitely one filed close to the top of the I wish I'd never sold it list 

 

Posh!

Mine is a lowly early 1.8 TS 8v

Ideally, I’d have it looking something akin to this

 

[High Jetter]

3 minutes ago, IronStar said:

Ideally, I’d have it looking something akin to this

That may be OK, until you hit a UK speedbump though! (Or one of the many thousands of potholes we have)

[IronStar]

3 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

That may be OK, until you hit a UK speedbump though! (Or one of the many thousands of potholes we have)

I was in a RAV4 when I was last in the UK, so I can’t remember the speedbumps. Ours took a page from anti-tank barriers, and potholes are taking the piss as well.

Doesn’t stop me from running lowered cars though - both 159 and 307CC are on Eibach Pro Kit. Anything lower than that is asking for your sump to be ripped open IMO. 

[IronStar]

Over the last few days there was a bunch of (really cold) lowloader action going on. Comfort factor was not helped by the fact that thermostat failed open on the truck doing the work, so no heating was available in the cabin. Anyway, we pushed on.

No photo of loading Bravo available, forgot to snap it, sorry. 
E21 wanted to fight us and was stuck in gear, but tugging it shook it enough to put it out of gear on the unloading and thankfully the tyres held air. I honestly expected worse condition of a car that was already rusty and was sitting in the dirt for ages, but other than front floor that was already missing anyway, it seems to be mostly there. That shell is probably beyond saving, so I’m hoping the other one that wasn’t moved isn’t.

Fo(Serbian)D 1.1 in all it’s glory*

I need to cover that Cabrio shell as well to make it less of an eyesore.
It’s great they are safe, less great I’ll have to move them again in April. Hopefully, I can find someone in the vicinity to do the welding to a good standard (and money to pay for it) so I have at least one car less to move to FoD 2.0. We’ll see.

Now going back home to Belgrade in a way that’s probably only slightly faster than walking, as Iveco TurboDaily did an Iveco and snapped its front right leaf spring