The Chat Thread - Loosey Goosey - WC 26/02/24

[HoTWire]

Hey Folks!

Another week, another weekly chat, your place for stuff that may not warrant a full thread or stuff that is just going on right now that you want to share.


This weeks little subtitle refers to how this forum still feels a bit from a layout point of view. I've been working on my day job's website, taking over some redesign work whilst our actual professional designer chap is doing another project. The whole site feels so solid, on desktop and on mobile. I'm inspired and a little ashamed by it. I need to get this place to that place. Vexingly time is short right now (isn't it always), but I'm hoping to find some time to concentrate on individual elements here to make it all a bit tighter and a bit less loosey goosey.


I've also got to finish an article about Grand National Roadster Show for our friend Jarmo at Diskutom Magazine, which I've thrown out and restarted twice because I'm just not doing it justice... then I'll make a thread about it here, but obviously from a different angle.


Also two websites to build for shows, Club RR stuff for 2024 to get all packed up and ready.

Really this is just my things to do list haha ... I'm also going to try and motivate myself to wash the 996 at some point this week as it is quite caked in mud. I've bought tickets for Volksworld show in a couple of weeks too, so second proper show of the year. Haynes Breakfast Club this Sunday too, likely to make my usual slightly flying visit.


What you up to?


Previous Thread : forum.retro-rides.org/thread/226566/chat-thread-back-business-wc

[droopsnoot]

Did you mean to name the thread for last week, rather than this?

[redratbike]

yep volksworld tickets are being bought on payday £25 instead of £32.50 is a no brainer as i have to buy 3 of them!

will be taking a trip out the end of the week to hopefully pick up a pair of leather seats, set of alloy wheels both for the herald and 914 bonnet for some man cave art .

and possibly place and order for some uprated springs and a rear lowering block as i need to start work on the herald as haven’t touched it in 3 months!!!

[HoTWire]

Feb 26, 2024 17:32:23 GMT droopsnoot said:

Did you mean to name the thread for last week, rather than this?

No idea what you are talking about *cough*




(it is possible I copy and paste the previous threads title so I can the format the same each week )

[akku]

This week....

I'm astounded how much trolling a mate is getting for trying to sell a car. He's a driveway dealer but hes a decent sort. His is that Mercury "Bluesmobile" I'm sure many of you have seen up for sale, and I don't recall any car he's had causing him to be on the recieving end of so much BS and outright bullying, including people taking his pics from his Facebook and ridiculing them on a selling page. Crazy world.

I managed to break the driver's seat in the Minor, and it was a weird break, needed sleeving, a chap I know sorted that for me, made a nice job of it, so I need to fit that back in the car. Picked up a set of tyres for the Wolseley

Won a bunch of stuff in a real live actual auction down south which I need to arrange to get back up to me.

Stacked out with cars but still there are loads of far too interesting cars coming up at far too reasonable prices. I seem to be a magnet for elderly Daimlers...

Had to do emergency repairs to the garage roof as it is leaking, now it has a blue tarp nailed to it and we appear to be living in a refugee camp. My neighbours do love me, I am sure.

I went to a sprint day at Blyton Park, that was kinda fun, just to spectate. The Rover is overheating again so obviously the rad flush I did on it was not sufficient, it seemed to fix it for a short while, but now its doing it again. Nuts.

[adam73bgt]

Feb 26, 2024 21:39:55 GMT akku said:

This week....

I'm astounded how much trolling a mate is getting for trying to sell a car. He's a driveway dealer but hes a decent sort. His is that Mercury "Bluesmobile" I'm sure many of you have seen up for sale, and I don't recall any car he's had causing him to be on the recieving end of so much BS and outright bullying, including people taking his pics from his Facebook and ridiculing them on a selling page. Crazy world.

I spent a bit of time musing over that Mercury ad, blues brothers isn't really my thing but it seemed reasonably priced for a big American barge as far as I could tell...



I've started my week by collecting some wheels for the Almera, had a nice chat with the seller as he had a Saab OG9-3 Aero convertible on the drive. Been a good few years since I sold my 9-3 but getting chatting with like minded individuals is part of what I really like about parts collection adventures

Foolishly opened facebook marketplace when I got home and saw another temptingly cheap set of wheels sold a couple sets last year, so have got a bit of room in theory...

[ironmighty07]

This week I mostly be rewiring classic American cars... converting the Desoto from 6v to 12v(mainly due to parts for the 6v being Obsolete) and rewiring the Chevy simply because the current wiring ain't safe.




Yep... that's household 3 core cable😬

[vulgalour]

mmm spaghetti.

I'm now without a car Never fear, it's just being transported to the new house. Last time it was transported it got photographed quite a bit so we'll see if the same happens this time. Happily it behaved itself getting on the trailer and hopefully it behaves itself coming off at the other end because as far as I know the new housemate doesn't drive. I do trust the person doing the transporting so it's sad that he's not going to be doing transporting due to rising costs and falling demand. I move to the new place on Sunday, logistics are weird that way, and I'm both excited and very nervous about the whole thing.

[stealthstylz]

Had my first breakdown. Ran out of electricamals on the way home from work. Unfortunately neither the petrol station nor porno shop had a multimeter or jump pack, and there wasn't anywhere to connect my jump leads to the Pussy Obliterator 7000 so I had to wait for my brother to come to the rescue. 20 minutes charging on the jump leads and then drove home, and when I checked the alternator is charging fine so must be a dodgy connection or something. Gonna make some new wiring up at the weekend anyway as it's looking a bit tired. Passenger side indicator unit also ejected itself into the undergrowth somewhere so got that to sort too.

[braaap]

Feb 28, 2024 18:48:01 GMT stealthstylz said:

there wasn't anywhere to connect my jump leads to the Pussy Obliterator 7000

Funny You can write that term without having it replaced with a tiny cat picture, like the little fox pic to be found occasionally round here.

[misteralz]

I'm not long home after 24 hours in Glasgow for a silly motoring related thing. I might do a thread, actually.

[chandlergti]

I’m going to try to find a job, I thought I’d take some time off between but am now officially bored.

Also; I spent a ton of time going to page 401 of the readers rides page and working backwards. Wonder where all those folks and their awesome cars have gone.

[HoTWire]

Feb 29, 2024 17:23:40 GMT chandlergti said:

Also; I spent a ton of time going to page 401 of the readers rides page and working backwards. Wonder where all those folks and their awesome cars have gone.

This is the sort of thing that keeps me up at night, what happens to them, where are they now?

[akku]

Mar 1, 2024 18:16:14 GMT HoTWire said:

Feb 29, 2024 17:23:40 GMT chandlergti said:

Also; I spent a ton of time going to page 401 of the readers rides page and working backwards. Wonder where all those folks and their awesome cars have gone.

This is the sort of thing that keeps me up at night, what happens to them, where are they now?

A while while ago Street Machine went back through their archives to try find some of the cars which had been in the readers build page (I forget the name of that feature - Garage Scene or something) and the idea was to do a follow up on a few of the cars from previous years. I think they scrapped the idea as so many had been scrapped, sold on unfinished, or still sat "on the back burner"

The whole "Hot Rods and Customs Where Are They Now?" group on Facebook is a slightly sad trail of 50-60 years of cars which were cool as penguin parts but ended up being broken up or just disappearing.

Even former feature cars in classic and vintage circles disappear.

There is no permenant except the marker pens.