Show and Tell Episode 3 Part 3! : Show we want to go to!

[HoTWire]

I'm going to use one thread for Shoe and Tell Episode 3 (which has three parts!), to see if that is a better way to contain the content.

First part is Mechanical Difficulties for those of us that are not particularly mechanically minded.



Part 2 is about Simon's odd experience with Facebook and then we meander off in to naming cars (or not)



Part 3 we discuss our dream shows to go to (and what we'd recommend to people coming to the UK)



Which would you visit?

[johnthesparky]

With half a clue about what you are doing, it’s definitely about the tools I reckon…. We’ll it works for me most of the time

Found last weeks a little confusing, so hopefully in one thread will be easier for me too. Thanks

[stealthstylz]

The big 3 of mechanical work are Experience, Enthusiasm and Tools I reckon. Experience is probably the main one, and that's the one thats probably hardest to get, especially all the little time saving tricks for getting stuff done that are generally learnt from somebody else.

[HoTWire]

Nov 1, 2021 22:28:50 GMT stealthstylz said:

The big 3 of mechanical work are Experience, Enthusiasm and Tools I reckon. Experience is probably the main one, and that's the one thats probably hardest to get, especially all the little time saving tricks for getting stuff done that are generally learnt from somebody else.

Time saving tricks are definitely a useful thing. I think there is also a whole host of useful knowledge tucked in to an "overcoming adversity" headline. You know the thing, stuck bolts, difficult to reach things, snapped bolts etc. etc. Experience generally furnishes you with more resources to overcome those sort of things.

[vitesseefi]

Experience is indeed a big one….. unfortunately this tends to be the one you get just after you needed it, whereas it’s possible beg/borrow/make/buy tools in advance.

Of course, without the enthusiasm you might never get out of you chair in the first place.

Nick

[nickwheeler]

Nov 3, 2021 12:35:16 GMT HoTWire said:

Nov 1, 2021 22:28:50 GMT stealthstylz said:

The big 3 of mechanical work are Experience, Enthusiasm and Tools I reckon. Experience is probably the main one, and that's the one thats probably hardest to get, especially all the little time saving tricks for getting stuff done that are generally learnt from somebody else.

Time saving tricks are definitely a useful thing. I think there is also a whole host of useful knowledge tucked in to an "overcoming adversity" headline. You know the thing, stuck bolts, difficult to reach things, snapped bolts etc. etc. Experience generally furnishes you with more resources to overcome those sort of things.

Experience is also good for knowing when to work harder rather than smarter or the other way round; like realising that spending another hour to gain access to something isn't worth the couple of minutes you might save awkwardly folded into the door. Once the nut is rounded off it's time for the grinder, or to cut a brake pipe off  as soon as you can't undo the fitting because whatever you do you'll be making a new one. To do the whole job in one go, rather than repeatedly dismantle an assembly to replace each of the parts over the next six weeks - fit new bushes, bearings, springs and shocks all at the same time.

Sometimes the £100 you were quoted is worth every penny to prevent you grovelling about under the car all day in the rain with an extra trip to A&E to have the rust scraped out your eyeball.

Tools are another aspect, it's daft paying five times as much for a branded speciality tool that you're only going to use once. But a high quality set of 1/4" drive sockets will pay for themselves over and over.

[Mercdan68]

Just so happens I passed simons house yesterday
And had a neck snapping moment ….nice new motor 👍

[biturbo228]

Another big experience thing is just hand-eye co-ordination. It's something that I think us lot who have spent hundreds of hours tinkering with things completely take for granted. The learnt ability to tell your hands to do something and have them (even vaguely) do what they're told is something that a large proportion of other people just haven't developed (to the point that they think it's a talent, not a skill they can practice and get better at).

Getting a feel for resistance is another one. The knack of telling by feel whether a bolt is cross-threading, or if the threads are jamming up with rust and you need to clean it out, or how tight to do stuff up. Once you get that it saves you so much time in dead fasteners and frustration.

[rmad]

Nov 3, 2021 15:06:51 GMT Mercdan68 said:

Just so happens I passed simons house yesterday
And had a neck snapping moment ….nice new motor 👍

I assume you mean the new car tucked down by the garage rather than the 190E on the front? It's not that easy to spot down there....especially if my van is in front. Also, the green Lexus isn't mine either, that belongs to a neighbour.

[HoTWire]

Part three now added

[johnthesparky]

In the mid 90s, me and a mate flew to Boston collected a hire car (Ford Probe 2ltr auto) and then drove to Niagra, then through Canada to Vancouver. Dropped down to Seattle, then to Chicago dropped under the lakes, then back into Canada and went to Ottawa and Montreal. Then back to Boston.

Was a 3 1/2 week road trip, and we drove about 9500 miles…..

So I think driving to Sema is a good idea

[ajprice]

I love Simon's carchive, knowing where everything is, reaching back and pulling out stuff at will 😁

[Seth]

Topical, because its this weekend, but a probably unique experience we have in the UK is the London to Brighton run. You could make a whole day of it (or even weekend with the show that's put on on the Saturday on Regent Street) but even just getting up at silly o'clock and watching the start is a really special thing because I don't think there is a larger gathering of such vehicles at any one time, on the public road, anywhere else.

It was also too many years before I realised how special a place I had sort of on the doorstep with Brooklands. There's loads of things going on there in a normal year so there would likely be an event to aim for with cars of interest to your taste with the opportunity to take in the atmosphere of the place as well.

[stealthstylz]

I've definitely found myself struggling to enjoy the car show bit of car shows over the last couple of years,even at RR shows, which is why it's so good that there's other stuff going on (and curry goat). That been said I think my ideal choice of foreign trip would be to one of the US minitruck clubs cruise and BBQ type events, Nu Trendz or The Desirable Ones or similar

[stealthstylz]

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Would get on plane for this.

[HoTWire]

Nov 13, 2021 8:38:17 GMT stealthstylz said:

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Would get on plane for this.

I think a Whittier Blvd is a great destination. Not a "show", but always a show. A bit like going to Tokyo for Daikoku Futo.