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Mar 11, 2024 13:09:27 GMT
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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. It is just me or does it feel like we're turning a corner in to proper car season? I know there are those hardcore folk who never stop, but with Ultimate Dubs happening the weekend just gone, and Ninove it feels like we're off the start line again. Maybe it was just because one of my local monthly meets restarted as well. Next weekend I'll be at Volksworld show on the Sunday, alongside rmad, VIP and Jason Laroza (who I know has an account, but I can never remember the name). Then a couple of weeks later it is Wheels Day (now moved to Newbury Showgrounds). I'm trying to do one show a month, and make sure I make threads on them (albeit probably a little late), I've got a Grand National Roadster Show thread actually in the works now, which was last months show for me. Club RR stuff is happening, I've got the stickers for this year and the mugs are "on their way" to me (for the GTi membership tier). I'm planning a couple of changes on here, I think I'm going to move the Ebay and Elsewhere stuff in to a monthly thread in here (Retro Car Chat), as looking back it feels like it worked a bit better that way. I've also got plans to resurrect some kind of local meet map/system, but that is in the very early "how do I use this API on Google Maps" stage at the moment. Other than that more progress on the Sunny will be happening this month courtesy of namless and I've started a thread for my Porsche 996 which has already made me do more on it in the last 24 hours than I have in the last three months. What you up to? How you feeling? Previous Thread : forum.retro-rides.org/thread/226620/chat-thread-loosey-goosey-wc
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Mar 11, 2024 16:29:37 GMT
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Ive got some stuff done...
The Humber is running better, but not right yet. What a pain. The Majestic you may recall was suffering electrical issues and some poor running, and that seems to have been largely about the distributor being in need of a good internal clean and lube up.
I'm still collecting parts for projects, and realising I have too many cars at the same time as buying more cars and more parts.
The Rover needs a recore of the rad, and blimey, thats got more expensive and less options over the last few years. So the rad is out and with a rebuilder now.
I keep saying that the Rover is going, which I think it will need to, but I am not sure what is my distance daily driver to replace it. Hmmm.
I do need to work on what my priorities are, project wise.
There does seem to be a huge amount of excellent projects and parts for sale just at the moment. So much temptation. Hopefully that means lots of cool new builds showing up....
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1937 Austin Street Rod - 1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1976 Rover V8 - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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Mar 11, 2024 16:35:58 GMT
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Oh, and I bought a 1932 Austin Seven. The plan is to go do some VSCC events in the Standard / Light Car class. So this is in theory an eligible car, I am going through buff book approval for it as we speak.
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1937 Austin Street Rod - 1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1976 Rover V8 - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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misteralz
Posted a lot
I may drive a Volkswagen, but I'm scene tax exempt!
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Mar 11, 2024 17:00:02 GMT
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I'm kinda fired up post-Ninove, and spent some time on the splittie today trying to figure out why the passenger door is permanently locked. Also spent some quality time being a good bad influence on two different friends trying to get them to buy cool cheap cars. A 400 quid engineless B3 Passat variant seems like a no-brainer when you've got a bent ABFd Corrado just sitting rotting...
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Mar 11, 2024 19:30:00 GMT
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Getting ready to pack up all our stuff and start the 1200 mile trek to Florida tomorrow. Sold the truck last week, so we just get to take the decidedly modern 2018 Kia. Which some kind soul decided to smash one of the rear door windows yesterday. There was nothing in it to take, so we speculate someone was trying to ape the “Kia Boyz” that went viral on TikTok a while back. Thwarted by the alarm though. We can’t get a new window for a week, so it’s rocking the always stylish black plastic bag and tape, trying to keep the worst of the weather out until we get where we’re going and can get it replaced.
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Mar 11, 2024 20:18:06 GMT
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We had a few (relatively) warm and sunny days recently, it does feel like Spring is springing and things are happening again... Somehow I've become events co-ordinator for a small local car club, we have pub car park/breakfast meets three Sundays a month and stands at bigger events etc, looking forward to getting involved in all that a bit more. The bloke in charge of the memberships owns this: Irmscher i200 homologation special, lovely thing. So much want!
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Last Edit: Mar 11, 2024 20:18:42 GMT by DarrenW
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stealthstylz
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 14,840
Club RR Member Number: 174
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Mar 11, 2024 22:22:14 GMT
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I'm still cracking on through my niggle list on the Carlton. Front brakes were advised for corrosion on the last 2 or 3 MOT's so I got some new discs and pads on last weekend. Definitely got their money's worth. Been to a couple of car related local meets but I've put those in separate threads. Other people actually took photos of my car. I've put a few thousand miles on it now and ironed most of the niggles out, and it's proved to be mostly reliable, so in the next couple of weeks I'm gonna go back to using the Jazz and get the Carlton up on the drive and do the couple of bits of welding needed, then suspension/wheels/paint/sound system ready for the Weekender.
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Mar 12, 2024 18:02:22 GMT
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Whilst the vehicle they're destined for continues to kick me hard in the posterior.... I do love whitewalls? And finding a random piston in the trunk/boot never inspires confidence even if the engine is buttoned up properly...
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2014 - Audi A6 Avant 3.0Tdi Quattro 1958 - Chevrolet Apache Panel Truck 1959 - Plymouth Custom Suburban 1952 - Chevrolet 2dr Hardtop 1985 - Ford Econoline E350 Quadravan 2009 - Ovlov V70 2.5T 1970 - Cortina Mk2 Estate 2007 - Fiat Ducato LWB 120Multijet 2014 - Honda Civic 2.2 CTDi ES
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vulgalour
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 7,087
Club RR Member Number: 146
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Mar 12, 2024 18:51:30 GMT
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Managed to find another pink car in the wild so that was something. Just about settled in to the new place now, got the work routine established and my studio at least functional now. Will have to do this all over again in a few years, the current place isn't going to be long term unfortunately so I've not even properly settled and I'm already planning on saving etc. for the next move. Isn't renting fun? Princess is still in desperate need of a clean but the weather has been miserable so that's not happened. Turns heads whenever I have to make the short trip to the shops for supplies and is just being a car, which is all I can ask right now. Looking forward to drier days so I can crack on with some fettling, and to getting out to a show or two since there's usually quite a few things in North Lincolnshire to enjoy on that front.
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About as un-retro as you can get I guess, but this is my office for the next three days… That’s a 2023 Ford F650 setup as a 26’ U-Haul moving van with a 25’ car transport holding Mrs Catherders 2018 Kia, totaling about 60’ overall. Gotta love Yankee licensing where they’ll sign one of these over to you on a normal car license. Not the first time I’ve driven something like this though, just been a while.
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stealthstylz
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 14,840
Club RR Member Number: 174
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Gotta love Yankee licensing where they’ll sign one of these over to you on a normal car license. Not the first time I’ve driven something like this though, just been a while. It does amaze me when you see some of the rigs people use owner there. No wonder road deaths and accidents are so high.
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What about RVs? Some of those are literally the size of a bus so can they drive those on a normal car licence (or should I say license?) in the US?
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Mar 13, 2024 13:13:31 GMT
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You can drive up to 26000lbs (11800kg) GVWR on a car license, so for some of the really big RVs you need a class C truck license.
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speedy88
Club Retro Rides Member
"Nice Cortina mate"
Posts: 2,279
Club RR Member Number: 118
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Not much to show yet, but continuing the front clip conversion on the Celica. Welding coilovers to the factory hubs on Friday. ALL the caster, ALL the camber.
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braaap
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Made it to a place where it never snows… Quite the adventure really. The first couple of hours it was all like “this is sooo big and like driving an ocean liner” and by the end of day two it was all “b!!ch, ima truck get outta my way” and by the end of day four (today) it started to seem kinda small. Fun times included being directed around the back of a hotel to park, to discover there was a bollard h the way so I wouldn’t fit and having to reverse the whole kit and caboodle back around the front to get onto the street. It’s surprisingly hard to reverse a trailer that you can’t actually see in your mirrors… by the time you see it out of line, it’s already wandering off on its own side quest. Again, by the end of day two, and the hotel car park adventure, I’d become a pro. Mucho respect for truck drivers though, I only had to make one emergency stop because some curse word pulled out in front of me. Those folks put up with this every day. And yeah, that’s 205 US gallons, or 780 liters, of gasoline petrol used, at an average cost of $3.29 a gallon. No idea why U-Haul doesn’t spec these big trucks with diesel engines… it’s just about too big to fit at the regular pumps and you’re better off going through the semi truck lanes, but they’re diesel only. Okay, back to admiring everyone else’s projects for a while, since I’m now bereft of something interesting to tinker with.
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Mar 16, 2024 19:22:21 GMT
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yay i finally bought some wheels for the herald kent to st albans them into wymondham and back approx. 250-ish mile round trip 4pm to 9pm! to pick up some wheels bought these after a tip off from a retro rider (thank you) then saw them today on a 914 at the volksworld show that was very quiet , i think the M25 closure had a huge impact on attendance and after picking these up from st albans drove another 40 minutes to get these … told they were triumph and upon seeing them could see straight away they were not the correct pcd but bought them anyway so dunlop alloy wheels lp932 style in a 114.3 pcd in 5.5 x 13 size which will be refurbed and sold on i also ordered a wheel stud upgrade to 12 x 1.5 instead of the 3/8” ones and a lowering block , lowered up rated front springs and some alloy steering rack mounts so in the next couple of weeks will jump on the herald and get it sorted now the weather is warming up 🤣
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Last Edit: Mar 17, 2024 10:02:04 GMT by redratbike
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stealthstylz
Club Retro Rides Member
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Club RR Member Number: 174
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Mar 16, 2024 20:28:05 GMT
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Those wheels will look great on a Herald.
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Mar 16, 2024 22:26:54 GMT
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Those wheels will look great on a Herald. i agree 👍 i can’t wait to see them fitted
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