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Nov 15, 2016 22:51:12 GMT
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Cheers Rich
I'm having a bit of trouble getting photobucket to work which I've used many times on here before. Thats the one though, although it seems the later one is easier to get so if I'm stuck I might get one of those for now, at least it will be just a slightly later version of what the car should have.
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Nov 15, 2016 22:39:33 GMT
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Last Edit: Nov 15, 2016 22:48:35 GMT by chris y
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Nov 14, 2016 22:13:00 GMT
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Apologies, I just noticed that my phone number was wrong, corrected now.
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Nov 14, 2016 22:07:30 GMT
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Its not for sale, its a wanted ad..
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Nov 14, 2016 18:18:15 GMT
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As fitted to some German built cars and as far as I can tell was fitted to one of my Carltons.
RR PM or mobile phone would be better than posting here in case I don't check back. 07490 291119
Thanks
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Last Edit: Nov 14, 2016 22:12:20 GMT by chris y: Wrong phone number
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Thats great, love it.
If it was mine I think it might get a 3 litre 24v, fat tyres on the back only and stay high.
I'll be interested to see whatever you do with it though.
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Did someone mention impractical? Buggies are positively practical compared to a rail without any bodywork or glass. Its difficult to explain just how much the cold hurts when you get caught out in an unexpected flurry of snow like my Son and I did a few years ago. I just noticed how there are no tracks between the front and rear tyres in the first pic, it must have arrived in that spot sideways ![](http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l177/garageman3000/IMG_1630_zpsehed2pn2.jpg) ![](http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l177/garageman3000/IMG_1635_zpsfewjk7x8.jpg)
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Last Edit: Nov 5, 2016 22:03:25 GMT by chris y
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Oct 30, 2016 23:46:45 GMT
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Great thread, great project and great parenting. My Fugitive has some similarities, when I got it it had a 1200 engine but now has a 1300 twin port. It also had a badly bent front beam welded to the front of the frame and a lot of other horrific bodges. I used lorry plastic mudguards on mine because it came with no original bodywork at all, they take a real beating and can be replaced for peanuts, and can be shaped by warming. The style isnt for everyone though. ![](http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l177/garageman3000/IMG_20160727_192710_zpsuzxklwzn.jpg) Mine also has IRS, although from a camper, its got 10 inches of rear suspension travel and is great on and off the road. One possible consideration for later is that yours might be overbraked at the front, they have very little weight at the front, mine has Beetle drums at the front and bus rear brakes to give a rear bias, they work great even in the wet, if your fronts are too good you will lock up and loose control before the rears where the weight is do much work. I also put a spare wheel on the front to add weight. There are various solutions that you can consider later. Keep up the good work
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Last Edit: Oct 30, 2016 23:54:08 GMT by chris y
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Oct 30, 2016 23:08:46 GMT
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I bought a Halfords one, decent quality for a good price but very rarely used.
I'm usually one for buying good quality tools when they are going to be used a fair bit but for me there isnt much market for a high end footpump. The Halfords one is a sensible balance of quality and cost for an occassional use tool.
I've got a nice vintage Wood & Milne but its never had a hose fitted while I've had it so I don't know if it will work.
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Oct 10, 2016 21:26:51 GMT
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Interesting thread, important stuff.
One point from me though - when taxation or MOT class etc etc depends on the car being unmodified it seems like there is an assumption that modified will relate to the current 8 points out of 14 system.
There is no reason that I can see to believe that, the 8 point system is not at all to decide whether a car is modified or not or is historic, its to determine whether the car keeps its original identity or has been altered substantially enough to need to apply for a new identity, and therefore is tested to a standard required for new home built cars. (Flawed system yes, but thats its purpose)
This is not about identity, its about whether vehicles are of historic interest or not, and in that context I'd guess that its likely that to be of historic interest the level of originality would be much higher, and completely unrelated to the 8 points system. Different system with different aims and different rules.
I think changes that will restrict use will happen, I've said that for a long time. I just hope its possible to choose not to register a car as historic and therefore not get the "benefits" and restrictions. I'm not banking on that though.
I also believe that to imagine that governments wouldnt do something that would harm tax revenue from our hobby is just wishful thinking, its really peanuts and besides, the cars will still exist, and even if the hobby was hit hard the public (us) would still spend our wages, just on something else, it doesnt matter a bit to the government what we spend it on, either way we will earn, then spend, paying tax twice on our earnings and the revenue will arrive just the same but via different routes.
The government didnt mind upping tax on hot pasties, there are two shops in every shopping street that sell those, to a large percentage of the public. Jobs are lost that cripple whole regions when the demand isnt there (Redcar steel) and the government cant change that, our hobby is tiny in the big picture of revenue and if we don't fight nobody in power will get upset when the tiny number of people spread thinly around the country have to look for a new job. Stop dreaming that its a big enough hobby to frighten the goverment into protecting it, it really isnt.
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Last Edit: Oct 1, 2016 9:25:54 GMT by chris y
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Aug 23, 2016 21:32:37 GMT
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I was hoping this would've been solved by now. I can't believe that if this was a real thing, then why have no more pictures of it surfaced? If I'd have seen it, like the guy who originally took the photo, I'd have grabbed my camera too, just for the oddity of the thing. Are we any closer to finding a solution? At that time very few people would ever have had a camera with them and if they did they would have had to faff about winding the film on and other old fashioned activities. Even if someone did take a pic it would have ended up as a single sheet of paper which could have been lost or thrown away long ago. Its a surprise a picture has surfaced. My guess would be that any other pictures that exist would have been the makers pictures, maybe a mobility company or the like.
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A couple of friends have recently tried Ebay, searching for 4 x whatever size, then sort by lowest price then look for the best wet grip rating. They are both over the moon with the result. One came to mine just recently with his because I have an old tyre changer so we fitted his set of 18 inch tyres, in total he spent £117. He says that the grip is excellent and having spent less than the cost of part worns for four matching tyres with known history and known age he says that if they last a year its been a success. So is that for a set of brand new boots? If so then good purchasing skillz - What brand? Yes, set of four, brand new and on the car. Cant remember the brand but not a well known one for sure, so far I know two people who have done it and got what they expected grip wise.
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Aug 19, 2016 17:39:19 GMT
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A couple of friends have recently tried Ebay, searching for 4 x whatever size, then sort by lowest price then look for the best wet grip rating. They are both over the moon with the result. One came to mine just recently with his because I have an old tyre changer so we fitted his set of 18 inch tyres, in total he spent £117. He says that the grip is excellent and having spent less than the cost of part worns for four matching tyres with known history and known age he says that if they last a year its been a success.
My Girlfriend needs tyres for her car and in the past has bought part worns but using the same method we can get a full set of tyres with a B rating for wet weather grip for £106.
To me there are various disadvantages with part worn, you never have the benefit of those full tread miles, you don't have matching performance from each tyre unless you can get matching part worns which can be difficult. I'm thinking that for £106 she will see winter through with nearly full tread on tyres with a very good wet grip rating, I'll feel better about that.
You just cant tell with the budget brands which ones are owned by big names and therefore good or which might be rubbish, I'm going to look at the ratings the new labels have to have on them.
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Last Edit: Aug 19, 2016 17:40:22 GMT by chris y
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That sounds like a good and very cheap project that will be worth more than he has in it. Nice one.
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The reg goes with the floorpan as already stated, anything else is ringing.
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My effort ![](http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l177/garageman3000/IMG_20160727_210711%20800x450_zpswdq2nmjj.jpg)
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. And for welding, good luck with some 12v portable welder! For welding then, I speak from experience not ideas or theory. I did my project with a 150 amp SIP MIG welder in a rented allotment garage entirely using a generator for the welding, it also ran a small compressor for the paintwork which also worked well. The first generator I tried, knowing the likely consequence, was a cheapo 2.3 KVa one, it ran the welder for a time, then cooked. I then went out and bought a 3.8KVa generator second hand for £100 and completed the project, which was a huge amount of welding, here is the thread - retrorides.proboards.com/thread/181044/scrapyard-dodger-24v-carlton-g624xmeI'm now helping a friend in similar circumstances who has a generator roughly the same size as mine and a 110A Clarke welder, it works well. Something to note, the biggest problem item I found to run with a generator is flourescent tubes. I would recommend not fitting any in your garage, generators just cant regulate the voltage when running tubes, I cant remember why but after having lots of problems with several generators that couldnt hold voltage and were constantly hunting I read up on the problem and realised that with simple generators flourescent tubes are a bad idea. For lighting its easy to sort out 12v stuff or rechargeable that you take home with you after each session.
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I've used generators a lot, my project car in the rides section was built using generators for almost all of the work including the welding.
A big one will be too noisy indoors, I put mine outdoors and built a kind of generator shed for it with louvred sides. My garage was a reasonable distance from houses.
My friend is restoring a MK1 Astra using generator power too, but he has a large generator in the garage next door to muffle the noise, it is right beside houses and the residents are happy.
The tiny generators that are 850 watts etc will run a small grinder, drill etc no problem and can be very quiet without spending a lot of money. That the way I would be tempted to go, if you buy battery tools then every time you want to use a different tool type you need to buy one, and you have the frustration of flat batteries.
Maybe try a second hand very small generator and if you find it too loud just sell it again.
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Jun 30, 2016 22:31:08 GMT
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I missed a bit of the story, after all of the other challenges sent to test me during the project the last straw (almost) was the car trying to put me out of action. Before the engine was installed I was doing some prep and working under the car quite a bit. I came home one day and a neighbour had put some jackable ramps out to be collected by the scrap man, they looked handy so I asked and got them. I decided to put the back of the car on normal ramps, and the front on these jackable ones once I’d freed them off, so far so good and the car high enough to help a lot with access underneath now that I’d lost the access to the pit after what happened at the other garage. Anyway, I worked on the car and one day went to the boot to get parts out and a very unpleasant thing happened, the car rolled back off all four ramps and landed on my legs pinning me against the grassy slope of the garden. It hurt a lot and I was very frightened, I shouted for help and grabbed things from the boot to try to get the car off me but couldn’t although I did get a handy jack out and tried to relieve the pressure. Anyway, the young lad next door heard me shouting and his Mam and her Boyfriend Ian ran out. Unfortunately my 6 foot high fence and locked gates suddenly seemed a bad idea but Ian jumped over the fence, smooth side of the fence barefoot and came to help. I don’t know how he did that, quite impressive. He couldn’t move the car because he was effectively trying to push it up four ramps. Anyway, we wedged the jack between the bumper and while I wound it he pulled on the car and I got my left leg out, it slipped a couple of times which hurt a lot, we jacked again and I got my right leg out which was trapped at my foot. Have a pic, the jack is still dug into the bumper and my right shoe is still between the car and grass, the steel toe cap had meant it wouldn’t fit out and I managed to get my foot out of it. The pushed in part of the bumper was where my left leg was. ![](http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l177/garageman3000/IMG_20160422_143307%20800x450_zpsghrchpwn.jpg) ![](http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l177/garageman3000/IMG_20160422_143224%20800x450_zpsu6rwcu0q.jpg) Anyway, unbelievably no broken bones but lots of bruising and pain and a long recovery. I worked out what went wrong, when I jacked up the front ramps they moved in an arc and moved the back wheels to the edge of the ramp slope without me noticing, the hand brake couldn’t hold it and back it went. The car was damaged, some damage to the newly painted floors and sills and worst of all the fog lamps which are quite hard to find and I’d done some restoration on were smashed, both bumpers were cracked, the rear one by my leg, lucky the bumper gave way. ![](http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l177/garageman3000/IMG_20160422_143402%20800x450_zpspeolmukb.jpg) Well, that was another low point, nearly the last straw and put me out of action for a short time but in the end the engine went in with the help of my Uncle and everything else was fitted with some help from my Uncle and friends and the accident damage repaired. ![](http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l177/garageman3000/13173881_10209456048428356_3002942397590012269_n%20800x600_zps6zikjugy.jpg) ![](http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l177/garageman3000/13240747_10209456046948319_165457936386364777_n%20800x600_zpsen43w091.jpg) I had lots of problems as expected, the clutch clave cylinder immediately failed, the starter had seized, and many other things, the most difficult problem turned out to be a fuel pump problem. It would pull away but any throttle and it would die. I suspected fuel delivery and proved it by adding a pneumatic pressure gauge to the fuel line and watching the pressure drop off even revving it while stationary. That was a strange fault, the pump which had been noisy all the years I’ve had the car had been pressing against the bottom of the tank which had sucked up years ago and the rubber connection to the pickup filter had stretched to almost close the orifice. A spare pump had it running. So then it went for test, and passed no problem. Wheels and tyres followed just last weekend and I took it out and took this pic which I really like. ![](http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l177/garageman3000/street_zpsboavv7wk.jpg) I should remind you all that I haven’t done the paint part of a restoration intentionally, its kind of the reverse of a poor restoration that some cars get where they have lovely shiny paint covering a badly repaired car. This car looks very untidy but I just love it, its my favourite car of any I’ve ever owned and I don’t worry about driving it and parking it, a few more marks wouldn’t make any difference. That said, I did machine polish most of it quickly and it turned out OK, hundreds of scratches and a few dents but other than the bonnet it doesn’t look bad. I have the satisfaction of knowing that its now a far better car than it looks, I don’t really care much what people think, I have my cars for my own satisfaction. You could say it’s a bit of a sleeper as my friend said, it looks run down and lucky to be alive but in reality it can surprise people. It drives very well, its not as noisy as I would have expected inside, the gearstick is my favourite bit and it works very well, it goes well and revs like a motorbike with the flywheel and engine work. So there you go, for now its on the road and finished…..probably. I’ll get a few more finished pics one day, perhaps if not before at Billing for the VBOA rally if it gets there. Now that its done I want to thank everyone who has commented and encouraged, it really has made a troublesome and challenging project more worthwhile, and probably helped prevent me from giving up as I have thought about at times. Cheers all,
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