Practically Classics Forum

Wonderful. We went for the second time last year. Did it in a single (long) day by getting a 7am or so train. It's such a great event.

The spring is compressed as the piston rises so it would help push it back down when the throttle is closed though the changes in air pressure probably have a greater effect. But its real job is control how far (and to a degree how fast) the piston rises in the first place to match the fuel ...

I went to Hyde Park first thing and then headed down to Birdcage Walk/Parliament Square/Westminster Bridge. Previously I'd normally hung around near Hyde Park corner and Buck Palace so my photos look a little different this year ;)

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa65/sethke/Classics%2013 ...

Just going back to the original question, this change should happen automatically. There ought to be no need to 'apply' for it or to change the taxation class yourself. That is what happened when the Histroic class was originally introduced and has been the case ever since as far as I know.

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Terry G is right, and I have done a Motorsports Engineering and Design Degree and can tell you that simply cutting springs is a big no no. They may not fail the MOT but as Terry says, you have dramatically changes the spring rates etc, and not forgetting where you 'cut' the spring you will weaken ...

A couple of hours after seeing a post over on Autoshite this morning I and a couple of other bods were having a look over trio of Rootes cars that have probably sat in their current resting places for over 30 years and maybe 40 or more. These cars are available and it would be really nice to see ...

TerryG wrote:Interesting reason to suspend someone.

Indeed

http://retrorides.proboards.com/post/1794023/thread

mr rusty wrote: but you do have to suspend belief for the London scenes as there's virtually no traffic

It can happen This is Regent St, Hamleys just up on the left.

I'm afraid its not 'that' Jensen



But I'm sure that 'that' Jensen may benefit from the film.

This seems to be a problem that Rootes cars particularly suffer and I don't think there's much you can do about it. I don't think its got anything to do with the newly arriving Ethanol content as it happened to me when I bought my early Arrow estate five years ago. The car had been barely used for ...