Practically Classics Forum

JPB wrote: Fri Apr 06, 2018 9:20 amI want the Land Rover's seller to move in next to me!

You actually like that? Where's your imagination?

JPB wrote: Fri Apr 06, 2018 9:20 am I want the Land Rover's seller to move in next to me!

are your present neighbours that bad??

They closest ones are great, but the one on the other side used to get his boiler suit on whenever I'd get in about at a car and within half an hour, he'd have done enough free labouring to allow me to go off and do something more interesting. The old fella passed recently and the ones there now are liable to call the council if I so much as lift the bonnet of the bB to fill its pw bottle up or, most recently, to fill the reservoir with the "valve saver" stuff that causes dirty great clouds of white smoke to wind the miserable badstarts up oops, sorry, is injected when running on propane, as a method of preventing valve seat recession..
OK, so the Disco isn't to my taste, but I could definitely work with the utter lunatic that created the thing!

He wouldn't be the sort of bloke to moan at me, not when his own motoring needs appear so complex.

GHT, I like that truck, but don't like the potential tyre costs that come with it.

why do you think i live in the middle of nowhere.. im not the sort of person anyone wants as a neighbour....
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1985-NISSAN- ... 3641.l6368
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HUMBER-IMPER ... rmvSB=true
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bedford-Caet ... rmvSB=true
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MR2-project- ... rmvSB=true

i wonder why

todays nonsense
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1963-vauxhal ... rmvSB=true

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Modified-For ... rmvSB=true

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1966-LOOK-Mo ... rmvSB=true

An MOT tester, in 2015, referring to that Victor, wrote:Advisory notice item(s)
vehicle has had extensive repairs too underside most parts have either been filled with filler or undersealed to a manner in which it is impossible to assess properly
both front seat mounting pionts require stronger mountings

Woof woof! "Filled with filler?" No, really? I'd have used dried animal faeces, it's the eco-friendly way to fake up a car.

It's possible that a tester who could write sense may have arrived at the same conclusion, but either way there may be better examples out there and the K&N is the least of its problems, though if the "turd" mentioned in the listing's words were to open their eyes, they would see that it's breathing to atmosphere. Connect that hose to the stub on the baseplate of the filter and it might run properly. I apologise if the seller has already tried that only to find that it makes matters worse but, rare car though it is, you're best off having one where the structural repairs have been done by a welder rather than a sculptor.
That car is about to make a nonsense of the new test exemption thing. Buy that and you're officially nuts!

Someone took ages to apply all of the stickers to that Focus, so maybe they applied equally high standards to its maintenance? I see that it appeared in a magazine article, but that there's nothing to indicate which magazine it was. I'm thinking maybe Mental Health Matters or Farmers' Weekly? But hey, if that's your style then fair enough, it may even be worth more than a similar car that hasn't been covered in crap. I guess we'll never know.

When I looked at the CA yesterday, he had listed it as a Morris van, presumably a result of being too impatient to read the name "Morrison" all the way to its conclusion when he read it on the badge that tells the onlooker who builds these particular bodies? Now it's a copy of a Bedford CA. WTF? A copy? OK, so on the DVLA's database it doesn't exist, but it looks like a van that needs some finishing touches, rather than a copy of such a thing. What is it with eBay sellers these days, can they not write sense or do they simply prefer not to?

It's a sad day when a modern hatchback covered in random decals is the least bad of the day's available forms of transport.

JPB wrote: Mon Apr 09, 2018 7:01 am It's a sad day when a modern hatchback covered in random decals is the least bad of the day's available forms of transport.

i try to keeps to my usual high standards but today i have excelled myself!

JPB wrote: Mon Apr 09, 2018 7:01 am
That car is about to make a nonsense of the new test exemption thing. Buy that and you're officially nuts!

On the contrary, I think it's a demonstration of how ineffective the MoT is.

JPB wrote: Fri Apr 06, 2018 6:47 pmGHT, I like that truck, but don't like the potential tyre costs that come with it.

How about one with smaller wheels?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Austin-Maxi- ... 3641.l6368
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Very-rare-Ci ... rmvSB=true
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SUZUKI-SJ13- ... rmvSB=true