The Chat Thread - It's beginning to look a ... - WC 12/12/22

This came up on my Youtube feed and it is an odd choice of car for a car chase in Miami!

Good morning 🥶🥶

I've seen a few bits that interested me, as ever looked spectacular

www.carandclassic.com/auctions/1963-ford-anglia-misfit-hot-rod-4aP97n

Could be yours

Scrapping my lupo sdi. Don't have time to fit new driveshafts and mot it. I'll salvage some parts I can sell on and take my £275 for the rest.

Sad times but haven't touched it in a year and have a house to renovate, a family and two other cars.

Watching that, I see parallels to some of the meets I used to go to around 2012, I distinctly remember some guy turned up at a meet in a Mazda mx3 of all things and started dicking about doing handbrake turns and suchlike.

It just drew a collective "what are you doing" from most of the other people there rather than a sea of camera phones trying to capture the "action" 😅

Trying to get xmas stuff done. I was in Dubai for work last week, came home, went xmas panic shopping, got monster food poisoning off a lunch at the market... Failed to get anywhere with anything. Sold some more random stock of old car parts I will never need, only to surely need them again immediately. Lets see...

Have MOT'd momma's old Toyota RAV4 which is the only 17 year old car I know which has never even had an MOT advisory...

Also whilst I'm making coilovers it's time for a confession that as far as I know I've never spilt the beans on, which could also possibly go in the "best bodges" thread.

A long time ago in a different decade I built mk14dr a pair of fixed ride height but very short front struts for his Volvo 940. These:-



Which ended up with the car looking like this.



Anyway, from memory I think I used MK3 Cav shock inserts, but they wouldn't work with the Volvo top mounts. We were pushed for time and/or skint, can't remember, but I "fixed" the problem by chopping the top inch off the Volvo damper shaft, the top inch off the Cavalier damper shaft, V-ing the ends, wrapping a wet rag round the damper then welding them back together, before polishing the weld off so it wouldn't damage the seal. Did 10s of thousands of miles like it.

There endeth my confession of the sketchiest modification I've ever done that turned out not that sketchy at all.

That is the level of bodgery that you can only get to if you have some level of skills haha




I think that is the key, people are all like "take overs are dangerous and stupid and we wouldn't do things like that", as if the M25 wasn't almost literally a race track after midnight for many years. Or people didn't do massive burnouts in the middle of the road during the Chelsea Cruise. Just most of it wasn't on film and wasn't broadcast... which maybe did stop as much copycat behaviour I guess, but it still happened.