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So i've been offered a rustfree 64 car like this, for the equivalent of 500 pounds. Should i? Sounds like a bargain to me! Assuming you fancy a rather traditional British car. Or is it rust free and cheap because all the rust that was there has been chopped out and there's not much of the car left?
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Early Austin Devon 16" !!! Only about 3 1/2" wide though.
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Whats the one with the accident damaged rear end anyone? Talbot Lago T26, A bit like this one.
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Baines is good but you need to determine what you need yourself as they don't know the applications. www.coh-baines.co.uk/Funnily enough I've got a near identical shopping list
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Here's a couple. I'll try and update with more. Retro car Of The Year 2014 - From outside of our scene, a personal pick would be the F40LM at Silverstone. But perhaps more realistically, from within the 'Retro Scene', the RotaryBeetleGolf because, when you take a step back (and ignore any preconceived thoughts on the VW scene) it is such a ridiculous collection of parts. Put together in such a detailed way, it works fantastically as a whole. Community/Forum person of the year 2014 - New Thread Of The Year 2014 - mwggriffiths ridiculously epic road trip.Best Media Of The Year 2014 - After going quiet for a while Svammelsurium seems to have jumped back in to life, which is very definitely a good thing. In print terms, I'd plump for Motorsport this year. Since taking out a sub it's become a great way of learning about motoring things outside my normal comfort zone and the podcasts on the website are fab too (The Emanuele Pirro one in particular) Readers Other Mods 2014 - coalnotdole's boatShow/Event of the year 2014 - Two that were different but both great. Donington Historic and Coventry Motorfest. The later was superb considering it was a first time effort. Most Anticipated Car 2015 - v8Ian Austin 7Happy Snapper - ColonElk's photo threads have been great. FJSigma for that Buenos Aires AutoClassica thread... Great Contributor - Emdee for single-handidly continuing to add to threads about obscure modified Eastern European cars Great Build - Bozwell's S800. Picture Hunter - Technical Help - Bortaf often seems to pop up to offer help on a whole range of technical things. Community Spirit - Community Organiser - Ebay Bloodhound -
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Clever stuff Wondering if you could make another in the same way but with black and white laminations with the two colours having slightly different profiles so that the internal shape is a bit piano like? Then smooth the outside right back to a polished finish, maybe with a black top and bottom plate (and black on the sides too)
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I posted the Vimeo film up in the video forum a little earlier. Definitely the best thing I've seen all day/week/month/evar.
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Last Edit: Dec 1, 2014 20:47:36 GMT by Seth
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Fire and fury in the best manner possible.
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I'd be up for an RR area too. Hoping to be in a Coventry built car this time!
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Back on topic - I honestly think a sensible car is one that will do the job you ask of it. Uncle Bryn, bang on the money (as usual). For me its a smallish, comfortable family estate car that I can drive anywhere & anytime, fill with junk when necessary and can tow the trailer tent away on holiday.
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Nov 27, 2014 22:59:16 GMT
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Vulga, yes, I hope it works as well as it looks like it should! Cheers Baz. Drink defo forgotten at my end but I won't say no I'm still attacking this from various angles at the moment. It probably looks like I'm going a bit crazy doing odd little things here and there rather than concentrating on a single area but some of it is jobs I can do at home away from the car and then it will all come together as a whole more quickly. I hope! I finally managed to get myself sorted with the right hardware in the right place to fit the bumpstops on the extended ally spacers I'd made so that they sit at the same top height as the old cut down ones. That means I could put the front springs back in, possibly for the last time. Also having got sufficient bushes for the anti roll bar links at Stoneleigh, they've gone on the wishbones too. The bar itself will wait until the engine bay is painted as it would just be something that needed masking if I fitted it now. Another purchase at Stoneleigh was a chunk of aluminum that it looks like will be just long enough to make a new pair of lowering blocks for the back end at what I think will be the ideal height. Engine bay prep has been continuing. Steering and master cylinders have been removed again and it is all pretty much ready for proper paint now. Other jobs done too: I needed a longer choke cable as I was changing where it came through the bulkhead and the original was marginal on length before. I bought a universal biycle cable but had to adapt it to the original dash knob. Here's the original outer cable cut off from the dash fitting and the inner cut and filed off the knob. The dash fitting was drilled such that the new cable out pushed in tightly. If it ever works loose I could add some adhesive. The new inner cable was welded and then also silver soldered on to the knob part. Welding it was tricky and the silver solder 'glued' together a couple off loose strands. I kept water nearby to keep the knob end cool. Ooo-er missus. I'm hoping this will all hold. I had to grind it back with my dremel type tool to the original profile so that it would fit back in to the tube of the dash fitting but it seems to have worked out well. With the engine/gearbox/clutch issues resolved I finally had a complete shopping list of bits and pieces to bolt it all together. Leacy Classics worked out cheapest and most importantly had all the gaskets in stock and they whisked me the order super fast. The three gearbox casing gaskets have been fitted and I'll soon tidy up the casing as I'll paint it the same colour as the engine. A final job to do with the backplate, since I am re-using the original Farina one, was to re-fill a channel that is cast in below where the crank seal fits. If left open I understand that this would let oil pour out from the rear main bearing. It was filled the first time I fitted a 1798 block but I thought it sensible to refresh it so out came the JB Weld. Once dry I used a Stanley blade to shave the excess off nice and level with the plate. I'm hoping to get paint of various sorts next week and then things can really look like they're progressing...
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Brilliant stuff MD. The Octavia in the scrapyard looks nearly as bad as the (convertible) one that is street parked in North London....
Snowmobile is ace.
Have you built a V8 air cooled beach buggy yet?
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Nov 24, 2014 23:23:48 GMT
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Nov 24, 2014 23:10:23 GMT
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HoTWire , has anyone complained about the new (?) buttons on the left yet? I think I first noticed them yesterday but they might have been there for weeks. Don't seem to be having any effect on anything. Carry on. Nothing to see here.
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Nov 24, 2014 10:53:49 GMT
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There has been talk in the past about the European definitions of an 'original' car being complete with its original factory fitted components (ie not even later like for like replacements) but this would be completely unworkable as many of the components could be considered as service items, eg front struts, steering racks/boxes etc. So fitting a replacement bolt in axle from a different spec of the same car is highly unlikely to drop you points. Who could tell? The only people that might be expected to know the difference would be marque experts (Unless you told the internet what you'd done).
Are you fitting a turbo as part of this proposed engine swap? Non turbo 1.6 (99bhp at the back wheels) has yet to blow up the diff in our Herald but then these same basic diffs were used behind 2 litre straight sixes and people sometimes fit 2.5 sixes in Vitesses and GT6s....
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Nov 22, 2014 20:18:39 GMT
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Huzzah! I know where you got this from If you spotted the other one down there then that belongs to paulw so while he's not on here a huge amount I am sure he can lend advice too.
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Nov 22, 2014 19:39:52 GMT
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This was a couple of weeks ago, on a Thursday near Euston station. Early arrivals for the weekend's London-Brighton but interesting to see them parked on a regular street.
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Nov 19, 2014 22:51:10 GMT
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Lovely job. and urgh, its horrible there in the wet... The pre-war Lancia is a Lambda, generally considered to be the first car with a monocoque. The body is basically made out of double skins of pretty thick gauge steel. Bulkhead/dash is all a single aluminium casting too which is quite cool.
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Nov 17, 2014 10:09:43 GMT
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By spring I want to get these, which still need painting and proper assembling (without missing bits) into here (which still needs a certain amount of prep and paint) and running. Oh, and I also have two cars to MOT that normally require a bit of something.
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