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Jan 13, 2018 21:37:07 GMT
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My Rig from left : 1982 Hondo Delux Strat J copy. Given to me by a neighbour in 1988. A really great Strat copy. Custom Fender Telecaster copy with American body and neck, hand wound pick-ups.Built up by a friend and I. Like a vintage Telecaster. 1974 Framus Nashville Delux. Owned by my uncle Paul since bought new in Potters in Richmond in '75. I inherited it when he passed. He played this every xmas so I grew up with it
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Jan 13, 2018 20:04:56 GMT
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Good to see some geetars! I sold a lot of my vintage stuff last year - 60s and 70s stuff that looked great but unfortunately wasn't that playable and I got sick of it knocking around. I also sold one of the first Roland synths from 1974 to a collector and bought a Roland stage piano with the proceeds. I've still got a couple of guitars.
I'll take some pics, once I've had my knocking-off-from-welding beer or two.
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Jan 13, 2018 19:55:41 GMT
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Probably more interesting to me than anyone else and not that retro towards the end but here goes: 1. mk2 Fiesta 1.1 Ghia (Scrap) 2. S1 106 XS (written off by me) 3. Mini 998cc (Fun) 4. mk1 306 D turbo - (great car) 5. '72 MG Midget - (rusty) 6. Another 306 D turbo, HDI this time, (great to drive but blew up) 6. '74 MG midget - highly tuned and lots of fun 7. Corsa 1.5D - (mega slow) 8. Rover 420 SDI (Free, turned out to be the most dependable car I've had) 9. 2000 Punto 1.2 Sporting (flimsy and not that sporting) 10. South African Citi Golf (new but old but...) 11. Honda Jazz (Cheap to insure, lots of space, written off by wife) 12. Another Honda Jazz (still cheap to insure) 13. VW Touran (family innit? getting decidedly old and sensible now) 14. ? Who knows, probably some kind of mid life crisis old car Been through the family phase pal and it seemed to me at the time that I would never get back into the old car scene, now my lad is 13 though he is old car nuts and has reignited what I thought was long lost. Always fancied a Citi Golf, what did you think to it? I've got four kids under ten and I just can't do the new stuff. The in-laws tried to foist a Peugeot Tepee on us a few years back - it was horrible and made the kids car sick. Daily is my '88 Renault 21 Nevada 7 seater. Not that convenient that it took three years from when I found it in a field to being on the road. But now we're retro and reliable! Great write-up and pics retrolegends - I like those old photos. I couldn't do such a history - got no photos of any of the bangers sadly.
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Jan 13, 2018 14:16:56 GMT
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Looks in good nick. These are still quite common in Australia with many campervan conversions still on the road. I had a 1981 high-top blind van converted to a camper which I lived and travelled in for a long time til decay won - the remains are parked in a friend's paddock as a chook house.
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Jan 12, 2018 17:25:05 GMT
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Can anyone recommend a good seam sealer? The stuff I've used before cracks as it dries Sikkaflex 221. Made in Switzerland. The best. End of story.
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Jan 12, 2018 10:22:32 GMT
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What time is it? Sintra O'clock. I've just seen this classy timepiece for sale. The real price should be €1.99 but the hopeful seller is asking €90! I think it was given away when some fool was induced into buying a new Sintra. The various chronographs indicate - how long you will have to wait for the recovery services to arrive - the hourly depreciation on your new 30k Sintra CDX - the time your Sintra has been broken in the workshop compared to how long it's been on the road. I've asked the wife if I can have it as a combined Birthday and Christmas present but she pointed out that the digital watch I got for my twelfth birthday is still working fine though it doesn't play the four Beatles' tunes anymore. Sadly that's true.
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Jan 10, 2018 21:33:10 GMT
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First update of the new year. I've spent quite a few evenings here recently in the winter refuge. There is a place called Sintra in Portugal - doesn't resemble where I've been A lot of welding on a worthless white elephant? But the feeling of probably being the only person 'restoring' a Sintra - no owner's clubs, no internet sites, no footprints/tyre tracks anywhere - I can do what I want without any precedent or anyone being interested or offended. Like floating alone in outer space. Yeah, I've probably spent too much time shut up with the thing! Not sure if I'm winning or not? Still a way to go. Got to get it wrapped by end of February. Had to do some work on the chassis rail too - got to drop the tank to get to the other side. It's a winter meditation. Going to pick the remains of a Sintra scrapper on Saturday. Probably be next report.
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Jan 10, 2018 20:14:19 GMT
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If you torch it - as threatened - it will be like torching yourself after twenty five years of marriage to the thing! I think it's great and well done for keeping at it
A bloke on the street where I grew up had a blue one like this but it was called a Hillman Husky. Car is long gone but bloke is still there as spotted on a recent visit to my parents and I don't think I'd seen him since the 70s and he looked a bit different. I still had that kid's image of him in his Husky.
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Good work as ever but when do you sleep? What with the restos and the building work I don't know how you find the time? I joked about Rod Hull earlier in the thread and his death plunge from the roof of his bungalow but he was living in said bungalow because he'd bankrupted himself restoring a partly medieval but largely Elizabethan mansion. A noble effort it seems as it apparently was to become a car-park. My house was built when the Black Prince ( son of old King Cole - lolly stick joke that one) was trotting around and there's no chance of it being 'finished' in my life time. My son will be getting grief from his wife to finish it and his son from his wife and so on.
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No MoT at all really gives one a great sense of freedom
I was once underway in Hobart in a 70s Japanese van, that I'd already 'restored' by fitting some $5 garden furniture I'd bought at Hobart tip shop to replace the entirely dog devoured driver and passenger seats. There were large holes in both front wings, where the rotations of the bald tyres could be enjoyed. The engine was under the cab between the front seats and the rad could be topped up with water as you drove along to stop it over-heating. A real living classic.
Then some police officer had the cheek to pull me over. He came up to the window and said : Put yer seat belt on Cob.
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Probably the steel sun visor for the Landcruiser. I'd visited or phoned probably forty scrapyards over a long period on the road. It was like that old Yellow Pages ad - that bloke endlessly asking : Do you have Fly Fishing by J.R Hartley? Til on the thousandth time he found one : Oh, you do? I eventually found one in a yard out in the western suburbs of Sydney. Still chuffed with it.
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That old boy with the Jowett at the top of this thread probably wants to drive it again before he pegs out so if I come round to yours @grumpynorthener with a few tubes of 'No More Nails' we can lash that up?
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@grumpynorthener said Who d'you think you are? The Queen? I'm sure I can find a restorer who loves me! I lived in Tasmania where there was no MoT/TüV/ roadworthy whatever - you would have wee'd your nappy every ten seconds with the low level of the vehicular life-forms. But people kept their classics going by hook and crook. How does the saying go? 'People who live in churches shouldn't throw Bibles'
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My first experience of creative repairs was an old Walls Ice-Cream sign integrated into the rear wing of a Ford Consul. Probably worth a bit that sign now?
Obviously if you're offering your services as professional restorers that's not on but I would argue that lash-up jobs have kept cars on the road sometimes til they find the proper attention. I don't mean filler over mesh but quick plating for MoT is often a necessity but perhaps in the eyes of the restorer later on will constitute a bodge?
I know a good mechanic who has had a customer's Escort XR3i sat in his yard for over two years needing welding. He charges €60/hour and is backed up with work so he hasn't touched the XR3i, always hoping for a quiet moment which never comes. Meanwhile the Escort has deteriorated considerably as the owner has nowhere else to store it. When I looked at it first a couple of years back it could have been 'lashed-up' for TÜV but not now. I see that as a stitch ( bodge?) in time scenario
I'm not a restorer but I've often been working with time/money limitations to get an old and probably worthless car through its MoT/TÜV so I've cut corners.
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ivangt6 said That happened to me with my R21 - melted some interior molding. Keep at it, soon you'll be rollin' like the Queen rockin' up to Balmoral
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Desert Swede. This shot with the cowboy hat shadow says it all. A good adventure
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My old BX 16v
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Fantastic creations. It's a great film.
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Dec 31, 2017 11:11:37 GMT
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That's a nice ensemble the Discovery and RR. Also a very spacious hanger you've got - could fit a few more classics in there and perhaps a proper Spitfire? A flying one.
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