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Oct 23, 2023 10:11:30 GMT
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a few years of extreme malaise ended up with me reducing the fleet of rusty/incomplete mk2 astras the white merit shell left the drive in june, silver gte just now in october, emptying the garage of go faster parts is still a work in progress. next year will be 40th anniversary for the start of mk2 astra production (yikes !) i fancy an early 1.8 GTE. B or C reg, will take a premium of course but something considerably less rusty and more complete/usable
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Last Edit: Oct 23, 2023 10:17:38 GMT by darrenh
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As above, the bottom banner is painful. Chrome 1920x1080 14" Laptop W10, also use a W7 laptop with the same letterboxing. Changing the zoom decreases the banner at the expense of text size. Also closing the side menu took me longer to work out then Id like to admit. i have the exact same issue., win 10, chrome, 1920x1200. while i can "live with" the opaque advert bar at the bottom, it obscures you clicking the 3 buttons bottom right. well to be frank its ontop of anything at the bottom of the screen including me typing this edit !
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Last Edit: Oct 23, 2023 9:38:15 GMT by darrenh
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chassis is looking brilliant, what a milestone ! i must say they cream paint seems quit resilient to nearby mig welding heat ? p.s dulux mini glosser rollers, complete game changer (compared to foam!) Cheers HB - 2K Epoxy primer - Even where it discolours it behaved the same sanding down and not flaking off - hardy stuff. Had a look at Dulux Glosser which seems to cover a wide range of types - do you mean the Glosser Microfibre? I have a number of other chassis so will give them a go. This one I will just use up the remaining Harris foam rollers I have. That's it ddc glosser microfiber sleeves
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Last Edit: May 7, 2023 17:08:18 GMT by darrenh
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Zelandeth not really on topic but as you have a penchant for the 80s/90s tech, here's a server rack at work that has been here since 1998 and still in daily use. it has 3 sleds in it, each are pentium 1 - 233mhz units, 32MB of ram, 1GB HDD, running windows NT4 workstation. get occasional reboots (maybe 4 or 5 times a year) but other than that have been "up" and in full working order since 1998. they run pertec controllers for some reel-to-reel tape drives. there used to be a track ball/wrist rest in that slot at the front of the keyboard, but it broke years ago, now just an ordinary roller ball mouse. enjoy sorry about the phasing, but you know, CRT life bad news pentium enthusiasts, the hard disk finally failed on one of the sleds after only 25 years of being switched on permanently. disgusting. i didnt know who else to try and get some thoughts and prayers from
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chassis is looking brilliant, what a milestone !
i must say they cream paint seems quit resilient to nearby mig welding heat ?
p.s dulux mini glosser rollers, complete game changer (compared to foam!)
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Last Edit: May 5, 2023 18:10:00 GMT by darrenh
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goldnrust so daimler fitted a push button to the steal me junction, thats convenient ive read some pretty convincing arguments about sticking with points breaker. 1st, most notably is that two pads cracking apart mechanically to collapse field winding (points) doesnt give two hoots about 30 to 40,000 volts magnetic field scooshing past it half an inch away from the rotor arm.... whereas a reed switch, IR chopper or hall effect sensor in electronic ignition most definitely DOES ! 2nd is that hall effect sensor collapses the field windings so quickly (very little dwell) that it has way more time to be influenced with regards spark timing (see above)
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Last Edit: May 5, 2023 18:03:16 GMT by darrenh
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wife is currently deliberating replacing her discovery 3 which is nudging 18 years old and 190k miles (yes stop press, despite what the internet says, it hasnt snapped its crank or been scrapped for terrible electronics) she'd rather have a discovery 4 or a high miler discovery 5....than a pajero or land cruiser
thats where it went both right and simultaneously wrong for land rover.
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bttf (1) is my favourite action/comedy film, so the bttf3 version of the delorean was an easy shoe-in. jacked up for its trip the 1880's prairies, 1950s time circuit repair strapped to the frunk, domestic nuclear fusion unit on the back, 1950s tyre stock, its so shonky its brilliant.
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Last Edit: May 3, 2023 19:14:04 GMT by darrenh
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the best year (for out and out sales figures) for traditional land rover was 1976, so all the people crying about stuff "not being a proper land rover" for the last 25 years, clearly havent been voting so with their wallets for nearly 50.
statistical fact: they made 2 million traditional land rovers and 75% were exported, they werent all bought by farmers in wales, they cost an absolute fortune in the 40s/50s/60s/70s, they weren't an every mans car, at all statistical fact: range rover saved land rover in the 70s, and gave birth to "defender" statistical fact: discovery stopped land rover folding in the late 80s statistical fact: evoque was an absolute sales juggernaut
where did it all go wrong? people getting confused between reliable and easy to work on. most people don't want to fix their car in a field with bailer twine any more, they want it not to break down in the first place. modern day Land rover for using their customers for research and development and debugging. People complaining new defender is too modern and too much technology, while having no intention of buying any land rover product and happily rolling to work in their hyundai santa fe, which is modern and full of technology. Land rover for not getting on the cheap pickup truck based band wagon in the 70s. rover group for not funding land rovers late start into the pickup truck based bandwagon in the late 80s, instead putting all their chips in the 100/200/400/600/800 saloon cars.
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Last Edit: May 3, 2023 19:00:25 GMT by darrenh
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This has got bullet resistant camper van written all over it
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I realise that the thread is security vans for transporting money or valuables, but could you indulge, security, vans, for peace keeping? Shorland armored car, a landrover on steroid named via amalgamation of short brothers and harland who built it. It has a peculiar/personal cross over for me, combining both landrovers and my grandad who worked for short brothers
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NEC wheel of fortune selection process landed on our club too. the guidelines for the show were to have a barn find, a daily driver plus a pristine restored car and that's exactly what we did. We had a mothballed astra estate (the silver one). my estate daily driver (black one) which I'd not washed since September and decided to present it just like that, vehicular cosplay, then a high quality resto - special edition astra gte "leather edition" one of 250 made,
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Last Edit: Mar 31, 2023 7:33:46 GMT by darrenh
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Thank you for your efforts to fix it
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Mar 29, 2023 11:20:31 GMT
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Also bumped into a Grumpy previous resident of this parish on the Jowett stand and said hello. the jowett stand not 20 paces away from pete and his corsair, awkward
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Last Edit: Mar 29, 2023 18:13:33 GMT by darrenh
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Mar 29, 2023 11:17:53 GMT
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both ? serious answer, the other one i can think of is chris birkbeck rally school
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Last Edit: Mar 29, 2023 11:18:56 GMT by darrenh
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Mar 22, 2023 19:07:34 GMT
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apologies for contributing to the thread
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Mar 22, 2023 19:04:03 GMT
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this is relevant to my interests. remember when GM had majority share in isuzu, who made splendid platform share utility vehicles /SUV on par with mitsu, nissan and toyota, then the mere application of a vauxhall badge made them terrible (according to british buying public)
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gerry marshall / roger clark at silverstone in 1979 (tourist trophy round of ETCC) photo credit martin lee
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red, yellow, blue...NOT greeeen thanks allot grizz now thats ear wormed into my brain for the next 40 years
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really unique slice of vw history. how does the spec differ from european cousins ?
i was dodging around in a 1600 auto astra before my present 1.7D manual estate. tbh ive gotten a bit lazy in my middle age, really miss the 1 foot driving experience round town.
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Last Edit: Mar 7, 2023 20:01:43 GMT by darrenh
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