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Aug 16, 2018 19:05:06 GMT
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I'm sorting through my 'might be useful one day' stocks to separate Rover from Land Rover from MX-5 from Jaguar (various). These look like 800 bits to me. Any use to you? Yours for the postage
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Aug 13, 2018 17:35:17 GMT
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If you a-frame it, then it stops being a car and becomes a trailer. True as far as it goes, but then it must meet TRAILER regulations and with a steering front axle and a wheel base greater than 2x the rolling diameter of the wheels a car isn't a 'normal' trailer.
Then you get into all the TRAILER braking requirements, which for something which has a MAM > 750kg is a whole 'nother world of hurt.
You CAN use an A-frame to recover a broken down car but only if it is taxed, insured and MoT, (or taking to or from a MoT I think).
Yes, those folks you see A-framing a car behind their Dormobile are breaking the law.
Yes, that chap selling 'automatic' towed car braking system based in Wii decelerometer is selling something you can't use legally.
Let's not get into an A-frame argument yet again!
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Last Edit: Aug 13, 2018 17:35:54 GMT by theoldman
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Best one I ever saw at a show was a Reliant Regal van - Del Boy style - that had been treated to 'rust' stains.
The 'make up artist' couldn't understand why everyone was laughing so much as we took photographs
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There is one on car and Classic at the moment green fastback 800 with lpg. Only thing is it’s a non turbo. That's No 3 son's old one. He sold it late last year. The gold wheels seemed a good idea at the time, but he soon regretted it!
The Recaros were re-trimmed by his Mum using leather from a set of Sterling seats and green alcantara. The car - and my sons - were quite well known on the Rover800.info Forum.
To irritate you chaps looking for a scuttle trim panel I just gave away 2 good ones in June. Tried to sell them for pennies but no-one wanted one at the time.
We have owned 820's NASP and turbo - including a very early Tickford - and 827's since the late 80's and only just got rid of the last of the spare stash.
No 1 son put a T-16 turbo in his Series III Land Rover about 15 years ago. Scary thing to drive !
This thread brings back so many memories.
Edit - it had 57k miles on when he got it and he took it over 120k. It was a daily workhorse, hence towbar and roofrails.
Further edit. No 3 son says it long since sold at £1200 and the new owner planned a full respray and general tidying up.
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Last Edit: Jul 29, 2018 10:55:46 GMT by theoldman
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May 29, 2018 17:32:58 GMT
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72p a gallon?! Happy times. When the change to decimal happened the cheapest petrol I could buy was at a scabby Conoco (Jet) station on the way to the M1 south from Leeds. In the middle of a maze of roadworks as that part of the M1 was being built.
2 Star
28.5p per gallon.
I remember it well as it was on my route home on vacation and I was mightily ticked when it went over 30p
The cheapest I recall was pre decimal days at 4/8 a gallon c.23.5p per gallon
These days I mentally adjust £1 to be 1 shilling in pre 1973 first oil shock money and for most things that works quite well.
Except electronic items obviously!
Federation ordinary went up from 1/7 to 1/8 per pint when I was working as a waiter at the local working men's Club. I used to know my 1/7 times table and had to learn the 1/8 one
1/8 3/4 5/- 6/8 and so on
Can't recall my pay but it was around 1 pint an hour.
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Last Edit: May 29, 2018 17:36:33 GMT by theoldman
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May 14, 2018 16:28:27 GMT
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It's a Mazda. Petrol in one end frequently. Oil in the other infrequently. Rinse, repeat, wash annually, replace after 25 years, 250,000 miles or you get bored with it.
Good choice for a grocery getter cum commuter mobile.
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May 14, 2018 16:23:25 GMT
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If you have transport there are usually sectional concrete garages like the one in your photo going for free. Buyer to disassemble and collect. They are very very heavy heavy! Not the best I know due to condensation, and you would need a concrete base. But you could use the components from one to add to your existing one and make a tandem length one. Especially useful is to replace the rear wall with a front complete with door. Then you can access the garden with car and trailer via the garage. Generally I find one space of - say - 30m2 is more useful than two of 15m2.
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Apr 17, 2018 17:44:58 GMT
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That's a Wigan Number isn't it? My Alvis was JP 9138
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Feb 28, 2018 11:16:47 GMT
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PM sent re my sons' Daimler Super V8 on LPG.
I'm JDC since mid 1970s. He is JEC.
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On the grass verge outside the Silverdale Motel opposite the Esso service station Johnston..2.8 miles from my house?
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Feb 22, 2018 17:41:04 GMT
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I took 2 X200s to over 100k miles each. Both 3 litre manuals. Overall average around 28mpg. Motorways 'within ACPO' guidelines 30+mpg consistently. Local trips to town 19-25 depending on how I could the 2 sets of traffic lights. Once managed Maidenhead to Milford Haven at 40mpg. Rain & Fog to pottered along at c. 50mph for the first half of the journey, then after the bridge set myself the target of keeping above 40mpg. Never repeated that feat, but mid 30s very common on long steady runs.
Current X358 SV8 averaging 24.5mpg. Once got 30mpg on a long steady motorway run, but never repeated, 28mpg common.
To answer the unspoken question, no I have never been overtaken on a non-motorway and I do make full use of the blower to overtake - especially uphill on the assumption that any undeclared speed traps are at the bottom of the hill.
All data from the on-board computer.
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Last Edit: Feb 22, 2018 17:43:42 GMT by theoldman
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Have you tried to SORN it on-line?
My 1967 420 was SORNed re 98 and when I tried to SORN it I seem to recall I got a message to the effect it wasn't necessary. Suggested to me that DVLA knew it existed though which is a step in the right direction.
Sorry, no direct experience to help you though I hope to learn from your experience!
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Tip 2 - find out how to reset the inertia switch.
Many years ago I 'lowered' the floor jack under the Rover rather 'abruptly'. Car wouldn't start. Took a VERY long time to think of the inertia switch which kills the fuel pump and ignition in an 'accident' and even longer to find where it was and how to reset it.
Had my happy moment many years later when my sons were working on one the many subsequent Rovers and did the same thing. I stood there quietly trying not to laugh as they tried everything they could think off without success. When their attention was focused elsewhere I nonchalantly strolled past the bulkhead and pressed the reset button.
"Try now" says I. Held off telling them what I had done for HOURS!
Some cars will trigger their inertia switch if they are driven off a kerb a little too sharply.
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Last Edit: Dec 2, 2017 16:07:10 GMT by theoldman
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Should you happen to find your Range Rover P38 locked and with a flat battery (never!) by all means feel free to use the key manually to open the door. Please also make sure you keep said key about your person, not in the vehicle. The reason is simple in that when you apply a 12v source, the ungrateful curse word will revert to her last remembered state, i.e., locked. Key in pocket? No problem. Key in ignition? A world of mither! 😊 I have a FIRM rule that the FIRST thing I do when doing ANY work on a car is to open the driver's side window. Guess who once found themselves looking at the one ignition key they owned firmly located in the ignition of a locked car with the engine running! First time I had owned a modern car with all those little imps in their little black hutches doing funny things.
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Nov 29, 2017 17:33:08 GMT
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In a more serious tone, though, WTF is going on with the bumpers on that yellow Marina? They look like the terrible federal bumpers American market cars were blighted with in the 70s... surely the Marina never made its way to the United States of wiiiiiiide Murica? Yes it did. I recall noticing the lead character driving one in an US television programme back in the day. Cannot now recall the name of the lead actor or his character name. Stocky character actor usually playing hard nosed newspaper editor types. I seem to recall he was playing a real person who died of a disease named after him - not Louis Gehrig. Wikipedia tells me: The Marina was available in the United States as the Austin Marina from 1973 to 1975 in 2- and 4-door form. It was marketed as an Austin because Morris was a virtually unknown brand in the US and to capitalise on the success of the Austin-Healey marque. The 1973 model still had the normal small bumpers, but the 1974/5 models had large bumpers to comply with new US regulations. It was only produced with the 1800 cc engine, and was soon strangled by the emissions equipment that U.S. law required—an air pump and exhaust air injection. The US government soon accused BL of "dumping" cars in the US, which—combined with tales of poor quality—made it a poor seller, and they were not exported to the US after 1975. I've searched www.imcdb.org/vehicles.php?make=Morris&model=Marina&modelMatch=1&modelInclModel=on but haven't found it yet.
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I could have built it myself but by the time I purchased the steel, casters, pins etc - cut everything to length, welded it together & painted it + allowed for my time it would have cost me £600 plus - so at £275 in a ready to go format I thought that I could not go wrong - unlike most forum members I have to take in account how much time I have to offset for building things like this vs what workshop time that I am loosing whilst doing so Can you post a link to the supplier of that dolly please? My Googling skills have failed to find it.
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I passed my test in Dad's gunmetal grey SuperMinx - FJR 931C It had wing mirrors like this texautomotive.com/images/Classic/Mirrors/MB109.jpgMy Jaguar 420 has similar. Wing mirrors are great. They provide a clear indication of vehicle width and make placing the vehicle on the road much easier, especially in confined spaces. You always know what is behind you as the mirrors are in your field of vision at all times. When they get old and the springs have weakened they provide an HUD of speed - when they have moved enough that you can't see behind you any longer you are exceeding the National Speed Limit! 'Bat's Ears' door mirrors are the work of Satan.
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