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gezzard
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Metro wheels and hubs.gezzard
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Apr 20, 2024 21:15:22 GMT
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Cheers! Next job is sorting out some of the rusty patches.
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gezzard
Club Retro Rides Member
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Club RR Member Number: 69
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Metro wheels and hubs.gezzard
@gezzard
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Apr 20, 2024 15:14:20 GMT
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Just in case anyone was wondering what happened here, I simply bought new wheels with the correct size centre bore! JBW mini light 5x12 etc 31 jobbies, swapped the tyres over and voila! This is much better! Only I forgot to put on the centre caps😟
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Last Edit: Apr 20, 2024 15:16:17 GMT by gezzard
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gezzard
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Mar 27, 2024 12:17:19 GMT
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Something like a Chrysler Imperial LeBaron, looks cool as. But would be totally unsuitable for where I live.
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gezzard
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Sold gezzard
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Last Edit: Mar 16, 2024 9:20:01 GMT by gezzard
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gezzard
Club Retro Rides Member
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Club RR Member Number: 69
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Metro wheels and hubs.gezzard
@gezzard
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So after finding the wheels I bought don't fit, I purchased some spacers and it looked hunky dorey until I tried to drive it. The wheels catch the arches Oh dear, I did use 32mm spacers each side, grayston universal ones. Anyway, the problem is the hubs have these silly centering lugs which means I either need wheels 4x101.6 and a centre bore of 65mm which I don't seem to be able to find with a reasonable (50ish Metro) offset. Any other ideas? Swap the hubs for Mini ones? These are the lugs in question
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Last Edit: Mar 9, 2024 16:39:46 GMT by gezzard
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gezzard
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Realistic Metro Values?gezzard
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6 grand? I better drag mine out of its winter slumber and get it sold!
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gezzard
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Jan 31, 2024 17:35:50 GMT
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This came (and is still on) the keys to my 1990 Metro, I believe it's a Suzuki keyring of an unknown vintage.
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gezzard
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Jan 22, 2024 12:12:58 GMT
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Here's a picture from AS looks like it was taken down in Hythe.
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gezzard
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The RR Spotted Threadgezzard
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That Minor is always parked in Strood Morrisons, I took a pic of it there 7 years ago!
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gezzard
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1999 VW Golf cabriolet, close, it's missing the roll bar and swage line, but I like it!
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gezzard
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I really like that, love the red interior against the black Paint. good job it's a couple of hundred miles away.
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gezzard
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This car doesn't existgezzard
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Nov 20, 2023 19:12:34 GMT
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Not sure what happened here
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gezzard
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Help me ID these wheelsgezzard
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Nov 20, 2023 12:12:36 GMT
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Borbet T would be my guess.
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gezzard
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Thanks for taking the time to upload these, a couple of nice E36 and Z3 BMW in part 2, which has now got me browsing eBay.
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gezzard
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On some threads, mainly for sale ones with pictures, I have to pinch the screen to zoom out a bit, which then makes the text a bit small for my 46 year old eyes, any solution? (Aside from glasses/magnifying glass!😋)
On an android phone using chrome, if it helps.
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gezzard
Club Retro Rides Member
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Sept 25, 2023 16:01:44 GMT
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Was that the truck that had the write up in the window about being parked up for 32 years, and has been owned for about a week? It may have been a different one, I don't know, I looked at far too many cool cars.
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gezzard
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Sept 25, 2023 11:12:35 GMT
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I thought I recognised the Astro from here. Anyway, I grabbed this photo of it, I barely took any photos, it took ages to walk around them all. I was the other side too, here!
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Last Edit: Sept 25, 2023 11:14:09 GMT by gezzard
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