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Feb 17, 2015 18:42:53 GMT
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Hey folks, Spent my weekend continuing to move house, which should explain why these threads have been a bit late/lax recently. Hope to be back in normal order soon! Car related we've been doing LOADS of RR Gathering stuff, Retro Kings stuff and finding some more photos for the Summer Holiday page (get your ferries booked at discount prices now!  )... In real world car stuff I've been looking at my new garage floor trying to work out how much effort I want to go to in order to make it flat enough to have it nicely tiled  What did you get up to? |
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Feb 17, 2015 18:46:03 GMT
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Fed the leather on the xj,,smells just lovely!!
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Fraud owners club member
2003 W211 Mercedes E class
1989 Sierra sapphire
1998 ex bt fiesta van
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matt97
Part of things
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Feb 17, 2015 19:08:56 GMT
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Sounds like you had a busy weekend HoTWire! I had quite a busy weekend, Saturday was spent cleaning the fiesta after a week at the body shop. Then Sunday I went to a small breakfast meet local to me, great way to start a Sunday. Then in the afternoon I fitted my new interior light/clock and did some boring general stuff. Overall a good weekend, just hope the fiesta goes through its MOT this weekend coming!  Regards, Matt |
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slomoshun
Part of things
Going forward one nut and bolt at a time
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Feb 17, 2015 19:23:30 GMT
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swapped out my < grand dad image > old Rover for a far superior old nissan with some get up n go about it.
Good luck on house move / future plans / that can be hard work
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Traction and horsepower is nearing perfection
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Feb 17, 2015 19:46:55 GMT
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After picking up an '88 E34 a couple of weeks ago, I spent the weekend cleaning the body up a bit, just to see how much repair work and paint I need to do on it....No photos sorry, my camera is u/s and I have never got to grips with downloading pics from my phone....
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'96 Volvo 850T5 x2, '97 Alfa 145 Cloverleaf '96 Alfa 155, '91 XR2i 2.0 Zetec (sold), '88 BMW 520i slug (sold), '81 Escort Mk3 Project, '68 Mk1 Escort Estate, Berlingo Parts Chaser.
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fred
Posted a lot
WTF has happened to all the Vennies?
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Feb 17, 2015 20:52:26 GMT
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Spent a fair bit of it clearing out the shed,
and trying to avoid conflicts with the spiders the size of cats who reside in there
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'79 Cossie ran Cortina - Sold
2000 Fozzer 2.0 turbo snow beast
'85 Opel Manta GSI - Sold
03 A class Mercedes
Looking for a FD Ventora - Anyone?
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MK2VR6
Posted a lot
Mk2 Golf GTi 90 Spec
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Feb 17, 2015 21:07:41 GMT
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Cleaning and polishing my turbo Eunos ready to sell :/  |
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Feb 17, 2015 22:48:16 GMT
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I cleaned my 5 for the first time in a long while. I felt bad for neglecting it for so long that I hand polished it, applied a sealant and put a nice wax on it. Even dressed all the plastics and sealed the glass. He must've thought it was Christmas, haha.    |
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Feb 17, 2015 22:54:09 GMT
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Saturday went to football. I follow my local non league side, Ipswich Wanderers, these days. We lost 1-0, shocking game, good banter. Gave up watching Ipswich Town years ago, but that's a story for another forum.
Sunday much more car related, out for Sunday lunch in the country and that meant a spin in the E30. Even squeezed the mother in law into the back. Nice lunch, nice drive through East Suffolk, then back home to catch up with my son as he was home from Uni for the weekend. Amazingly his £250 Corsa is still going strong.
This weekend coming is the big one, the E30's going in the body shop. Dropping off Friday then Saturday the welder's booked in. I'm there all day Saturday doing the donkey work and refurbing all the trim whilst it's off the car. Hoping to have it ready for the East Coast Retro meet on the 1st March. Then Sunday I'm off to view a house, leaving suburbia to live in a large village. The house has no garden, boo. It has no garden as it's all tarmac and has a large garage with a workshop above and loads of off road parking / storage. Hooray! I hate gardenening. Everyone's a winner!
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adam73bgt
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 4,938
Club RR Member Number: 58
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Feb 17, 2015 23:47:16 GMT
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Changed some spark plugs on the Saab, gave it a damn good clean, polish and wax  Also ripped out not one but two aftermarket bluetooth systems that were hiding in there  Plus I negotiated the sale of the Jag at long last |
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bstardchild
Club Retro Rides Member
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Club RR Member Number: 71
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Feb 17, 2015 23:47:38 GMT
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I was mainly cutting and grinding - I will be doing that next weekend too, probably the following weekend and the one after........
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randywanger_
Part of things
Nissan Bluebird P510 SSS Coupe
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Feb 18, 2015 13:36:17 GMT
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I dropped my cylinder head off to have some work done, a bit of porting and some bigger valves to go in with the titanium springs, hats thicker lash pads etc... 10,000rpm screamer.
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JohnK
North East
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Feb 18, 2015 13:39:29 GMT
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Killed the diff in this Omega -  On the way back from Nottingham, where I collected this -  |
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1999 'V' Rover 620Ti
1999 'T' Mercedes E55 AMG
1997 'R' Ford Probe 24v
1994 'M' Nissan Maxima 3.0
1992 'J' Honda Prelude 2.0iS
1986 'C' BMW 728i Auto
1985 'C' Talbot Solara 1.6 Minx
1984 'A' Talbot Horizon LE Ultra 1.3
1978 'S' Ford Cortina 1.6 GL
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Feb 18, 2015 16:34:34 GMT
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Carpeted out the back of my T4 battlebus... Still have the bulkhead to do and the roof panels. Unseized the rear caliper on my t5. Broke the rear wheel bearing on my 50cc moped i use to pootle round the lanes since ive got too lazy to cycle..  |
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Feb 18, 2015 17:48:14 GMT
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RetroMat
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Column Shifting!
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Feb 18, 2015 17:48:38 GMT
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I purchased a BMW E36 328i Touring for £300 and did a little bit of welding on the rear door of my Hiace camper
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Feb 22, 2015 18:09:25 GMT
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Mini Tat-tour Feb'15 (everyone likes a quickie!)  750 miles in 5 days (it was a long weekend  ) in a 16-seater minibus/camper cruising at 55mph with a cute bird* and a couple of dogs Points visited include... Weardale for a few days sorting family stuff Next, an overnight stop in South Wales ( via The Lakes) to catch up with mates & pick up a pair of 16 foot sea canoes  A quick trip to a top-secret army camp near Sailbury Plains to collect large & small chunks from a Hunter that was being broken Then onto deepest darkest Yorkshire for a retro joblot (including NOS Hunter wing ) from a house clearance and back to North East / Scottish borders to unpack & unwind aaand breath  * background here : retrorides.proboards.com/thread/152982 |
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vulgalour
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 7,242
Club RR Member Number: 146
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Feb 22, 2015 18:42:36 GMT
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I too went to Wales, but the North instead of the South, Anglesey to be precise and returned to the North-East (Teesside). Instead of a weekend, this was a daytrip affair. We were off to collect my latest car, something I bought a year ago.    450 miles round trip for a car I bought on the strength of some photographs that's been sat in a barn from 1993 and that I paid £80 for. Excited doesn't even begin to cover how I feel about this thing. I've promised myself no more cars this year. I must be good. |
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Feb 22, 2015 18:44:32 GMT
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curse word weather today, not much car stuff done, but fitted a new CD player in my daily c180
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Fraud owners club member
2003 W211 Mercedes E class
1989 Sierra sapphire
1998 ex bt fiesta van
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Feb 22, 2015 18:51:46 GMT
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Been to Leeds to pick up some parts for my new daily (Volvo 850 T5 Estate).
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'96 Volvo 850T5 x2, '97 Alfa 145 Cloverleaf '96 Alfa 155, '91 XR2i 2.0 Zetec (sold), '88 BMW 520i slug (sold), '81 Escort Mk3 Project, '68 Mk1 Escort Estate, Berlingo Parts Chaser.
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