My toys (Alfa and Volvo) Holliday times

Looks like the list of home projects is getting longer and longer and my cars and toys are moving backwards..

More construction work. Demolished the old badly insulated and leaky washroom and car port to replace by a new far better usable piece:
New fundaments:


Start of the build (yesterday) with a professional and one donkey (me) bringing al stuff etc.



Beside that we are replacing the kitchen and decided to add warm water underfloor heating to our living room and new kitchen. Removing the old tiles and top layer concrete (to gain enough construction height under the window and door frames) was a dusty party;



But after this project I will continue with my Duett (I promised myself..).

Thom

After months of building work slowly going over to finishing and painting I took a day off of all this and visited last Saturday our yearly Alfa Romeo gathering at the Zandvoort Circuit. The night before I repaired the right side window mechanism and the door lock which refused to open the door.
Weather was wet and on the way up (single way distance 197Km.) my wipers packed up..
But we arrived in one piece (just driving a bit faster so the drops where dragged away by the wind..).
Parked the green horror in line with it's sisters (they always do a type sorted parking).


Saw a lot of people which I did not see for a few years (Corona etc.) and nice cars.


Alfa AR35 obviously a renamed Iveco daily. I do not know why did did so but only sold on the Italian and Swiss market like this. Bought mainly by communities.


Alfa Giulietta 116 transaxle


Nissan Cherry Europe (aka Alfa Arna) with Nissan body and Alfa engine. The flop of the century. In this collaberaton they also planned a smal jeep like the Misubishi Pajero Pinin which is a shame they did not built it in the end as it looked really good..


An alfa Romeo Giulia super Giardinetta (never called so officially) which was built for the Italian Police and some Alfa Dealers. Only a few 100 built.


Alfa 33 3 litre


Alfa 8c 2300 Lungo compressor from around 1933


Alfa 2300 Rio which was built in Brazil.


Just a nice day. I took my father with me and the old man also enjoyed himself very much.

On the way home the door lock decided to stop working again (well it works too well I cannot open the door from inside or outside now), the wiper worked sometimes and after the pee stop the starter would only engage after 6 or 7 tries. I was actually just want to go out to give it a push with my father moving over from the passenger seat as he could not open the door I started it one more time and the starter engaged. I pushed my dad back verbally and jumped in and off we went again.
Must have been a strange sight seeing an old car parking, people crawling out of the drivers door. Trying to open the passenger door from the outside without success. Pulling and pushing the wipers and cursing. Going for a pee. Then crawling in again from the drivers side and after far too long moving on again.
The powertrain was running faultless but I assume that due to the earlier engine problems which resulted in 1,5 years of minimum use the rest of the car needs to be waked up again or is falling apart now. Well the restauration is more than 20 years old now an I used it (around 50.000Km.or 31000 miles) for commuting, holidays track days etc.
So beside my Volvo work I heard the Alfa now that it also wants some more attention..

Cars..
Thom

I have been struggling for these type of adapters for ages!

I tried some cheap ebay versions and completely the wrong size.

Found some on Amazon and ordered. 2 black focuses with LED headlights on the forum!

Thanks!!

Bit of a fail for me here. Bought the tyre K adapters and they don't seem to fit at all... Correct shape but the mounts aren't wide enough to clip onto the lens.

Don't suppose you have an image of the adapter in without the bulb? I would not be surprised if there multiple headlight manufacturers ford use.

Great help!

It looks like the clips mount completely differently to how i had assumed.

Will try again later.

My Osram LED Bulbs are all one piece.

Thanks!

That’s a nice looking bit of kit. 👍

Well finally the preparation work for my new carport (due to be built somewhere around May or June) has started. The little street which passes my Garage entrance (at the back side of our garden) was taken out for mayor sewage renewal work which was halted due to the cold weather.
This gave the ideal opportunity to ax the (pine) tree down which annoyed me already as long as I lived here (7 yrs) with all the mess it spread all year round.
We could now take easy the branches down without disturbing traffic as the road is closed (they took the tarmac out just before the freezing).

The height was just manageable for not needing professional help.

I did however hire a guy with an machine to strip all the loose branches etc to centimeter size as I did not want to drive 10 times to the tip. :-)



The removal of the big tree roots are taken care of in a smooth transaction including a road workers crane and a crate of beer ;-)

Next step is to clean up all the mess on the back side of the garage and after the winter pour the corner foundations.

Thom

Started with clearing out my in laws garage. My father in law studied chemistry and became a senior supply and production manager for a local photo copier producer (he started in the toner production).
Unfortunately he died 1,5 years ago and my mother in law died just before Christmas last year.

He had collected a nice collection of mainly older tools and I went through it. It felt rather voyeuristic to go through somebodies collection of tools to be honest.

I found some stuff I really do not know what it is (will post some pictures of these in the near future).
But one part I already loved for years is the TNW column drill.



It is a genuine piece which is at least 40 years old (my in laws got it 2nd hand more than 30 years ago).

Now I have to organize two mates to move it to my garage as it is very heavy.

Thom

As already earlier told I lost both my in-laws in the last 1,5 year. Wile cleaning out the garage of my father in law I found some tools that I cannot identify;



The middle on looks like a leadline to keep a straight line while brick laying etc. but the others??

Thom