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One problem I have is that with my garage being often filled with immobile cars, parts and otherwise a bit inaccessible for routine maintenance tasks and me having a damn gravel drive (looks nice but a sod to try jack a car up on...) I came up with a wee plan involving some old paving slabs and a couple of mates to help out with the excertion. Its a big garage but its full of equally big cars Plymouth has a bit more rear space. But not much Hmmm need a tidy up Slot mags are breeding again Work bench is unworkable. Mostly Olds transmission removal curse word on there Poor old Plymouth So I decided to lay a small patio in the drive which can be used for jacking up on, I just happen to have 10 used 2'x2'x3" paving slabs which look like they could be ideal. Here's were they will be going Steve gets on with clearing the gravel. Luckily when I had the drive put in we went for a 3' compacted hardcore base in case I can ever afford to have it block paved, all we need to do is skim off the gravel and pave it. Same plan really. Nowhere near enough cement and sand Blue Circle lowering job. Actually with 5 more bags of sand in the boot it rides pretty nice. Leigh & Steve mixin' it up. first row in 2nd row in get yer backs into it yer lazee slobs ;D and then the finished article Not a bad use of 3 - 4 hours really and I'm seriously grateful to the guys for all their help on this one. Should make life a lot easier for oil changes, odd bits of underneath work and the like.
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Last Edit: Dec 2, 2007 13:10:01 GMT by akku
1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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Thinking inside the square, thats a bit out of place around here. While I'm here are there Readers Rides threads for your larger cars? I remember reading about the Cortina and the modern but not the big boys, maybe I just haven't been around long enough.
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if i can sort out pics i'll show you the concreting i've gotta do if we take on a bigger workshop... tis a biggy.
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Readers Rides threads for your larger cars? I remember reading about the Cortina and the modern but not the big boys, maybe I just haven't been around long enough. Long time ago I did something on all the big cars, then theres been scattered posts about things I've done to them since, but not a readers rides thread. I'll stick something up later. Nipping over to the inlaws now.
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1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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if I can sort out pics i'll show you the concreting i've gotta do if we take on a bigger workshop... tis a biggy. One of the thoughts we had was to do a concrete plynth. Leigh thought that was a better idea, but I had no planks, and I did have the slabs so...
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1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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Space, never seem to have enough.
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MartinC
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Don't like stretched tyres, very low profile tyres & I think a car CAN be too low. Perhaps I'm odd.
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Get two mates to do all the donkey work while I stand about clicking a camera. Hmm, a cunning plan.
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1937 Standard Flying Twelve
1943 Bedford OYD
1947 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty-Special
1954 Hillman Minx MkVIII
1956 Austin A30
1957 Vauxhall Victor Super
2001 Chrysler 300M
2002 Rover 75 Connoisseur SE Tourer
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;D Nice way of avoiding a bad back. You're lucky to have such a large flat area, my drive would challenge a bunch of sherpas!
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Peugeot 307sw - Suzuki SV650S - MX5.
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Stiff
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'kin 'ell
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I was contemplating doing my front garden with gravel (I hate mowing the lawn and it's a waste of a car space ) but now I think I may reconsider. Pavers may be the way to go. Saying that, it's on a slope and I don't go under the car much. Gravel and pavers AK stylee FTW. ;D
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concrete is ace. Thing to make sure is that it runs away from the house so that all the rainwater does too.... I had a concrete drive at the last house and it was great I could roll engine cranes, tat deliveries, dead cars etc on it no problem. Gravel sucks. The thing with concrete is it stains pretty easy so keep a pressure washer on hand. You also need to wash it down every year or so to stop it getting slippery algae growing on it.
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1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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Stu
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Good work! Me and my brother in law widened my drive the other week ready for the arrival of another car, we concreted it which was hard work and gave me a sore back but well worth it. Can now park three cars next to each other easily in the drive with room to spare, and one in the garage yet I'm at full capacity already again...!
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'89 BMW E30 325i Sport, '04 MINI Cooper S, '09 Volvo V70 D5
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myarse
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Savage, my @rse!
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i don't think that bike moved for awhile mate derby on thursday just paid for zoidac est got the imp and46 chevy and the slammed bay camper something got to go
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can you imagine me on a bike? It ain't natural...
I'm trying to get up to Derby Thurs.
Nice result on the Zody.
Imp going then?
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1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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myarse
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Savage, my @rse!
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it will go for500 the cheapest soild and straight imp ive seen since the 80s full mot but june73 you cant have everything in life
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bargain. Wheres that guiy asking five and a bit grand for one? LOL.
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1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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