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Hey Folks! Another week, another weekly chat, your place for stuff that may not warrant a full thread or stuff that is just going on right now that you want to share. Well a nice sunny weekend means it must be the start of summer. I didn't end up doing much car stuff over the course of it because I've got a backlog of house stuff that needs doing that started to build up in February. However I did get to go to Haynes breakfast club for a quick visit, which kept the mojo going. This week is a busy one (as always), RR Weekender video will be out on Thursday. Retro Rides 20th Birthday Camp out thread will be live today (Weekend of the 13th + 14th July, mark your calendars now). Maybe I'll even get that that Volksworld thread I planned to do in March! Also still not got to my next round of forum updates *sigh* ... hopefully soon. What you been up to? Previous Thread: forum.retro-rides.org/thread/227147/chat-thread-short-week-wc |
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Carburettor rebuilding again this week whilst, quelle surprise, waiting for parts for other vehicles.  Not quite smell-o-vision but if you are familiar with old fuel turned to varnish this picture comes close? |
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2014 - Audi A6 Avant 3.0Tdi Quattro
1958 - Chevrolet Apache Panel Truck
1959 - Plymouth Custom Suburban
1952 - Chevrolet 2dr Hardtop
1985 - Ford Econoline E350 Quadravan
2009 - Ovlov V70 2.5T
1970 - Cortina Mk2 Estate
2007 - Fiat Ducato LWB 120Multijet
2014 - Honda Civic 2.2 CTDi ES
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vulgalour
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mmm... carcinolicious!
Further to last week's Chat, I got a reply from Pilkingtons and they can indeed supply a brand new windscreen for my 44 year old car that was built by a company that hasn't existed for about twenty years. Best of all, they can deliver it too and all in it's about £500. Honestly, that's pretty cheap for what's on offer I think. Only difficulty is a 12-15 week lead time which means it'll arrive at about the same time as the baby is due for the friend helping me with the painting, but we can hardly blame Pilko's for that now can we? No, I'm not going to suggest they try holding the baby in for a bit until we've finished the roof, I like having all my limbs attached.
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After a nice weekend on the DSG stand at Tatton Park, I'm back to welding the project car.
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adam73bgt
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After a nice weekend on the DSG stand at Tatton Park, I'm back to welding the project car. Would love to get Droop Snoot Group to Gathering with a club stand, can you ask if there is interest or point me at the social secretary. |
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vulgalour
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 It had better appreciate the £614.99 I just dropped on a new windscreen (including VAT and delivery). Oof. |
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I can't stand led headlights aesthetically but you have pulled them off rather nicely there.
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misteralz
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This week I've been offered a share of a unit. It's not much more than 'proper' storage, which is something that I definitely need for the T5 over winter. And obviously nobody does winter storage. Lots of maths to be done.
And it's the DTM at Zandvoort this weekend. Tempted to head down on the Sunday. If I do, I'll do a pic thread.
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In a selfish way I've not minded the rubbish weather as the Cortina has been inoperable (self inflicted). Now that the kitchen is about finished and the bathroom problem is behind us I've had a few weeks of getting back on with it. This weekend my aim is to have the brake and fuel lines sorted and the engine and gearbox put back in for the last time so I can firstly get rid of the engine crane I "borrowed" from work for what I thought would be a fortnight but ended up being 6.5 months - they haven't noticed it's gone yet! I'd rather be going off to a show or a cars and coffee event! P.S. vulgalour the princess looks mega! |
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1966 Ford Cortina GT
2018 Ford Fiesta ST
Full time engineer, part time waffler on Youtube - see Jim_Builds
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vulgalour
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generallee: Same, tbh. I really wasn't sure these would work but they actually turned out far better than I expected. Thanks to this forum too, put a help post out and got some good advice.
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stealthstylz
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Managed to get the most of the inner wing reattached to the boot floor, had 3 after work sessions on it so far as apparently the motivation fairies have visited after been absent for several years. Just this bit left to sort now, which I knew about when I bought the car. Looks worse than it is on inspection but gonna have to hack the last 8" of the sill off for access.  |
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I spent most of the afternoon grinding down welds. I hate doing that because it's noisy and messy, and I expect my neighbours hate the noise as well. I wish I could weld without so much build-up, and that I'd thought to grind it down each time I welded something, rather than leaving it all to the end as I have. Oh well, nothing for it but to carry on.
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misteralz
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Went to the DTM yesterday. Had another German icon parked next to me when I got back to my car.  |
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Coming into winter here and over the last few weeks I've been flat out gathering firewood. By the look of the pile I've already got a head start on next year's supply.
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