Outlaw Anglia - took it racing & lifted the wheels!

You didn't miss much, it's a tiny picture. Here is a screen grab. I stopped using Facebook a few months ago and I only drop in there to keep up with some car groups and local chatter as a silent lurker. Having started using it again this weekend I've found I don't quite understand how it works now. It all seems to be subtly different. So I assumed that I had tagged you via my reply to Collin (he's the bloke who owns the gold Anglia I was waffling on about previously) but evidently tagging is not a feature that works anymore (or I'm doing it wrong).

PS, big lols at your comment!!

Even if it were true, it would be more than fair to say the student has surpassed the master. *dons anti-flouncing suit*

Oi!

This is a serious thread, we'll have none of that flouncy stuff here thank you! That belongs on that Quatermass thread.






**flounces**

Great video Mark

Two questions: 1. what's the clear thing at the top of the windscreen & 2. is the annoying knocking noise engine or transmision?

Clear thing is a fresnel lens so I can see traffic lights when parked under them with a chopped roof and sitting in the back - very useful.

Annoying knocking noise is the exhause note - it's bothered me from day one as it sounds like a cam lobe knocking - but after 2500 miles I know its not the case and you can't hear it on the outside - its just a nice deep burble. It's just an unfortunate audio inside the car noise - sounds far worse in the video than real life as the mic seems to pick up on that sort of noise.

Thanks for both explanations Mark.

I skidded because I drove it beyond its limits - I was going to shoot out on to the roundabout to pass the slow car but I got caught out as a car was coming and I had not slowed down so had to stop from about 30 to zero in about 15 feet . My own fault.

Poo. Wibblepoo *wellington*

Off to a local car meet & it broke down tonight. Starting running rough on anything but idle, so limped it back home where I poked a bit at the carb, did some Wide Open Throttle pulls (neighbours must have loved that) and it cleared up. Took it out again and it seemed ok, until it didn't and it conked out. Hazards on and had to push it off the road.

Local passer by offered to help and generally said nice things about it and after a minute it did start again but running rough. Managed to limp it back home again where it ran nice again?

So, decided to go to the meet in it, but as I was concentrating on whether it was running ok or rough I went past our local speed camera...FLASH....FLASH ......curse word!!! Not sure of my speed but less than 35mph. Just when I had a clean licence again too

Seemed to run ok until I was in the middle of the motorway roundabout where it started to conk out again, so floored it hard which resulted in it surging a few times & pinking a lot, but then running ok. Ran smoothly to the meet & back so I'm guessing it had some curse word in on of the carb jets, I'll strip it down this week to see if there is any debris in the bowls.

Unwittingly at the meet I did something I have never ever done before, I locked the drivers door using the inner door lock and then shut the door - carefully checking I had keys in pocket before doing this!

Came back later & unlocked door handle...........but door remained firmly locked

*spangle* The inner door locks 'deadlock' the locks and are independant of the outer door locks....

Not possible to break into car without serious damage either..........hmmmmmm..........

Fellow car nuts all had a look in tool boxes and luckily my friend Colin had some Allen keys, so we took the passenger door handle off to see if we could operate the latch somehow through the handle hole. Luckily I built the car so I know how the parts work inside the door, a bit of thinking and picturing in my mind of the relevant parts and I managed to undo the deadlock - we refitted the handle and I opened the door.

Phew!! I won't lock the door that way again.

An eventful evening - unfortunately for all the wrong reasons