|
|
Jan 15, 2016 23:52:10 GMT
|
Nice little write up, good work, keep it up.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jan 12, 2016 15:16:40 GMT
|
Not another one, this is so sad
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jan 12, 2016 15:07:48 GMT
|
It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to work out what's going on if cortinas are going missing close the venue of an all cortina banger race.
From what I've read and heard over the years, most racers are honest and it's a small percentage that race stolen cars. The idea of only being able to race with a vin present with V5 would help things a lot.
I would like to see the honest racers get together and stamp this out of their sport. A few years ago this was being discussed on a ford forum and a banger racer was talking about it. I still remember his words "I race bangers, but all my cars are honest, I know lads that steal cars to race, but I would never do that." Someone must have an idea of who's doing it and people must turn a blind eye.
I'm amazed in the age of such strict health and safety that banger racing is still allowed to happen. Maybe the track could do the decent thing and cancel the cortina only meeting if it's obvious cars are being stolen for it.
I've had bikes for years and I always hear tales of road bikes going missing and turning into either track or race bikes. One of the bikes magazines reported that police were at a club meeting checking frame numbers and scanning bikes to check for data tagged parts on the bikes and that many racers were turning their fans around and going home when they came the circuit and found out these checks were happening.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jan 10, 2016 14:40:29 GMT
|
Cool that's looks a nice bike. I used to have a trx, it was a great bike.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
For me, almost nothing at all. I very nearly got made redundant a few weeks ago, but then got offered a new job within the same company. In 3 weeks I start an adult apprenticeship and I am being retrained in our companies academy and it lasts 6 months. This means a bit of a drop in wages while I retrain, so I'm going to have a quiet life and pretty much stay at home in my spare time till its done. Quite a scarey thing for me, it's like going back to school and I'm 40.
My big plan as mentioned in another post is to have a big sell off of all the stuff I don't use. Also I'm going to stop drinking as much too, I spend too much on bottles of nice spirits. The money from selling plus drinks saving is going to get put to one side and hopefully I'll be able to get a retro car and come to the gathering as a treat once my 6 months apprenticeship is over.
I'll be looking forward to all the photos and event reports while I'm training and studying away!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I can't really roll up in my standard Audi A4 so I've decided for the new year to set myself a challenge. Clear out anything I don't use that's lying around the house, garage and in the loft and see if it ads up to enough to buy a retro car for the gathering.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I can just about remember my Dad's Morris Marina in the early 80s. We went to blackpool in that for a holiday. After that he had a Talbot Sunbeam for most of the early 80s which I always liked. I can still remember 1985 or 1986, my Dad had got rid of the Sunbeam and was given his first company car, a Cavalier hatch back on a B reg, it must have been a year old when he got it. I was stood with my brother, sister and mother all waiting outside for him to bring it home. As a boy growing up, I was really into scalextric and radio controlled cars.
My first go of a car was sometime in the late 1980s, I was only about 14, it was an old Vauxhall Viva. I had no idea what I was doing and ended up all over the road, with the car jumping up and down as I couldn't use the clutch properly. This was on an old industrial estate with no traffic, my mate, also 14 used to help at the local garage on Saturdays and they gave him this old Viva to play with.
After leaving school I got a motorbike at 17 and stayed on those for a long time. I loved cars but had no money for one or to learn to drive. I think I was 24 when I finally learned to drive and pass my test, I was using bikes all year round, and was finding it hard in the cold, and had enough of falling off in snow and ice.
I bought a Rover 416 GSI, and I would have probably just settled with a life normal modern cars. Any car I had been in was not really exciting for me after riding a fast bike. A mate gave me a go of a highy tuned mk3 supra turbo. That was the turning point for me, this car was very quick, but also looked so much cooler than anything in our works carpark. I sold my Mondeo after driving that and bought a Supra mk3. From then onwards I have always owned retro and retroish cars. The Supra lead to my love of RWD cars, which in turn got me into a Capri by chance then other old 80s Fords.
An interesting thing, is that between myself, my dad and my brother, there is only me thats into cars. My parents visit me in Leeds every few months and my Dad is puzzled when he comes, by the cars I have. For him a car is just a way to get from A to B and nothing else. He doesn't get why I would want an old car or something different. He just wants to own a reliable reasonably cheap car to run. My brother has always owned modern cars too.
So I have no idea where my love of cars comes from, certainly not from my family.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
My 2 Jaguars (both mid 90s xj6) were maybe the only 2 cars I didn't get bored of. When I had the money to run them they were brilliant. When work dropped down, and my wages were really low I couldn't afford the fuel. Going to see my parents was £60 in the jaguar, whereas it's £20 now in my Audi. I would buy another without hesitation when money gets better. Could fancy a xj40 sometime, something a bit more older than the 2 X300 model I had.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I'm similar to Mercdan in that my last couple of cars have been mid to late 90s. I love retrorides, it's the only car site I go on. I look around it a lot, I don't post all that much, I just enjoy reading and looking at pictures. I had a fair bit of enthusiasm for my 1997 jaguar xj6 on here when I started a thread. A of people dig jags, the mid to late 90s ones are getting retroish but not full on retro in my opinion.
At the moment I have a 1996 avant tdi. I have no intention of putting any pics up of or starting a thread. I just don't see anyone being interested in it, it's a run of the mill (quite good) but boring car. Where as a similar age jag or Merc is proper cool for me.
So for now I'm just here enjoying people's builds and pictures, while dreaming of what I will buy next.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I got the afternoon off work, so I have listened to this while I sat playing games on my ipad. I enjoyed it.
The only thing I would suggest, is to make the future ones shorter. Maybe have them at 30 minutes. When I am at work doing normal hours, there's no way I would have time to sit for a full hour listening to a podcast. Unless I could play it through my ipod via a cable into the stereo in my van. I would rather have 2 x 30 mins ones a month, than 1 x 60 mins a month. I can squeeze 30 mins in no problem but I would find it hard to drop everything and sit for a full hour.
Anyway thats just my thoughts. Best of luck with it.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
My mate parked his car somewhere he shouldn't have a few years ago. When he got back to it, there was an a4 sticker on his windscreen with a picture of Mickey Mouse saying please don't park here. He tired to peel it off and it half came off and left an a4 shape of white stickiness that took weeks to get off. Not a bad idea to get your point across.
In the short term I would do as suggested and get a sign saying "please don't block my garage, I can't get my car out"
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I've got an Ivans jet kit fitted to my Fazer, little air box mod with K&N filter & a carbon end can. Gearing is standard but it still wheelies in 1st & second from throttle alone. I'm not complaining, might even fit a bigger rear sprocket this year for extra fun! My mate has a Fazer too. We aren't far from Long Marston air field so will look into dragging him along to a RWYB day in the summer. I must say that the standard Yamaha clutch is bloody tough. I give mine all kinds of abuse (3rd gear mainly) & it just takes it. Amazing really. I've got 3, Yamaha FZ750s too but only 1 that you would recognise as a bike. Nice old things they are. Do you have any pics of the FZ750s? They are lovely bikes.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The only tuning is the race can to free up the power and a 14t sprocket to lower the gearing, which help it get down the strip quickly but causes even more wheelies.
I did have another bandit a few years ago which had a bit of work done to the engine, I ran a 10.3 1/4 mile on that one.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nice one peanut. Proper wheelie machine the bandit. Lots of power at low revs. Often wonder how my fazer 1000 would do up the strip. It should run mid 10s on stock wheelbase. My lass is into her yams, she has an exup 1000 and fazer 600.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I've lost count of the bikes I have owned, despite my love of old cars, mostly bikes have come first, anyway, here's my current 2. My main bike, a mk1 bandit 1200 This is taken riding over the mountain at the TT last year Also I sometimes run it at the drag strip, here is has the suspension lowered front and rear, it's running low 11s but it would drop into the 10s with a long arm, it wheelies like mad and I can't get the power down. This I have been working on the for last 2 years, and old 1990 gsxr1100, the infamous killer K model, it's nearly done and ready for the road
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Just over a year ago I posted this so here's what happened since then, sort my my end of year story,
I got into drifting with the mx5 and thought it would be my new hobby, we had a free home made track but the police shut it down. So I sold the mx5 very quickly after putting this thread up. It was a mk2 NB, everyone wants the NA so at first I got no interest, but mine was a S model with LSD so it was quite desirable and went with no problems. I found a lovely 1998 Jaguar XJ6 executive for £700 and bought that. I ran it till the summer and then work went dead, I mean really dead. Since mid summer to now I have been going to work in the morning and there's been hardly anything to do and I've ended up home by lunchtime most days. Good thing as still getting 40 hours a week pay even if I did 15-20 hours but it's a low basic and I have lost all my bonus. So the jaguar became a bit expensive to keep, average 15mpg is no good. It got to the point where it was costing too much to visit family or have a day at the coast.
So I stuck the jaguar up for sale after about 8 months, and got just more than I paid for it. I bought a K11 micra 1.0 for £270 on eBay, bought blind it was ok but smelt of dogs, I should say 10 wet dogs. I got loads of very cheap interior parts from the local scrapyard and swapped it all over and made it a lot nicer. I just didn't like it at all, it was slow, cramped, and had no pas. I struggled as I have 2 bad wrists and 1 bad elbow from breaks from bmx and scooter accidents. It was known as Ken the dog kennel, I could have maybe kept it and lived with it if it had pas, but it got sold quickly. After that I went back to an an thread on here where I asked about cheap motoring, MK2VR6 suggested a avant tdi would be a good car, cheap to run and huge room. I picked a very tidy one of those up for £600 and I've had that for a few month now.
So right now the avant is mega, does 55 mpg everywhere either motorway or town and there's tons of room it's so useful. But I am starting to think about the gathering. The avant isn't a car to bring there, no one wants to see a stock a4 avant and it's slightly too new anyway. I'm trying my hardest to keep my head down and use that for a few month, then maybe getting something retro for the gathering later this year.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gumtree is great as it's free to put adverts on.
eBay auctions can be terrible. I sold one of my celicas on eBay. After it ended the winner email saying "this is car is diesel yes? I only want a diesel" caused a ton of hassle. He refused to pay saying it was not clear that my car was petrol. It said twice very clearly that my car was a 5 speed petrol manual. eBay do nothing to help you if you have a non paying buyer.
I have had great success with eBay classified adverts. I list it using this method with lots of pics and a clear description, I'm very honest about the condition as it helps eliminate time wasters and people who pick at minor faults. What I tend to do is advertise it at 10-15% over the price I want. Say if I want £850 I will put it up at £1000, I will remove the option to make an offer on the car. Then I write the main text that I am open to close offers, but only after someone has viewed the car. I say, I have removed the make an offer button as although I open to offers, I don't want anyone making an offer without seeing the car. I have found this way has gave me the best success selling.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I love this thread, I really want a civic with nets and then put a hockey mask on then go thrash the streets of Leeds.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dec 29, 2015 16:52:51 GMT
|
Really cool little thread. I remember watching a documentary about these racers. I might have seen it on YouTube, not sure. The cars are cool and I love the stuff like the window nets and the hockey masks.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dec 29, 2015 14:06:52 GMT
|
If I get one I'll have to get a model with pas, both my wrists and 1 elbow are not 100% from old injuries sustained from bmx and micro scooter crashes so I find non pas cars very hard work.
|
|
|
|