Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Where's the mg pics?? Quit holding out on us.

Sorry. Had to work late.

I've fallen in love. Head over heels.

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/mini-classic/all-models/mini-van-1965/1535727

Merc still doesn't, due to my spectacular lack of ability to organise anything.

I had a couple of really fucking hairy moments on the A1 at the weekend as the brake pedal took 4 goes to stop the car. I was properly shitting myself on the way back, but thankfully the traffic-free journey back kept them cool enough to work.

I will sort this shit out.

Now then, who can still get me cans of R12 and a refil pipe / gauge?
EEI?

I want working aircon, and I want it on the cheap.

Well I offered. Have syringe and a jack even axle stands......can you afford the coffee, coke and hookers tho?

R12.....maybe with a few phone calls but get a vacuum check first as if the aircon system doesn't hold vacuum no point in adding the r12

There is no greater guarantee of female attention than driving one of those.

Nuova cinq or 850 saloon IMO

I've fallen in love. Head over heels.

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/mini-classic/all-models/mini-van-1965/1535727

That is rather splendid in LFGSS favourite colour, however the new style plates need to be banished straight away.

Hang on, Lynx will be along in a minute. He'll tell us where we're all going wrong.

About the cars. The GTI was the first euro hot hatch and at the time it was like nothing that came before it. The 127sport/gt could be claimed to be the first but did not really move out of the home markets. The golf took a 1.1 plodder and turned it in to a quick injected Persoanlly I'd add the early XR2 (round light MK1 fiesta) as a ground breaker for ford.

He has owned all of those cars it is true, including all the rare homologation models.

Do you really want to continue being a child, move on. Let it go cos if you want me to bite back, which recent post like this mean that you want me to react. Feel free to continue.

I wonder if he's ever owned an RS200?

Why would I have?

He used to restore cars for Elvis, Lord Lucan and Jimmy Saville.

Ah there is a bandwaggon to jump and here you are.

I heard he did a coach built horse box for Shergar.

A band waggon and a dead horse to pull it?

He was Enzo's right hand man.

Any more?

If I didn't know better I'd say that you guys were being sarcastic and were not grateful to benefit from lynx's knowledge and cough experience.

Ha

The best thing I like about this not so friendly piss taking is how many of you chaps (as there are many other words that are better fitting) benefited from PM's from me about free tickets to thursday at the 2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed. How many even bothered with a thank you reply?There were even comments on this thread about going to the FOS on the Thursday. No one got PM's from me this year, even tho I got free tickets. But hey ho, that is how things go.

Even offering help to people, turning up with specialist tools for no fee, when their cars were broken and even offering advice of decent trustworthy people to use nearby to where they live doesn't seem to be enough. Even helping people in the past get car parts at trade prices doesn't seem to be acceptable.

Part of me things it could be some kind of jealousy, or maybe it so outside of your realm that someone can be so different. This afternoon I worked on a friend of a friends car with a suspected head gasket failure and engine management light illuminated with a code that linked to the failure of the stepper motor. The stepper motor is the bit that is sort of like a choke on a carb. Two differing specialist could repair it and this guy was at the end of his tether with expensive bills and the car not being able to pass an MOT due to the engine management light and the car was overheating. Four hours later, the car is perfect, no more faults and no longer overheating or any issues. Do you know what the great bit was? The car is fixed, I did it and the poor guy has a working car and no hassle. So feel free to take the piss, as what ever you type on this thread, there is a great difference between the pleb who pays the money to get the work done of their pride and joy and there is the person that happily (actually more often than not, grumpily) works on a vehicle know its done properly and has the wonderful inner peace that it is all mine and no one elses.

Yep I'm a little drunk, and a little happy. This weekend I many work on the paint work on one of my motorbikes, or spend the weekend changing the clutch on an Alfa or who knows. But one thing I do know, next time one of you come bleating on here about a broken car, I will not get involved or help. Happy in the knowledge that everyone I have offered to help /and have helped should look at themselves to see what kind of person they truly are and if your behaviour is acceptable to you then go forth and multiply with peace.

Ah there is a bandwaggon to jump and here you are.

How many of them have you owned?

Bandwaggons?

Well the volvo was used to transport amps, bass and lead guitars a few times.

In a word, No.

My E30 was in Lieu of payment for work, if I'd have know better I'd have either asked for cash or spent time finishing....who am I kidding (me mainly) the other projects are things that I really think would be great. But then I spend so much time working on them, once finished I don't have enough time to use them or money to keep them.

Oh and the E30 touring Lux with the 1.8 engine is woefully under powered. The 225 wide tyres, goodyear nct eagle5, are too wide grip to well for nice rear wheel drifting. Meh the E34 525e was better, longer wheelbase more power and similar mpg. The diff whine is between 65 and 80 odd makes the touring a pain. Also the load space is a poor shape and you can't get than much in the back.

I've fallen in love. Head over heels.

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/mini-classic/all-models/mini-van-1965/1535727

glorious!

i miss my mini. i would like to restore one when i am an old fart.

almond green, white roof and those back to front wheels. mmm

(like that one crispy posted a couple of pages back)

Rosie the T4 is in for an MOT today, last time she passed with no probs, but this time? The brakes occasionally make a anti-lock type of pulse, despite being applied gently. What's going down?

Could be a warped disc, or slightly wobbly bearing.

Although the fact that it is intermittent has got me stumped. I would go for wobbly bearing, or wobbly something.

That is rather splendid in LFGSS favourite colour, however the new style plates need to be banished straight away.

It baffles me when I see a pre-'72 car with new plates. I get that in '73/'74 they'd be a way of making the car seem less old, but now? Why do it?

glorious!

i miss my mini. i would like to restore one when i am an old fart.

almond green, white roof and those back to front wheels. mmm

(like that one crispy posted a couple of pages back)

Open a savings account and stick £50 a month in there. In 30 years time blow it all on the best mini that's ever seen the light of day.

Personally I intend to sell a kidney and a cornea on the way to work and buy that van.

Do it do it do it do it do it

This is the difference between Ferrari and Porsche. No-one thinks Porsche owners are cunts, but they know that 'Rarri owners are.

Everyone except you thinks Porsche owners are cunts.

I know I'm a cunt, but I don't think all Porsche owners are cunts. Only some. My Porsche isn't a real Porsche anyway so who cares if I'm a cunt.

I've fallen in love. Head over heels.

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/mini-classic/all-models/mini-van-1965/1535727

shame about the Mk2 grille and the BL shield. With any luck the pressed one is still intact under there. If not, a Mk1 grill should be retro-fitted.

Well speaking of minis breaking down - I've done over 1000 miles since owning it and it never has broken down so to speak. Never needed a breakdown truck and has always started first time (rain or not)
I made a new circuit board for the gauges so they work and have repaired quite a lot of things myself but as said before, I've spent around 2k now repairing the mistakes of years gone by of clueless owners and a lack of regular maintenance with professionals.
Tomorrow its back in the garage to have both brake servo and master cylinder replaced (found brake fluid inside when I took the servo out)
The brakes had been the last thing annoying me - the pedal would not fully return immediately. This is the last part of the brakes now that hasnt been changed and if the problem remains I will be very very confused indeed!
Gonna be pricey though - £200 in parts alone then a couple hours labour its gonna be around 300 before VAT %$£&!!!
But the drive home from the garage makes it all worth it and the car acts as a motivation for me to work harder and subsequently keep it on the road longer :)
p.s. literally cannot wait for cadwell park!

Although yours hasn't broken down you've done a lot of preventative work and fixing things up. Which proves my point, if you don't do that, it's going to start going wrong.

I know I'm a cunt, but I don't think all Porsche owners are cunts. Only some. My Porsche isn't a real Porsche anyway so who cares if I'm a cunt.

To be fair, any 924, 944, 928 air cooled 911, 912 or 914 is OK.
It's just all the modern stuff. Especially the Cayenne.

I was tempted by a cheap Boxster, but I just cannot bring myself to do it. People might see me in it.

Everyone except you thinks Porsche owners are cunts.

yep, you are comparing classic porsches to modern ferraris, too.

i thought the consensus was that anyone with money that dared spend it a flashy car was a cunt?

I know I'm a cunt, but I don't think all Porsche owners are cunts. Only some. My Porsche isn't a real Porsche anyway so who cares if I'm a cunt.
yo gont one?! Which one dude?

A non-running 924 that's been hand spray-painted in matt black, no interior, and two Kirkey alloy drag racing bucket seats.