Car tinkering

Nunogilberto

@KarlosSantos - I'll keep any eye out for that prog. I love the late model Cooper Sports - real collector's cars now.

Had mine for 5 years and did get it back on the road, but a running problem meant it came off again and it's been sat in my garage in bits ever since. I'll get around to sorting it one day...

Karlos

Yeah especially in the colour Surf Blue; one the the rarest colours.

I think the next one will be a bit more classic. Had a couple of Cooper Sports so I'm hankering after something genuinely 60's if and when the pocket permits.

Get yours back on the road for summer mate. No better way to get around when the sun is shinning as you know (note the optimism about summer;-)

Here's the car:

FX_Munkee

Well if we're doing the memory lane bit.
May I present his 'n' hers

Unfortunately we're down to just "His" now, 3 kids and 2 roadsters is an equation that doesn't work sadly.
Also note how similar to Lotus Elan's they look

holnrew

I could never have an MX-5 without feeling like a lady.

FX_Munkee

holnrew said:

I could never have an MX-5 without feeling like a lady.

I've never really got that "it's a girls car" thing about MX-5's.
If you know about cars, you pretty quickly realise it's a lightweight sportscar, ie proper adjustable suspension, RWD, low weight, 50 50 weight distribution, great short gearbox. Very old school Lotus really.
In the past I have had a couple of shouts of "Gay boy!" usually from fat blokes in vans? When I try to point out to them that they're driving a van they don't seem to get it?
I do have a sticker that reads "No hairdressing equipment is left in this car overnight" though

Corvus

I am wrestling with a '66 Volvo Amazon, my daily drive usually. The brain cell doesn't understand modern stuff. It could do with a good lot of bodywork & paint, but after doing a Landy and a Hillman I'm totally off sanding cars... I'm about to nail in a new radiator, do a carb rebuild and other stuff. Got a motorbike too (also needs work... ).

FX_Munkee

Corvus said:

I am wrestling with a '66 Volvo Amazon, my daily drive usually. The brain cell doesn't understand modern stuff. It could do with a good lot of bodywork & paint, but after doing a Landy and a Hillman I'm totally off sanding cars... I'm about to nail in a new radiator, do a carb rebuild and other stuff. Got a motorbike too (also needs work... ).

Nice (but we need pics!). Totally with you on the bodywork thing though, it's the only thing that I draw the line at. I miss carbs. In the days of yore I had a Manta 400 which used a pair of twin Webbers (ie 1 carb per cylinder) so I got quite good with them <misty_eyes/>.

Corvus

She looks posher here than she really is, but --

The pool old gal's had baling wire for a bonnet cable, a leaky rad, knackered carb, passenger footwell turns into a swimming pool in the rain so no mats etc.. but she keeps on going 
Manta - nice...

Foster

Love the Volvo! The Beemer needs some bodywork, but nothing major

FX_Munkee

Love the Amazon
Can't put my finger on why but I just see them as a "proper" car, like an original Alfa Giulia, say.
Something to do with classic styling and just enough of what you need?

Corvus

Cheers guys. I had two estates before, had to sell my last when in dire straits (not the headband-wearing variety), they're reliable old things but do like to rust. Simple enough for me to mostly understand too, the pic of the Bimmer gubbins looks terrifying!

boogieman

I've got a stack of old Practical Classics mags from the early - mid 90s if anyone wants 'em for free. They'd need picking up, mind. I used to be hugely into classic cars and I ran a Rover P6 3.5 for a couple of years. Lovely car but 12 mpg round town... ouch.

57Deluxe

don't talk to me about cars...

Foster

Corvus said:

Cheers guys. I had two estates before, had to sell my last when in dire straits (not the headband-wearing variety), they're reliable old things but do like to rust. Simple enough for me to mostly understand too, the pic of the Bimmer gubbins looks terrifying!

It's not too bad really, there are some electrical bits and bobs to know about though. I am a complete newbie to classic cars (first car was a Rover 111 sli - a metro to you and me - that was easy enough to work on) and even I can figure some of the stuff out!

Axe_meister

I miss tinkering with the rover v8 in my old triumph TR7.
Balancing carburators with tubes stuck in each ear.

johnnyurq

57Deluxe said:

don't talk to me about cars...

OK.

Did you see the Bears game? What about those Yankees eh?

chillidoggy

Axe_meister said:

I miss tinkering with the rover v8 in my old triumph TR7.
Balancing carburators with tubes stuck in each ear.

Is that when you had your brains sucked out?

mike_l

chillidoggy said:

Axe_meister said:

I miss tinkering with the rover v8 in my old triumph TR7.
Balancing carburators with tubes stuck in each ear.

Is that when you had your brains sucked out?

No, that was when he got confused and put the pipes on his nads.

chillidoggy

Could be, the Rover V8 was a pretty ballsy motor.

FX_Munkee

chillidoggy said:

Axe_meister said:

I miss tinkering with the rover v8 in my old triumph TR7.
Balancing carburators with tubes stuck in each ear.

Is that when you had your brains sucked out?

I used to know a girl who could do that.