Practically Classics Forum

I've always felt really sad that I've yet to find a decent miniature of a Lada Riva (ideally estate). I have recently found a few. Merc T1 van - which I think turned up a matter of days before I actually got one...odds of ever finding one of my actual camper are slim to none I imagine. Also have a n...

That's quite the collection there! I've very much got my eye on one of the Model 70 miniatures. Just need to try to find a month without any major unexpected expenditure to roll round before I can justify spending that much on something that I really don't have anywhere to display yet! Sadly things ...

A little closer examination of a slightly less mangled stud has me now pretty certain that we're looking at 3/8" UNF. That would be 9.52mm when it came fresh off the cutter... https://i.ibb.co/PG5knPh/IMG-20190904-191231.jpg A friend locally has a set of imperial thread gauges which should help us c...

I'm new to buying classic cars, I've just always had a real admiration for them. What kind of price would this one go for? It's hard to say really. These are cars which have quite a niche appeal, and the market for which is only really starting to figure out what it's doing with itself at the momen...

We all knew this was not going to be simple didn't we! So far I've ascertained that the Model 70 does NOT use Mini wheel studs. They're screw in ones rather than the splined knock-through type. It became immediately apparent once I pulled the wheel off that my intention to change all the studs was s...

Had a spare hour this afternoon so figured it would be a good time to start tackling the snagging list on the Invacar. The repainted engine cowl was reunited with the engine. https://i.ibb.co/wr2pTvt/IMG-20190902-161432.jpg Being such a visible thing in the engine bay this immediately makes it look ...

You know a while ago I gave some of the rusty and/or scruffy metalwork in the engine bay some paint? I really should of either held off doing that until after I painted the rest of the car or masked it off. https://i.ibb.co/gj79tH9/IMG-20190830-172927.jpg Oops. On the plus side it wasn't exactly a w...

I figure that by far the best thing for TPA at the moment is to cover miles given how long she's sat dormant. To this end I took the very long way round both to and from the shops this afternoon, covering roughly another 40 miles. https://i.ibb.co/L8MyWpQ/IMG-20190829-162550.jpg Nothing I've ever ow...

Things today started out in a frustrating way. The throttle cable kit I had been waiting for since the sixth of August finally arrived today. However it immediately became apparent that it did not contain the parts I needed. What I thought were the small barrel shaped cable ends in the tiny blurry i...

Possibly, though I've always found products like that historically to be really heavy (granted I've never handled actual Dynamat)...and I'm conscious that all this stuff adds up. The carpet option isn't going to be exactly light to start with. Definitely something to consider at the very least for t...