Practically Classics Forum

Over the last couple of days my own fleet has taken a little bit of a back seat as a friend has dropped off something a little bit special for a little bit of electrical rehabilitation. The main complaint was that half of the dash lighting wasn't working. I quite enjoy little jobs like this so was h...

Now the Invacar is back into regular-ish use I figured it was time to start trying to properly clean the interior a bit. I'd got the very worst of the grime off originally, but there were quite a few areas which needed more detailed attention. This is where we left off after maybe an hour or two. ht...

A few days ago I went through my Citroen spares stash carefully three full times checking for a lower ball joint before I admitted defeat and ordered one. Today what did I spot sitting on the pool table...about a foot away from the P-bush which has been waiting to be dropped off at the car once the ...

The Jag is now off the road until such point as I get the tyres replaced. The front ones are ancient and had turned to more plastic than rubber and were out of round. However at £220 apiece it's one of those jobs which it takes a bit of time to build up to, especially as my husband is now looking fo...

After three days of faffing around with it I've got the paint on the engine cover...looking not quite as good as it did before I started messing with it. https://i.ibb.co/z4FwPjZ/IMG-20200828-170933.jpg I just really need to accept that bodywork isn't really my forte. It wasn't going to go well when...

Im probably going to be shouted at but have you considered getting it wrapped? I think it's what the youth are doing to their cars these days? Would itbe resistant to cracks etc? In my defence ive started watching wd and they did it to a few cars :oops: As for people sticking fingers where they sho...

So yesterday despite the car running well we had one small issue in that the grill on the engine cooling air intake fell off. Again. https://i.ibb.co/v3bVjPt/IMG-20200824-165236.jpg Given that's the only thing stopping people from sticking their fingers in here, this was something I considered sorti...

Following the replacement of the belt, TPA was out and about today to meet up with a couple of friends. You know seeing one Invacar is a rare enough sight these days... https://i.ibb.co/0fHRryy/IMG-20200823-174518.jpg https://i.ibb.co/TbZBQmH/IMG-20200823-171921.jpg https://i.ibb.co/Lk8z8hJ/IMG-2020...

A friend very kindly dropped a replacement NOS drive belt off for me this morning. This is in far, far better shape than any of the half dozen or so I originally got with the first Invacar - all but a couple of which were binned long ago as they were plainly too far gone. This one looks in fine shap...

It's coming from Rock Auto in the US as even with shipping it was half the price of one ordered from in the UK it turned out. Hope they don't sting you for import tax on top .. recently received a small gift for my wife from a US supplier and it went up by 50% when our friends at UPS added import t...