Practically Classics Forum

So here are a few photos of the new toy. ...Which is annoyingly stuck on the driveway until the V5 arrives so I can tax it! IMG_20171116_122055_scaled.jpg IMG_20171116_122108_scaled.jpg IMG_20171116_122241_scaled.jpg IMG_20171116_122304_scaled.jpg Yes, those seats *are* as comfortable as they look. ...

Quick update! Skoda went in for her MOT on Thursday. Needs two small patches of welding on the inner offside sill, but otherwise went through fine - and celebrated by bursting the clutch hydraulic line as I reversed out of the workshop. The Orange Gremlin is determined to have the last laugh. Nevert...

On the drive up to Livingston on Thursday the spot of the day was a gorgeous deep bronze/copper coloured Citroen CX Estate on a D plate, seen floating up the M6 around Stoke-on-Trent if I remember rightly. Can't remember when I last saw a CX in the wild. Saw very little else of interest to be honest...

Loved reading this! Thanks for posting! I remember a customer of my dads loved the Lada Riva's and always had a fairly new one when I was a kid. I think the last one he had was an L reg red one actually. My best friends' parents at school had a Niva too, amazing pulling power! I'm currently classic...

Well I never really got as far as fully advertising the Skoda as a friend turned up who wants it. So as soon as the events of this weekend are out the way I'll be looking at getting a fresh test on it. This will make space however for the latest arrival. An unexpected one, but one I sure wasn't goin...

Skoda is now officially for sale... I'll add its own separate thread with a plethora of photos in the for sale section tomorrow time permitting.

It'll be getting sold with a fresh year's ticket and fixed clutch all being well unless someone makes me an offer I can't refuse in its current state...

Reliant Rialto 2 in glorious beige spotted yesterday afternoon in the Central Milton Keynes Sainsbury's car park.

Quick update! Somewhat to my surprise, Tom over at lada.co.uk has ascertained that the fuel tank, pump and fuel line set for the fuel injected version of the Riva are in fact available still. So my original fabrication plans have been put on hold, as buying the whole lot in ready made is going to be...

Now my background is in electronics and electrical engineering...so I'd not expected this sort of thing to send me on such a merry old dance... When you first turn the ignition on in my Riva, the indicator tell tale on the dash blinks once, accompanied by a click from the flasher unit. Nothing happe...

Given the undergrowth around it that Midget looks to have been there for quite a while, yet at least from the photos there it looks to be in remarkably good nick. Probably for the best that it's probably at the far side of the country of I'd go looking for another project when I've already got two t...