Introductions

[Paul Castrol R]

Hi. Glad to see the re-worked forum back on and full of useful and interesting stuff.

I passed my driving test in 1986 and my first car was a '55 Prefect 100E, followed by a '60 Popular, a '58 Sprite, a '59 Sprite, a '72 Midget, a '76 260Z and 2 more Sprites which I still own along with an '85 MR2, and a '67 Mini. Other drives were a '49 Morris Eight, a '80 Allegro Equipe and my parents car, a '02 Arrol Johnston.

[rob76gt]

We had a thread for new users on the old forum so i thought i would start an introductions thread for new users on the new forum.
Confused yet?

If you're new to the Practical Classics forum put a few lines in here to say who you are and what you're driving at the moment.

Surprised when the old forum vanished found a link and registered here again. My name is Rob (clue is in the user name) and I have owned an enormous amount of rubbish mainly from BMC/BL over the years. Never had the money to pay someone to look after them so had to learn to do most things. Terrible at bodywork but can tackle everything else. Last classic was 1976 MGB GT I converted to Chrome for considerably less than £100 using parts from ebay and a little lateral thinking!

No classic at the moment (although I am looking). Daily driver is Ford Cougar 2.5V6 that refuses to go wrong and I keep my and in servicing that.

[CHPD]

Hi everyone,

I'm Ian, my current 'fleet' at the moment consists of....

1991 Toyota Supra 3 litre turbo
1979 Toyota Celica ST
1971 Range Rover
1985 Land Rover 110
1992 Land Rover Discovery
1977 Jeep Cherokee Cheif Golden Eagle
1987 Toyota Land Cruiser HJ60
1992 Peugeot 405 Turbo diesel (daily hack)

I'm a big fan of the Toyota Mk3 Supra and Land Rovers/classic 4by4s as you can probably tell. All of my vehicles have a use one way or another! I'm currently thinking about getting an Audi Coupe GT or something similar. This will be the year of consolodating my cars and finding a new direction. In an ideal world, I'd like a Delorean and have been saving for one (with varying degrees of success) since I was 7 (Thank you very much glodal recession)

Good to be back on the forum!

[Zooney]

Currently own a 1970 Rover P6b in original non-pc tobacco leaf brown (although my wife has a more descriptive name for the colour) which is a weekly use car and a 1955 Morris Oxford carefully stored for the good of future generations in my garage ( also known as "why is that pile of rust in the garage while my Audi TT stands outside" car ) My daily runner is a future classic (hopefully - as this will out weigh the embarrassment of once again explaining that the car is not named after a medical instrument ) a Ford Probe . The probe was a "fill in" car that stayed despite the welcoming comment - " Its called what and why is it parked on the drive where the Audi should be". I will be having a bit of a clear out soon with the Rover and the wife together with Audi moving on to new owners and vacating the premises so I can concentrate on getting the oxford back on the road

[JPB]

Hello. The Rover & The Oxford sound good, can we see pictures please?

RE the Probe:
It could have been worse; Ford were planning to name their coupé "Speculum", but ultimately, the budget wouldn't stretch that far.

[michaelw]

since everyone else has said hello and introduced themselves, i guess `d better do the same

i`m Michael, from jaywick in essex.... where many of the street names are named after many (now defunct) car manufacturers. i`ve had several morris minors, Ford 100e Pop and a 240 Volvo in the past, but i`m taking delivery tomorrow of an Austin A40 Farina that was for sale locally. The plan is to get the essential work completed to get an MOT then carry out a rolling restoration

[JohnE]

John here - In Loughborough Leicestershire.

I would like the following offences to be taken into consideration;

1968 AMC Rebel SST Convertible - needs exhaust repairs (hence my recent thread) and handbrake adjustment to pass MOT
1967 AMC Rebel SST Convetible - Parts car that ironically has better bodywork and possibly better engine and box, but hasn't seen road use for at least 20 years.
1956 Chevrolet 210 4dr Hardtop - Bought in 2000, survived divorce and house move, worked on sporadically since then, starts and drives but was last street legal in mid 90s
All of these are RHD US vehicles that were sold new in the UK.

I also have a hideously unreliable 2005 Jag XJ6 TDVi (although it has covered 130k+) and my other half has a Disco3 which is considerably more reliable.

In particular I would like to confess to a propensity for buying tools and then having to take the thing to a pro to get it mended anyway. I have four sets of spring compressors but when my old Mondeo broke a spring I still had to take the strut to my friendly garage man to get it put on.

- love the "why is that heap in the garage whilst mine is on the drive?" I get that about twice a week.

I would also like to confess to having just re-engined my 1967 Webb mower having removed the original weezing oil-spitting Villiers engine and replaced it with a fire-breathing 4hp Honda.

[Luxobarge]

I would also like to confess to having just re-engined my 1967 Webb mower having removed the original weezing oil-spitting Villiers engine and replaced it with a fire-breathing 4hp Honda.

Love it! Oh man, you're going to fit in here.....

I've got 8 petrol-driven garden machines, (2 of them 4-stroke) and also a classic wheelbarrow that needs restoring - perhaps we should have a garden machinery section on here?

Welcome!

[Paul240480]

I would also like to confess to having just re-engined my 1967 Webb mower having removed the original weezing oil-spitting Villiers engine and replaced it with a fire-breathing 4hp Honda.

Love it! Oh man, you're going to fit in here.....

I've got 8 petrol-driven garden machines, (2 of them 4-stroke) and also a classic wheelbarrow that needs restoring - perhaps we should have a garden machinery section on here?

Welcome!

I've just made a cunning repair to my sit 'n' ride mower, after the local repair shop quoted me 44€ per hour . The electro magnetic blade engagement system died taking out the wirings due to a welded in bar giving out due to age/ rust.
Anyhow, 1.50€ for a bit of wire & using a 10mm coach bolt with two nuts from my stock we are cutting again
thanks for the chance to air my 'smugness' publicly
Sorry for going off topic

[JPB]

Hmm, must push on with the restoration of my '60s Suffolk Punch cylinder mower.
I made a little trailer attachment for it so that I can follow it around the garden after my idea to tether the machine to a pin in the middle of each of my lawns and let it do the job itself didn't quite go to plan.
(The mower's resistance to changing direction proved greater than the tensile strength of the string used for the tether ).
That's probably why they fitted a dead man's handle type clutch lever in the first place, fortunately the elastic band I was using to keep the clutch engaged fell off in the intended manner - I'd run the tether around the lever and under the elastic band - before the machine could wander away and hurt itself.



Apologies from me also. Perhaps we should have a dedicated garden machinery thread somewhere?