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Right, fill 'er up from a Jerry can (the design easily allows for this)



Set of mole grips on the choke, and the 1976 Land Rover fired right up on a 4° morning. Just a quick trip onto the street to turn it round but this is the first time it's moved under its own power since I bought it a year ago, which feels like a good milestone

 

Good news @ElThomsono!
Is it living on your drive? I'll have to pass by & wave when I'm next over your side of town.
I ought to fire up my shared classic; I have a 1932 Morris Minor (think better engineered Austin 7...) that I run with my Dad.

 

I used to work with a woman whose husband modified and tuned Moggies, including installing a Rover V8 sometimes.

EDIT, missed the reference to 1932.

 

This is the OG Morris Minor...850cc Side Valve engine and tiny



Pretty much this ^

My first car was a Moggie it would nearly do 70 and did me well.

This little budgerigar is really tricky to drive as the accelerator and brake are in the opposite positions and there's no synchromesh... I feel like a learner every time I take it out

 

Ah that brings back memories of driving about with my college mate in his moggy van.

It was lovely. Falling to bits but lovely. My main memory is us running out of fuel just as we reached the brow of a hill which allowed us to coast down to the bottom where there was a petrol station

Unlike yours though I don't think his would hit anywhere near 70 unless it was given a couple of days with pedal floored and a following wind.

 

Aye, it's now full of logs for the winter

Let me know the next time the Austin is out, I'd like a look; you're a bold man to drive it though, I refused to buy a car that didn't have synchro

 

That's a posh landy with a filler outside the cabin ... used to have to remove the seat cushions to fill the tanks in my old ex-army one.

 

That is awesome. I really miss having a Landie. Had two over the years, a 1962 S2a (14th one off the line), that was a SWB petrol that was nowhere near stock when I got it (they never are...), really needed a full teardown and rebuild, but as is the way with things, no space to do so, so I had to let it go. Then I got a 1985 90 (pre-Defender branding) with the good old 3.5l Rover V8 in it. That one was so much fun, even if it drank like a fish (14-18 mpg If I was careful...). Had a few more mods done to that with things like a new rear floor, some carb mods, new badging, and so on. It was a Special Vehicles model as well although i never managed to find out what the factory mods that were done to it were. It had the US spec rear step and hitch, but that was all I could come up with.

That one needed a lot of work done to it as well, and this unfortunately coincided with being out of work so again, had to let that one go too. Sadly this was at a time when they were worth pennies rather than the MUCH bigger money that they are now. Would dearly love to get one again, but we shall see. Plenty more things in need of the old pennies now.

 

I ended up with the series three as the old ones are too expensive because they're old, and the new ones are too expensive because they're not old. That and it was essential to be tax and MOT exempt

I can see them continuing to go up in value for a while so I grabbed one while I could but I'm having to be careful with the work, it would really benefit from new swivel hubs but that's £400 that's best used elsewhere right now. It's more to have as a giant Mecano set than a working vehicle so I don't mind taking my time with it. A lot of the parts are dirt cheap and it can be enjoyable just to remove something, wire brush it and spraypaint it then put it back on.

If you've got the space for one you might as well keep your eyes out, get something at a reduced price as it's not yet tax and MOT exempt but will be by the time you're planning to have it on the road?

 

Somebody I used to work with at the Somerset Trust for Nature Conservation, many years ago, had an old series 2 fitted with a sizeable Diesel V8. Went very well but, was also very loud.

 

Yeah, popular thing a fair few years ago was 5.2l V8 diesel conversions, I would have probably considered that if the petrol V8 in my 90 had died, but as those things were de-tuned (118bhp out of a 3.5l...) and under so little stress they lasted forever.

 

There are some Landies up at auction this week at Mathewsons (Bangers & Cash)
https://www.mathewsons.co.uk/upcoming-auctions/

 

Been working hard on this - if it's against the rules, let me know but...

my website


Still got some descriptions to add, some measurement and weights for delivery and then go through SEO and adwords but yeah - pretty much finished!

 

ONE MEEEEEEEEEEELION streams

 

My boss just handed me a £50 Amazon voucher. Guess that's my Xmas bonus this year!

 

Someone donated a bunch of audio gear and I sent it to our Ebay warehouse.

Mixer boxes, multichannel recorders, eurorack modules etc..

It cleared £2.5k for the charity!

 

BHF

 

I upgraded my old crate to a i7-9700, 32 gigs of RAM and a 3060TI
Up from a i5-8600 Geforce GTX 1650 Super and 12GB RAM

I think I may finally be ready for Crysis