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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Petrol
I needed to pick up a new bandsaw blade on Friday afternoon and it seemed the perfect excuse to take out the MK2. Although I ordered the blade when I was getting ready to manufacture the Scimitar adapter plate, the … Continue reading
More Ford Type 9 Conversion
I finished off the adapter plate for fitting the Type 9 gearbox into the Scimitar SE5A today – and managed to get a decent workout into the bargain when it came to finishing the profiled edges! The finished plate bolts … Continue reading
Scimitar Gearbox to Type 9 Conversion
Just as many other children did in the 1970’s, I looked forward to my weekly helping of The Professionals on Sunday night. Unlike many children, however, a good deal of my thoughts were devoted to making things on lathes and … Continue reading
Another Mixed Day
Today has been one of some variety: First job was to replace the flat belting on one of the lathes and on the bandsaw. The fact that these machines use flat belting should give you some idea of their age: … Continue reading
Finishing Touches
Today I have been carrying out a few rather rewarding odd jobs on a MK6 Bentley. The owner and I rebuilt the engine some years ago and since then we have never got around to making it run quite as … Continue reading
The Ethanol Chronicles
I think that the subject of Ethanol in fuel is going to become the topic of the moment in the next few years and in view of the frequency of my posts on the subject am beginning to wonder whether … Continue reading
Stripping back the memories
I’ve been looking for some paintstripper recently since I can no longer buy it at local DIY stores. At least not the stuff with Dichloromethane in it and, having tried the alternatives, I have come to the conclusion that paint … Continue reading
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Driving at the Limit
The Hupmobile passed its MOT with flying colours today – although the two wheel brakes caused the brake rollers to spit the car out before anything like a full reading could be obtained. The car has a 3 litre 4 … Continue reading
More Ethanol?
I have been servicing and checking a Hupmobile Model R prior to its MOT test tomorrow. Many of these cars were supplied new to Australia and New Zealand which was where this car came from, giving it the advantage of … Continue reading
The Best of British
The series 1 Land Rover arrived on Friday as planned and we decided to go ahead with the brake master cylinder conversion. The original Girling cylinder has had it’s share of trouble over the last year or two: It had … Continue reading
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Tagged Brakes, Conversions, Jaguar, Jaguar MK2, Landrover
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Comment Spam and Cars
One of the first discoveries with a new blog is comment spam. We all get used to email spam which tries to grab our attention in the hope that we might spend some money, but comment spam works a little … Continue reading
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One life… live it!
Or as one Land Rover owner has it: “One wife: Livid!” I’ve been finishing off the Porsche 944 today which now looks lovely and rust free underneath and runs somewhat sweeter courtesy of new rotor arm, plugs and leads and … Continue reading
Porsching it – is there an alternative?
I have spent the greater part of today with someone’s rather nice new acquisition: A Porsche 944 in suitably good condition. This is a car which really needs to be included in the debate about “what constitutes a classic car” … Continue reading
A Dart in France
The SP250 is now motoring it’s way 800 or so miles down into France and regular updates are reaching me from its intrepid driver’s iPhone. With this post is a picture, not of the Dart in question but of my … Continue reading
Ethanol in fuel
The Daimler SP250 left today for an 800 mile drive to its home in France. I have also been attending to the S.U. carburettors belonging to the Daimler’s stablemate: A Rover 105R which has been running poorly and flooding. It … Continue reading