Car D.I.Y.
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steveindenmark
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Pale Rider
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Happily, those days are gone.
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Drago
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- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
They were the good old days. Everyone smoked, perverts had yet to be outed, Bruce and Anthea on a saturday night, Watneys Party 7.
Cherry bomb silencer on your Mk 1 1300 Escort.
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Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
8 track in the Allegro blasting out Status Quo, the pungent smell of Brut 33...happy times.
Pale Rider
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You must have had the Vanden Plas version.
Levo-Lon
Guru
Still figuring out how new car stuff works, sorting driving position.. that's proving to be quite sufficient in my car DIY duties.
Also the nice valeting man has put something really fekin horrible on the windscreen..goes white when wiping rain.. I'll have to get that off as it's proving to be very stubborn
Also the nice valeting man has put something really fekin horrible on the windscreen..goes white when wiping rain.. I'll have to get that off as it's proving to be very stubborn
Levo-Lon
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Drago
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- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
HL. Twin carbs, doncherkmow?
Through a combination of terrible BL "engineering" and youthful exubersnce it ate 3 engines in a year. I'd used up so many 1750 units that they were becoming scarce locally, so I contemplated fitting a 1500, but it went when I joined the army and bought a Gixxer 11 to get me about.
Adam4868
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With the velour interior and squarish steering wheel....I had one for a few weeks once as a teenager.Dad lent it me.
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
Theres still scope for old style mechanics on cars. A normal service should hold no fear for most able people, I just did my DILs front discs and pads on her 207 a month or so ago, piece of cake. First brake work I have done in decades, I cant remember the last time I did them on my cars , maybe 30 years ago, I'm very light on brakes.
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
I had an Allegro 1750 HL, it had a crunch sometime that required you to continuously hold the steering wheel to stop it hauling itself off the road 
, must have had a bent steering component...amazing really, you just wouldn't do it now but I suppose needs must when you are young, stupid and skint 
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It was a good car otherwise, never had any other problems with it, pokey as well.
, must have had a bent steering component...amazing really, you just wouldn't do it now but I suppose needs must when you are young, stupid and skint .It was a good car otherwise, never had any other problems with it, pokey as well.
