The Retirement Thread

[numbnuts]

Sea Bass it's BASS we do not have freshwater Bass in this country

 

[Paulus]

I liked doing Avenger gearboxes, superlight for one thing, and nice to work on. I had two Avengers, I thought them rather good.

I too was sent to Coventry to the BLMH (Austin/Morris/Rover group) for training course a number of times, ended up doing some teaching there. The hotel was the Lady Godiva.

Sorry if I bored everyone but I enjoyed the memory.

I had a Hillman Avenger for a while. A 1300, although I think the engine was really a 1275cc. It rusted terribly and you could see through the floor pan in the end. Sold it for scrap after a couple of years

 

[oldwheels]

Looked out a short time ago and the b——y deer are back in the field. They seem to like montbrecia and have eaten a lot of mine right down to and including the tubers ( or are they bulbs?) My fanatical gardening neighbour is not going to be pleased when they eat all her newly planted flower bed plants.
The realistic FB page has cottoned on to the influx of illegals arriving here when we cannot legally leave the island unless for medical reasons. Nobody is happy except perhaps the don’t care lot who rent out accommodation to them.
Yesterday got a pic of Inch Kenneth where Unity Mitford, a great admired of Hitler spent the war years.
The extreme left island will be Little Colonsay and behind Inch Kenneth is Ulva island. Visitors are not welcome. Inch Kenneth was an ancient burial ground for kings of old along with Iona or as some American was heard to call it TenNA.

 

[Exlaser2]

My parents first ever brand new car was a Hillman Avenger in a rather nice colour called Tahiti Blue. I even remember the reg....OES 128H.

What ever colour Avengers started out as , they always ended being mostly brown within two years 😂😂😂

 

[Dave7]

Sea Bass it's BASS we do not have freshwater Bass in this country

A bit like when people say "seagulls".
No.....they are gulls.
Herring Gull
Black backed gull
Black headed gull
etc etcf

 

[monkers]

What ever colour Avengers started out as , they always ended being mostly brown within two years 😂😂😂

That was still two years more than the Ford Fastback Rotbox.

 

[ColinJ]

I was sent to Coventry in 1963 and stayed there until 1983. It was my parents' fault!

I worked for a while in a small factory off Lythalls Lane, near @dave r, and for bonus points - he worked in the same factory for a few weeks. We don't remember each other from back then but our times there would have overlapped.

I bought some bits and pieces from Mick Ives' shop once. It was round the corner from my sister's house.

Still no adverse reaction to my Covid-jab. That is nearly 2.5 days now, but I have read that some people had problems on day 3...

The realistic FB page has cottoned on to the influx of illegals arriving here when we cannot legally leave the island unless for medical reasons. Nobody is happy except perhaps the don’t care lot who rent out accommodation to them.

Don't CALMAC apply the rules? If they DID then those invaders wouldn't be able to get over there, unless they swam, or hired rowing boats or helicopters!

 

[Juan Kog]

Agree on Arrow series cars gearboxes.

I don't remember doing axle work on Avengers; but I fitted quite a few new petrol tanks, including both of mine. My cars were unusual - Sunbeam Avengers - CI imports - they had a nicer interior. Those Michelin ZX tyres as OE fit were bloody awful - a switch to Goodyear G800s made them a much better car.

Ive been away to have dinner and this is turning into the motoring thread .I don’t remember the Sunbeam version. I recall at least one Plymouth Cricket coming in for work. I do remember if we had an avenger Tiger in , the workshop manager decreed that only the foreman or chargehand we’re allowed in the driving seat .

 

[monkers]

Ive been away to have dinner and this is turning into the motoring thread .I don’t remember the Sunbeam version. I remember at least one Plymouth Cricket coming in for work. I do remember if we had an avenger Tiger in , the workshop manager decreed that only the foreman or chargehand we’re allowed in the driving seat .

I admit I did covet the Tiger at the time, and those Holbay cars. I had a Rapier - pity it wasn't an H120.

Sunbeam Avengers were Channel Island cars.

 

[Juan Kog]

I admit I did covet the Tiger at the time, and those Holbay cars. I had a Rapier - pit it wasn't an H120.

Sunbeam Avengers were Channel Island cars.

Thanks I was stumped by C I . I had forgotten the H120 , the other car with twin Weber’s .

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

My Dad had an Avenger - I remember that the price was JUST below £1000

He thought it was a great car until he took it in for a service after about 6 months and the rear axle fell out
If only I had known about this thread then - I would have been able to get some second opinions!!!


problem was that he had managed to wangle 2 tickets for the Cup Final (Liverpool v Arsenal - Steve Highway scored - probably 1971 ish so I was probably 11)
and we need to leave for London in 2 days

He got them to agree to a trade in for a Hunter

he never liked it (the Hunter_ - always said it was the only car that he ever owned that had no character - and he owned an Austin Maestro!!!!!

anyway - we made it to Wembley!!!

 

[oldwheels]

I was sent to Coventry in 1963 and stayed there until 1983. It was my parents' fault!

I worked for a while in a small factory off Lythalls Lane, near @dave r, and for bonus points - he worked in the same factory for a few weeks. We don't remember each other from back then but our times there would have overlapped.

I bought some bits and pieces from Mick Ives' shop once. It was round the corner from my sister's house.

Still no adverse reaction to my Covid-jab. That is nearly 2.5 days now, but I have read that some people had problems on day 3...


Don't CALMAC apply the rules? If they DID then those invaders wouldn't be able to get over there, unless they swam, or hired rowing boats or helicopters!

Apparently there is some legal problem with forbidding passengers. In the first lockdown last year they eventually got round to questioning passengers and non residents were turned away. Holiday home owners often have eg electricity bills which apparently to show they are residents so it can be a problem. Only the police seem to have the legal powers to deny travel.
Certainly I was stopped once when returning from a hospital visit and asked for photo id. Most of the regular staff know me by name. Friends who made weekly hospital visits for chemo were only stopped once as they were regular travellers.
The small ferries are a problem as they do not have enough staff for preboarding checks.

 

[monkers]

I'll come back when things get a bit cleaner............I had a sheltered life and from the country don't you know

I advise you not look at BBC2 right now then - it's 'beavers behaving badly' - and the innuendo is at another level.

 

[12boy]

I have had a few cars....a 58 Jaguar 2.8 sedan, a first year Pontiac Tempest, with a 4 cyl motor that was 1/2 of a big V8 and the transaxle in the rear, a Taunus st wagon, a 68 VW bug, one first year Honda Civic, totalled it, and a 2nd year Civic. a 68 Olds Cutlass Supreme, a 66 VW bus, then a 68 and finally a 72. Somewhere in there were a 59 Chevy Impala and a Rambler Classic. Then it was a Ford Fiesta, an old Chevy Blazer, an 85 Honda Civic wagon, a 94 Toyota pickup, 92 Toyota Previa, a 98 Accord, a 2005 Dodge Neon a 2013 Hyundai Element GT a 2010 Honda CRV and finally a 2003 Honda Element. Still have the Previa and the pickup plus the CRV and the Element. My youngest son is supposed to buying the Hyundai but due to Covid he hasn't been workIng. Of all of that I liked the 68 bus, the 85 Civic wagon, the Previa, my pickup and the Element the best.
When we watched the Midsomer Murders, the same green Morris Minor Woody st wagon appeared in a bunch of shows. Liked that, too.

 

[welsh dragon]

Wow. I am 0.60 pence in profit with my shares at the moment. The last of the big investors that's me.