New car

Post by **foggyjames** » 20 Jul 2007 06:56 pm

To be honest....auto-flatter is working overtime there. It's got a fair bit of cosmetic rust (front wings and doors, mainly), and the paint has totally had it.....but I'm really not complaining. It's pretty straight, and they're rare as hell, regardless of condition.

Now to go and spend more than I paid for it on a car bubble...

cheers

James

Post by **jtbo** » 21 Jul 2007 09:13 am

Car is really nice looking, is ride very different from 360?

Congrats from Mk1, now you are real (volvo300)maniac

Post by **foggyjames** » 22 Jul 2007 01:12 pm

It drives very nicely for its age. I've been used to how a B14 feels thanks to Nessy. This is the same, but much 'tighter', thanks to 1/4 of the mileage!

cheers

James

Post by **huskyracer** » 25 Jul 2007 06:47 pm

sweeeeet car Foggy, shame to know that when you were all at the auto show, I was under a car with bits of gearbox falling in my eyes in a driveway accross the road from the show, no more than 50 yards away

Post by **foggyjames** » 26 Jul 2007 01:52 am

Thanks Iain. It's a shame we didn't get to meet up at the show, especially as you were so near...but these things happen!

cheers

James

Post by **Fuse** » 28 Jul 2007 08:56 am

Very nice car! I would also buy MK1 if I would have some place where I could build it..

Someday I'll build 363 style thingy.

Post by **RLL** » 28 Jul 2007 06:51 pm

Wow! That is a very nice MK1, congratulations to a good buy!

Post by **foggyjames** » 07 Aug 2007 12:52 am

All wrapped up, snug like a....er....343 in a car capsule..?!

cheers

James

Post by **5150** » 07 Aug 2007 06:56 am

That's splendid!

Well done!

Post by **trabitom99** » 07 Aug 2007 02:31 pm

Looks like a good way to keep the rust at bay

Have you got any good theories about how to keep an off-the-road 300 in good nick? I've heard all sorts of different ideas, from axle stands to filling the carburettor up with with oil but I haven't bothered with those kind of measures so far ...

My red GLi is off the road until the autumn, (probably about 6 months in total) but all I did was remove the battery.

Tom

Post by **Nick C** » 07 Aug 2007 03:07 pm

The idea of axle stands is to stop the tyres flatspotting with the weight on the same place for so long. Make sure you leave it with the handbrake off, so that doesn't sieze. Also take the plugs out and turn the engine over every so often, to keep everything lubricated and stop it siezing up.

Post by **trabitom99** » 07 Aug 2007 03:16 pm

Nick C wrote:Also take the plugs out and turn the engine over every so often, to keep everything lubricated and stop it siezing up.

I suppose you'd have to do that fairly often then? I'm not sure how long it takes, but after a certain amount of time I'd expect all the oil to be in the sump and the engine to be dry ...

Tom

Post by MJ » 08 Aug 2007 12:18 pm

Oh man, after all the jokes about my car not being driven

Nice set up

Post by **Chris_C** » 08 Aug 2007 01:42 pm

But thats Foggy's *lostcount*th car MJ, not his main one!

Post by **Nick C** » 08 Aug 2007 08:16 pm

trabitom99 wrote:
Nick C wrote:Also take the plugs out and turn the engine over every so often, to keep everything lubricated and stop it siezing up.
I suppose you'd have to do that fairly often then? I'm not sure how long it takes, but after a certain amount of time I'd expect all the oil to be in the sump and the engine to be dry ...

Tom

I'm not sure, but I just rescued a car that had been sitting in a garage untouched for 10 years, with the handbrake off and no plugs in, and it turned over straight away

Brakes are shot though...