I said fun...

At least hair dresser boy has got the right idea having seen what he uploaded to flickr over the weekend!

If I'm being honest, I have some envy...although I can think of more appealing alternatives, not at the price...

cheers

James

foggyjames wrote: I know where there's a lovely S70 going cheap...just needs stem seals...or possibly just to be taken away from Birmingham.

There's 20 of them, it's a head off job, it needs a full service, the ignition barrel is knackered (oiling it is only ever going to be a temporary solution), the handbrakes knackered, the air con stopped working, MPG is down and it's using oil at a fairly alarming rate, although I think the sump has now stopped leaking since the PCV has been swapped out. Best thing about it is the Propus C's, at least scrap metal is high at the moment If you are interested in this fine example then let me know. Oh, and it certainly isn't fun - rather liveable with.

As for the hair dresser car, it was £850, 2 miles away, is a 1.8 with Torsen LSD, Bilsteins all round, has an unbelievable amount of history - the later 1.8 imported special editions tend to go for more like £1500, it was cheap because the seller thought the odometer was reading miles, in actual fact it's kilometers (and to be fair the seats need replacing)

Too true - the snide remark was only in jest, I admire anyone running a 300 as a daily, especially doing over 10k a year. I simply don't have the spare time Keep it up bud! This is mac esque style!

SteveP wrote: As for the hair dresser car, it was £850, 2 miles away, is a 1.8 with Torsen LSD, Bilsteins all round, has an unbelievable amount of history - the later 1.8 imported special editions tend to go for more like £1500, it was cheap because the seller thought the odometer was reading miles, in actual fact it's kilometers (and to be fair the seats need replacing)

Duuuuuuude. You and your Sports cars.
Youre not gonna have anything to do in your Mid-life Crisis now. Well, mebeez a motorbike. Pics up!

SteveP wrote: I admire anyone running a 300 as a daily, especially doing over 10k a year.

Youre the 1st person ever to admire me (and probably Chris)

SteveP wrote:I've neglected the lovingly maintained car you sold me

I know. I'm crying inside. That poor car.

cheers

James

Nothing poor about it - what 300 had an ignition barrel fail - ever

volvosneverdie wrote:

SteveP wrote: I admire anyone running a 300 as a daily, especially doing over 10k a year.

Youre the 1st person ever to admire me (and probably Chris)

Und me. 25k last year, 10k so far this year

I don't know about motorbikes, but there is those Hoss bikes with V8's, so what about bike with redblock and decent turbo setup, would that be proper "kill yourself faster than saying wow" -machine?

SteveP wrote:Nothing poor about it - what 300 had an ignition barrel fail - ever

What are you talking about...they always fail! You end up having to push them in to get the steering lock to engage. My 88 car had a new lock in 1993 or so, and that failed about 4 years later...at which point we discovered the 'push' technique.

If you actually did some maintenance on that poor car (like, for example LUBRICATING THE FRICKIN' LOCK!) maybe it would work better

cheers

James

ps:

foggyjames wrote:

SteveP wrote:Nothing poor about it - what 300 had an ignition barrel fail - ever

What are you talking about...they always fail! You end up having to push them in to get the steering lock to engage. My 88 car had a new lock in 1993 or so, and that failed about 4 years later...at which point we discovered the 'push' technique.

If you actually did some maintenance on that poor car (like, for example LUBRICATING THE FRICKIN' LOCK!) maybe it would work better

Well I certainly never had one fail/dodgy on any of the 4 300's I've had... and anyway, being unable to put the steering lock on is a whole different kettle of fish to being unable to take the steering lock OFF!

It's always had routine maintenance, infact it was due to get a full service until this happened - but now it's getting cubed You might also be interested to know that lubricating the lock did nothing and I spent 15minutes trying to get the steering lock off again. FWD toss.

Anyway, back to Chris's thread

I've finally remembered why I had this car off the road for 8 months, spent 11 squillion pounds on making it work and laid upside down in the mud and lumpy gravel whilst it's raining more times than I want to remember.

For 10 days I've been back to driving Fake full time. Each of those days I've been not getting on with it, it's not felt right and I've just been loosing faith. Done ~400 miles in that time, including a 3 hour drive home from the pub that is about 20 miles away Thurs night. It's just not been right and I was starting to wonder if really Fake isn't that great to drive and I've just been looking through rose tinted windscreens for the previous 5 years. I havn't even been able to change gear properly. Half the reason I didn't come to Retro Rides was I knew I'd try to drive the hill climb and I was worried I'd stuff it when I tried to get involved.

Just driven to Saunders Motor Works after work to pick up something new and shiney for her that I needed a man with larger testicular content than myself to test (as it seems, even when it drives horribly I can't stop buying things for it, tart) and in one drive, with moderate traffic she's made me smile more times than the Corset has in 8 months. I've remembered how to rev match the gearchange. How you need to grab her by the scruff of the neck in corners rather than reaching the apex and powering through. I've remembered that you need to drive her like Fake, rather than a slushbox Corset.

The new suspension is soooo awesome. The top mount bearings make the steering amazing. Just need to get the alignment sorted at the front end now everything has been renewed.

Engine out next weekend.

Nice So what exactly did Captain Big-balls do for you?

cheers

James

A leg saving testing procedure.

I may have bought something I said I'd never fit to one of my cars...

LED washer jets? Agreed, we most likely would break your legs if you tried fitting them!

On a scale of one to OOOOF, how much nicer are the new top mount bearings?

cheers

James

Chris_C wrote:I may have bought something I said I'd never fit to one of my cars...

Furry pink seat covers?