My history. 80's/90's hatches, RSs, 911s and a few bikes
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Morning. Again, massive thanks for the comments. Much appreciated. I will update things when I can. Still plenty of cars left.
Quickie update today as I’m off to bed. Just tying up some forgotten loose ends for my own OCD.
I had one more car I forgot about, straight after the silver Rover coupe. It was exactly the same car but in dark blue with less miles and in better condition. I swapped the wheels with the silver car then lowered it with the same suspension.
I was spurred on to sell the silver one as it almost let me down one day. I’d been up all day since 8am Monday morning, then done a 12 hour nightshift 8pm-8am Tuesday morning, then went to college for 9am on the Tuesday morning til noon. I was heading home for 6 hours sleep before Tuesdays nightshift at 8pm again when the Rover began overheating. I was so tired but I pulled in to let it cool for a while, as it was in the red.
I let it cool a bit but it didn't drop much so I figured head gasket, it’s buggered. I just thought “Well it’s knackered now and I need my bed so I’m driving it till it dies!”.
I headed for home and stopped once more 5 miles from home. It wasn’t cooling down though so I went to set off again. The engine was so hot it had almost seized. It would hardly turn over. It just fired up and I made it home. My dad had a look as I just went straight to bed and it turned out it was just a sticky thermostat. Took it out, filled the system, right as rain.
I used it for a while longer, whilst looking out for another to switch the wheels onto, then sold it. I was amazed I hadn't killed it! No pics but the blue one looked nice.
Just one pic for this morning of a I car I very nearly owned but didn’t. My mate Ralf’s 3 door Cosworth.
Once he’d bought the GSXR he never used the car, so decided to sell. He’d have given me it for £6k!
It was mint. I was just about to get rid of the Thundercat for the Ducati though so it was one or the other. After a bit of to-ing and fro-ing, I went for the Ducati.
Anyway, like I say, nearly mine but not mine, but everyone likes a picture of a Cosworth don’t they?
The nose of Paddy’s S1 turbo can just be seen in the background too, during it’s strip down.
So apologies for a bit of a pointless post. I'll do a better update next time with some interesting stuff again.
Quickie update today as I’m off to bed. Just tying up some forgotten loose ends for my own OCD.
I had one more car I forgot about, straight after the silver Rover coupe. It was exactly the same car but in dark blue with less miles and in better condition. I swapped the wheels with the silver car then lowered it with the same suspension.
I was spurred on to sell the silver one as it almost let me down one day. I’d been up all day since 8am Monday morning, then done a 12 hour nightshift 8pm-8am Tuesday morning, then went to college for 9am on the Tuesday morning til noon. I was heading home for 6 hours sleep before Tuesdays nightshift at 8pm again when the Rover began overheating. I was so tired but I pulled in to let it cool for a while, as it was in the red.
I let it cool a bit but it didn't drop much so I figured head gasket, it’s buggered. I just thought “Well it’s knackered now and I need my bed so I’m driving it till it dies!”.
I headed for home and stopped once more 5 miles from home. It wasn’t cooling down though so I went to set off again. The engine was so hot it had almost seized. It would hardly turn over. It just fired up and I made it home. My dad had a look as I just went straight to bed and it turned out it was just a sticky thermostat. Took it out, filled the system, right as rain.
I used it for a while longer, whilst looking out for another to switch the wheels onto, then sold it. I was amazed I hadn't killed it! No pics but the blue one looked nice.
Just one pic for this morning of a I car I very nearly owned but didn’t. My mate Ralf’s 3 door Cosworth.
Once he’d bought the GSXR he never used the car, so decided to sell. He’d have given me it for £6k!
It was mint. I was just about to get rid of the Thundercat for the Ducati though so it was one or the other. After a bit of to-ing and fro-ing, I went for the Ducati.
Anyway, like I say, nearly mine but not mine, but everyone likes a picture of a Cosworth don’t they?
The nose of Paddy’s S1 turbo can just be seen in the background too, during it’s strip down.
So apologies for a bit of a pointless post. I'll do a better update next time with some interesting stuff again.
Loving reading this thread mate, brought back alot of memories, Whereabouts did you live 25 miles north of Sunderland? I'm from Alnwick... I remember the Sunderland Docks days, and spillers car park. I was also clubbing 2000 - 2004ish which is also a blur lol, Where abouts did you go out of interest?
Hey Smelly Sox it's not just the price of the Cosworth that's gutting, the 964s will reallly upset me when I look at the classifieds in ten years time.
Thanks for the comments DG and Sinbaddio.
Hi Rustic, I'm a Cramlington lad, then I moved to South Beach, Blyth for a year or so when I met my wife. We now live 5 miles out of the back of Morpeth.
I sort of missed the flour mill cruises. I was either into bikes more by then or just a bit older. When we were young, up to the time I had the MR2, there was only Sunderland and the police sort of killed it off. Sods law, as I grew out of driving around at night, cruises kicked off properly up here, at Silverlink, Team Valley, the Mill and also out the back of Durham.
We used to go clubbing at Shindig every Saturday. It was in Foundation for years along towards Byker, then it moved to the centre of Life didn't it. Good times!
I just seen your M3 in the show us your front end thread. Very nice. I haven't owned an E46 M3 yet. I've driven a few that my mates have had in. Plenty quick enough. Enjoy!
Hi Jaacck, my dad doesn't know everything there is to know, just everything there is to know about cars. Nah just kidding! He's old skool so he's not big on say ECU programming, etc. Having said that he''s bloody good with car electronics. He started his apprenticeship when he was 15 and retired a few years ago at 65. In those 50 years he worked at a few dealerships so was factory trained, Peugeot, Rover, Daihatsu, etc. He also had his own places for a decade at a time, doing normal stuff, then later on doing classic British sports cars. I suppose you have to be good when you work on your own as there's no one to ask.
There's never been a problem that's beat him, and that's gods honest truth. He'll just stick at it until he understands it and sorts it. I wish I had a tenth of his knowledge.
Righto, I'll try and get a bit added soon before I go to bed...
Thanks for the comments DG and Sinbaddio.
Hi Rustic, I'm a Cramlington lad, then I moved to South Beach, Blyth for a year or so when I met my wife. We now live 5 miles out of the back of Morpeth.
I sort of missed the flour mill cruises. I was either into bikes more by then or just a bit older. When we were young, up to the time I had the MR2, there was only Sunderland and the police sort of killed it off. Sods law, as I grew out of driving around at night, cruises kicked off properly up here, at Silverlink, Team Valley, the Mill and also out the back of Durham.
We used to go clubbing at Shindig every Saturday. It was in Foundation for years along towards Byker, then it moved to the centre of Life didn't it. Good times!
I just seen your M3 in the show us your front end thread. Very nice. I haven't owned an E46 M3 yet. I've driven a few that my mates have had in. Plenty quick enough. Enjoy!
Hi Jaacck, my dad doesn't know everything there is to know, just everything there is to know about cars. Nah just kidding! He's old skool so he's not big on say ECU programming, etc. Having said that he''s bloody good with car electronics. He started his apprenticeship when he was 15 and retired a few years ago at 65. In those 50 years he worked at a few dealerships so was factory trained, Peugeot, Rover, Daihatsu, etc. He also had his own places for a decade at a time, doing normal stuff, then later on doing classic British sports cars. I suppose you have to be good when you work on your own as there's no one to ask.
There's never been a problem that's beat him, and that's gods honest truth. He'll just stick at it until he understands it and sorts it. I wish I had a tenth of his knowledge.
Righto, I'll try and get a bit added soon before I go to bed...
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