Barn Bragging - House of Heaps
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Barn update: After two years away, I am back in the UK, and doing a barn review. I am planning to reduce housing costs by moving from the farmhouse that the barn goes with to a large cottage the other side of the barn, but keep the barn to store heaps and other stuff.
Current contents:
1. Lotus Eclat Series 2 with flat tyres. Engine smokey, rear suspension suspect.
Interior scruffy. To be sold as a project.
2. Lancia Beta 1600 Coupe. Getting a new clutch and then to be MOTed.
3. Land Rover Series 3. All fine, awaits MOT.
4. Morris Sherpa Campervan, mothballed because no music festivals this summer.
5. Moto Morini 350S, awaiting MOT.
6. Toyota MR2 Mark 1, road legal, needs new springs and dampers and a minor chassis weld.
7. UMM Alter II pickup 4x4 pick up truck, needs exhaust bracket for MOT. May sell.
8. Westwood ride on lawn mower. Will sell when I move.
9. Old piano.
10. Contents of a two bedroom London flat.
11. My ex's extensive library.
12. Spiders.
I recently tried but failed to buy an Austin Princess. I have resisted buying a Jensen Interceptor that was too cheap and a Marina 1800 GT that was too expensive. I was too slow to buy an old tractor. My daily driver is a 2009 Jaguar XK.
Current contents:
1. Lotus Eclat Series 2 with flat tyres. Engine smokey, rear suspension suspect.
Interior scruffy. To be sold as a project.
2. Lancia Beta 1600 Coupe. Getting a new clutch and then to be MOTed.
3. Land Rover Series 3. All fine, awaits MOT.
4. Morris Sherpa Campervan, mothballed because no music festivals this summer.
5. Moto Morini 350S, awaiting MOT.
6. Toyota MR2 Mark 1, road legal, needs new springs and dampers and a minor chassis weld.
7. UMM Alter II pickup 4x4 pick up truck, needs exhaust bracket for MOT. May sell.
8. Westwood ride on lawn mower. Will sell when I move.
9. Old piano.
10. Contents of a two bedroom London flat.
11. My ex's extensive library.
12. Spiders.
I recently tried but failed to buy an Austin Princess. I have resisted buying a Jensen Interceptor that was too cheap and a Marina 1800 GT that was too expensive. I was too slow to buy an old tractor. My daily driver is a 2009 Jaguar XK.
Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 17th May 07:37
Cheers, that's the plan. I will hire some chunky blokes to carry the furniture. We may or may not get a Luton van but it seems a faff to load a van and drive it fifty metres then unload it. I aim to spend weekdays in London and weekends in Oxfordshire (where my old and purpled-haired mum lives, cared for by my Metal brother), or in Norfolk where my daughter lives. I will have to put some furniture in the barn or sell it via the local auction house. Low value C18 and C19 stuff mainly.
Business should go mental because of insolvencies and frustrated contracts. I am sorry to profit from the misfortunes of others, but that is part of my job, and life must go on - there are two ends to every deal.
The MR2 can be my brother's runabout. The Beta and the bike and the Landy will be my toys. The Sherpa is for festivals, until my daughter is old enough to borrow if for student trips to France or wherever. She and I went around southern Ireland in it in 2017. It broke down because it needed new points, but that was a quick and cheap fix at a village garage.
Business should go mental because of insolvencies and frustrated contracts. I am sorry to profit from the misfortunes of others, but that is part of my job, and life must go on - there are two ends to every deal.
The MR2 can be my brother's runabout. The Beta and the bike and the Landy will be my toys. The Sherpa is for festivals, until my daughter is old enough to borrow if for student trips to France or wherever. She and I went around southern Ireland in it in 2017. It broke down because it needed new points, but that was a quick and cheap fix at a village garage.
Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 5th July 07:51
I was thinking you'd come back quickly & it was only last autumn you were posting about finding a Land Rover in hot and sunny Land!NDA said:
Any small oak tables that would suit sitting in a hall with a lamp on? 
I'm looking for one at the moment without much luck.
Hall tables yes, but not many or any in oak as far as I can recall - will check. I might have one small oak dropleaf that has a printer on it or something. I'm looking for one at the moment without much luck.
Oak table - located! Will email you. Also two oak wardrobes in the Arts and Crafts style, circa 1900, if interested.
The Shed of Shame AKA the Barn of Broken is now piled massively high with furniture and assorted tat.
The cottage I have moved to has a garage, currently occupied by an old Land Rover roof and my 1989 Toyota MR2, which I am about to give to my punkabilly hippy rocker brother. I was going to give it to a young lady who is obsessed with all things Kawaii, but you know how those things go.
Once I have cleared the barn out by fobbing off rickety old tables on unsuspecting PH'ers, the barn will greet a new four wheel occupant. Pics in a minute. Here is its latest two wheeled occupant, a 1982 Moto Guzzi V50 Monza. That's a 500 cc, transverse V twin, shaft driven, five gears, three disc brakes mid sized sports bike from Italy, for those of you who do not speak bikey.
The Shed of Shame AKA the Barn of Broken is now piled massively high with furniture and assorted tat.
The cottage I have moved to has a garage, currently occupied by an old Land Rover roof and my 1989 Toyota MR2, which I am about to give to my punkabilly hippy rocker brother. I was going to give it to a young lady who is obsessed with all things Kawaii, but you know how those things go.
Once I have cleared the barn out by fobbing off rickety old tables on unsuspecting PH'ers, the barn will greet a new four wheel occupant. Pics in a minute. Here is its latest two wheeled occupant, a 1982 Moto Guzzi V50 Monza. That's a 500 cc, transverse V twin, shaft driven, five gears, three disc brakes mid sized sports bike from Italy, for those of you who do not speak bikey.
Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 3rd July 13:36
P5BNij said:
I no speaky bikey, but I have vague idea that Moto-Guzzi were once owned or part owned by Allexandro De Tomaso. Unless I'm talking utter billhooks of course, which is entirely possible.
I have a hunch that you may well be right, but I am only a late-minted and somewhat pretendy biker, so I do not know such shiz .... yet. PS: Bikes are FUN!!
PPS: Bikes are SCAYREE!!!
I dress up like a fat old leather Queen, and ride slooooowly.
I think this was a lucky find. A friend in north Yorkshire pointed me to it after browsing on eBay. He kindly drove up to Tyneside in his white over burgundy striped velour pimp-ass Posche 944 Turbo and gave the car a good checking for me. He hates red cars, but told me that if this car had been blue he would have bought it on the spot. I haggled a few quid off the already fair asking price, did the deal, and got the car Shiplied by a huge Polish guy who is probably the stunt double for The Hulk. The car arrived yesterday. I will do a thread for it in Reader's Cars.
1756 cc Lampredi Twin Cam, Weber 36 downdraught carb, five speed gearbox, Cromodoras. 115,000 miler, not perfect, but pretty nifty. Originalish - patinated interior, no sign of ever having had a radio. Slighlty cheap and cheerful shiny red paintjob. A few bubbles. Terrible WTF are they tyres (they are going ASAP).
It has an Abarth badge and Abarth wheel centres that are FAKE, because there was no Abarth version of this car.
I have no clue whether the boot badge stuck under the dash is an add on or not, but assume that it is. The handbook with the car is for a 1600 (plus 1400 Appendix).
New ish shiny exhaust. Quite noisy.
1756 cc Lampredi Twin Cam, Weber 36 downdraught carb, five speed gearbox, Cromodoras. 115,000 miler, not perfect, but pretty nifty. Originalish - patinated interior, no sign of ever having had a radio. Slighlty cheap and cheerful shiny red paintjob. A few bubbles. Terrible WTF are they tyres (they are going ASAP).
It has an Abarth badge and Abarth wheel centres that are FAKE, because there was no Abarth version of this car.
I have no clue whether the boot badge stuck under the dash is an add on or not, but assume that it is. The handbook with the car is for a 1600 (plus 1400 Appendix).
New ish shiny exhaust. Quite noisy.
That is an absolute corker, as rare as rocking horse doo-doo in RHD too, well played BV. I hope its stay in the barn is a very long one.
Ooh just noticed the Cromodoras too, lovely. I've seen a few which have wider Cromos filling the arches more, but those are very nice. If it were mine I'd be ordering a period window sticker or two from 'I Say Ding Dong'. The plates on it are spot on too.
Ooh just noticed the Cromodoras too, lovely. I've seen a few which have wider Cromos filling the arches more, but those are very nice. If it were mine I'd be ordering a period window sticker or two from 'I Say Ding Dong'. The plates on it are spot on too.
PS : just noticed the lower boot panel on yours is silver / polished trim, this one I snapped at the NEC a few years back is different, it also has those wider Cromos on (it was for sale at the time and I was sorely tempted but had nowhere to put it)....
Note no extra badge on the centre console....
Note no extra badge on the centre console....
Edited by P5BNij on Friday 3rd July 15:16
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