I'd love a XB Coupe, with a Weiand blower out the bonnet of course.

Fucking Jag drivers!

Oh almost forgot, because I had access to them, I've freed up the rotating clips for bungees. They'd been seized for years, but a soak of WD40 in the top which you normally can't get too has sorted then. I'll spray something real in tomorrow so they stay free

As is always the case, it gets worse when you pick at it .. PXL_20240726_174006982.jpg PXL_20240726_174047430.jpg I've now wire brushed everything down and given it a good coating of kilrust, or whatever the hammerite thing is. I've managed to lose one of the pins out of a trim clip too. No idea how...

Looks like you're cracking on well with this.

Gauges are good but modern drivers are too stupid to understand them.

I was telling someone at a bike night tonight how I need to repaint around the shock mounts on 14 when I noticed the bloody frame has cracked! Look in the rust, there's a vertical crack just behind the shock mount. I've spoken to my neighbour as he was about when I got home, he'll weld it for me onc...

Needs 4 more miles on the odo for Mrs SiC, at least I think it's her who's s fan of palindromes.

Thought so, explains the leak then. No way to chop it and splice an extra bit of pipe in if it causes an issue?

Is that the hose that you said was too short to clip in properly?