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by HMC
Wed May 22, 2019 2:50 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Rendezvous (1976)
Replies: 19
Views: 12047

Re: Rendezvous (1976)

I’d never seen an ami 8 before until my first trip to France in 1990 aged 10. They’d ceased to exist by the late 80s where I grew up.
by HMC
Sat May 18, 2019 6:14 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: HMC Motors- Mystery machine
Replies: 39
Views: 23572

Re: HMC Motors- Max power flashbacks?

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This steaming pile of shit is proving popular with hmc_jrs
by HMC
Sat May 18, 2019 5:22 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: What did you do today?
Replies: 15651
Views: 3179271

Re: What did you do today?

Discovered more rust on the Vito shit heap; not hard as you might expect.
by HMC
Fri May 17, 2019 12:41 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: HMC Motors- Mystery machine
Replies: 39
Views: 23572

Re: HMC Motors- Max power flashbacks?

That’s it. If it got driven into, nicked, whatever I couldn’t care less; that’s strangely liberating. Give me an old/rare/ mint something or other and it’s something to fuss and worry over. Don’t get we wrong- I’ll probably have something that ticks some or all of those boxes in the future but right...
by HMC
Fri May 17, 2019 11:43 am
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: HMC Motors- Mystery machine
Replies: 39
Views: 23572

Re: HMC Motors- Max power flashbacks?

No, it’s originally a very sober dark green, followed by blue, followed by a half hearted (slime?) green

I’ll get a pic near a shutline for a time team esque trip into past resprays.
by HMC
Fri May 17, 2019 11:36 am
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: HMC Motors- Mystery machine
Replies: 39
Views: 23572

Re: HMC Rotten green bogey- or my Mercedes Vito

Whilst lowering local property values by its very existence on the street, it also developed a LOUD Exhaust note, mainly due to the system snapping shortly after the fannymold..... 00DC0A81-5CE0-442B-9388-27F48FAAFB5F.jpeg No doubt an engineers mind would assess shortcomings in how the system was mo...
by HMC
Thu May 16, 2019 9:35 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: HMC Motors- Mystery machine
Replies: 39
Views: 23572

Re: HMC Rotten green bogey- or my Mercedes Vito

That’s just what my (ex)wife said
by HMC
Thu May 16, 2019 9:22 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: HMC Motors- Mystery machine
Replies: 39
Views: 23572

HMC Motors- Mystery machine

I’m hoping soon to move house and this jalopy should hopefully help.... 592AC61B-2790-40E2-896F-DC939DE0EFE9.jpeg BCFF3AC5-9E74-468E-9763-0C6B709AD346.jpeg It’s a 2000 Mercedes Vito 110 cdi. It has no door bottoms, 3 different resprays in 3 different colours, and an awful lot of clag when you boot i...
by HMC
Thu May 16, 2019 3:57 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Jaguar Sovereign: rust and rehabilitation.
Replies: 52
Views: 19993

Re: Jaguar Sovereign: rust and rehabilitation.

Moroccan red is lovely. Back when xj40s were a plenty I wanted either a “majestic” or a black one with cream leather. In about 2007 I nearly won an auction on what I think was an ex rt hon Alan Clark 1993 xj12 - I bottled lobbing in further bids as it was a non runner. He was most definitely a JAAAA...
by HMC
Sat May 04, 2019 4:30 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: What did you do today?
Replies: 15651
Views: 3179271

Re: What did you do today?

Bought back, effectively, a Rover 820SI I previousiy owned for all of 5 minutes. Folk with a basic working knowledge of 800s will already know that the expansion tank has melted/exploded/broken several times over and am about to put a Volvo v70/850 in in its place and will function without melting/e...