What did you do today?

Talk about your cars etc here. Keep it sort of sensible and on topic please.
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Re: What did you do today?

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My father used to work on Mosquitoes when he was in the RAF.

I might let my mother know
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Hooli wrote: Tue Aug 09, 2022 8:23 pm
59Impala wrote: Tue Aug 09, 2022 6:43 pmtomorrow when we go off for our Mosquito Experience Day at the East Kirkby Aviation Centre.
Hooli wrote: Tue Aug 09, 2022 8:18 pm Enjoy the Mossie, it's a beautiful rebuild that Tony Agar has managed there.

BenHar wrote: Tue Aug 09, 2022 8:19 pm

Whut?
https://www.lincsaviation.co.uk/experie ... rience-day
On Saturday I had the absolute pleasure of watching 2 spitfires, 1 hurricane and a P51 mustang pootle over the house.

Search online and you can get a 30 min flight from Headcorn or Biggin Hill for a lot less than you would expect

Still eye watering mind but a group buy for a parent……..

When will you ever get a chance again
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Took the Ibiza in for its' MoT today at my local garage. Passed with no "official" advisories. Only one was a verbal one; "you need to get rid of that car, I'm fed up with it keeping passing!".

Do me nicely.
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nebuchenezer wrote: Tue Aug 09, 2022 8:52 pm
Hooli wrote: Tue Aug 09, 2022 8:23 pm
59Impala wrote: Tue Aug 09, 2022 6:43 pmtomorrow when we go off for our Mosquito Experience Day at the East Kirkby Aviation Centre.
Hooli wrote: Tue Aug 09, 2022 8:18 pm Enjoy the Mossie, it's a beautiful rebuild that Tony Agar has managed there.

BenHar wrote: Tue Aug 09, 2022 8:19 pm

Whut?
https://www.lincsaviation.co.uk/experie ... rience-day
On Saturday I had the absolute pleasure of watching 2 spitfires, 1 hurricane and a P51 mustang pootle over the house.

Search online and you can get a 30 min flight from Headcorn or Biggin Hill for a lot less than you would expect

Still eye watering mind but a group buy for a parent……..

When will you ever get a chance again
I looked into this a while ago with the 2 seater Spitfire along with looking into a local guy who takes passengers and does aerobatics over our village. I think sense has prevailed though as I used to get airsick during aerobatics 50 odd years ago and I very much doubt I've improved.
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Ooohh fuck.

Wife called me last night - seems her Honda s2000 was making ominous noises and the oil light was on - strange as I’d been in it at the weekend & all seemed fine.

Bought about 8 years ago as the classic tail ender ( swopped ends & kissed the M25 Armco) I pulled it straight & she commuted 200 miles a day every summer ( Octavia vrs in winter) till she retired from proper full time work

Last Spring, on 193,000 we ( I say we….) decided on a full engine rebuild - it smoked like a beagle, was as tired as an Octagenarian, at THE s2000 specialist- TGM in Fleet, Hampshire.
It was there 7 months & I got a bill for circa 7k , but it came back rejuvenated , & marital harmony was reinstated

So I wasn’t expecting this, some 8k later. I drove over ( was at Amberley Museum, where she now spends her days) & it sounds like bottom end on rearmost cylinder. It’s forcing oil out of everywhere with compression in very strange places. Ticks over ok, but the oil light flickers & any revs sound grim.
Something serious has failed.

So I’ve got to extract the dolly ( it’s too low to A frame) & hoik it back to TGM’s this weekend for extraction, inspection & diagnoss sometime soon. I’ve feel an interesting conversation coming on , but I’m hopeful Tom will be reasonable.

I promptly returned her spare SLk 23 to the road, cos she HAS to have a yellow softop ( I know - but she’s a lot of redeeming features)
She doesn’t like it much but yellow open top options are kinda rare! Especially cheap ones!
Typically it fired 1 st time ( hadn’t moved since mot’d in April) & drove straight back. Doovla extracted £ 200 for just 6 months, fluids check, tyres kicked, ready to go. Nope, it’s the Octavia - till sense kicks in, in a few days- or she melts.

Her input? A phone call. Mine - headless chicken. Is she grateful? What do you think!
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You'd only get bored without all that to do.
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Went to two local car breakers but both had shut up shop and started emptying out everything. Apparently not enough people come in anymore to make it worth while.
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Took some old batteries and lead gas pipes from my house to the scrappies today. Didn't (dare) take some pics inside, after all, what's funny about seeing cubed Corsas.....
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Re: What did you do today?

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Hooli wrote: Tue Aug 09, 2022 8:23 pm
59Impala wrote: Tue Aug 09, 2022 6:43 pmtomorrow when we go off for our Mosquito Experience Day at the East Kirkby Aviation Centre.
Hooli wrote: Tue Aug 09, 2022 8:18 pm Enjoy the Mossie, it's a beautiful rebuild that Tony Agar has managed there.

BenHar wrote: Tue Aug 09, 2022 8:19 pm

Whut?
https://www.lincsaviation.co.uk/experie ... rience-day
Easily understood when you added the post you were replying to. (Fucking technocripple.)

Thanks
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