What did you do today?

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Drum wrote: Wed Jul 06, 2022 7:11 am Yesterday I agreed to sell the Oldsmobile after being contacted randomly on Facebook. Boy is coming over from Ireland for it.
Aaaaaaw.

I do remember it at SF18. It made an awesome noise, and the reversing beeper was the icing on the cake. I can't imagine it's exactly economical to run at the moment, though. I wonder if those old GM V8s will run on veg...

No, I'm not interested in it. It'll be out of my budget for one thing, and I don't think the spaces outside my flat could accommodate it anyway!
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Drum wrote: Wed Jul 06, 2022 7:11 am Yesterday I agreed to sell the Oldsmobile after being contacted randomly on Facebook. Boy is coming over from Ireland for it.
Please go and see you GP.
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Tried a bottle of some fancy Meguiar's polish on the car.
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Seems okay, the dew all burned off and didn't leave marks so that's an improvement. I'll have to see what it looks like in the rain.

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I know some bike people who swear by Meguiars
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Hooli wrote: Wed Jul 06, 2022 3:18 pm I know some bike people who swear by Meguiars
I used their Carnauba Wax (red bottle, smells like bananas) mostly because that's the brand they mainly sell at Auto Zone. It goes on nicely and buffs off without trouble, even in the sun.

This stuff is weird, it's one of their ceramic waxes. The water would bead before with the carnauba but this it all rolls off if there's anything more than a slight downward curve to the body.
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Stuck a computer fan in the intake duct, with an extension lead to a 12V wall wart- rain recently had soaked the carpet. Hopefully it'll dry out a little.
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There's the rain, on cue.

Not bad, it wouldn't ever drip down like that before.
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Is the paint original? It looks brilliant.
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paulplom wrote: Wed Jul 06, 2022 4:23 pm Is the paint original? It looks brilliant.
No, it's been repainted. It's a bit brighter blue than it was new.
I'd put the paint at about 20 years old.
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So this is the carnauba wax, put on 2 weeks ago.
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This the Meguiar's ceramic put on yesterday.
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Both bead but the Pontiac has started to join the globules and drip off.
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angrydicky wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 5:53 pm My father has fancied a Hillman Minx for years, and after looking at several potential candidates, we had narrowed the search to either a Series IIIC or a Super Minx. He decided he preferred the styling of the later Audax Minxes the best, but there weren’t many for sale. The only IIICs were one at a dealer in Yorkshire and another at a dealer in Lymington which was £3k more. It looked shinier but the panel gaps didn’t look as good and the number plates had been blanked (always a bad sign) and Lymington is many hours from Lincolnshire so on Saturday we drove up to Yorkshire to view the one there.
It turned out to be a very nice unrestored car. It needed a bit of recommissioning work, the brakes were binding and the exhaust and windscreen seal are both on their last legs but it’s mega original, lovely quiet engine with excellent oil pressure, and you could tell the 72k on the clock was genuine. The interior was in lovely original condition apart from the front doorcards which are a bit tatty.
Dad had already made up his mind he was having it before we got there, providing the engine was good and it had no galloping structural rot.
The dealer was able to deliver it today, and it turned up just after lunch.
After quite a search I’ve found a classic exhaust specialist who has the patterns and can produce an OE-spec one for not too much £££ - cheaper than taking it somewhere and having a custom one made anyway.
Dad has just had his first drive up the road in it and has managed to free the sticking brakes (although I am currently building up a full set of replacement cylinders to go on it, as they obviously need attention) and is very pleased with his purchase. He’s going to cut and polish it in the evenings this week with the intention of taking it to a small show at the village hall on Sunday.
That does look nice, I shall look out for it when I'm out and about. I bought one in about 1973 for seven quid, I haggled the lady owner down from £12.50. Its destiny was to have been the oval but I never did get around to banger racing properly. After I had towed it around SE London behind my Mk2 Cortina 1300 I ran out of friend's driveways to dump it on and it languished on the grass outside our council house until the council got the hump and took it away with a skip lorry to their car dump in Plumstead. The Minx ran well but the bodywork was ropey. Your dad's car gets bonus points for the Pride & Clarke badge.
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