What did you do today?

[dean36014]

Prodded new CX with the screwdriver of doom. It's terminal unfortunately. But, a bloody cheap source of spare parts for my other one.

[mercrocker]

Probably a better result than finding it to be slightly better than the one you have....!

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Finally found an engine ECU with all the matching numbers to fix the SLK, picked it up from Coventry, just about to take it with the knackered one to my mate Barry. He’s going to “ virginise” the new one then clone the old one into it. Hopefully it’ll work , a ne one is £1600 fitted and isn’t guaranteed to cure the none start,this one cost £180 and I’ll owe Barry an airport trip in the future.

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I also went to see a trimmer out on a farm who is going to replace the back window on the Boxster, the old ones not split or cracked just the stitching has rotted in places. He quoted £190 to restitch or £220 for a new window, might as well get a new one as the old one has few scuffs and scratches, booked in for next Thursday.

[SiC]

Finally found an engine ECU with all the matching numbers to fix the SLK, picked it up from Coventry, just about to take it with the knackered one to my mate Barry. He’s going to “ virginise” the new one then clone the old one into it. Hopefully it’ll work , a ne one is £1600 fitted and isn’t guaranteed to cure the none start,this one cost £180 and I’ll owe Barry an airport trip in the future.
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I also went to see a trimmer out on a farm who is going to replace the back window on the Boxster, the old ones not split or cracked just the stitching has rotted in places. He quoted £190 to restitch or £220 for a new window, might as well get a new one as the old one has few scuffs and scratches, booked in for next Thursday.

That's about what I paid for the rear
plastic window replaced in my Boxster.

[angrydicky]

Had to take Mrs Rocker up the eye hospital today. Her 2nd of 4 injections to reduce swelling in the retina has not been arranged yet 3 weeks after the 1st. Today she could hardly see out of it again. Macular Degeneration apparently and with treatment (provided they actually bloody well do it) should return to a mild condition.

Anyway, I used the Cowley as it was already out and just to save a couple of quid on parking I used up a fiver's worth trolling round the town for an hour for the hell of it.

Retraced his original on-the-road journey from the site of Wadham's Morris dealership (its a Lidl or summat now) back to the house where the car first lived. Nowhere to park on either site but I have done that before on the car's 60th anniversary. Will be its 70th next March!

These are times when I wish a car could talk but it would probably sound like me moaning about all the bloody foreigners.

Great to hear you’ve had the Morris out for a run and it’s always nice when classic cars manage to stay in the same area their whole lives.
How far are you from Exbury Hall? The Austin Counties Car Club are holding their national rally there on 16th June and you’d be most welcome, I don’t think there’s an entry fee but I will check.
I’m hoping to take the Hampshire but it’s 180 miles each way on motorways (which I won’t go on) so it’s going to be a trek.

[Guest]

I've been up to Wiltshire today and took the ZX to give it a run, I much prefer driving it to the T5, especially when stuck in traffic. It's my friends' front porch, not mine.

[mercrocker]

Great to hear you’ve had the Morris out for a run and it’s always nice when classic cars manage to stay in the same area their whole lives.
How far are you from Exbury Hall? The Austin Counties Car Club are holding their national rally there on 16th June and you’d be most welcome, I don’t think there’s an entry fee but I will check.
I’m hoping to take the Hampshire but it’s 180 miles each way on motorways (which I won’t go on) so it’s going to be a trek.

Exbury House I think it must be. About 9 miles away, I actually grew up near there so know it very well. I'll certainly try and get along, nothing showing on the calendar at the moment. Historically, a great place to visit as it was HMS Mastodon during WWII and the site of a famous mystery plane crash (the Exbury Junkers). Neville Shute wrote about it in Requiem for a Wren. Beaulieu is about 5 miles away and some of the D Day mounting was done along these shores, 80 years almost to the week of the rally.

It is a bugger of trip down from your way, I have done it a couple of times in the Cowley avoiding motorways and you need loads of time! Maximum daylight hours available, though!

[angrydicky]

Yeah that’s the one!

[Broccoli]

A friend of mine is a gymnastics coach. Has had a few US gymnasts through his place. Anyway, he invited me to attend a fund raiser for the special Olympics today.

A wealthy local businessman opened the door on his secret stash of all beetles for necky buggers like me to look around - for a slight gratuity for the special Olympics at the door.

Saw this in the car park on the back of an old type 3 square back.

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It’s a logo I did for gratis for a local VW club last summer. Apparently it’s on T shirts and hoodies too!

Inside there were A LOT of expensive beetles. Most with quad cam engines (where the engines alone are worth $200k plus)

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Must be from Australia originally. There were a few of them waiting for the cars to catch them up…
Also the aforementioned beetles - not a kitcar in sight.

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They had one of those official Porsche beach buggy things as well (worth anywhere between $1.5M to $2.0M depending on the day.

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Had a nice 23 window samba that had just been restored too.

[LynehamHerc]

I bet that his insurance specifically excludes fire damage.