The Dark Wob

Same with 405s. Some might even go so far as to say they don't rust... Well they didn't but to be fair to them it took 20 years.

The Reverend Bluejeans wrote: ↑Tue Jul 09, 2019 8:54 am My car/bridge interface level is much, much lower than yours.

Fuck me.

I've weighed in loads of cars over the years, some far too good but I've ripped the valuable bits off and squished the rest.

I just like to repair stuff I respect though. That old 306 has now done 282,000 without the engine ever having had any work. It had been a totally dependable machine and it deserves to live.

My previous Nissan X Trail threw a rod so I just stripped it and squashed it. I had only had it a year. Not enough time to form a proper bond!

Dunno. There are cars I bond with within the first ten metres and on the other hand there are cars, which aren't bondwithable in a lifetime.

CLINT wrote: ↑Tue Jul 09, 2019 9:13 am This one will probably get broken. 'er indoors just uses her car for driving to the train station and leaving there all day so rarely carries passengers. This one is tested way into next year so I think I'll just put it back to together for now and analyse it properly next year.
I could sell the engine several times over for £200 and the axle for £60 so I won't be losing on it.

The other option which I quite like is to swap every panel into the heirloom 306 so she gets her mum's car AND a kingfisher green 306. It needs the rear quarters painting anyway

Sounds great idea you can’t go wrong,best of both worlds etc

CLINT wrote: ↑Mon Jul 08, 2019 9:27 pm Today I decided to have a better look at the 306. You can see rust flakes inside the bootIMG_20190708_165003.jpgnot so pretty behind the trimIMG_20190708_170500.jpg
Fucked some might sayIMG_20190708_170510.jpg now I'm not exaggerating when I say that I literally just took hold of the seatbelt and took it off the car. It was like picking a raspberry. IMG_20190708_170545.jpgIMG_20190708_170552.jpg

Bear in mind that this was a very tidy, one lady owner since 2001 car. It had a full service history and a long mot.

It's a turbo diesel by the way.

Wow.
That's fucked.
A shame though, as you say, the kingfishers are rare.
Bit of paint on the old one is a bit cheaper than welding that bagga.

I'd happily weld it if a donor can be found that we can simply cut the offending bit out of and stitch it back in.

Well yesterday was a happy day for me. I timed the heirloom 306 up properly and it started no problem! Sounds good too, other than the fact I can't get the exhaust to bolt up to the manifold. It has spent nearly two years not only parked up on what was once grass but also with the exhaust system full of flood water and this has rotted the centre of the exhaust to point where it is sagging in the middle and won't line up with the manifold. Although to be fair, it was starting to blow anyway. No big deal, I have spare ones. Today I drove it out of its stingy testing place. Clutch was stuck on but that soon freed off It looks better emptied of junk and out in the open (it had been turned into a storage shed like all parked up cars) 306s make good weedkillers. Not many stingers under where it's been. I did find a socket though. Wondered where that has gone!

I've probably misunderstood but seem to think that you were going to swap panels onto this. If it's sagging in the middle surely it's scrap now?

Panel swappable was just some musing. It may or may not happen. The EXHAUST is sagging in the middle...

Sorry.