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Colin Lindsay

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  • Birthday 25/09/1962

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    Scarva, Northern Ireland
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    GT6 Mk1 (sold), 1967 Herald 1200 Estate, 1964 Herald 1200 Estate, 1964 Herald 1200 convertible, 1970 13/60 convertible and far too many spare parts.

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  1. Some of my local shows used to have a pre-1980 clause, and that was later amended to pre-1990, but then we had the serial complainers along the lines of "my model came out in 1988 but my actual car was made in 1992 and it's not fair that I'm excluded" which THEN became modified to 'my car first appeared in 1971 and they're still using the name so my 1995 model is excluded and it's not fair' and finally to the 'I'm a member of the Owner's Club and we have a stand so I can bring my 2023 car as I'm a Club member' so once again the real 'Classics' became a minority at some shows. When shows have limited spaces for entrants, and you see very old cars from the 40s, 50s and 60s being turned away because the field is full of 'Present Day' moderns, there's something not right.
  2. No doubt someone will come up with the 'correct' shade or paint code especially for the wheels, but as for supplier: if that's all you're painting your local Motorfactors would be a good starting point. Personally I tend to avoid Hammerite and the like but a good aerosol of the preferred colour will go quite a long way, and you should be able to find a modern alternative to the original paint quite easily.
  3. 25 years I can live with - my Z3 is 25, for example - but 25 minutes is stretching things a bit....
  4. Call it a hankering for a particular era, if you like. I remember in the 1970s going to shows full of cars from the 1950s and 1960s, models I remembered as a child. Where are they now? No-one in those days would have dreamed of turning up in a modern car and claiming it as a classic. I can't believe there's been a huge jump from 1950s or 1960s cars - which even then were all around ten to twenty years old and can't all have been scrapped since - missing out the 1970s and 1980s, and even the 1990s to a large extent and going straight to 2010 or the 2020s. It's like going to a 1950s Band Show and playing modern music - it's music, people like it, so why shouldn't it be allowed? - while those who really want the genuine article from their preferred era are left feeling let down and excluded among cars that are just everyday models in their hundreds.
  5. Saturday morning... "Classic Car Show" at The Boulevard, Banbridge. I called up at 10am in the BMW, not a classic but drier than the Herald, only to see two oiks in lowered moderns with bean-tin exhausts doing doughnuts in the carpark. That was it. I stayed until 12.00 noon, coffee and a newspaper, and when nothing else appeared went home again. Perhaps it was cancelled, perhaps all those moderns in the car park really were the 'Classic' show. Who knows? (Incidentally there's another next Saturday at a local church; £10 for cars, public get in free. I pay to display my car but others get in free to see them? Work that one out. They'll make Springsteen pay to perform, next.) However whilst idly wandering the shops I had a look at some of the artwork they use to cover empty units. Presumably by a local Ulster artist, but some of the detail was telling if very stylised. I wonder what his connection / interest is?
  6. I know I'm newly-fangled with the Z3 hence some of the expenditure, like a pair of front struts that I now reckon I don't need but cost me £300. I had to fix the rear fog lights - stuck permanently on - for MOT, so needed a £30 switch plus a full service which included a new thermostat, but I also replaced the front brake discs and pads and gave the underside a full Wax treatment. The exhaust rattled alarmingly, so I replaced the silencer which admittedly did have a perforation at one of the welds, then found it was the CAT. It was embarrassing if driven down a street as pedestrians could hear it echoing off the buildings, so as it spoiled the image completely(!) it had to go too. THAT was £1700, no exchange as the BMW mechanics reckon the internals have been removed over the last 25 years as it's dated 1997. Replacement hood window was £100. Replacement stainless petrol tank straps were £75, the originals were crumbly, and only a tenner for new seat bushes. Rear tyres were about £180 a pair. Get that airbag system sorted and it'll see no more for a while, although the headlamp switch illumination doesn't work - that will really annoy me until I replace the £5 bulb after about ten hours labour as it requires parts of the dash removed, and the exhaust joint bolts are not the proper sprung bolts so I'll scour eBay for replacements. As with the Triumphs, little details get on my goat until properly sorted. Incidentally I replaced the exhaust last night and the car is transformed; not only much quieter but more power at low revs. I was always surprised at how poor the acceleration was in lower gears. The CAT has been messed about with and no doubt blocked. All I need to do is work out where exactly the vibration damper sits on the main pipe, or if I even need it, and that's it done.
  7. Nil desperandum, if that's how it's spelt. I don't really despair, just grumble out loud and take on the challenge. I've just fitted the new exhaust, not as well as I'd like (it seemed a slightly different profile to the old, so some of the flexible joints are not as square as I'd prefer) but no leaks or blow-outs. Currently trying to work out where the vibration damper goes as there are no clues. I need the car tomorrow as family are all working or on courses so taking theirs, so it'll be roadworthy by then. I'm not used to this kind of expenditure in recent years; exhaust, tyres, and small sundry parts have cost me 75% of the purchase price already. It had better behave! Conversely I'll be in a position where I can't sell it as I'll never get the outlay back. I did manage to get the Freelander through MOT, clean slate and in quite good condition, so that's a bonus.
  8. I'd agree, home made version. Looks well made and a nice add-on for an electric pump.
  9. I think yours is Mk2? The GT6 Mk1 had upright overriders which bolted to this bracket - see photo of where mine was - but the Mk2 doesn't have the overriders, just the bumper, so I suppose it's not needed in those models.
  10. Removed and cleaned passenger pretensioner and contacts; removed and cleaned the short cable from pretensioner to loom along the rear of the seat, and cleaned the contacts at that main connection too where it disappears under the floor. I don't think I can swap pretensioners round as there's a different short cable connection on either side so passenger cable won't fit the driver's side except at the actual pretensioner itself, which means removing both seats yet again. NOT AGAIN!!! I might replace the pretensioner itself but have located a small BMW-specialist garage less than ten miles from me, so might call in with them for advice, as some enthusiasts are stating that the airbag warning light is not so easily reset as many claim. Worth a try later in the week.
  11. Well 50% success; the last two tyre sensors were replaced this morning on the Fiesta and so far the light has not reappeared. Happy days! Mot expires on the 15th so that means an appointment will be obtained for about 2025. Sadly the BMW seat went back in this morning and despite cleaning all of the electrical contacts from loom to seat to pre-tensioner the airbag warning light came on immediately and although the OBD reader states that the code has been cleared, it remains lit or else comes back on on restart. I can see now why so many of these modern cars are going to be scrapped as beyond economic repair.
  12. Yes. Most of the small engines are interchangeable across the range with only small changes required such as keeping the proper front plate etc.
  13. Herald owners avoid parking when facing downhill, now BMW owners do the opposite!
  14. My local Tyre Centre uses the Makita cordless impact gun, seems an impressive piece of kit.
  15. I was very surprised to find my BMW takes the blue stuff, which makes things very simple for my garage. Of course everyone else's modern takes pink, and the Herald estate is now on the green Prestone stuff (reduced to £10.50 for 5l in Tescos.) I don't know if that stuff can be mixed with anything else, there are no warnings on the container, but I'm still using it on a completely drained system with no residue of anything else in the engine already.
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