Gully

Some people use the MGF steel spare wheels on their Triumphs - may be one of those? Gully

Herts and Beds TSSC branch has a run to Bressingham Gardens & Railway on Sunday 19th June 2022. Gully

Condolences to Carl and the rest of the family. Gully

The Gloster Dragmaster... Struggled in performance terms against its contemporary - the Hawker Hunter. Fuel hungry (two relatively inefficient Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire engines) and not a slippery airframe. The delta wing with high T-tail gave a few tricky stall characteristics too. Gloster proposed a 'thin wing' version to improve performance, but this was not ordered. The final flying one retired from Boscombe Down to Duxford in the mid-1970's and is still on display there in a red/white colour scheme. Gully

I've a tube of white grease - used by me mainly for my bike. It's pretty waterproof, but very temperature sensitive, so I've rarely used it on the car. Might be a bit on the handbrake cable where it runs through the body, but can't think of anywhere else I've used it. Of course, your white grease may be completely different... 😄 Gully

It's the PO gorillas working overtime 🤣 Gully

Glad my GT6 filler cap is lockable with the price of super unleaded. May start adding single malt as a cheap top up... Filled up the modern diesel last week at Tesco to the tune of £86 - at least that gave just under 600 miles range. My trip to Scotland at the end of the month is going to be pricey - we were thinking of taking my wife's convertible, but as the diesel estate uses half the fuel it's a no-brainer. Gully

The part number quoted is correct for the GT6 / Vitesse manual, but the Mk 2 / Rotoflex information was added in the 2nd issue. The final edition is the 3rd issue, which includes the late GT6 Mk 3 supplements. Gully

The routing on mine is the same as Non-Member's - see top left of this image. Gully

Club shop does the bearing kits with the correct felt seal - that can be a minefield even from the better-known suppliers. Gully

Whilst in France last week I read a few bits on Facebook about diesel shortages back here. However, I dropped into Tesco in Baldock on the way home from Stanstead and filled up - and wondered what on earth all the fuss was about! Gully

Great to see pictures of the RAC Rally taking place in the Highlands - thank you. Gully

I've pondered over this thread and reached the conclusion that Doug's diagnosis of water in his fuel is incorrect. Having re-examined the evidence, it's clear that the cause of his car's failure to proceed was the act of wearing slippers. These are not the preserve of the GT6 driver and should be restricted to Triumph 2000 drivers. The car, having identified Doug's faux-pas, showed him the error of his ways, allowing him to return home at a safe pace and change into more appropriate footwear, whereupon the car (and Doug) could then go about their journey as per normal. I'm confident this theory can be tested - next winter, leave your car for 3 months with E10 fuel in it and then try to drive it in your slippers... Gully

Not convinced driving standards are getting worse. Many people have done daft things when first out from under the watchful gaze of their driving instructor - not sure that's anything new. However, roads are much more congested than they were (even by my reckoning and I've only been driving since 1987), which leads to impatience and in my view impatience is a far greater cause of accidents than simply speed. Another factor is more powerful cars. I would have had to work my original 1200cc Mk 1 Astra very hard to break most non-urban speed limits! Now, small cars are generally pretty nippy, inviting impatient, drivers to go for gaps... Gully

Was it not Antiques Road Trip (daytime TV) where they used classic cars, as opposed to BBC's Sunday night offering? Gully

Try contacting Guy Singleton - the TSSC Bond Register Secretary. bond@tssc.org.uk Gully

is it possible that with the new buttons the clamps around the leaves are too tight and without significant load on the spring they are stopping the leaves sliding? Gully

After a morning sat at the PC in Teams meetings, listening to the breeze 'freshen', I wandered into the car port around 1pm to see one end of a fence panel had popped out of it's post (flexing in the wind) and was rattling about 100mm from the side of my GT6! Only the car port guttering and roof edge was keeping it off the car... Car is now out on the driveway. Lost another couple of fence panels during the afternoon and one fence post (concrete post fitted a few years ago with insufficient postcrete). Gully

The Mountney boss takes the same horn pencil as the Moto-lita bosses. See here: https://www.moto-lita.co.uk/accessories/pencil-contact/ Only difference is spade connector versus a screw terminal on the back of the horn push. Gully

Ditto! Gully

Exactly what I had to do with my GT6. Gully

Don't get too despondent about supposed professionals' work - many of us have been caught out with both mechanical and bodywork being to a shocking standard. I went to a local 'classic specialist' to have the offside a lower rear quarter repaired on my GT6. It came back looking fine, but without the photo record of work I'd asked for. 16 months later, I noticed corrosion bubbling on the arch again and when I took out the boot boards found the area very wet (probably from having been caught out by the weather on a recent run). Poking around inside the lower wing showed it to be full of flaked rust. When I took the car to a proper body shop (recommended by a few people locally), they stripped back the area to show the original rusty panel had been hammered back into the boot and a plate tacked over it before being covered with filler. There was nothing sealing the plate to the original inner panels, hence the water ingress. None of the actual rusty steel had been cut out first time around. I hate having to pay for something to be done twice! Gully

That's an 'interesting' allegation that I'd like to see expanded and explained further, please. Thanks, Gully

To reinforce Pete's point, my wavy speedometer was sorted by a new cable. That was until oil migrated from the rebuilt gearbox up the new cable and into the speedometer, at which point it became totally erratic and went off to Speedy Cables for a clean up! Gully

I've always used Super Unleaded, so I'm used to the premium price tag. Tesco Momentum is the cheapest way to buy that grade around here (Herts.). Okay, my GT6 always seems smoother on BP Super Unleaded than any other brand, but with the current fuel prices, it sees Tesco Momentum more often than not. Gully