Pete Lewis Posted March 1, 2021 Report Share Posted March 1, 2021 gave HYA a quick polish and a good fly down to fill up with some jungle juice shes going very well took the long way home and nothing has fallen off Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted March 1, 2021 Report Share Posted March 1, 2021 I've just got back from a 50 mile round trip to the Opthalmo. Open country roads very little traffic a bit cool on the back of the neck. 😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglefire Posted March 1, 2021 Report Share Posted March 1, 2021 Yes. Went out 3 times yesterday - daughter to and from work and picked up my mum. Got a wave from a chap in a MG 😊 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mjit Posted March 2, 2021 Report Share Posted March 2, 2021 Just the now standard, rather boring 8min Saturday monring drive to the supermarket and back in the 2000. Just realised the Spitfire hasn't been out the garage since July! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
68vitesse Posted March 2, 2021 Report Share Posted March 2, 2021 Had a very important reason to take the Vitesse out Sunday, very nice weather, had to buy a replacement kettle. First stop only click and collect so longer trip to supermarket needed. Regards Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jondhm Posted March 2, 2021 Report Share Posted March 2, 2021 Just been out to Screwfix. Lots of admiring comments from the other customers in the queue. Amazing how many people have either owned Spitfires or GT6s, or have had friends who have owned them. Mind you, it probably says something about Screwfix customers in the middle of the day - the retired DIY brigade. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglefire Posted March 6, 2021 Report Share Posted March 6, 2021 Took some shopping to the mother in laws this morning - so as it was dry (But 'kin cold!) took the spitfire out. About a 20mile round trip but it never really got hot. Oh for warmer days (Its still under 5'C now) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted March 6, 2021 Report Share Posted March 6, 2021 I've been conned! Took Mrs Me to the rhumatologue yesterday and she was given a prescription for some more X rays, when done the rhumatologue wants to see then before deciding on any further action. Good I thought an excuse , sorry a reason, to take them over in the Herald. BUT the rhumatologue says we can just drop them in at the local pharmacy - run by her husband. DAMN! As Mrs me is having kine just by the pharmacy I don't get to use the Herald. Not to worry I have some glasses to collect next week so guess how I'll get there. Actually we're lucky here in that we are allowed out without restrictions of movement other than a 6pm curfew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougbgt6 Posted March 6, 2021 Report Share Posted March 6, 2021 On 02/03/2021 at 16:00, jondhm said: Amazing how many people have either owned Spitfires or GT6s, or have had friends who have owned them. When my GT6 broke down on the garage forecourt I spent 4 or so hours getting it running, at least 3 of those answering questions and sharing reminiscences "I had one of these, but a MK4" "! had one of these, but a soft top" "I had one of these, an MGB" Finally a chap called Malcolm who said "I've got two of these" But he did! And turned up at our next meeting in one of them. Garage breakdown, a great way to recruit new members! Doug 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathew Posted March 7, 2021 Report Share Posted March 7, 2021 Managed to drive the spit out of the garage around the drive and back into the garage. Oil and filter changed, ready for this year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted March 7, 2021 Report Share Posted March 7, 2021 not in the Triumph but in the Cactus130 and a quick blast to a garden centre on the way home via Woburn park for some deer stalking the single track road to parts of Eversholt completely stuffed with verge parked cars and a plonker in his Range Rover with silly rubber band tyres and giant wheels had beached the beast on the verge with wheels off the deck at a nice angle to block the lane , we squeezed by and there he sat spinning wheels where these plonkers come from Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglefire Posted March 7, 2021 Report Share Posted March 7, 2021 Unfortunately a lot of the Range Rover types think they can go anywhere in their 4x4's - but don't seem to realise physics still happens. Wonder if he had pressed the the raise suspension button? Or put it in one of the modes that lock up the diffs? But the tyres won't help either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteH Posted March 7, 2021 Report Share Posted March 7, 2021 You get a lot of that on the "motorhome" sites (looks skyward), The "I got stuck in a muddy field", with my front wheel drive 3.5t+ M-H. Dug in up to the axles!!. So next time park it on some cut down bread crates or similar, try reversing a bit first before you go for it, try higher gear low speed crawl. etc; But no they have to "go for it", the wheels start to spin, and dig a hole they cannot get out of without help!. But then most of the world never did physiscs at school nor anywhere else. Too busy doing "media studies" to become Media "stars". End of rant!. Pete 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyman Posted March 7, 2021 Report Share Posted March 7, 2021 I love seeing the 4x4 people getting stuck and crashing them into ditches in the snow, what total prats. They need to go on a "white roading" course i think its called and learn to drive them. I am not into landrovers but i really admire the people that can get them to the back of beyond and not get stuck. The others need to stick to the school run..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteH Posted March 7, 2021 Report Share Posted March 7, 2021 2 minutes ago, poppyman said: I love seeing the 4x4 people getting stuck and crashing them into ditches in the snow, what total prats. They need to go on a "white roading" course i think its called and learn to drive them. I am not into landrovers but i really admire the people that can get them to the back of beyond and not get stuck. The others need to stick to the school run..... "Chelsea Tractors"? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyman Posted March 7, 2021 Report Share Posted March 7, 2021 3 minutes ago, PeteH said: "Chelsea Tractors"? Got it in one Pete. Tony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglefire Posted March 7, 2021 Report Share Posted March 7, 2021 16 minutes ago, PeteH said: You get a lot of that on the "motorhome" sites (looks skyward), The "I got stuck in a muddy field", with my front wheel drive 3.5t+ M-H. Dug in up to the axles!!. So next time park it on some cut down bread crates or similar, try reversing a bit first before you go for it, try higher gear low speed crawl. etc; But no they have to "go for it", the wheels start to spin, and dig a hole they cannot get out of without help!. But then most of the world never did physiscs at school nor anywhere else. Too busy doing "media studies" to become Media "stars". End of rant!. Pete I had to tow a motorhome off the carpark at Kenilworth castle when I had a defender - came out very easily he just ran out of traction. I've had some great times in my Disco - going down is sometimes easier than going up... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Lindsay Posted March 7, 2021 Report Share Posted March 7, 2021 I really, really miss mine, but I sold it in 2014 for reasons connected with work otherwise I'd still have it. Only 177000 miles on it; I put 100,000 of those on. I towed a woman off the dual carriageway one very snowy night when her BMW got stuck; her comment was: "It's all very well for you in your big 4 x 4." I reckon her BMW cost five or six times what I'd spent on the Disco. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescrapman Posted March 7, 2021 Report Share Posted March 7, 2021 50 minutes ago, poppyman said: I love seeing the 4x4 people getting stuck and crashing them into ditches in the snow, what total prats. They need to go on a "white roading" course i think its called and learn to drive them. I am not into landrovers but i really admire the people that can get them to the back of beyond and not get stuck. The others need to stick to the school run..... Guy who does my MoT was discussing just such things, he reckoned the problem is that all the newer 4*4 drive like cars, so people assume that they are, especially going round corners. He said when the Discovery 3 came out loads went through hedges as the owners got it wrong. If you met the same corner at the speed they did in the 3 in a Discovery 1 or 2 you would soil yourself so you never did. My Disco 1 will sit all day towing a trailer at 50mph on the straight stuff, and I see great at pulling Triumphs round the garden, but feels like it will fall over at 30mph on the twisty stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteH Posted March 7, 2021 Report Share Posted March 7, 2021 I had for many years a C reg Hightop Mitsuibushi Shogun. It was fitted it with a Front mounted Tow Ball (removable). The number of Caravans that towed off wet/muddy rally sites on a Sunday afternoon was legion. 50p a throw, went ito the RNLI. one of it last big jobs was towing this:- Yeovil In Somerset to East Yorkshire, Got some Strange looks!. The Shed was full of Garage stuff, and the Patio Furniture was lashed Behind the shed. Including Two flowering shrubs in Pots!. On the M1. Plod passed at great speed, then his Brake lights went on!, and he dropped back to see, Pair of them went on their way laughing. Pete 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglefire Posted March 7, 2021 Report Share Posted March 7, 2021 I miss mine in lots of ways. I did 172k miles in 7years. Sold with 234k on the clock. I spent nearly 35k on fuel. And 27k on everything else. Including a new engine at 120k. Worked out at 40p/mile. if I’d still got it it would have had another 70k or so on top and who knows what else on bits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathew Posted March 7, 2021 Report Share Posted March 7, 2021 My series 3 long wheel base (ex army) would pull anything. 3 full size pigs in a trailer as if there was nothing there. Would fly to 80 and sit there all day. You got used to the stearing wheel going left right as you moved along. Only sold it as it was petrol and at 12 miles to the gallon i kept running out of petrol. The only car that would go up and down my garden in winter. One of the few cars i never lost money on apart from the running cost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark powell Posted March 8, 2021 Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 Check the number of linkages between the steering wheel on a Series Landy and the wheels.... No wonder it was like steering a wayward barge if there was any play or stiffness anywhere! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badwolf Posted April 14, 2021 Report Share Posted April 14, 2021 After a long lay up, finally hit the road again yesterday. Off for a hair cut. Left with hair flying in the breeze returned more like shaun the sheep. Car a bit lumpy on choke but no problems and ran lovely when warm. I must try to remember the best choke settings. After the modern autochoke...well!!! Just to prove a point, just after getting on the main road it starts raining. Do I don't I put up the hood. Be brave it will stop. It did...until I got onto another road which took me......yes you've guessed it....back under the same cloud. Two minutes later lovely sunshine. Welcome back to British (does one say that these days) open top motoring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougbgt6 Posted April 14, 2021 Report Share Posted April 14, 2021 I intended going to Inaugural 2021 East Berks meeting last night in the car, jumped in, turned the key and........nothing. Odd as it started fine a week ago. Got the battery charger on and noticed the interior light wouldn't go out. Checked the dashboard and the door switches, all fine. It must be the rear hatch switch, then remembered a thread, "Where is the earth for the hatch heated rear window?" I'd gone and had a look, the earth is on the rear hatch hinge bolt, same place as the as the sensor switch, I must have dislodged it. The interior light is going to have to come off together with the hinge cover to get at it. That's what you get for helping people. Doug 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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