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Scott Moynihan Blog 09/05/08
Scott solves a TR6 design flaw - all you need is some garden hose...
‘You can do it if you B&Q it’ or so the advert goes. You may recall in my last blog that I had been to the aforementioned do it yourself store to buy some bits that would enable me to improve what I consider to be a weak point in Triumph TR6 design.
This is namely the rainwater outlet that allows any of the wet stuff that finds itself collecting in the vent flap below the win...
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Words: Scott Moynihan
Posted: 9:34am, 9 May 2008
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Neil's natterings, 02/05/08
You know how it is. You have a spare weekend. You have a plan. It has briefly stopped raining. The game is on, and you ready yourself for battle with your broken / damaged / inoperative classic.
In this case, I’d planned to work on my SAAB 900 which needed a new exhaust section as well as getting the Vitesse ready for a date with the MoT station. Then my phone rang and I got called away to do something else – something important that couldn’t be put off…
My girlfriend's usually reliable Volvo had started to play up, resulting in a stranded Helen and culminating i...
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Words: Neil Campbell
Posted: 4:30pm, 2 May 2008
Images: Neil Campbell / James Wooley
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Liz blog 01/05/08
Two Fools and 125 Horses...
I went to the pub last night. No big shakes I hear you say – true, true. But I went to our local Vintage sports car club pub meet – which happens once a month. Members in and around our area make an effort to come out and catch up with each other. Some make the effort to come out in a suitable car too – and last night’s fair weather brought out a decent selection.
We dro...
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Words: Liz Cawley
Posted: 8:49am, 1 May 2008
Images: Liz Cawley
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Rodders' Blog 29/04/08
Computers: Best friend or worst enemy?
I’m not exactly sure when it was that I first learned how to delete my interweb browsing history. Nowadays of course, I’ll be hitting ‘ctrl + h’ and stabbing ‘delete’ as soon as even the most inappropriate content hoves into view, (by which I mean that I have to cover my tracks when playing Fantasy Classic Garages for hours at a time).
But I certainly remember the fi...
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Words: Rodders
Posted: 3:47pm, 29 April 2008
Images: Mike Authers Classics
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Keith Adams' blog, April 28th
Keith Adams is happy to see the return of summer... and starts enjoying driving again
I MUST admit that I'm definitely one for the winter months - few things in life can beat the barrage of sensations you experience on a crisp, snowy January morning... but the problem living here in the UK is that we just don't get many days like that. No, for us, it's one or two days of snow bracketed by relentless rain and wind.
Owning an old car in our climes is no joy - either...
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Words: Keith Adams
Posted: 8:46am, 28 April 2008
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Scott Moynihan Blog 24/04/08
The TR6 Restoration makes headway, as Scott gets the front end lined up nicely...
When I visited the Triumph Spares Day a couple of months back, I picked up a couple of reconditioned front wings. These were to replace the decidedly frilly originals that my TR6 was sporting when I dragged it out of the barn.
The old wings aren’t too far gone, but do require extensive surgery. As I intend to get the car back on the road as soon as I can, I figured that buying...
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Words: Scott Moynihan
Posted: 9:24am, 24 April 2008
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Old car advert of the day: 27/04/08
The ZAZ 956A...
The ZAZ-965 was produced from 1960 and 1969 at the ZAZ factory in Soviet Ukraine. The car was also known as the Zaporozhet and was built in various forms until 1994. Our advert is for the ZAZ 956A - a mildly facelifted version produced from 1962 - 1969.
Bearing more than a passing resemblance to the Fiat 600, the ZAZ was a tough little car designed to withstand Siberian winters ...
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Words: Neil Campbell
Posted: 9:40am, 22 April 2008
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Neil blog 18/04/08
Dollis my long-suffering Triumph Dolomite has finally gone - whisked away from our workshop yesterday by new owner, Jonathan Clegg.
Poor old Dollis, I wanted to love that car, I really did but for some reason, I couldn’t muster much enthusiasm for the yellow marvel. I eventually abandoned it for a couple of months in the car park at PC Towers, much to the chagrin of the security and maintenance staff - and the amusement of my work colleagues.
I still don’t know why I didn’t feel more emotion for it, esp...
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Words: Neil Campbell
Posted: 4:26pm, 18 April 2008
Images: Neil Campbell
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Theo's Thoughts 15/04/08
Theo's Bristol becomes a prop in Ice Station Zebra
Do you remember Easter last year? We were loafing around on sun beds, wearing shorts and sipping chilled cocktails - well, no doubt some of us were. I was grovelling underneath a decomposed Bristol I seem to remember.
About a year later, on the second Sunday of April, the Goodwood Breakfast Club theme was post 1980 sports cars. The Bristol Owners' Club also arranged a Club meet ...
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Words: Theo Gillam
Posted: 10:17am, 15 April 2008
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Liz blog 11/04/08
Liz tries on Benny Hill’s seat for size and finds that it fits quite well thankingyou...
You have to admit that as far as films go, the Italian Job is up there with the greats - with Michael Caine as lead-man and cars to die for. The opening scene sets the stall out for the motors with the Lamborghini Miura climbing an Alpine pass, only to be destroyed by the mob and chucked down a mountain – it wasn’t the last car in the film to seal its fate in this way.
Havin...
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Words: Liz Cawley
Posted: 11:51am, 11 April 2008
Images: Liz Cawley
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