UKPassats

gor131-x wrote:i really am loving that car,especially after having a few chats to eddi about the car,absolute beauty!

Cheers You were particularly impressed as I recall about the fact that I even had a trip computer on the old bus

Coooool 8) 8)

Helloooo and welcome along

1976 MkIII Cortina 1600 XL Excuse the old photos... (and curiously non-matching wheels in picture 2 :?) http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g112/eddilowe/ukpassats%20stuff/cortina1.jpg http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g112/eddilowe/ukpassats%20stuff/cortina2.jpg Sadly he's as rotten as hell underneat...

Ahhhhhh I see :D I've got a basic understanding of most everyday stuff cos I did my C&G level 1 Motor Vehicle Servicing and Repair at college years ago. I've just lost confidence in doing anything mechanical myself because I'm out of practice. I had the Cortina on the road at the time and I did ...

hahaha i knew ud say something like that haha you oh fiddlesticks!! I kind of have a basic understanding of what you're on about, but exactly how does changing that cam unleash more horses? I mean, more horses are always good, but how does it work? And can you do that without buggering things up. I...

seeing as its had a decat i think you should put a KR (1.8 16v) inlet cam in it, should give a nice horsepower bump :) prob around 150bhp . . . :twisted: The 9a 2.0 16v thats in the beasty had a lame inlet cam so that the emissions wouldnt kill the catalitic converter. :shock: Sorry Matto that just...

Got some fogs from dear Mr Shedweight - hooray!!!!!! :D On another note, prompted by a post of Gor's saying how you don't realise how much you've actually spent on your motor until you sit back and tot it all up - I've been sitting back and totting it all up and it really is astonishing. But at leas...

Didn't set fire to anything round there did you Bobster?

Matt wrote:cool! cracking buy for that price, and as it was under £100 its eligible for banger rallys too!

Still having thoughts about entering S2N Matto?

dont think im goin to e38, cant afford it on my busmans wage. eddie wheres rockingham wasd thinkin somewhere like in 1 of meadowhalls many car parks Rockingham Motor Speedway, somewhere near Corby, Northamptonshire Bobster :lol: And then I realised that you were talking about this Saturday, not the...

bobman wrote:any sheffielders wanna say hi anywhere, do a yorkshire mini meet lol

If you could have the mini meet in Birmingham that'd be marvellous Bobster
Probably doesn't include me anyway cos I'm a Rotherham-ite

I knew what you meant really - just the first vision that popped into my head was travelling round with a bucket of water in the boot with me shammy in it

bobman wrote:trust eddie to bring the topic down to mens genitals lol

Sorry, it just made me laff!
Lets take that particular topic no further - this is a family forum!

bobman wrote:to keep it soft just leave it in a bucket of water

Doesn't yer boot get wet Bobster? I imagine cornering is quite a challenge

please tell me you checked the spare tyre well for white overalls/blood stained axe? :lol: besides that, good buy ;) i love a bargain :lol: :lol: Love the colour, looks in cracking nick 8) Thought for a second that the number plate said NOB when I first scrolled past the pic which would've been a f...

Pics to follow on separate thread tonight (gotta scan em in) so paddybrown23 can have his thread back

dubber36 wrote:

erl72 wrote:Yep....there's that thing where if the first and last letters are correct then your brain apparently auto unscrambles the rest

Do you mean this?


Olny srmat poelpe can raed tihs.

That's the one Simon

LOL at Golddust bathing his keyboard

I use a synthetic shammy too which is great ..... my old leather shammy was, as Simon also says above, a oh fiddlesticks! to wring out and if I left it damp in a plastic bag to stop it going hard it stunk

Thats pants!
Can you not negotiate for the postage DMC.... if they weren't described correctly and you wouldn't have bought them if they had have been described properly surely that flys in the face of the trades descriptions act or something

i was just thinking how this car started off and how its become my pride and joy today,its amazing how much you end up spending on a car before you realise that its quite a lot of money!(does that even make sense?) It absolutely makes sense.... I've totted up how much I've spent on mine and the odd...

shedweight wrote:
How about FORD!

Fix Or Repair Daily

I've got a '76 MK3 'Tina in storage - when you grab the backend and move it up and down the rear arches flex

cool would like to go to aa meet some time are they on all the time or is it seasonal Goes on right the way through to early December, then one meet in January, one in Feb, then from March my weekends are gone again :cry: The classic banger day at Hednesford in October is a good 'un. All cars pre 1...

markspassrat wrote:is that a limo towin a caravan in that clip

I think it is yeah - blue car, 213 Woka? At the Civil War meeting a few years ago he raced a Jag XJS estate - one of only 16 or something?? It was still taxed and MOT'd when he bought it I think....

markspassrat wrote:does that mean that havin three sets of alloys and a set of steels is been greedy then

Just a bit