Hi - I never read the manual...

[Quincross]

So there I was happily posting away in the General section and I realised this morning I hadn't even introduced myself. Sorry, as a bloke I never read the manual....my bad

Anyhoo, I restore cars, mostly classics and vintage, but frankly any greasy, oily, spray painty, weldiness job makes me smile - odd I know! I blame my dad and occasionally the wife (but she puts up with all this so I have to give her that).

A long time ago I decided variety was my thing, so instead of a couple of new cars, I decided I'd have a stable of second hand cars to drive.

My 'modern' cars are all MB, older ones are a mix:
S Class W221 with all the toys and the new project
E Class W210 just finished restoring
60's Triumph Spitfire just finishing a complete restoration - a nut & bolt job!
60's Mercedes 280CE - just sold
50's Alvis TC - fully restored
60's Alvis TE - in storage awaiting my time!
60's Opus GT - very rare and in storage
And the wife's Ford Galaxy (a truly brilliant workhorse)

 

[BTB 500]

Hi & welcome - nice collection of cars!

 

[Deleted member 65149]

So there I was happily posting away in the General section and I realised this morning I hadn't even introduced myself. Sorry, as a bloke I never read the manual....my bad

Anyhoo, I restore cars, mostly classics and vintage, but frankly any greasy, oily, spray painty, weldiness job makes me smile - odd I know! I blame my dad and occasionally the wife (but she puts up with all this so I have to give her that).

A long time ago I decided variety was my thing, so instead of a couple of new cars, I decided I'd have a stable of second hand cars to drive.

My 'modern' cars are all MB, older ones are a mix:
S Class W221 with all the toys and the new project
E Class W210 just finished restoring
60's Triumph Spitfire just finishing a complete restoration - a nut & bolt job!
60's Mercedes 280CE - just sold
50's Alvis TC - fully restored
60's Alvis TE - in storage awaiting my time!
60's Opus GT - very rare and in storage
And the wife's Ford Galaxy (a truly brilliant workhorse)

Nice. My brother had a 50s Alvis TC way back when it wasn’t all that old. My abiding memory of it was that he once popped into my garage to use my vice and dropped an Alvis suspension bolt that rolled under my 40s Rover P3 that I was working on. He knew how OCD I was about my cars and didn’t want to disturb any of the bits I had carefully placed around on the floor, so he left it to collect later when I returned. But he omitted to tell me and when I got round to replacing the clutch on my Rover I couldn’t work out where the strange bolt went! A few hours later, after I’d stripped everything back down trying to solve the mystery, my brother asked how I was getting on. When I explained my predicament he blushed and owned up. He was lucky he was bigger than me!

 

[Quincross]

Nice. My brother had a 50s Alvis TC way back when it wasn’t all that old. My abiding memory of it was that he once popped into my garage to use my vice and dropped an Alvis suspension bolt that rolled under my 40s Rover P3 that I was working on. He knew how OCD I was about my cars and didn’t want to disturb any of the bits I had carefully placed around on the floor, so he left it to collect later when I returned. But he omitted to tell me and when I got round to replacing the clutch on my Rover I couldn’t work out where the strange bolt went! A few hours later, after I’d stripped everything back down trying to solve the mystery, my brother asked how I was getting on. When I explained my predicament he blushed and owned up. He was lucky he was bigger than me!

I'm 6'4" and 18 stone, but even if I was 4' I don't think it would have made any difference! Mind u I'm the non violent type, but still essentially evil minded, so I'd probably have just disorganised your sockets and spanners (nothing like swapping metric and imperial randomly on the racks when someone has pee'd you off - fun to see how many nuts they round off before they notice )