The Triumph Dolomite Club - Discussion Forum

adam ,how are you going to trailer a car??
remember last weeks weight thread, a dolly weighs 850kg and the weight of the trailer..

Pah it'll work some how. Hire a car transporter

So, Adam, are you prepared to fully organise and co-ordinate this event then?

Remember, we have won a prize over every show attended. The reputation of the Club would be in your hands.



Will you:

Get your car and sundry parts and equipment there good and early?
Arrange the volunteers to help?
Arrange rendezvous etc for distribution of passes etc?
Arrange the tools to do the job?
Arrange the space with the organisers?
Have the car fully prepped and ready to assemble? (No time to sod about with your subframe mounts on the day!)
Have contingency in case you don't succeed by the time the show closes?
Show up?
Not let the Club down?



As an aside, purely a personal opinion, but if you ask me, a task such as your proposal is more suited to a car conversion or kit car show rather than one entitled 'restoration'. You wouldn't exactly be restoring anything now would you?

adam ,im not having a dig at you but you will be very lucky to find a hire company who will hire you a transporter (im refering to your age) and finding one that is 3.5tonne gvw.

And if you find someone that will, let me know, I tried to find one for 4 months...

I dunno Alun, he would be "restoring" his car to the road. I think that doing something like a V8 swap is always going to divide opinion, but I reckon it shows that we are not too fussy about how club members use (and abuse ) their cars.

I wouldnt be driving the car transporter if I'd hired one.

There's plenty of time I reckon I could organise something fairly easily.

I can see a few little hitches that will make it more or less impossible to get the engine running in the time provided. Like modify a sump, sort out the wiring, it would have no prop shaft, it would have no exhaust.

At the end of the day we've all got to be happy with the decision on who organises it, whos cars get done, what gets done with them etc etc so I guess it's up to us lot what happens. It doesn't make much of a difference to me if my car gets used or not.

Granted.

Equally to those non members of the public who have the unknown dolomite in a shed or garage somewhere; Dad's old car for example, it may convey that even the club aren't interested any more. The membership knows that we support any owner; the public are less informed. Would not the RetroCars show be a better opportunity to show how 'easy' a V8 conversion is?

There are times and places...

I'd rather see Adam's new green car on the stand getting all round attention as a proper barn find restoration.

I'm sure Adam would freely admit that there are more pressing jobs to be done on his yellow car than shoving a V8 in it.

I can imagine the questions: V8 power eh, done anything to the suspension lads?...or brakes?

Excellent! One volunteer is better than ten pressed men

I kinda agre with Alun on this the barn find restro will show that these cars can be saved if the owner is insane enougha nd at the end of the day no one would expect the barn find to be back on the road.

just had a thought about a car transporter for adam ,thare is a forum user called ceri who has one and lives in south wales ,wow how handy is that ceri is going to the restro show as wel

I vote the green one...

busmans holiday ,now theres another great idea,how about i bring a 1964 routemaster ?needs gearbox work ,bit of a tidy up and respray ,would have to drive it though cos it won't fit on my trailer ( or creri,s transit )

Let me get some pictures of this green one before you all decide to do it up! It is worse than Richards, which Alun, you said was as bad as CBA (I think it was CBA)

Unfortunatly I've bought this green one with the intention of making money.

I think my actual inference was Richard's was as GOOD as your 1300!

Ah boo, have I missed my chance ?

Phil