Re: new to the forum with my 3 dollys
Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2014 8:29 pm
A step-by-step would've been good for the sills since it's a common corrosion area.
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Well said - And Miles has already contributed more to this forum in two weeks than Hamster has in his six years of membership and five posts...Ouch, the guy had done all his on the roadside and put another car back on the road and all you can do is comment about a small gap.
swifty wrote:Well said - And Miles has already contributed more to this forum in two weeks than Hamster has in his six years of membership and five posts...Ouch, the guy had done all his on the roadside and put another car back on the road and all you can do is comment about a small gap.
Perhaps he could provide his own step-by-step guide on changing a sill, rather than criticising someone elses efforts
I sense a troll/WUM
The deleted post was merely about the join between the front of the sill and the front wing where it's not quite flush.xvivalve wrote:I've not seen the deleted post, but cannot be as generous as some of you chaps have been.
Merely? If that was so I wouldn't have found it necessary to edit the post.The deleted post was merely about the join between the front of the sill and the front wing where it's not quite flush.I've not seen the deleted post.
Wasn't aware of any of this TBH - My comment was based on a rude post by HamsterI've not seen the deleted post, but cannot be as generous as some of you chaps have been.
A man's car is to do with as he pleases, we can just watch. Whilst I was on the FB group, I feared for this car's future and offered several times to buy it, sight unseen. I did not mention price, happy for the owner to dictate, and that was whether it eventually transpired to be a Broadspeed prepared road car, or not. I would have happily given him £2k for it in the state he found it without him having to lift a finger.
I then watched as the owner stripped it of its assets, proudly selling the webers to a cortina owner for a stated £450 and then trying to get a pair of standard carbs for next to nothing to just bolt on in their place, despite my advice the engine would then need setting up again. He has effected repairs that in my opinion will simply need redoing, though admittedly they did get it an MoT, and then he has removed the suspension replacing it with unknown second hand items from an 1850. He cut a hole in the bonnet claiming it was rusty, yet the pictures don't show this and I've never seen a dolomite bonnet rust in the middle first. With the weather we've had since, I wonder what has managed to blow down the open inlet tracts where the manifold once sat through the stylish bonnet vent. He now advertises the car expecting us to believe the carbs have been stolen stating 'just bolt a pair on and drive it away'!!
Meanwhile, he scrapped what appeared to be a viable 1850 and goodness knows what happened to the tidy 1500 he had; he claimed it was sold...
So I have to disagree, his contribution, whilst greater than 'hampster's' has been to date, it has not exactly been a positive one in my humble opinion.