I have a new project - and it has 4 wheels!!!

Originally Posted by walkaboutandy

Ha ha...thats cool! You can sell ice creams out of it too!

I was thinking the same

It looks great!

Originally Posted by barwel1992

so will it look somthing like this when its done then ?

Aaaaaaah, my eyes! Some people are just born with no taste at all

^ agreed !

update:

Well, last night I picked her up from the MOT in Bath. I got as far as the services on the M4 before she decided to suck a load of carp through the fuel line and die. Consiquently spent a good 2 hours pi$$ing about with it using a head torch and a pen knife trying to sort it out. Eventually discovered at some point someone had fitted one of those in line fuel enhancer devices (whch do nothing BTW). This had broken downwith age and turned to sand, whch had been sucked into the carbs. waiting to get towed bak to bath to rip th carb off and clean it out. Wil try and get home later if it works....

Quite an introduction to classic motoring

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Originally Posted by philbut

... in line fuel enhancer devices ...

oh dear. Someone daft enough to fit one of those - I wonder what other "enhancements" have been fitted?

Those things were supposed to allow you to run your old motor on unleaded without damaging the valve seats.....somehow.

Have you got it back to Oxford now, Phil?

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Originally Posted by tonyk

Hiya Phil,
Have you tried to get it insured as a classic car/van, 1973 i think was the cut off point.
i had a ford cortina 1600e 1969 year, and fully comp was only £60 odd a year......
And you can get it even cheeper if you restrict the millage..

My wifes mk1 golf clipper is insured on a classic insurance policy, and it is a 1990 model so there is no cut off point as far as I'm aware.

Originally Posted by walkaboutandy

Those things were supposed to allow you to run your old motor on unleaded without damaging the valve seats.....somehow.

Have you got it back to Oxford now, Phil?

Well I took 2 days stripping the fuel system and rebuilding the dizzy (twice). Went away to wales in her this weekend and she ran great. A bit thirst mind - 11mpg!!!!! A bit better on the way back, but still only about 17mpg. i think an LPG conversion might be on the cards! Great fun to drive though, even if it tops out at about 65.

11 mpg! At current petrol prices I think you'll be spending a lot of time camping on your driveway .

Man, you can get some seriously fast cars that do better than that...

Yes, but you can't cook bacon sandwiches in them now can you, hmmmm. I'm going to try fitting an electronic ignition module rather than the dizzy to see if I can't get it a bit better.