Recent content by RodTungsten

Had the dash cam fitted to the R5 and finally got around to working out the functions and saving clips. Just in time to save this for the local constabulary: crazy overtake captured perfectly.

Cracking idea - I’d bring sausages!

Our Spyder is hiding somewhere in there.

H2 and fuel cells need very clean air or another bottled gas (O2). H2 used as a fuel for ICE then solubility of the gas in the lubricant has to be an issue.

I would open it up and which what happens at 1 and 2 - maybe something is loose or slipping which allows 2 for 1 but 2 onwards is fine.

Know the Normandy area well- wife/teacher school trips to the beaches. There last year with 6 brothers. All my maternal/paternal uncles and aunts served. Took Aunt Clare over withe kids in the mid 90’s and she recalled landing at Arromanches and establishing a hospital in Bayeux. None of them...

Ha! Reminds me of my first car - Red Mini with sliding windows and much rust - 23 RTD. Not around any more - no surprise there but the DVLA seems to have dropped the T* usage ( https://www.newreg.co.uk/dvla-number-plate-identifiers/ ) anyone know why?

Pauli excluded him.

The Architect does 10’ sketches in his notebook. I saw this one and ignoring the scribbles on the back and said I liked it so it appeared as a Christmas present that year:

White/red 2CV earlier this week on Pewsey High Street: CV 1 Too fast for me to photograph

Yes, grease on the tonneau catch mechanisms and grease the pull-down pins (lightly). If the rear cover is not released quickly or sticks, then the chances are the pin motor commutators are dirty. See this for the solution...

…. So I took the tape measure out - both the same width and the DS ~900cm longer; pumped up the DS is a bit lower but inside it’s startling - R5 front is not too tight, DS front could take 3 on a bench seat - rear R5 is a squeeze for 2 whereas the DS rear has taken 3 in comfort describing it as...

Youth and beauty, or beauty and the beast - take your pick.

Rings bells: Small Citroens, kids, big Citroens, Alfa33s, the Busso Lusso, Alfa TS spiders, and Renault Espace. Saw the 3200 in Meridien Modena and thought ‘one day’. Now with the Spyder but still keep looking at the 3200’s

You can have ours for a few k less - would make room for that 3L Alfa spider going on here - the Wee Womsn “why not if you want to”