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Video https://youtu.be/g5zVAxCH2b8?si=3y4NTHIucEft7HeS Click link of course. |
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Silver VW Caddy sold today. Off to Essex to become a mini camper. |
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I liked the looks of your caddy. Ill miss seeing you using it. So is the greeenie thing you daily now?
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Yes I will tax it at the end of the month. These thieves make you pay for a full month but won’t reimburse any prt of it. So in principle I refuse o support them taxing us to death. The rollerskate is 138bhp so a load of fun to be honest. I will drive it till someone wants it, then look for an interesting new toy. |
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VW Caddy sold yesterday Gone off to Essex to join three other VW’s in a VW family. Will tax the green Rollerskate at the end of the month and use it as a daily car until someone sees it and wants to buy it. After all…… 2.0 liters of unbridled French passion with 138 bhp at your feet wrapped in lurid green will always be fun. RIGHT ??? The Rezin Rockit still needs to be marketed and sold as well. Caddy headed out after extensive inspection and shooting the breeze with two cool VW guys. https://youtu.be/AVsKadoH6uk?si=gJjTlUJ1TAj7_e_V Looking forward to what Paul, the new owner does with it. He has a few plans, all centred around a mini camper build. As they have a full sized VW LT35 former horsebox camper conversion as well. I will keep in touch with him to see this evolve. I removed the 16” Seat alloys before selling the van as they cost me £330.00 just to buy and fit. So I sold them separately for £220.00 to a guy who has two Caddies and one already on the same wheels. Last views of the Caddy as sold. It served me well for exactly 7 months. Off into the sunset. . |
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Vinyl stripe applied to cover lacquer peel on hood/bonnet.
Do use FORWARD function if you lose the will to live https://youtu.be/tLyk-Yc5Cg4?si=dZJZVbdlYB2611wm First beer of the year today. I was digging in the garden earlier so the beer was quite pleasant. |
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Dog psychologist to the Snoopy Phone please.
Just randomly wondering what it is that makes this Terrier and maybe others run around in circles or squares or triangles or rhombus patterns. Loves a ball and favourite is fetching and dropping off to be thrown again and again balls. Loves the game stepped up with 5 different balls that all react differently. Video goes on a bit but this is a different ball that talks for a bit. Heavy at probably 500-900 grams. She is a silent dog 98% of the time. But this ball makes her bark and run around more. https://youtu.be/Bjkge0QjH0w?si=gpH-XHfoRZq7IhP- Any explanation or ideas on firstly the running in circles, done with all her balls and other toys. Secondly the barking at this one toy. Go on………. Try explaining. |
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That would be like understanding females! ;)
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That I do understand. This dog has never brought anything but joy. Happiest rescue dog I’ve ever seen. Typical COVID dog. Third floor, in a cage, never walked outside etc. Got Parvo less than two weeks after Sally got her. £1400 over a weekend in vets hospital later….. The best money ever spent. Probably a year old here. Loves water. https://youtube.com/shorts/9HFwyDXhh...Mffi2r614n_Pew And a bit more fun. https://youtu.be/vKa0XIJu624?si=s8TAh_9FMa6GJbiP |
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Lots of small random jobs happening here st the moment.
Been preparing parts of the garden for making the soil that comes out of the ground work disappear including rejigging some garden beds and using railway sleepers or ties to raise beds. There is a part of the garden known as “The Secret Garden” partly because it completely obscures my garage and workshop area chaos, and also because animals, cats, foxes, birds etc can disappear into it. So I am extending it to creat more space to hide some more soil. Currently the grass and soil removed to have the sleeper a flat surface is being used elsewhere to raise parts of the lawn and hopefully reduce the chances of falling off the small floor in front of the BBQ. While digging down a bit more, I hit what seemed to be a rock, but turned out to be metal. A rusty relic. I would love to know when this cobblers last/anvil landed here. And why. So once i had made good my work, I also cleaned up the last. Video of the process. https://youtu.be/2O_r5uMfHMw?si=giTMZvwd2R3NyvvE After cleaning up I made some amazingly good beef meatballs wrapped in some smoked bacon. Of course George continues to observe his space and marks it when I am not around. I also pruned my fruit trees and cut down the weeds out back that were as much as 8-10 foot tall. More random stuff later. |
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Once again new wheels ran up my driveway this week.
But I only found them. My mate Craig, 204 miles from here has a large property that is uncomfortably but perfectly far enough away from the main road down a private lane. This means wheelie bins, bin bags etc need to be taken there on bin days. His neighbour has a horse school, horses, horse manure to collect, and another neighbour has a bonfire pile in one of his paddocks where everyone takes their garden refuse that they cannot turn into compost. So………. A few lawn tractors, trailers etc are always about. But this was always the dream. https://youtu.be/2om-ecQzEJY?si=sY_gOz-PnpWBLX6X More about the process later. . |
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Right.
So just to wrap this up for the uneventful collection story. A car from outside the Auto****e stable but firmly inside the realm of AS. Those who know will know. Skip truck damage to two doors, sil and rear quarter worth more than I paid for the car to repair without me getting a quote. So I will drive it like that. It will make my eyeballs hurt every day. Couple of random, not so random photos. So looking out in the morning and seeing the double glass sunroofs made me smile. This is so much car out there. And I suspect it will make me grin and grimace in equal measure like Prozac the Berlingo did. It, also was battle scarred from a much older drivers ownership but always delivered. Then I moved out into the back yard to give a first full valet. This thing is actually deceptively wide compared to the Astro van. I should Google the dimensions. Rain and cold windy weather only let up in the afternoon at which time I went out in three layers and shorts to start cleaning every nook and door hinge, door shut and all rubbers etc. Much to do. |
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Day one of owning a 19 year old car.
Because I do copy and paste for the text on the various forums where I contribute, and the last 48 hours have been disjointed, I will start with this from the beginning. I saw this 2005 Renault Megan Scenic AKA Renault Scenic advertisement in the “other cars and bikes for sale” section on UKGSER Always liked them for many reasons. Including practical, slightly quirky and looks on this model. ADVERTISEMENT My 89 year old mother’s car (she took the pictures!) She’s had it 17 year, it’s just about to turn 61,000 miles, full service history, still drives really well, feels tight. Big scratch along the near side where she didn’t quite squeeze through a gap with a skip lorry, inside door handles and dashboard are sticky, it’s a bit scruffy here and there. But well worth £700, car is in Southampton and can be viewed pretty much anytime. Initially I just looked and smiled BECAUSE I do love a cheap basement priced car but I really don’t need one. Right? Then someone commented about wishing it were in Manchester, which made me reply to try sell it. My reply posted at 16.09 I just checked…….. At 16.10 seriously, I sent a private message to Danny the advertiser asking if I could call him. My reply to this: Doh, why can't it be in Manchester....! Take a train, taxi, grab a lift, hitch hike. Fetch it Drive it home. None of my last three cars were closer than 100 miles. All driven home. Two via train to collect and 206CC my mate gave me a ride in exchange for a liter of Jamesons best. Make it an adventure. This hijack was me fetching the Astro van 200 miles away. https://youtu.be/5-mHFYu0USM?si=MpMA-xZSrMGJ3PTx So the seller replied and gave me his number a while later. I called him, we spoke for 14 minutes, then he called his 89 year old mom to confirm something about the car. Following that we spoke for another 27 minutes. He sent me his banking details by 21.08 and I transferred the cash by 21.13 Job done. Figuring out collection was not yet a thing…… that was reserved for 03.50 when I woke up. Danny was available Thursday, Friday or Monday. So I did a quick ask around in case someone was headed down to Southampton 130 miles from me……. No luck. So I asked Mickey next door for a lift to the station 7 miles away. £10.00 for two pints of beer paid for the ride. I also texted Danny to check if he could collect me at a station which he agreed to do. In a brown Mercedes Benz. Bonus. Train ticket was £52.00 one way. Trip was amazingly fast. Never waited more than 5 minutes for the next train. Got to Southampton, collected by @diplomaticdanny and whisked off to his mums home. Car as described. Did paperwork, wrestled the keys from his mums hands after 17 years of ownership and set off homeward. Three hours and 130 miles later, I pulled up on my drive. Happy. Really happy. Mickey popped around to give it his wholehearted approval. I did not tell Sally, but she saw it when driving by to take Bonnie to the vets for vaccines. That concludes the finding, buying, collecting of the Scenic. |
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So a quick photo montage of the Renault Scenic.
https://youtu.be/tkduOHnB6F8?si=ilglfyDivjG3Y4iA . Video |
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Another quick n dirty video of photos I took at Hawk Classics in Gravesend yesterday.
https://youtu.be/bQTar2Mmgsg?si=kpvVo_TJsbtSJftw Hopefully some entertaining footage or a waste of 5 minutes of your life. |
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A practical car, the Scenic, very spacious.
A nice little meeting, a great workshop. |
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Yes the Scenic is a car of many facets. 1.5 diesel also used by Mercedes Benz and many other manufacturers. Frugal, yet practical. Ideal for a daily donkey. Some cosmetic damage but nothing impacting performance. The small meeting is one I would not repeat but I have now done it. |
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Another progression on something that I started and realised needed more, was the go faster stripe covering the paint damage on the 206CC
Captured in Time Lapse. I am ambivalent about the look. I think it looks better plain but thr strip covers damage on the hood, so a case of funtion over form. Also…… The rear deck, trunk lid, bootlid is so complex with humps, bumps, curves and egg shaped to boot that choosing how to lay the 5 stripes, was a challenge. I think the choice I made was correct. https://youtu.be/rXvzj5id9bI?si=x2h-5FObdv6sF56b Judt need someone to buy and enjoy it. |
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