by "BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires" (biturbo228)
Published 11/16/2017 at 18:44
by "BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires" (biturbo228)
Published 11/16/2017 at 18:44
Tags: spit6
STARS: 8
Loads of little pinholes in the footwell meant it was easier just to replace the whole thing. That should be the last of it though :)
"CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
11/16/2017 at 21:14, STARS: 1
... should be the last of it ...
Yeaaaaah
"BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires" (biturbo228)
11/17/2017 at 04:26, STARS: 1
Yeah this is about the 8th time I’ve said that so it’s probably lost a bit of weight by now...
Still. There’s not exactly much left that I haven’t cut out and stuck new metal back in by now!
"CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
11/17/2017 at 07:47, STARS: 1
Once you replace those other original bits you should be good to go.
"davedave1111" (davedave1111)
11/20/2017 at 08:42, STARS: 0
What do you mean weld in a new floor? That’s the Flintstone Turbo option you installed.
"BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires" (biturbo228)
11/20/2017 at 08:47, STARS: 0
Haha you’re right ;)
Perhaps I should have left the burgeoning rust holes. Pretty sure they’re British Leyland’s patented ‘air con loyalty scheme’, in that the longer you own your car the better its ‘passive air conditioning’ becomes ;)
"davedave1111" (davedave1111)
11/20/2017 at 11:36, STARS: 0
If it wasn’t intended to have holes, they’d have used proper steel. Right?
"BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires" (biturbo228)
11/20/2017 at 11:58, STARS: 0
Absolutely! Just like if they didn’t intend you to go for nice healthy walks every now and again they’d have made a car that worked all the time.
No-one thinks of the health epidemic these reliable Japanese cars are contributing towards...
"davedave1111" (davedave1111)
11/20/2017 at 13:15, STARS: 1
Now you mention it, that does explain the obesity epidemic. That, and since British Rail was privatised, the train’s better than walking.
"BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires" (biturbo228)
11/20/2017 at 19:48, STARS: 0
I don’t know, my local rail provider is Southern so a good hike has recently been the preferable option...
"davedave1111" (davedave1111)
11/21/2017 at 08:55, STARS: 0
I take it you’re too young to remember BR. If Southern had been around then, it would have been the best-run line in the country.
BL really wasn’t too badly run compared to BR. BR’s response to overcrowding on a busy line: run fewer trains, thereby reducing total passenger numbers below the line’s theoretical capacity, solving the problem on paper. Of course the remaining trains were packed even more tightly, and many people just gave up travelling, but the administrators’ paperwork was all in order.
"BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires" (biturbo228)
11/21/2017 at 09:16, STARS: 0
...yep...I stand corrected.
British Leyland’s seeming like a high-point now!
"davedave1111" (davedave1111)
11/21/2017 at 10:53, STARS: 1
BL was almost comically bad at what they did - e.g. “the company made two completely different 1.3-litre engines (BMC A series and the Triumph 1.3-litre), two different 1.5-litre engines (BMC E series and Triumph), four different 2-litre engines (4-cylinder O series, 4-cylinder Triumph Dolomite, 4-cylinder Rover and 6-cylinder Triumph) and two completely different V8 engines (Triumph OHC 3-litre V8 and Rover 3.5-litre V8)” - but they never displayed the sheer (and apparently deliberate) contempt for their customers that was BR’s hallmark.
If British Leyland had been run the same way, the Sinclair C5 wouldn’t have flopped in 1985 because it would have been better than joining the waiting list for the first of the brand new Allegros (250cc two-stroke powered, to be delivered in 1990, minus seats, and only available in filled-nappy brown).
Oh, I just found this line on Wikipedia:
“150002 proved to be the worse of the two [prototypes] for reliability and was consequently chosen for use as the testbed”
It’s less bad in context, but it says everything that I had to re-read it because I took completely the wrong meaning the first time.
"davedave1111" (davedave1111)
11/21/2017 at 10:53, STARS: 1
Why did you get me ranting about BR? :)