The UK's Finest Independent Forum for Shooters and Gun Owners. Est 2010. • View topic - When all you needed were tools to fix cars

View unanswered posts | View active topics

All times are UTC

Forum rules

Please remember to respect the copyright of the author. Please do not post content from this section elsewhere without the specific permission of the author.

When all you needed were tools to fix cars

Moderator: dromia

Page 1 of 3

[ 27 posts ]

Go to page 1, 2, 3 Next

Print view

Previous topic | Next topic

Author

Message

Chuck

Post subject: When all you needed were tools to fix cars

Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2019 1:08 pm

Joined: Tue Nov 23, 2010 11:23 am
Posts: 22546
Location: Planet Earth - Mainly

No need for a laptop and degree in electronics to fix cars back then

Attachment:

TRIUMPH DOLOMITE.jpg [ 90.69 KiB | Viewed 2823 times ]

Attachment:

AVENGERS.jpg [ 74.71 KiB | Viewed 2823 times ]

_________________
Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity!

Top

Dark Skies

Post subject: Re: When all you needed were tools to fix cars

Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2019 1:27 pm

Joined: Tue Apr 22, 2014 11:02 am
Posts: 2392
Home club or Range: NRA

I still don't - I drive a Series 2A Landy.

_________________
Where they hung the jerk
That invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

Top

dromia

Post subject: Re: When all you needed were tools to fix cars

Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2019 1:30 pm

Site Admin

Joined: Sat Nov 06, 2010 4:57 am
Posts: 19034
Location: Sutherland and Co Durham
Home club or Range: The Highlands of Scotland. Cycling Proficiency 1964. Felton & District rifle club. HBSA full voting member. Durham Constabulary Gun Club Catterick. Teesdale Pistol and Rifle club.

The Avenger had an extra special feature, if you were at a loose end you could sit and watch it rust.

_________________

Come on Bambi get some

Imperial Good Metric Bad
Analogue Good Digital Bad

Reunite Grogu

Fecking stones

Real farmers don't need subsidies

For fine firearms and requisites visit
http://www.pukkabundhooks.com/

Top

Dark Skies

Post subject: Re: When all you needed were tools to fix cars

Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2019 1:53 pm

Joined: Tue Apr 22, 2014 11:02 am
Posts: 2392
Home club or Range: NRA

For a while I had a nice little sideline stripping the instruments out of scrapped Dolomites, Toledos, and Stags for kit car enthusiasts. They were the only bits on them worth having.

_________________
Where they hung the jerk
That invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

Top

Pete

Post subject: Re: When all you needed were tools to fix cars

Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2019 6:45 pm

Past Supporter

Joined: Tue Sep 15, 2015 8:48 am
Posts: 2407
Home club or Range: NRA Bisley

My '91 Eunos Roadster is fixed with spanners etc. (AND they're metric........ :good:

)

Pete

_________________
"Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum" Lucretius

Top

1066

Post subject: Re: When all you needed were tools to fix cars

Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2019 7:01 pm

Site Supporter Since 2015

Joined: Wed Aug 31, 2011 7:05 pm
Posts: 1633

I seemed to spend half my time, in my youth, pulling apart "A" series engines - A30, A35, A40, Moggies, Midgets, Sprites, Mini's (Elf, Hornet) 1100, 1300, Kestrel, Marina, Allegro, Ital, Metro, Maestro etc. Happy days working on my own in a workshop on a farm.

_________________
TARGETMASTER
an altogether better trickler
www.targetmasteruk.com

Top

Mauserbill

Post subject: Re: When all you needed were tools to fix cars

Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2019 7:24 pm

Joined: Thu Jun 22, 2017 4:49 pm
Posts: 508
Home club or Range: Range

A`hh A and B series engines and the Ford cross flows you have just reminded me of those wonderful times getting hands dirty.
I swear you could stand and watch the engine and see exactly how it was working and what every component was doing.

Top

1066

Post subject: Re: When all you needed were tools to fix cars

Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2019 9:03 pm

Site Supporter Since 2015

Joined: Wed Aug 31, 2011 7:05 pm
Posts: 1633

I'm sure it was poking a bit of hose in my ear while balancing twin SU's that destroyed my hearing (nothing to do with 60 years of shooting)

_________________
TARGETMASTER
an altogether better trickler
www.targetmasteruk.com

Top

Andy632

Post subject: Re: When all you needed were tools to fix cars

Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2019 9:16 pm

Joined: Thu Oct 13, 2011 9:36 am
Posts: 951
Location: Highlands
Home club or Range: Strathpeffer Rifle & Pistol Club (& Cawdor Rifle Club)

1066 wrote:

I'm sure it was poking a bit of hose in my ear while balancing twin SU's that destroyed my hearing (nothing to do with 60 years of shooting)

I've still got the proper tool for doing that and a Mini clutch puller!

_________________
Rifle & Pistol Shooting in the Highlands with Strathpeffer Rifle & Pistol Club.

Top

snayperskaya

Post subject: Re: When all you needed were tools to fix cars

Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2019 9:44 pm

Past Supporter

Joined: Fri Oct 04, 2013 6:43 pm
Posts: 7063
Location: West of The Urals
Home club or Range: West Bank of the Volga.....

Pete wrote:

My '91 Eunos Roadster is fixed with spanners etc. (AND they're metric........ :good:

)

Pete

Well you've surprised me there Pete.....never had you down as a hairdresser!

_________________
"The only real power comes out of a long rifle." - Joseph Stalin

Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank.....give a man a bank and he can rob the world!.

More than a vested interest in 7.62x54r!

Top

Page 1 of 3

[ 27 posts ]

Go to page 1, 2, 3 Next

Board index » Memories From the Past

All times are UTC

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guest

You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Jump to: