My '72 P6 V8 is back in use on UK roads and once again wearing its silver on black 'K' plates!
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mrtask
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Re: The optimist
Great breakfast reading, nice one you lot! I like Rovering Member's suggestion, but I love music and there isn't really a shred of meanness in me, and I ought not to pretend to be a tough guy in a tough guy's motor, it wouldn't fool anybody! Corazon, I like that too, but it sounds more like a a cocktail or a sexual position!? Graeme, I like your thinking, but I'm afraid your suggestion somehow sounds like a Cockney put-down for a gentleman whose 'persuasion' is for other gentlemen, if you get my drift. As in "He's a bleedin' Admiral". Or maybe I'm just a bit weird? Germanator - naaah, that'd be some sort of warm cozy cotton wool-lined place for making seeds sprout, in my mad old head at least. As for V8Guy, mate, I definitely want a couple of tokes on whatever you're smoking there in Middlesex! :wink: Thing is, what with the new standard exhaust from cast manifolds to tailpipe, it ain't roaring, it sounds fairly muffled. Blue Thunder just reminded me of a movie about a silent helicopter with Roy Scheider, and the spin-off TV show with Jan Michael Vincent. Wrong connotation. I also remember a customised Bedford CF van from back in the day called Blue By You, appropos of nothing.
Keep 'em coming, or it'll be Old Blue. Actually Stina's absolutely right, by getting back in to actually driving it, the name will probably derive from the experience.
Great breakfast reading, nice one you lot! I like Rovering Member's suggestion, but I love music and there isn't really a shred of meanness in me, and I ought not to pretend to be a tough guy in a tough guy's motor, it wouldn't fool anybody! Corazon, I like that too, but it sounds more like a a cocktail or a sexual position!? Graeme, I like your thinking, but I'm afraid your suggestion somehow sounds like a Cockney put-down for a gentleman whose 'persuasion' is for other gentlemen, if you get my drift. As in "He's a bleedin' Admiral". Or maybe I'm just a bit weird? Germanator - naaah, that'd be some sort of warm cozy cotton wool-lined place for making seeds sprout, in my mad old head at least. As for V8Guy, mate, I definitely want a couple of tokes on whatever you're smoking there in Middlesex! :wink: Thing is, what with the new standard exhaust from cast manifolds to tailpipe, it ain't roaring, it sounds fairly muffled. Blue Thunder just reminded me of a movie about a silent helicopter with Roy Scheider, and the spin-off TV show with Jan Michael Vincent. Wrong connotation. I also remember a customised Bedford CF van from back in the day called Blue By You, appropos of nothing.
Keep 'em coming, or it'll be Old Blue. Actually Stina's absolutely right, by getting back in to actually driving it, the name will probably derive from the experience.
unstable load
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Re: The optimist
That is looking really fantastic, sir!! I am truly impressed!
On a slightly off topic note, that Unimog looks like it could be fun. Please box it up and I will collect it soonest!!
:twisted:
That is looking really fantastic, sir!! I am truly impressed!
On a slightly off topic note, that Unimog looks like it could be fun. Please box it up and I will collect it soonest!!
:twisted:
Tor
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Re: The optimist
I'm with V8guy here and (drum roll) Thor, for reasons that should be apparent... :roll:
I kinda like Jim's suggestion too.
- Unmuffle him, think jazz and name him Blue Note?
Blue Rinse - coz you wash him a lot?
Blublu - from the sound he makes?
The Blue Blur - what Autobahners see?
Time for bed methinks...
T(h)or
I'm with V8guy here and (drum roll) Thor, for reasons that should be apparent... :roll:
I kinda like Jim's suggestion too.
- Unmuffle him, think jazz and name him Blue Note?
Blue Rinse - coz you wash him a lot?
Blublu - from the sound he makes?
The Blue Blur - what Autobahners see?
Time for bed methinks...
T(h)or
mrtask
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Re: The optimist
I have had to wait a while until the chaps at the classic car restoration specialists whose services I have been using would let me bring my car to them for final fettling prior to the TÜV (MOT) inspection. This time of year they always have a lot of work to do, so I can understand their not prioritising me. In between jobs on far wealthier clients cars the chief mechanic found the time last week to help me sort out various electrical gremlins, so that now all lights illuminate properly, and everything in the instrument panel performs correctly. Mostly a matter of cleaning up bullet connections, which was satisfyingly easy to achieve.
However, on the downside, after noticing some fresh bird droppings on the roof of the car whilst it was being stored indoors (this time of year the sparrows and swallows are nesting, and are hard to keep out of garages!), I had it out into the sunshine for a wash. After a splish splosh of warm water and washing up liquid, and a chamois off, I sat down and, from a distance, contemplated my... Harlequin paintwork!
It honestly hadn't been apparent to me whilst I spent the best part of three months in my strip light-lit lock-up bolting my car back together that the paintwork had such glaring inconsistencies. I'm not talking about 'nuances' here, I'm talking about the passenger side front wing and front door being a very different hue to the rear passenger door and rear passenger wing. A bonnet scoop quite different in colour from the bonnet to which it is attached. A front windscreen closing panel in a shade much lighter than the bonnet. A rear decker panel that differs from the bootlid. I could continue. If I'm generous, I would say I can count three distinct shades. If I am really picky, that could be expanded to include five tonal variations.
NOT the consistent single shade known as Admiralty Blue by the Rover Motor Company and its clients.
Even if the company who mixed and sold me the paint, in two batches (first 5 litres, then 2 litres more), now give me a 7 litre pot of new stuff, gratis, which is the best offer I could really expect from them, it is extremely unlikely that the paintshop who applied it will do the whole spray job again for nowt. I don't have the money to pay them, nor anyone else, to apply a new coat of colour. Frankly, I won't pay twice for a job not done properly in the first place. Neither do I actually have the time to strip down and subsequently re-assemble the car once more, and neither do the chaps at the classic car garage, nor the guys at the paintshop.
Nobody, neither paint supplier, nor paintshop, nor the fellow who recommended the former two businesses to me, want to accept responsibilty. This is the worst imagineable scenario. To say I am gutted doesn't really express where I'm at.
I dare say the paintshop wouldn't have given any of the Lamborghinis, Bentleys, Maseratis etc. that I saw there undergoing body repair back to their respective owners with as many shades of colour on as my car has been coated in. I further doubt that any of the better-heeled and longer-standing clients of the classic car garage who've been helping me would have had their various cars returned to them with such a multitude of tonal variations in body colouring. I wonder if this is due to my being mild mannered, physically unimposing, of British origin, not deep of pocket, and oft to be seen with a 'jazz' cigarette to my lips, or any combination of the above? If I were built like a Klitschko, or attired in Brioni, would this have taken place? Really?
I am fully cogniscent of the fact that my vanity project serves only to stroke my ego, and that my monomaniacal obsession with my car restoration has somewhat eclipsed my grasp of reality. I am aware that other people have much bigger problems to contend with (get well Richard Webmaster! Thinking of you and yours, good sir), I just wanted to express myself on here because I really am very very disappointed, not to say apoplectic.
I am waiting to hear how the situation will now be resolved, and will keep y'all informed.
Enjoy the weekend. I'll try not to dwell on things, and ruminate on what I can learn from all this.
I have had to wait a while until the chaps at the classic car restoration specialists whose services I have been using would let me bring my car to them for final fettling prior to the TÜV (MOT) inspection. This time of year they always have a lot of work to do, so I can understand their not prioritising me. In between jobs on far wealthier clients cars the chief mechanic found the time last week to help me sort out various electrical gremlins, so that now all lights illuminate properly, and everything in the instrument panel performs correctly. Mostly a matter of cleaning up bullet connections, which was satisfyingly easy to achieve.
However, on the downside, after noticing some fresh bird droppings on the roof of the car whilst it was being stored indoors (this time of year the sparrows and swallows are nesting, and are hard to keep out of garages!), I had it out into the sunshine for a wash. After a splish splosh of warm water and washing up liquid, and a chamois off, I sat down and, from a distance, contemplated my... Harlequin paintwork!
It honestly hadn't been apparent to me whilst I spent the best part of three months in my strip light-lit lock-up bolting my car back together that the paintwork had such glaring inconsistencies. I'm not talking about 'nuances' here, I'm talking about the passenger side front wing and front door being a very different hue to the rear passenger door and rear passenger wing. A bonnet scoop quite different in colour from the bonnet to which it is attached. A front windscreen closing panel in a shade much lighter than the bonnet. A rear decker panel that differs from the bootlid. I could continue. If I'm generous, I would say I can count three distinct shades. If I am really picky, that could be expanded to include five tonal variations.
NOT the consistent single shade known as Admiralty Blue by the Rover Motor Company and its clients.
Even if the company who mixed and sold me the paint, in two batches (first 5 litres, then 2 litres more), now give me a 7 litre pot of new stuff, gratis, which is the best offer I could really expect from them, it is extremely unlikely that the paintshop who applied it will do the whole spray job again for nowt. I don't have the money to pay them, nor anyone else, to apply a new coat of colour. Frankly, I won't pay twice for a job not done properly in the first place. Neither do I actually have the time to strip down and subsequently re-assemble the car once more, and neither do the chaps at the classic car garage, nor the guys at the paintshop.
Nobody, neither paint supplier, nor paintshop, nor the fellow who recommended the former two businesses to me, want to accept responsibilty. This is the worst imagineable scenario. To say I am gutted doesn't really express where I'm at.
I dare say the paintshop wouldn't have given any of the Lamborghinis, Bentleys, Maseratis etc. that I saw there undergoing body repair back to their respective owners with as many shades of colour on as my car has been coated in. I further doubt that any of the better-heeled and longer-standing clients of the classic car garage who've been helping me would have had their various cars returned to them with such a multitude of tonal variations in body colouring. I wonder if this is due to my being mild mannered, physically unimposing, of British origin, not deep of pocket, and oft to be seen with a 'jazz' cigarette to my lips, or any combination of the above? If I were built like a Klitschko, or attired in Brioni, would this have taken place? Really?
I am fully cogniscent of the fact that my vanity project serves only to stroke my ego, and that my monomaniacal obsession with my car restoration has somewhat eclipsed my grasp of reality. I am aware that other people have much bigger problems to contend with (get well Richard Webmaster! Thinking of you and yours, good sir), I just wanted to express myself on here because I really am very very disappointed, not to say apoplectic.
I am waiting to hear how the situation will now be resolved, and will keep y'all informed.
Enjoy the weekend. I'll try not to dwell on things, and ruminate on what I can learn from all this.
Re: The optimist
Not so nice Al, but from a longer distance or picture maybe you don''t see it ? this is the reason i do it on my way ,first the inside of the body , the inside and corners from the parts and finishing paint when al is built togheter.
Hope somebody takes his respontibily and have an solution for you.
regards Hans
Not so nice Al, but from a longer distance or picture maybe you don''t see it ? this is the reason i do it on my way ,first the inside of the body , the inside and corners from the parts and finishing paint when al is built togheter.
Hope somebody takes his respontibily and have an solution for you.
regards Hans
GrimV8
Active Member
Re: The optimist
Sorry to read your woes
I have seen this several times as a painter and had to put others work right.
If the paint shop can't put all the paint on at once they should
'A' Mix up a large quantity to work from
Or 'B' have a reliable source of paint supply.
This is nothing they wont already know but shocking they didn't follow this basic guideline :|
They surely don't want you to tell all and sundry how poor their work was :? They need to offer you some solution.
Deep breaths and talk to them
Edited as I just re read it properly
Two batches but 5 shades? Someone has not stirred the pot!! Those who dont understand wont realise how many colours there are in what we label 'One' colour.
Hard to blame the supplier now you have more than two shades :shock:
Sorry to read your woes
I have seen this several times as a painter and had to put others work right.
If the paint shop can't put all the paint on at once they should
'A' Mix up a large quantity to work from
Or 'B' have a reliable source of paint supply.
This is nothing they wont already know but shocking they didn't follow this basic guideline :|
They surely don't want you to tell all and sundry how poor their work was :? They need to offer you some solution.
Deep breaths and talk to them
Edited as I just re read it properly
Two batches but 5 shades? Someone has not stirred the pot!! Those who dont understand wont realise how many colours there are in what we label 'One' colour.
Hard to blame the supplier now you have more than two shades :shock:
Re: The optimist
Very sorry to read of this! It seems particularly unfair in this instance, when it's a car which has been restored so exactingly, and painstakingly over a large period of time. When you collected the car, did you sign anything to state that you were satisfied with the job? If not, then you should have grounds to have it put right. I wish you all the best with the resolution of this issue!
Very sorry to read of this! It seems particularly unfair in this instance, when it's a car which has been restored so exactingly, and painstakingly over a large period of time. When you collected the car, did you sign anything to state that you were satisfied with the job? If not, then you should have grounds to have it put right. I wish you all the best with the resolution of this issue!
mrtask
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Re: The optimist
To my delight I discovered this morning that the fellow who hauled my car from my lock-up across town to the classic car workshop pulled the the towing hook almost out of the boot floor, opening a nice new hole, rather like opening a can of beans. Needless to say I was ecstatic. I think the business with finding a name for my car needs some further consideration. :cry: :?
To my delight I discovered this morning that the fellow who hauled my car from my lock-up across town to the classic car workshop pulled the the towing hook almost out of the boot floor, opening a nice new hole, rather like opening a can of beans. Needless to say I was ecstatic. I think the business with finding a name for my car needs some further consideration. :cry: :?
The Rovering Member
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Re: The optimist
That's what I was thinking. A bitter blow followed hard on the heels by another. This is the problem of trusting your pride & joy to other people, though I know it's often a necessary evil.
GrimV8 said:
That's what I was thinking. A bitter blow followed hard on the heels by another. This is the problem of trusting your pride & joy to other people, though I know it's often a necessary evil.