Practically Classics Forum

Thanks Guyz Ill have a word with my tech regarding opening it so guests can see,i think it was closed because there were more guests than members :lol: It is worth joining though and the more members the more momentum it will take and hopefully make people think that you dont need a big budget to ru...

HI Guyz I haven't been on here for quite some time since I sold my Little Rover Mini Sprite :cry: I then went onto nearly new motoring for the past couple of years but have recently come back to the fold of Retro Motoring so to speak with a Mercedes 190d of 92 vintage :) I bought this car for Banger...

Down here the top end of the market seems to be booming but the bread-and-butter stuff from BMC, Ford, Holden etc that usually climbs steadily every year seems to have flattened out. For example there are quite a lot of Minis and Mokes on eBay at the moment, but it's only the Coopers that seem to b...

I as im sure most of us do reguarly check the likes of ebay,car and classic and various other outlets on the interweb to keep an eye on whats out there ;) I have noticed of late (who hasnt) that the bottom seems to of well and truely fallen out of the market :( This is very sad if you want to sell a...

Its a hard one to answer this :roll: I agree with triumph driver but on the other hand sometimes there are good reasons for a transplant ;) If our Wonderful Government (excuse the Sarcasm) keep moving the goal posts before too long our old original engines may not be able to meet emmisions at all :c...

Thanks ill have to remember that as you say the Black Bottled Harpic Power is easy to buy ;) I guess deep down i envisaged needing an old type of harpic something akin to a Vim like Powder :? Pepsi Max is often discounted too at our local asda so its all good :D Dont currently have a classic or anyt...

Just curious what type of harpic?
just did an asda search and all that came out under Harpic was toilet blocks or toilet unblockers

Im assuming you mean good old fashioned hapic powder like scouring powder?

Can you still buy it?

Great looking car ;) Ive never been fussed with allegros but i often here said thesedays they are not as bad as we would of had believed in the past :roll: I think the estates have become really interesting with age and im guessing are really practical with the rear seat down? Just in case you didnt...

Some great comments here :) I too see Things like tyres,Suspension,brakes etc as everyday maintainance and you should never expect to see an return on that i guess what im getting at is some of the labour costs on things we can do ourselves is getting astronomical :shock: I think bodyshops are one o...

Following on from the comment on another thread i have to ask are we paying to much for certain jobs on our classics? Our last classic was a Rover Mini Automatic which all told cost us around a whopping £6k in the end and we ended up selling it for just £2.5k :( £2k of that was for a second rate pai...