Bob Rivers
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1980's Series 3 swb ragtop (called Ophelia) - you all know where this is going don't you
So we start with this beauty that is on my profile pic...
And then start poking at a "rusty scab......"
But it's ok because I "fixed" it and this genuinely made it through the MOT:
But the MOT Gods weren't so bad at their job and noticed this small issue....
I had already belted the foot with a toffee hammer at this point - it wasn't this bad initially (hahaha)
I love that the PO put in a new footwell inside the old one - classic.
But the outrigger was a shadow of its former self:
She could almost be considered a Lightweight with the amount she has lost and there is plenty more where this came from:
Berkshire Geoff and the Search for the Not So Holy Steel:
It's not pretty but it's solid (more so than before anyway and fully welded btw)
So happy with all of this I started to look at the brakes that the MOT tester said were "inefficient"
What he actually said was not something I could publish on here.....!
But what I then found was the source of some of the death wobble and weaving that she is prone to - Who'd have thought that such a small amount of play would cause such a problem...it's only a few thou'........
At this point I gave up - started to tidy up and promptly threw my tools out of the box - so played an impromptu game of "sorting tools out again"
Sigh - Paddocks have some more of my money now and I shall remain the Troll under the Landy:
So we start with this beauty that is on my profile pic...
And then start poking at a "rusty scab......"
But it's ok because I "fixed" it and this genuinely made it through the MOT:
But the MOT Gods weren't so bad at their job and noticed this small issue....
I had already belted the foot with a toffee hammer at this point - it wasn't this bad initially (hahaha)
I love that the PO put in a new footwell inside the old one - classic.
But the outrigger was a shadow of its former self:
She could almost be considered a Lightweight with the amount she has lost and there is plenty more where this came from:
Berkshire Geoff and the Search for the Not So Holy Steel:
It's not pretty but it's solid (more so than before anyway and fully welded btw)
So happy with all of this I started to look at the brakes that the MOT tester said were "inefficient"
What he actually said was not something I could publish on here.....!
But what I then found was the source of some of the death wobble and weaving that she is prone to - Who'd have thought that such a small amount of play would cause such a problem...it's only a few thou'........
At this point I gave up - started to tidy up and promptly threw my tools out of the box - so played an impromptu game of "sorting tools out again"
Sigh - Paddocks have some more of my money now and I shall remain the Troll under the Landy: