Captain Cuttle

Early Javelin

Looking at their website earlier with their sale this week, how many pre owned defective A3s and A4s there are. Has anyone identified and managed to cure the running isssues with these locos?

Yes same here with the food, Teddy generally has Fe lix sachets but sooo many different varieties now. Beef with carrot, another with courgette, saith with salmon etc etc. Yes licks all the gravy or jelly off and leave the dried lumps behind, then you add cat soup and then he does the same. The remains go in the bird box which my wife puts out late in the evening usually encountering the resident hedgehog and some stray cat and all is wolfed down! Tried all the cheaper ones and generally will eat first sachet then no more. Yes and goes berserk for prawns and tongue! Thinking back to the seventies we had katkins, kit e kat or whiskas in tins and that was it. Plus we always gave our cats milk to drink but now it's harmful so just water!!

We had similar earlier this week with about thirty starlings taken over the grass and pulling out worms etc. They used to be in next doors hedge till he cut it all down. Today our sparrows were back must have been over twenty of them having dust baths in the borders, lovely sight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yVxEuMbftE Look at 1.25 - MGB V8 from Japan, never seen one of these beauties or at 2.09 special bodied Karmann Ghia or at 6:16 just a few! Nissan Figaros also like the Skyline GTR. Then there are the VW vans, one with a Subaru flat six shoehorned in.

Used to 'race' one of these with my mini cooper engined minivan in the seventies on the north circular from Romford to Uxbridge, happy days!

Ivan Dutton, best known as a now retired Bugatti restorer has produced a series of videos, this one on his Maser 300S build.

Does the Heljan 128 have just one power bogie?

I returned both of my 122s last year hoping the 121s would be ok but it seems they have similar issues?

Looks like Sarah Crabtree from Bangers & Classics has moved on and involved here https://www.evoke-classics.com/ Doesnt seem to be much activity on the forums.

Wasnt the last of the Cortinas called The Crusader?

They dont sell many cars online do they. Their cars look too clean to me, there is something hanging down underneath there. I would like a lot of pics taken on a ramp of the underneath, chassis, under doors etc to see what is really going on. A lot of their motors have a bottom half repaint i see.

Well it seems he is a sheep in wolfs clothing, actually has had and owns some pretty rare cars, just sold this one last November. https://www.uniqueclassiccars.com/vehicles/2855/1964-oldsmobile-98-luxury-sedan-6-window-hardtop

No passwords no, they are all in my password book, so many these days and with my diminishing memory i cant live without it!!

Dad had a grey Cambridge, seemed ok till he got a Mk2 3.4 Jaguar. That was the best car we ever had 675 TKE, Warwick green.

On the same site look at the car next to the 1800, a Rover 90 estate/woody?? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334062581225?hash=item4dc7ae75e9:g:u3MAAOSwkctg33of

He is obsessed with 1950/60s british model cars and has bought some of my collection of large battery operated model cars. When it comes to full sized cars he hasnt got a clue. I am trying to educate him about E10 and what it does to fuel systems and work required on cylinder head valve erosion!

Yes I agree, I think he is showing himself as rather naive and with rose tinted spectacles. There are so few of them on the road now anyway, most BL/Rootes Group products rotted out long ago.

He has come back with some more suggestions, now keep the language in your replies civil please!! Humber, Austin Princess,Land Crab, Maxi, Hillman's and Wolseley automatics.

I have a question for you all, a friend who lives in the USA is looking to buy a 50s/60s medium or large British car to use over there. He is looking for something reliable with automatic transmission, is that possible considering the age and spares do you think? He has mentioned Morris Oxford, Daimler and Armstrong Siddeley.

Lovely, i expect all those motors talk to each other and tell thier stories!!