30 Nov 2022

Perhaps it was the impending St Andrew's day that was motivation for finally completing the upholstery of the passenger seat, though I would have actually had to remember that it was St Andrew's day (which I didn't), but finally it is done and for the time being that is it with upholstery.

The old Bluebird sewing machine had given up the ghost, so it is moving on to a new home in a museum (no, really, it is going to a museum!) and a new quite inexpensive Elna machine had no problem stitching it all together. Yah!

 I know they are not both the same. I was originally going to go for just an insert look with wings of the original upholstery  as per the base of the drivers seat, though that was somewhat too ambitious for my limited ability and a whole face replacement was much more my speed. Maybe one day I'll change the base of the drivers seat as well, certainly have enough cloth to do it, though for now I am happy for it to stay as it is.

27 Nov 2022

Spent a substantial amount of time this morning doing a grease and oil change, oh and changing the tappet case cover gaskets. Took a lot longer that had imagined it would, though well worth doing and happy with most of the results. one of the tappet cover gaskets unfortunately decided that it wanted to not quite seal and is allowing oil past, so now needs to be replaced yet again. Would probably be an easier job if the manifold was removed, though I haven't done that and it is quite a bit more fiddly, oh well, try again.

I decided to go for a drive and see how it went, hoping the gasket would seal after all, it didn't. I had seen a picture taken by someone else in the small town of Dean, Victoria some years ago and so decided to go and see if I could get a pic of the car there as well. Took a circuit route and went to Dean, Daylesford, Maldon and Castlemaine and the back to Melbourne. 

And the pic...

25 Nov 2022

 Today was a bit of a slow start to the morning as I wasn't really in a hurry to get to my last day of work, would have been happy not to go at all to be honest.

Anyway as I wasn't in a hurry and I had the car so thought I'd take a few pics along the way and see if I could get something decent. Some weren't too bad...

  

22 Oct 2022

 Don't you hate it when...

Headed out to the car today to head off somewhere and first thing I notice is that some swine has done a parking speed brush past on the front of the car. Well to be honest I actually noticed that, even though the bumper has always drooped on the drivers side of the car, it was hanging much lower that it ever had before.

You get that kind of thing when you park in the street I guess, it isn't the first, someone did a parking speed slight touch of the back once before. Cars around in the busier road have even been completely written off while parked out front of their owners houses on a regular basis. Makes it no less annoying though especially when the perpetrator would definitely know they have hit the car, but they can't be bothered owning up to it and leaving a note.

I have to say, I reckon I know exactly who did it, actually both times, though I can't prove anything. Maybe it is time for a dash cam, one that can record bumps while parked...