Month March 2014

Purchasing classics there
Red paint

The sun and your paint

If the paint is in such a bad state, there is not much that can be saved. But you can always polish the paint or have it polished to get a better result. Only it will take a lot of work and it will continue to gamble how well the paint will recover

Rover 100 P4 diesel

Moving on over the British (inland) roads, we saw the car placed (from 1962) suddenly standing in the town of Llandeilo. Reason just to stop. A beautiful, yet original and

Mini brakes

The 'boosting' of the engine still meant that 'the brakes' remained the Achilles heel of the car. Especially at the front, the over-enthusiastic driver had to contend with the so-called fading and therefore had to pedal harder and harder to silence the little thing.

Back in the days

Those gestures had to be (learned) and when driving down for the then already coveted driving diploma also used. A whole ritual. In bad weather and cold, the already not so pleasantly heated vehicle became even fresher because the driver's side window had to be turned all the way down, or slid open.

Suspensions - better plan?

On the island it costs nothing, in the Netherlands you have to pay a lot for it every year. Since the introduction in 1988, various agencies have been busy convincing the government there that annual repeating is a bastard thing.

White sludge oil

This is called 'Sludge' in technical language. No panic, that does not necessarily mean that the head gasket (from a water-cooled engine) has left, that a crack has occurred in the cylinder head or that 'water' is added to the oil in some other way.