The pug 305!

Good to see it lives after all you put into it.

Is it an S or a GT with the twin carbed 1.5 motor in it??

We used to have a GR estate, and before that a string of 304 estates. Now that brings back memories...

Tim..

It's a GTX with 1.9 litre injection! A few years ago I used to own a GR as well - 1472cc, single choke carb. Pretty nice engine IMO, and derived from the 304's engine.

The estates were pretty cool load-haulers. Massive boot space. Probably explains why you still see a fair few 305 vans running around - or at least you do in my neck of the woods.

Chris.

Cheers, it feels good to finally get it back out in the open. It ended up in that car park a lot longer than I was expecting.

The drive home was a bit odd... picked up some speed and it seems to have developed a vibration at around 40mph - definate up/down motion coming from the front. It felt a bit to me like the shocks might have seized up or something, but they bounce up and down OK. Still, aside from that and the fact the brakes are now virtually useless (hopefully they'll clean up OK), all seems to be pretty much in order. I'm off to do some work on it in a bit!

Chris.

Scrubs up nice too. :)

If it was sitting still on its tyres they're probably not round any more.

Try swapping the spare in...

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That looks pretty sweet. Scrubs up nice :)

Good point - think you might be right.

Cheers!

Thanks.. some of the paintwork's a bit scrappy but I should be able to fix that. After two short drives, the radiator's started leaking though, so I'm gonna have to fix that first!

Chris.

Hurrah :)

Your car collection is 80s tastic

I just realised that every car I've owned has been from the 80's.... wonder what I should get next?

A Supra.

Richard (your car collection is like my synth collection).

A 560SEC.

A black 560SEC.

Hmm... a Supra... 3 litre would be a step up, plus my g/f doesn't like them, so sold ;)

I've been looking. If you ever have a decent MIDI keyboard for sale with weighted keys, I may be interested. BTW, why haven't you got any Sinclair computers?!?!?!?

;)

Chris.

Heheh...

OMG! Did someone steal my QL?!

(Actually, I probably wouldn't notice if they had...).

I've owned everything Sinclair made post Radionics era, aside from the Black Watch and Zike. I got bored of them ;)

Having said that, I do still have a QL with 768K trump card, dual 3.5" drives (but also working microdrives) and monitor... I've probably got other machines somewhere, I keep finding computers I forgot I had.

Keep an eye out for a Korg T1 like the main one I use. I paid £200 for it with a full flightcase; spent another £80 on parts from Korg. They're dead easy to refurb.

Richard

Stop it, just stop it.

Whoa!!! I think you might be right!

:D

Chris.

Cool, I see it on the website now - don't know why I missed it earlier. I've had a ZX81 and a Spectrum +2, both courtesy of my dad ;)

Sounds good. Will do. Ever since I moved out of home a year ago, I really miss my dad's piano, which I suddenly realise I should have played more often.

Chris.

Hehehe...

There's a sorta 'monochrome' one in there - shades of silver with white indicators and big AMG wheels.

Kinda...

...mmmmm...

Pimp.

(needs lowered, just a leeeeetle)