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Really round town?
Im on 11.3 or something over the last few hundred miles in mine.
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Really round town?
Im on 11.3 or something over the last few hundred miles in mine.
Caporegime
Oh no, not around town, but even then - with a light ish load such as bog rolls, you can get circa 10 with a relatively light foot.
Pull a full weight trailer & it drops by half again....
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Would love to have the chance and skill to do something like this!
Looks great!!
Looks great!!
Taking a much closer look, it seems like the A-pillar trim is actually attached to the windscreen surround. Now, we could remove the windscreen surround....but as the exasperated Chinese zoo keeper said to the last male panda in the enclosure while pointing to a female panda:
It'll just have to be masked. There are many parts of that car that I'll cheerfully launch into removing, but I'm not going down that route.
It'll just have to be masked. There are many parts of that car that I'll cheerfully launch into removing, but I'm not going down that route.
Oh, and while I was here....
With the headlamps out, we've wire-brushed and hammerite-ed the bowls that they sit into. Spotted some pretty grotty metal back there while we were at it, so that needs stabilising and sorting. Ah, the joys of old cars
With the headlamps out, we've wire-brushed and hammerite-ed the bowls that they sit into. Spotted some pretty grotty metal back there while we were at it, so that needs stabilising and sorting. Ah, the joys of old cars
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I wouldnt remove that windscreen surround just let them mask it all.
That'll have to do now. It's a shame, because I really wouldn't mind renewing the seal behind the outer edge at some point. And the trim needs a few dents taking out of it as well. Typical Bentley, had to over-complicate it.
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They never built these cars with the DIY man in mind, bad and annoying as some of the things you found are its proof real these cars were built like nothing else.
Oh, bother....
21 year old cars, eh?
21 year old cars, eh?
The car is going to the body 'n' fender shop next week, probably Tuesday. We've done all we can with dismantling the old girl, we've probably taken more off than some people do with complete restorations.
Some further issues have sprung up.
1) The drivers seat controls have stopped working. I'm pretty sure I know what's happened here. All the controls for the seat go through a memory box underneath the seat cushion. There's a battery inside (Varta 3/V150H) that keeps the unit powered to hold the memory. Flatten that battery, and it doesn't just knock out the memory - it knocks out the whole bloody seat. And we've had the power off on the car for ages....I'll sort that one when it gets back from being painted.
2) Firing the engine today, I noticed an intermittant miss on a cylinder on the drivers side bank. Hoping that's just because it's sat for a while. Filing that one under "not thinking about too hard"
3) Gary's decided to put the whitewalls back on. Mainly because they keep poking back through where they were painted over! Plus we've decided they actually do set the car off quite nicely when they're in good nick.
Going to be interesting when we come to pick the car up. When it was painted under a previous owner, when they came to paint the body near the rear window you can see they painted up to the edge of the surrounding rubber and made a bad job of it. The car stays at the shop on this job until they get that bit right!
Some further issues have sprung up.
1) The drivers seat controls have stopped working. I'm pretty sure I know what's happened here. All the controls for the seat go through a memory box underneath the seat cushion. There's a battery inside (Varta 3/V150H) that keeps the unit powered to hold the memory. Flatten that battery, and it doesn't just knock out the memory - it knocks out the whole bloody seat. And we've had the power off on the car for ages....I'll sort that one when it gets back from being painted.
2) Firing the engine today, I noticed an intermittant miss on a cylinder on the drivers side bank. Hoping that's just because it's sat for a while. Filing that one under "not thinking about too hard"
3) Gary's decided to put the whitewalls back on. Mainly because they keep poking back through where they were painted over! Plus we've decided they actually do set the car off quite nicely when they're in good nick.
Going to be interesting when we come to pick the car up. When it was painted under a previous owner, when they came to paint the body near the rear window you can see they painted up to the edge of the surrounding rubber and made a bad job of it. The car stays at the shop on this job until they get that bit right!
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The car is going to the body 'n' fender shop next week, probably Tuesday. We've done all we can with dismantling the old girl, we've probably taken more off than some people do with complete restorations.
Some further issues have sprung up.
1) The drivers seat controls have stopped working. I'm pretty sure I know what's happened here. All the controls for the seat go through a memory box underneath the seat cushion. There's a battery inside (Varta 3/V150H) that keeps the unit powered to hold the memory. Flatten that battery, and it doesn't just knock out the memory - it knocks out the whole bloody seat. And we've had the power off on the car for ages....I'll sort that one when it gets back from being painted.
2) Firing the engine today, I noticed an intermittant miss on a cylinder on the drivers side bank. Hoping that's just because it's sat for a while. Filing that one under "not thinking about too hard"
3) Gary's decided to put the whitewalls back on. Mainly because they keep poking back through where they were painted over! Plus we've decided they actually do set the car off quite nicely when they're in good nick.
Going to be interesting when we come to pick the car up. When it was painted under a previous owner, when they came to paint the body near the rear window you can see they painted up to the edge of the surrounding rubber and made a bad job of it. The car stays at the shop on this job until they get that bit right!
Good on you both, i hope they paint it nice for you.
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No pics of the naked body?
I'll grab you some tomorrow, raining here at the moment!
Some pictures of the car in her current state of undress. Click to make them bigger, if Imageshack will play ball.
Cowl vents removed:
Headlights and radiator shell MIA:
Grottiness abounds:
Tell you what, the doors aren't half rattly in this state:
The daily-driver Vectra, with the one clue to the +150mph top speed also shown:
Cowl vents removed:
Headlights and radiator shell MIA:
Grottiness abounds:
Tell you what, the doors aren't half rattly in this state:
The daily-driver Vectra, with the one clue to the +150mph top speed also shown:
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Get some dyno mat or whatever its called in the doors now they are stripped, thats what they did to my old one of them, gave the doors an even better clunk when you shut them and made it quieter.
The backing we've got on the door cards is doing a pretty effective job when the doors are assembled, but yeah - Dynamat is something that I wouldn't mind fitting at all.
Funny, the things you notice when looking at exploded diagrams of Bentleys....
We were looking for the part number to replace the gauze-like piece under the passenger-side cowl vent. Turns out that there's supposed to be a foam filter underneath each vent. When we pulled the car apart, we found no evidence of a foam filter in there. Guess we best buy a couple of those when we next put in a call to Monty....
This probably explains why there's so much junk underneath those vents!
We were looking for the part number to replace the gauze-like piece under the passenger-side cowl vent. Turns out that there's supposed to be a foam filter underneath each vent. When we pulled the car apart, we found no evidence of a foam filter in there. Guess we best buy a couple of those when we next put in a call to Monty....
This probably explains why there's so much junk underneath those vents!
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Keep the updates coming! You're doing a grand job with that there car!
Bentley minus quite a bit of paint equals....
Body guy reckons it's going to take a bit longer than he first thought. Lots of real estate to get paint onto! He's taken the rear lights out (we would have, but we needed them there for Gary to drive it to the place....), pulled the strip of trim from the bonnet, and as you can see started stripping the paint off the panels. Not a great deal of rust found, but some minor welding to do.
Will keep y'all posted.
Body guy reckons it's going to take a bit longer than he first thought. Lots of real estate to get paint onto! He's taken the rear lights out (we would have, but we needed them there for Gary to drive it to the place....), pulled the strip of trim from the bonnet, and as you can see started stripping the paint off the panels. Not a great deal of rust found, but some minor welding to do.
Will keep y'all posted.
Wiper arms painted up and sorted out, new badge for the radiator shell ordered....little things, but they'll be noticed when the car goes back together!