- I'd like to know of a mechanic who can replace the gasket on my autobox. It leaks. A mechanic who has non-metric tools. It's an engine-out job. I don't have an engine hoist.
Shouldn't be difficult to arrange. Is the car mobile as is? Where abouts are you? Have you sorted a conversion gasket set yet?
It moves. I had the MoT bent and welded to my specification. It's not converted yet to run on unleaded, so I keep the revs down and add tetraethyl lead to the tank.
I'm in Grantham, Lincolnshire.
While it gets me from A to B, there's quite a lot of things I want to fix about it before I'd start thinking about showing it at rallies.
If I am going to have a mechanic work on it, I really want it to be someone who has not only the right tools but the right mental approach to working on a classic car. The alternative is to buy an engine hoist and do the job myself. This would take a lot longer, and I'm not entirely sure of my competence.
So many mechanics these days only know how to plug a computer into the ECU, read off the diagnostics, and replace a module. I need someone who understands about cars, not computers.
- the twins prefer the Wolseley 18/85 over the Rolls Royces.
My twins prefer the 'Crabs to the modern family vehicles.
Not sure what they'd make of Rolls Royces.
Have I stumbled upon the Landcrab-owning parent-of-twins forum? Now that would be an exclusive club!
If it's any consolation, the Rolls Royce Enthusiasts' Club is the same as LOCI only more so. You don't see many faces that don't bear the marks of 80 years or more. The Club bulletin is only available on paper, it's the sort of glossy presentation that you expect to see in dentist's waiting rooms. I'm not a member any more, I didn't really fit in with the social side. I mean, I'm not Sir or Lord MidnightBlue.
I own two, a RHD one here in England and a LHD one on Vancouver Island BC. Spirit I and Spirit II respectively. John 'twojags' Prescott was castigated for owning two Jaguars: I'm a member of the Labour Party and I own two Rolls Royces! They're not actually that expensive to buy or own, they're heavy on petrol, but insurance is cheap, parts are cheap, and they last for ever.
My twins are identical twin girls. They take after their mother, who is a Carib Indian, of the Wayuu tribe, so they look very much South American Indian, but they're Canadians from Victoria BC. They prefer the 18/85 because they're not restrained and can see out of the windows. The RR isn't especially distinguished for visibility from the back seats.
The Wayuu are one of the smallest human races, only pygmies, #Khoi!San and Andaman Islanders are smaller. They have successively defeated the Spanish Empire, the army of Grand Colombia, and the Colombian Army; they're one of the two New World nations who have never been defeated (the other are the Seminoles of Florida). Therefore, at the age of 5, they can stand and walk about in the back of the 18/85. The RRs have seat belts and kiddie seats and they have to be strapped down, by law. They don't like this.
Enough ramble from me.
MidnightBlue