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Post by Mike on Apr 5, 2012 19:41:18 GMT
Hi everyone. I thought I ought to introduce myself.  My name is Mike, I'm 40 and I work in IT for an insurance company in the centre of Birmingham. I've had 2 Landcrabs in my life - both Wolseley Six's, although I have often admired the MK1 Austin 1800 and perhaps would like one one day. I currently drive a dull R-Reg Renault as an everyday car but I've owned a 1969 Blue-Royale Austin 3-Litre for 13 years and am having it sorted out after seven years sat rusting in a garage in Exmouth (the car that is, not me). The car is now with an excellent restorer called John in Dowland, North Devon. The old girl has recently been started for the first time in 7 years and, after clearing out all the old petrol from the float-chambers, refilling the float chambers with fresh petrol, and cleaning up the points, she started within a few seconds of turning the key. She sooned stopped again though because the fuel pump diaphragm and half the fuel pipes had perished. Alexander of this forum very kindly pointed me in the direction of a repair kit for the pump and I've ordered a load of braded fuel hose and all the rubber bits and clips for the ends. Thanks Alexander. Thanks for reading everyone. Kind regards. From Mike. |
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Post by mikey405 on Apr 5, 2012 19:47:45 GMT
Sorry - It's only my first post and I've messed up already - I didn't realise that I wasn't logged in and I've posted as a guest.
Hi everyone.
I thought I ought to introduce myself. My name is Mike, I'm 40 and I work in IT for an insurance company in the centre of Birmingham. I've had 2 Landcrabs in my life - both Wolseley Six's, although I have often admired the MK1 Austin 1800 and perhaps would like one one day.
I currently drive a dull R-Reg Renault as an everyday car but I've owned a 1969 Blue-Royale Austin 3-Litre for 13 years and am having it sorted out after seven years sat rusting in a garage in Exmouth (the car that is, not me). The car is now with an excellent restorer called John in Dowland, North Devon.
The old girl has recently been started for the first time in 7 years and, after clearing out all the old petrol from the float-chambers, refilling the float chambers with fresh petrol, and cleaning up the points, she started within a few seconds of turning the key. She sooned stopped again though because the fuel pump diaphragm and half the fuel pipes had perished. Alexander of this forum very kindly pointed me in the direction of a repair kit for the pump and I've ordered a load of braded fuel hose and all the rubber bits and clips for the ends. Thanks Alexander.
Thanks for reading everyone.
Kind regards.
From Mike.
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Post by Penguin45 on Apr 5, 2012 19:59:25 GMT
Hello Mike,
Welcome aboard. Sounds like a bit of a story with the 3 Litre. Pics always welcome.
Enjoy,
Chris.
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Post by mikey405 on Apr 5, 2012 20:15:24 GMT
Thanks Chris. There are a few pictures from years-gone-by at www.oldtechnology.net/austin3l.html but you'd weep if you saw the poor old girl now. However, it is in good hands and will be as good as new again in no time. I'll post some pictures on the web site sometime soon and then link to them from here, but they might not be for the squeamish - Especially Neil Kidby whose car it used to be.  Main bits I really need are "inner" bits - Inner sills, "Inside" sills (the bits that join to the floor inside the cabin), Inner wings and especially the 2 long metal "finishers" on the outsides of the sills, which turned into a big pile of rust and filler on removing them. |
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Post by mikey405 on Apr 5, 2012 20:23:44 GMT
Well, here are the pictures of the poor old thing being transferred to North Devon last week. It's a pretty big file so it may take some time to download. www.oldtechnology.net/misc/3LitreTransfer.zipAs stated previously, it's not for the squeamish. (And you can't even see the worst of the problems...) How did I ever let her get into this condition?  From Mike. |
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Post by Penguin45 on Apr 5, 2012 20:27:51 GMT
Ha! You didn't see mine when we started the restoration.......
The inner sill sections are mainly just flat plate, so I would have thought they could be fabricated. I've never seen the inner membranes for sale, ever, so I suppose that's another fabrication job. Fortunately they were salvagable on my car; just needing the end sections repairing. Again, they are just a big flat plate with the edges turned over. The nearside inner sill/floor joint on my car has been built onto a substantial section of shelving angle iron.
Chris.
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Post by Keef on Apr 7, 2012 0:17:03 GMT
Welcome!
CGU 473H looks great.
Any pics of your old Sixes?
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Post by indianajones on Apr 7, 2012 6:12:47 GMT
Welcome Mike -Andrew |
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Post by mikey405 on Apr 7, 2012 19:51:55 GMT
Thanks for the welcome Keef and Andrew. I do have a hideous picture of me from 22 years ago standing in between my 2 Wolseley's looking every bit like Alan Partridge in my "Should have gone to Specsavers" glasses. It was a very low-res picture taken on a really early digital camera but I'll see if I can dig it out. One of the Wolseleys (the automatic one) was Harvest Gold and had the reg ATA188L (It's still on the road now although it's now in some nice BL white colour) but the other one (M-reg) was bought by a boy racer in Exmouth and then thrashed and dumped on the A30 in a layby near Honiton before being carted away and scrapped. (I assume it had broken down.) |
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Post by mikey405 on Apr 7, 2012 19:57:43 GMT
Okay, here are the 2 Wolseley Sixes...  |
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Post by Keef on Apr 7, 2012 23:14:52 GMT
Okay, here are the 2 Wolseley Sixes... That photo makes them look like 1300s rather than Sixes! |
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Post by Keef on Apr 7, 2012 23:17:56 GMT
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Post by indianajones on Apr 8, 2012 11:17:32 GMT
lol awesome photo
-Andrew
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My name is Mike, I'm 40 and I work in IT for an insurance company in the centre of Birmingham. I've had 2 Landcrabs in my life - both Wolseley Six's, although I have often admired the MK1 Austin 1800 and perhaps would like one one day.
Main bits I really need are "inner" bits - Inner sills, "Inside" sills (the bits that join to the floor inside the cabin), Inner wings and especially the 2 long metal "finishers" on the outsides of the sills, which turned into a big pile of rust and filler on removing them.
