Careful, mate; comments like that will earn you a death sentence if the blessed Prophet Ego Muskrat or what I like to call his Teslamic fundamentalists get to hear about it.🤭
My Mum had a green one of these cars back in the 1970s. I thought that it was ugly back then, but now I think it looks cute. Funny how time changes your thinking.
It's alright Lyndon, you do great work and these things do happen. The beauty of these old classics is you can easily bang it out, and you try to do that with new things the hammer will break the thin metal.
Best thing about a car of this vintage is it's made out of proper steel and will knock out a treat. Hope Lyndans ok. Old paint looks like Massey Ferguson Red 🤔 🍻
Now that's a plan. Will it come together? I love it when a plan comes together. Can't quite put my finger on it. Startrek salute to the injured mechanic.
We used to use 'Flattened out' jubilee clips ( one end in the spot light and one end fixed to fron scuttle under the bonnet) if you put the screw end facing the bonnet you can adjust up and down 😅👍👍
Geoff im looking for this add i read it last night ,now i cant find it . A, women took her EV into somewhere for a recall , She took it at 9,30am they rang her at 2pm She said is it done no sorry it set alight in our carpark we tried to put it out but it wouldnt go out and its lit 7 other customer cars big fire it would not go out ,i will find it .
Given the state of the roof, the new dent in the door blends in quite well with the rest of the car, the fact that it's the wrong colour is now hardly noticeable.
As you say, as long as Lyndon wasn't seriouly injured it's no big deal. Cars can be fixed, Lyndon not so much if the injury was worse. BTW, as far as the paint. You could do like a lot of folks here in the states. Get the electrics, mechanics, and interior all spiffed up. Then buy you a tag that says "Rat Rod", put it on the front, and you're ready to go.I saw a late 1950's Chevrolet Rat Rod truck today, and it was quite good looking.😀
I'd love to see your Accident book.. I hope you put his minor injury in it. ha ha ha I know it sounds crazy, but even splinters must be put in the book. Just in case they turn septic..
My dad's Renault 10 had a naccident, a jcb started to reverse on the works car park, didn't see me dad behind, dad tried reversing but wheels were just spinning in thick mud so he had to jump out. All the front was dragging on the floor but good old dad fixed it with an oak log and fibreglass 🤣 then he painted the car with a paintbrush🤣🤣
Poor old Lyndon, he must have felt awful and to bugger up his fingers to boot is a real bummer. Well done for being so calm, he seems like a decent bloke and a useful mechanic. Regarding paint work, my two pence for what it's worth, I'm usually of the opinion that paint only is there to stop the rust, keep that lovely patina. Remove the rust and get it blown in without getting too precious about making it a perfect match, let it wear it's battle scars with pride wax oil it to keep it as solid as possible for as long as possible and finish off with a good mop and wax.
I bent the door on my Daihatsu Charade back in the 90's. Was reversing out of the driveway and hadn't quite shut the door properly. A gust of wind blew it open just as I backed past the corner of my fence, so the door caught the fence and got bent so it was pointing completely forwards. It bent the front wing and the door was a write-off. Of course I was supposed to be driving my lodger's car as I was taking him to work, but his car wouldn't start we took mine instead.
I did that to a beautiful 5 door SAAB 900 Turbo going backwards through a farm gateway very late one night. It caused the front pillar to be hideously distorted. Took hours and hours of hitting with big hammers and heavy lumps of wood just to get the door to close. But it was never the same again. So when I blew the head gasket, and found the head was warped, I sold it to a car body business owner - for more money than I paid for it, and a MK2 Escort with a loose driver’s seat - which I later sold for a profit. If there’s a moral to this tale, I’m not sure what it is. But I’m reminded that despite being huge fun in bed, in the woods, on rambling footpaths and on the bonnet of the SAAB, Sue B was probably a mistake. 👀🧐😎😜🙄🏴 Peace
@@GeoffBuysCars So very true, Except for the ones where you see it happen to someone else first, and you take a different cheaper car to the farm. 👀🧐😎😜
More love to the Renault 10 and the mirrors set it off and how well built are these Renault 10s a bent door and doesn't need a panel beater to repair it as for the value of them its worth the effort to fix it up
Been there, done that, changing the oil on my new Pontiac Phoenix, years ago. The car rolled off the ramps and hit the garage door frame, very embarrassing.
I am the same with an old car. My 07 plate audi S6, now sold, was always getting bashed in my home car park, a dent here and a scratch there, whatever, my neighbours used to panic but me not so much, its an old car, the engine was the trick in that car. In Spain you get no respect off other car users unless you have dents and scratches. they will deliberately cut you up if you are in a shiney new Merc just to see your reaction
I never noticed the door colour mismatch until the "naccident". You have to get the R129 I bet that won't jump off a dyno. LOL Oh I meant to ask did you get another valet on the fake Alpina after Lee Davey shit himself in the passenger seat. Hahahahaha
Maybe you should be worrying about that awful gap between the wheel and the top of the wheel arch. Banded steelies -> coilovers -> chassis notch -> tubs -> smiles for miles...
@@markbray2988 i drive a 1999 E38 728i ive changed the bulbs so many times osram night breaker keep blowing after 3 months others are crap and there still like candles today .scary in the rain .
@@guy4469 I know what your saying... thankfully headlight technology has improved tremendously. It's no wonder there were so many accidents. I also drive quite an old car (out of choice) but the Xenon headlights are superb... the old Oscars were bloody good in their day however.
Geoff. Have you been stopped yet for the position of your lights? I expect at some point you will be stopped (If a cop exists to see it) because by law front lights are to be positioned equi distance from the centre line of the car. But this applies to vehicles after 1/1/1972 or for fog lights 1/4/1986. Your car is also exept from these regulations. Another benefit of your car. I think yo may be starting something here. Maybe the future is not EV. But retro! Just think if everyone had a car like yours. Well maybe not everyone because the laws would change otherwise. But it shows you what can be achieved with noncomplience.
Geoff any thoughts on dpf deleting is it worth it ? I've just bought a Peugeot 807 on 09 plate but apparently it's got dpf filter. I love the car it's a big old bus but I don't know anyone who has done it so I'm wondering if you or anyone of your many followers have any thoughts ?
I've watched too many Bangers and Cash: Restoring Classics to think this is a worthwhile project financially. Fun yes, but then I have that old cynic voice saying "throwing good money after bad" in my ear. Good luck, would be nice to see it in concours condition but that's not the GBC style. Take care Lyndon, look after your digits.
There’s a foreign looking bloke claiming to be the mayor of Londonistan that will take it off your hands and give you two grand to boot, let’s face it the car is French!!!😂😂😂👍😘😉
*This is a poorly run shop, its cluttered, not clean, not [fully] professional.* *Based upon your account, and the condition of the shop, this so called 'accident', was caused by incompetence.* *You get what you pay for Geoff.*
It’s not a shop. This isn’t Lyndon’s job. It’s his own personal garage and ramp, he has a full time job elsewhere and we mess with the Renault in our spare time.
