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Nice to see the Goodwood Coaches sign I can tell you that it was a sign used for the race course directing coaches through the park, past goodwood house and up the hill to the racecourse, My grandad, dad and my self all worked for Goodwood, my Dad was grounds manager on the racecourse, having worked up there for over 42 years. I do have a load of Bakelite Goodwood signs in my workshop that I rescued from a skip!
I feel much better seeing the state of your garage and it's density. Mine looks positively spacious with just 2 cars! Not. We are living through having new flooring put into our entire house at once and all our stuff in piles in various corners. After seeing this video I feel better about the mess. It's just temporary, but I'll lose about a third of it as I don't remember where everything went!
Brilliant Rick. Made my morning laughing. Especially the Cambridge Grille, "this can go" soon changed to "hang back on wall".....You really must steel yourself. Also, way too many tea breaks! Who am I to talk? I need to do exactly the same job as the Siddeley keeps creating more piles of stuff to find a home for as I'm working on it!
I've been doing a bit of rationalising in the garage over the last week or so, just in order to be able to garage the only car I currently own. Tough job.Har har!
I think it is called 'The OCC Shuffle'. The good thing is you find stuff that you had forgotten you had and 'I wondered what happened to that!' The mission was successful overall. Having a 'soft top' car under cover outside can make the top rot over time so a very wise move indeed. I won't put ideas in your head but if it were me I would extend the rear garage back to where the old 'lean to' used to be. It wouldn't cost much (concrete base and concrete blocks) and would come under 'permitted development'. Anyway a great video and some interesting finds along the way Rick. 👍👍
I have pondered doing exactly as you suggest with the garage, I just wonder if the slope would render the roof being very low at the rightmost end as you look in from the main door. Mmmmm
The old man has to do everything on his own again, drink beer, eat,drink beer and clean up everything he has brought home - all joking aside, winter always comes back...😁🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥
The trouble is, all that stuff you knew exactly where it was has now moved so you won't remember where it is now. You might remember you've seen it, and where it used to be, but short term memory is always the weakness. What you could really do with is a two post or four post lift. Get the ro9f height lifted and then you can have a mezzanine floor, and park one on the lift, AND another underneath. Joy of joys, room for even more junk! With the garage where little dodge came from closing, is there not a lift going begging?
Good workout, but Needs have too be done to look after the MX5!! A40 will not be on the road for a while then:? Good luck with the reorganisation . All the best Bob
Looks the the grille from the Farina high fin Oxford, the Cambridge grille had the mesh effect, as opposed to the straight bars on the Oxford! As a former high fin Cambridge owner, sold to make way for a new Datsun 140Y, in 1979. Still happily driving the Datsun, today! Miss the Cambridge, so managed in 1990, to find a Wolseley 16/60, to fill that gap! Still have her! Our " newest" is a 1991 Ford Sapphire, in maroon, purchased in 2001. Still looking new, cruises beautifully on the open road, but mechanically the Datsun, has proved to have been the best in the reliability stakes!
Sadly so! Time marches on. Happy to read that you've enjoyed 16/ 60 ownership in the past! Thanks for your genuinely presented videos, always a pleasure to watch, along with those of your young son! He has inherited your enthusiasm and is going places. C'est magnifiqe!
A little Renault, same model as yours, came to an untimely end, at our school in the former Salisbury Rhodesia, in 1966. It belonged to a lady teacher, a disciplinarian, who dispensed hard raps to the knuckles, of school boys who made mistakes, in her Afrikaans language class. The sixth form boys took exception to bleeding knuckles, and promptly pushed the little fawn renault, from the car park, across a rugby field, and into the depth of a quarry!!! Undettered, said teacher flew down to Johannesburg, and bought a new VW Beetle, in royal blue, and drove it back up to Salisbury. New cars were virtually unobtainable in Rhodesia, at the time, due to UK sanctions on the "errant" colony! Always think of that incident when i see your Renault on video!
Glad you enjoyed it! The boys who tipped the Renault into the quarry, were never identified, as I remember, but our headmaster, Mr Cooper, a true gent, who drove a Morris Oxford estate, read the riot act at assembly the following morning! Said that he had enough of the bad reputation, around Salisbury, of the " long haired chocolate boys" so called because of our chocolate coloured blazers and ties! And of course the longish hair, being the 1960s, with Beatlemania, Rolling Stones etc, all stoking it up!
Working solo like that, and with the added disadvantage of old age [creeping on?], that's when we realise how important it is to have everything remotely heavy, on wheels? A set or three of those fancy[but doubtless costly?] ''creepers'' , or dollies, to shove under the wheels of the likes of the A 40, or the Renault.....[Just in case it is reluctant to start, and you're on your own again?} Under the axles of the A40, such easy to use stuff would make it easier to pull it out sideways to get at the near side, eh? Luckily for you, your garage floor is nice and hard and smooth.[Rather than ribbed concrete?} A really interesting video, encouraging us auldfahrts to get on with stuff, when on our own. Thanks.
Hi AQ, fortunately the Renault is a doddle to push around if needs be, I did wonder about dollies but how close they'd let me get to a wall I don't know, and every inch counts in there.
You should do a video on all the antique nicknacks you have accumulated over the years The metal funnel is rare. They are all plastic now . The early 3n1 oil containers . The early gunk container . You should have that collection appraised . Might find its worth more than you think.
I like to feature a few bits and bobs in videos like this, I'm not sure many people would watch a vid just about these random bits and pieces. Maybe they would ...
I wish i had a garage for this sort of thing. I've only got a large carport, not exactly secure plus no access to rear apart from a couple of narrow gates.
@@gordonmcmillan4709 Sorry to hear that, I was up over the border just a few days ago and wondered how you were doing. I need to thin things down a bit here too (or put up another shed ...)
I'm sure the A40 and the Renault are now back where they were when I first subscribed lol. Of course women like to go on and on about how much effort they put into keeping a house but they have no idea what it takes to keep a shed in tip top condition with it's never ending demand for more space for the increasing population of parts and curios. Personally, I think every man should be issued with a TARDIS for use as his shed.
That is interesting about the brake tester. I have a book that includes reprints of old road tests from the 1960s. For brakes they say things like: "...for 100 lb pedal pressure we recorded 0.66 g retardation". I had thought they were using a rolling road but perhaps it was a device like yours?
I assume you are planning ahead to create space that will be required for an additional car perhaps when Harley passes his driving test next year RJ. I have absolutely no doubt he will pass first time.
Do you have the factory hard top for the MX5 ? Like the one my brother has for his Spitfire ? looking to buy new rubber for his. Be putting that on soon.
I wouldn't mind a tin top for the MX5, but given the cost I'll probably stick with things as they are especially as it's now undercover (for now anyway!!!)
IMHO for the amount of use Big Dodge gets, why not sell it and have more garage space Plus some spending money in your pocket. YES it has sentimental value but sometimes hard decisions have to be made.
If you are going to tell a story about every piece that you pick up, this could take for every, never mind making a start on the Sporty 40. Less chat more moving, maybe!!
When was the last time you did some work on the Austin A40 ? It doesn't have any engine. You cleared alot of the clutter. I'm sure your youthful assistant when he arrived home from school didn't recognize the garage.
When does hoarding , sorry collecting, become an illness? There is probably someone out there desperate for an Austin grill to complete a rebuild and put another classic back on the road . Old cans and gadgets fair enough but actual car parts when you don’t even have the vehicle… What do other enthusiasts think ?
Hoarding is keeping everything, old shoes, old newspapers, wrappers, random junk, whereas collecting is amassing interesting things. I acquired the grille from a work colleague many years ago who wanted rid of it (perhaps heading for the bin?).
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I don't think I'm going to live long enough to see your family A40 back on the road 😅 but I live in hope 😊
People said that about big Dodge, "it'll never get put back together" but it did so don't lose hope just yet! :)
@oldclassiccarUK like I said, I live in hope 😂 hurry up, I can't keep breathing 😂 cheers you 🍻
Nice to see the Goodwood Coaches sign
I can tell you that it was a sign used for the race course directing coaches through the park, past goodwood house and up the hill to the racecourse,
My grandad, dad and my self all worked for Goodwood, my Dad was grounds manager on the racecourse, having worked up there for over 42 years.
I do have a load of Bakelite Goodwood signs in my workshop that I rescued from a skip!
Thanks for the info on the sign, the bakelite signs sound great
I feel much better seeing the state of your garage and it's density. Mine looks positively spacious with just 2 cars! Not. We are living through having new flooring put into our entire house at once and all our stuff in piles in various corners. After seeing this video I feel better about the mess. It's just temporary, but I'll lose about a third of it as I don't remember where everything went!
HA sounds like fun (not), I could do with more space so there are conversations going on at the moment about shed(s) and so on ... we'll see
Brilliant Rick. Made my morning laughing. Especially the Cambridge Grille, "this can go" soon changed to "hang back on wall".....You really must steel yourself. Also, way too many tea breaks!
Who am I to talk? I need to do exactly the same job as the Siddeley keeps creating more piles of stuff to find a home for as I'm working on it!
Ha yes getting rid of things isn't my forte
I've been doing a bit of rationalising in the garage over the last week or so, just in order to be able to garage the only car I currently own. Tough job.Har har!
Yeah tidying up is never easy, I'm doing more of the same today as it happens
I think it is called 'The OCC Shuffle'. The good thing is you find stuff that you had forgotten you had and 'I wondered what happened to that!' The mission was successful overall. Having a 'soft top' car under cover outside can make the top rot over time so a very wise move indeed. I won't put ideas in your head but if it were me I would extend the rear garage back to where the old 'lean to' used to be. It wouldn't cost much (concrete base and concrete blocks) and would come under 'permitted development'. Anyway a great video and some interesting finds along the way Rick. 👍👍
I have pondered doing exactly as you suggest with the garage, I just wonder if the slope would render the roof being very low at the rightmost end as you look in from the main door. Mmmmm
Well, at least you can look forward to the youthful assistant coming home and telling you what you should have done!
I think he was extremely impressed with how hard I'd been working. Or did I dream that ...? :)
Interesting, amusing and well edited. 😅 Thank you
Thanks for watching it! I wasn't sure if many people would tbh!
The old man has to do everything on his own again, drink beer, eat,drink beer and clean up everything he has brought home - all joking aside, winter always comes back...😁🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥
Very true!
The trouble is, all that stuff you knew exactly where it was has now moved so you won't remember where it is now. You might remember you've seen it, and where it used to be, but short term memory is always the weakness. What you could really do with is a two post or four post lift. Get the ro9f height lifted and then you can have a mezzanine floor, and park one on the lift, AND another underneath. Joy of joys, room for even more junk! With the garage where little dodge came from closing, is there not a lift going begging?
Yes if I had the height, a lift would be very handy, there was a lift at the garage but it's all gone to new home(s) now
You have a fantastic collection of interesting stuff.
[ can’t wait to see the Austin finished].
📻🙂
You and me both!
Hello Richard . For goodness sake get a set of skids from Machine Mart . Fairly certain a set of 4 costs less than £100 . You won't regret it . 😊
I might do but the floor isn't entirely level
A great tinkering video , a little like the Jack Hargreaves of the motoring world 😂
Thanks, I don't know who that is mind!!
@ some of his old television programs are on RUclips 👍🏼😂
Super blog kept thinking of the Benny Hill show 😂
Thanks!
Fun Stuff! CHEERS from HERE!!!
Thanks DM!
Good workout, but Needs have too be done to look after the MX5!! A40 will not be on the road for a while then:? Good luck with the reorganisation . All the best Bob
Looks the the grille from the Farina high fin Oxford, the Cambridge grille had the mesh effect, as opposed to the straight bars on the Oxford! As a former high fin Cambridge owner, sold to make way for a new Datsun 140Y, in 1979. Still happily driving the Datsun, today! Miss the Cambridge, so managed in 1990, to find a Wolseley 16/60, to fill that gap! Still have her! Our " newest" is a 1991 Ford Sapphire, in maroon, purchased in 2001. Still looking new, cruises beautifully on the open road, but mechanically the Datsun, has proved to have been the best in the reliability stakes!
Not many 140Y Datsuns around now, or 16/60s for that matter (I had one a long time ago)
Sadly so! Time marches on. Happy to read that you've enjoyed 16/ 60 ownership in the past! Thanks for your genuinely presented videos, always a pleasure to watch, along with those of your young son! He has inherited your enthusiasm and is going places. C'est magnifiqe!
I like your program
Thanks!
A little Renault, same model as yours, came to an untimely end, at our school in the former Salisbury Rhodesia, in 1966. It belonged to a lady teacher, a disciplinarian, who dispensed hard raps to the knuckles, of school boys who made mistakes, in her Afrikaans language class. The sixth form boys took exception to bleeding knuckles, and promptly pushed the little fawn renault, from the car park, across a rugby field, and into the depth of a quarry!!! Undettered, said teacher flew down to Johannesburg, and bought a new VW Beetle, in royal blue, and drove it back up to Salisbury. New cars were virtually unobtainable in Rhodesia, at the time, due to UK sanctions on the "errant" colony! Always think of that incident when i see your Renault on video!
Ha wow great story, thanks for sharing it here :)
Glad you enjoyed it! The boys who tipped the Renault into the quarry, were never identified, as I remember, but our headmaster, Mr Cooper, a true gent, who drove a Morris Oxford estate, read the riot act at assembly the following morning! Said that he had enough of the bad reputation, around Salisbury, of the " long haired chocolate boys" so called because of our chocolate coloured blazers and ties! And of course the longish hair, being the 1960s, with Beatlemania, Rolling Stones etc, all stoking it up!
Working solo like that, and with the added disadvantage of old age [creeping on?], that's when we realise how important it is to have everything remotely heavy, on wheels? A set or three of those fancy[but doubtless costly?] ''creepers'' , or dollies, to shove under the wheels of the likes of the A 40, or the Renault.....[Just in case it is reluctant to start, and you're on your own again?} Under the axles of the A40, such easy to use stuff would make it easier to pull it out sideways to get at the near side, eh? Luckily for you, your garage floor is nice and hard and smooth.[Rather than ribbed concrete?} A really interesting video, encouraging us auldfahrts to get on with stuff, when on our own. Thanks.
Hi AQ, fortunately the Renault is a doddle to push around if needs be, I did wonder about dollies but how close they'd let me get to a wall I don't know, and every inch counts in there.
You should do a video on all the antique nicknacks you have accumulated over the years
The metal funnel is rare. They are all plastic now . The early 3n1 oil containers . The early gunk container . You should have that collection appraised . Might find its worth more than you think.
I like to feature a few bits and bobs in videos like this, I'm not sure many people would watch a vid just about these random bits and pieces. Maybe they would ...
I wish i had a garage for this sort of thing. I've only got a large carport, not exactly secure plus no access to rear apart from a couple of narrow gates.
A garage certainly helps, although it's easy to overfill it ...!
Getting very close to having too much stuff Rick, and I'm qualified on that subject. Just one Dodge-powered snow tractor left here 8-)
Hi Gordon, good to hear from you, just one snow tractor but how many trucks?
@@oldclassiccarUK Trucks have all been moved on - health issues, unfortunately.
Still, at least our toys are aging more gracefully than we are 8-)
@@gordonmcmillan4709 Sorry to hear that, I was up over the border just a few days ago and wondered how you were doing. I need to thin things down a bit here too (or put up another shed ...)
@@oldclassiccarUK I think we all know it'll be another shed then. 8-)
You'll need your you beefy mel after all that without your young assistant! Well done. Rob
I'm sure the A40 and the Renault are now back where they were when I first subscribed lol. Of course women like to go on and on about how much effort they put into keeping a house but they have no idea what it takes to keep a shed in tip top condition with it's never ending demand for more space for the increasing population of parts and curios. Personally, I think every man should be issued with a TARDIS for use as his shed.
Indeed, it may look chaotic but in fact it's all perfectly itemised with precise location data held for every item ...
That is interesting about the brake tester. I have a book that includes reprints of old road tests from the 1960s. For brakes they say things like: "...for 100 lb pedal pressure we recorded 0.66 g retardation". I had thought they were using a rolling road but perhaps it was a device like yours?
Could well have been, these brake testing gizmos were very popular
I assume you are planning ahead to create space that will be required for an additional car perhaps when Harley passes his driving test next year RJ. I have absolutely no doubt he will pass first time.
Mmmm I'm not sure that whatever he ends up with as a daily, will make it into the hallowed undercover storage areas!
Do you have the factory hard top for the MX5 ? Like the one my brother has for his Spitfire ? looking to buy new rubber for his. Be putting that on soon.
I wouldn't mind a tin top for the MX5, but given the cost I'll probably stick with things as they are especially as it's now undercover (for now anyway!!!)
IMHO for the amount of use Big Dodge gets, why not sell it and have more garage space Plus some spending money in your pocket. YES it has sentimental value but sometimes hard decisions have to be made.
If you are going to tell a story about every piece that you pick up, this could take for every, never mind making a start on the Sporty 40. Less chat more moving, maybe!!
The video was about looking and talking a bit about old stuff while doing the move though :) thanks for watching
When was the last time you did some work on the Austin A40 ? It doesn't have any engine. You cleared alot of the clutter. I'm sure your youthful assistant when he arrived home from school didn't recognize the garage.
There's the original engine still in it, plus 2 or 3 spare engines about the place
Never loose your hat, for u will be incomplete 😂
When does hoarding , sorry collecting, become an illness? There is probably someone out there desperate for an Austin grill to complete a rebuild and put another classic back on the road . Old cans and gadgets fair enough but actual car parts when you don’t even have the vehicle… What do other enthusiasts think ?
Hoarding is keeping everything, old shoes, old newspapers, wrappers, random junk, whereas collecting is amassing interesting things. I acquired the grille from a work colleague many years ago who wanted rid of it (perhaps heading for the bin?).