Classic cars forum & vehicle restoration.

I'm pretty certain John Marks is still going as he has just restored a rev counter from an Austin Atlantic for a friend of mine. I was planning to use him to do the speedo in my A70 pickup as Speedogr ...

Happy new year everyone and don't forget to get those classics out and use them!

That Hillman is still for sale, looks like the dealer has got lumbered with it.

The Mayflower was a sad story, it was a really cherished car, owned by an active TMC member, who sadly passed away qu ...

I had a similar problem to this on my A40 Somerset when first purchased, it had loads of negative camber. I decided that it must be the shock absorbers so I bought a pair from the club and had them re ...

These are tough little cars. I had a 1996 model for a while and loved it, it was reliable, economical, and the back seat folded flat so could get loads of car parts in the back.
Mine had done over 1 ...

That's a beauty. Glad it went to a good home.
Older members of the forum will probably remember my rotten, black A55 I bought when I was 19, well 15 years later I still have it stored away but there ...

Reminds me of a youtuber I watched a bit back.
They'd purchased a ''new old stock'' master cylinder, and was puzzled by its reluctance to move, straight from the box. It was full of some sort of mess ...

Yes, this is a cause of constant frustration, annoyance and worry for me.
I don't mind people overtaking slower vehicles, but why oh why do they have to do it into the face of oncoming traffic? I've ...

Nice to see some original numberplates. I have the original Bluemels plates from 1950 on my Austin A70, and the plastic digits were in remarkably good condition, but the plates themselves were bent an ...

I keep meaning to buy one for workshop use.

Used them all the time in my last job and we never bought any fancy stuff.
We used approx 1/10 TFR and 9/10 boiling water, simply to avoid having to wai ...

Bootlid is FD Victor estate, I think!

Vulgalour is correct, the doors on the right are definitely Somerset/Hereford (same doors used on both).

Bit late to the party here, but these are 1980s/90s Bestplate replacements..
Not the best quality, which is why they’ve delaminated. I’m not sure what the manufacturing process was to make them g ...

My 24 year old Rover 620 is just starting to go on the bottom of one of the rear arches, apart from that it’s rust free. I’d love to berate the manufacturer for not making the cars better at resis ...

In addition to the drawbacks of silicone fluid mentioned above, it is also thinner, so in certain cylinders where the seal tolerances aren’t great anyway, you can get leaks.
Examples of vehicles t ...

Very sad to see these pictures. I don’t know Peter but I feel very sorry for him, and hope he will be able to rebuild his business.
Sad if (presumably) customers lost their cars in this fire.