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JC T ONE
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 Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2026 4:14 am Post subject: Trailer hitch for 122S |
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Dug out the trailer hitch, but decided not to use its Black connector & wire.
I prefer the alloy one, with Grey wire.
Also found the correct style & size UNC bolts, and nuts.
Jens Christian
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JC T ONE
Joined: 30 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2026 11:20 pm Post subject: Wall?kra 2026 |
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Getting ready to travel to Sweden, and enter the largest car show in Scandinavien = https://vallakratraffen.com/#
At 09,00 I was given this by the co founder & main man of the event =
Translation "You have been chosen - we would like you to present your car, on the podium, at the main landing strip.
Welcome at 11,15 on sunday with your car, join the line, and enter the podium"
A very cool custom PV, on the podium before me.
And here we are = full circle = after being sold off to Denmark 26 years ago - then put in a garage, pulled out 18 years later, and put up for sale, as spareparts 8 years ago,
she is now back in her home country getting some love & attention.
Jens Christian
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Ray White
Joined: 02 Dec 2014
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Location: Derby
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| Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2026 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Interesting to see purists and hot rodders on the same page? |
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JC T ONE
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| Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2026 1:41 am Post subject: |
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| Ray White wrote: |
Interesting to see purists and hot rodders on the same page?
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Yes, thats why this event is the biggest in Scandinavien = there is something for every one.
You see the wildest custom cars, and the most nerdy rivit counting anorak owned cars, all together 
Jens Christian
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JC T ONE
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| Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2026 7:07 pm Post subject: Side indicators |
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Getting the old 122 ready for its MOT.
To pass inspection here in DK you have to fit side indicators.
After going through a few boxes, I managed to round up a pair of the ones the Danish Volvo dealers fitted in 1961/62.
This type were also fitted on Swedish police cars.
These lamps have the larger socket type, so I found two 15watt bulps, but they had twin bottom connectors like on a twin fillament 21/5watt bulp.
So back & search for some connectors, so i could fit two of those.
Luckely were they prepared for this, with 3 holes in the plate =
Back in the day they drilled holes through the innerwing, and hooked them up to the wiringloom, with one of these house hold cable connectors
= looked cheap & awfull, so I routed the wires foreward = through the clips for the fender trim, and poked a hole in the rubber housing for the front indicator/park light.
10 minutes ago this was a empty/clean workbench 
Finished =
Jens Christian
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Ray White
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Hello Jens. What is the opinion over there about our old cars being exempt from the M.O.T. test?
Thus far I have yet to hear of any serious consequences regarding safety.
Incidentally, a voluntary M.O.T. test is still available here - with all the age related exemptions that made it such a British thing - but there seems to be very little interest in it. |
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alastairq
Joined: 14 Oct 2016
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Location: East Yorkshire
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| Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2026 10:12 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | a voluntary M.O.T. test is still available here - with all the age related exemptions that made it such a British thing - but there seems to be very little interest in it. |
Hardly surprising, really.
MoT's nowadays seem to be controlled by what the computer demands.
It being the only way the MoT, and the DVSA, can keep pace with advancing technologies.
Present a 1950's Morris Minor to be 'tested,' and the computer is totally dumbfounded.
It's one reason why the 40 YO MoT exemptions were introduced......The system is struggling to cope with vehicles from this century, never mind all those from last century!
In the end, it's all a numbers game! Percentage-wise, the numbers of vehicles over 40 years old, pales into insignificance when compared to the overall numbers of vehicles out there on the roads!
What isn't told, is the likely percentage of 'modern' vehicles that would pass an MoT , this instant!! [Just take those registered this century, for simplicity's sake?]
How many drivers rock up for their mandatory MoT test, with the vehicle, ''as is?''
On the premise that the MoT test will simply point out those items that need renewing, repairing or mending?
If said vehicle ''fails'' its test...just think on?
That vehicle has been [likely?] driving around for perhaps weeks, if not months, in that condition...and nobody seems wont to complain?
Yet our classic car world has been full of tales of woe over the MoT exemption....
Something I cannot understand.....
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Ray White
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Location: Derby
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| Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2026 11:58 am Post subject: |
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| alastairq wrote: |
If said vehicle ''fails'' its test...just think on?
That vehicle has been [likely?] driving around for perhaps weeks, if not months, in that condition...and nobody seems wont to complain?
Yet our classic car world has been full of tales of woe over the MoT exemption....
Something I cannot understand..... |
I think the issue remains that unsafe cars (of whatever age) can be sold to unsuspecting buyers by the unscrupulous.
What about my MG? When I collected it the brakes seemed ok at first but on closer inspection they had been bodged up by the seller and were actually in a dangerous condition. The consequences of such behaviour don't bear thinking about.
I understand. that in Australia a certificate of roadworthiness must accompany a car when it changes ownership. Providing that age related exemptions were retained then that sounds like a sensible compromise. |
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Keith D
Joined: 16 Oct 2008
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Location: Upper Swan, Western Australia
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| Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2026 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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I understand. that in Australia a certificate of roadworthiness must accompany a car when it changes ownership. Providing that age related exemptions were retained then that sounds like a sensible compromise. |
Each state in Australia has it's own rules regarding testing of cars. In Western Australia (WA) we advertise and sell our cars with no testing required at all. The only normal time our cars go over the pits is when the licence has been allowed to lapse.
We do not have unroadworthy cars everywhere. The annual testing has been proved in WA to be a complete waste of time. Up until about ten years ago, all cars on conessional licence (club licence) were required to be tested annually by the owner's Club. No testing is now required. The standard of old cars has not diminished and we do not have wrecks running on Club runs. Police have the power to issue a yellow sticker to a car that they consider is unroadworthy. The owner has two weeks to take it over the pits for a full checkover. If the police notice something highy dangerous, such as a bald tyre, they can affix a red sticker. That car must be removed by trailer or truck and must not be used on the road again until it has been repaired and tested over the pits.
I'm at a loss to understand why you Brits get so caught up in the idea that the MOT ever saved a single accident. It has made a lot of testing stations very rich, of course. If a member of this forum has painstakingly restored a car from the ground up, as Ray has, he is the expert on that car. He has far more knowledge than an eighteen year old kid with a clip board and a computer.
Keith
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Ray White
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| Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2026 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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As a lad I worked in a garage as an M.O.T. tester's assistant. Some of the things that the cars failed on would make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.!
The worry I have is that those faults are now going unaddressed. The Morris 1000 owner, for example, who thinks he is doing the right thing in greasing his front trunnions, should be using oil. Many a minor has collapsed in the road with a failed trunion due to incorrect servicing.  |
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alastairq
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| Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2026 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | The worry I have is that those faults are now going unaddressed. The Morris 1000 owner, for example, who thinks he is doing the right thing in greasing his front trunnions, should be using oil. Many a minor has collapsed in the road with a failed trunnion due to incorrect servicing. |
The same thing goes for any vehicle.....
An MoT test every year may not highlight the issue mentioned.
Correct, or incorrect servicing is something for each individual driver to concern themselves about.
A modernism I have noticed is the tendency to over-tighten wheel nuts.
Even gradually, over time.
The driver may proudly claim they've 'torqued' their wheel nuts...correctly.
But, have they, in reality?
Or have they gradually over torqued them by just putting their torque wrench on them every month, gone 'click' and believed they are torqued 'correctly?'
Potentially leaving wheel studs or bolts with stretched threads? Or worse still, gradually 'crushed' the wheel itself?
We could all go on, listing misbeliefs.
If anyone is concerned over the MoT exemption[which isn't an exemption from the roadworthiness requirement, by the way]...then start campaigning for better enforcement of roadworthiness, across the board!!
That'll really boost garage incomes...all those moderns flying in to get failed lights working again...for example?
The next old-car-worry will be the proposed new tightening up of the emissions regulations...for everybody.
That'll create more hoo-hah tan getting rid of leaded petrol....or the [false] accusations over ethanol!
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Ray White
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| Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2026 4:29 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="alastairq"] | Quote: |
The next old-car-worry will be the proposed new tightening up of the emissions regulations...for everybody.
That'll create more hoo-hah tan getting rid of leaded petrol....or the [false] accusations over ethanol! |
IF that happens it will hopefully speed up the provision of bio petrol. The beauty of sustainable petrol is that it has harmless emissions but with the same octane ratings as regular petrol.
I saw a TV report on this a while back and while at present the cost is high (so only used in motor racing) if production could be scaled up the price should be more affordable. |
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JC T ONE
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| Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2026 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Ray White wrote: |
Hello Jens. What is the opinion over there about our old cars being exempt from the M.O.T. test?
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Hi Ray, the MOT rules in Denmark is = first MOT when the car is 4 years old.
Then MOT for every 2 years.
When it turn 35 you get 5 years till next MOT, and once a car is 40 years old you get 8 years between MOT,s .
Sweden has full MOT exempt for classic cars, that are more than 50 years old.
| alastairq wrote: | | Quote: | | a voluntary M.O.T. test is still available here - with all the age related exemptions that made it such a British thing - but there seems to be very little interest in it. |
Hardly surprising, really.
MoT's nowadays seem to be controlled by what the computer demands.
It being the only way the MoT, and the DVSA, can keep pace with advancing technologies.
Present a 1950's Morris Minor to be 'tested,' and the computer is totally dumbfounded.
It's one reason why the 40 YO MoT exemptions were introduced......The system is struggling to cope with vehicles from this century, never mind all those from last century!
In the end, it's all a numbers game! Percentage-wise, the numbers of vehicles over 40 years old, pales into insignificance when compared to the overall numbers of vehicles out there on the roads!
What isn't told, is the likely percentage of 'modern' vehicles that would pass an MoT , this instant!! [Just take those registered this century, for simplicity's sake?]
How many drivers rock up for their mandatory MoT test, with the vehicle, ''as is?''
On the premise that the MoT test will simply point out those items that need renewing, repairing or mending?
If said vehicle ''fails'' its test...just think on?
That vehicle has been [likely?] driving around for perhaps weeks, if not months, in that condition...and nobody seems wont to complain?
Yet our classic car world has been full of tales of woe over the MoT exemption....
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Hi Alistair, yes many dont know much about older cars, so they stick to checking brakes - steering and rust etc.
I always check my car prior to MOT - dismantle brakes, and check everything = a non approved MOT cost 38 pounds extra for the come back.
You wont get a car passed, if it has any faults - not even a stone chip in the screen, if its inside the area covered by the wipers.
If it needs a re visit, and they try to sell it, they come for the plates.
| Keith D wrote: | | Quote: |
I understand. that in Australia a certificate of roadworthiness must accompany a car when it changes ownership. Providing that age related exemptions were retained then that sounds like a sensible compromise. |
Each state in Australia has it's own rules regarding testing of cars.
I'm at a loss to understand why you Brits get so caught up in the idea that the MOT ever saved a single accident. It has made a lot of testing stations very rich, of course. If a member of this forum has painstakingly restored a car from the ground up, as Ray has, he is the expert on that car. He has far more knowledge than an eighteen year old kid with a clip board and a computer.
Keith |
Hi Kieth, yes our police can do the same.
Posted our MOT rules for Denmark & Sweden above.
Agree = some times the MOT inspectors call me, to ask for help, to find chassi number or spec on a car.
Jens Christian
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alastairq
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| Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2026 10:34 am Post subject: |
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At the end of the day...if another person tells me, that my car is 'dangerous,' my answer would always be, ''yes it will be...if you were driving it!''
'Dangerous,', or 'not roadworthy,' seems to have become a subjective topic.
Often totally ignoring the Laws of the land...
In sheer practical terms [ as no doubt proven world-wide?], even a 'bald tyre' isn't, in itself, 'dangerous!'.....
When it is freely admitted, bald tyres offer 'more grip' on dry, sunny, days, than neatly treaded tyres!
Or, rotted sills don't automatically mean the car is going to 'fold in half' over the first unavoided pothole!
The danger, as such, arises from the driver's lack of 'sympathy,' and the adverse circumstances that the vehicle finds itself being driven in.
Most of the danger I have witnessed in my years out on the roads has stemmed from other drivers....rather than the vehicle itself.
Hence the emphasis on 'lights?'
Not particularly for the suspect vehicle drivers themselves, but for all the other drivers' convenience.
I mean , surely it's nice to be 'told' something else is out there, in front.....Rather than having to exercise more 'extreme' observational skills to spot the 'hazard' first.
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Ray White
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| Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2026 11:48 am Post subject: |
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It would be interesting to learn exactly what proportion of serious or fatal motoring "accidents" are caused by component failure due to neglect or poor maintenance ...and how many are due - putting it mildly - to "driver error" ?
I suspect "idiot behind the wheel" would be the overwhelming cause.
The disagreement we have - as I see it - is because, in Law, that same idiot is expected to be responsible for the condition of their vehicle. I expect that is why we have an M.O.T. test........ Just in case.? ! |
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