thinking of coming home

[weave67]

morning all,how we all doing,its been a looooooong time,,,

[Wilberforce]

Hey Dave..
You're alive!!! Welcome back to FOG mate. I'm good although the Big Blue Bus is no more sadly.

[weave67]

hows it going mate,,,what happened to the old girl

[Wilberforce]

What happened to the old girl??
Well, what finally killed her off was a wiring fire on the way back from a trip to the SE woods, I think as a result of fitting my Alpine stereo and pinching/shorting a couple of wires but I'm not 100% on that. Either way, I was about a couple of miles from home when a plume of smoke came from behind the dahboard and various electrical things stopped working, although the engine and lights stayed on. Got her home, taped some plastic over the stuck-open windows and left it for the night; she never actually ran again.

I had the dashboard out to try and trace the fault, and it turned out that pretty much all the wiring behind the dash was shot, along with the spur to the fuse panel, and the damage progressed through various multiplugs into the engine bay and body loom. Too much for me to fix on my own, so I was casting round eBay for a 2.8 being broken to see if I could rob the loom off it, then spotted my current car on there and bought that instead. All the toys and fun stuff came off the BBB, then the rolling carcass got trailered up to Rospicer's chop shop for the tank to be drained and a few more bits removed, then she got chopped up.

Lawrence has the Calmini kit at the moment with a view to making more sets of it; the winchbumper, roofrack, wheels, etc, are all still with me waiting to be refitted to the new car.

[jellybaby]

Welcome back bud. You got another fronty .

[weave67]

[bobbinsjob]

Spooky. Me and Lawrence were only talking about you at the weekend. All bad lol.

Seriously though welcome back mate

[Trugga]

Hey hey - good to hear from you Dave.

In fact, I was thinking about you yesterday:


LDDTS_IMG_3968 by Trugga, on Flickr

What have you been up to then, Bikes, Classics ?

Lawrence

[weave67]

hello,again bobbins/trugga,,upto a bit of everything at the moment,welding a 1978 vw camper for my brother,and still into my bikes,

this being my current steed
Its been good going over a few old posts I had some good old times on here

[weave67]

[weave67]

still got all my old photos happy days man

[weave67]

we did it all,,miss the old girl i do

[Rich]

Hiya Dave remember this


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[weave67]

oooh yeah

[weave67]

remember that

and this

[Drift]

All right Dave, so your getting another Fonty then?

[weave67]

driftwood hows it going mate,,,yeah i am giving it serious thought I wonder what happened to trusty

[Drift]

Not sure where she went but she just kept going, maybe it was that under bonnet tool kit

What you thinking of?

[weave67]

got to be a lwb not fussed otherwise,were planing on pulling our caravan up to ayr next year for our holidays,,as i remember the 2.4 and the 2.3 were good pullers mot aint a problem as i can still remember how to fix em