bobinspain
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| posted on 29/10/11 at 08:18 PM |
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Non spanner wallahs
I really admire you chaps who are tool-literate.
Your collective ingenuity is practically boundless.
I'm a zero when it comes to 'hands-on'. However. I love cars and always have.
I've owned some very nice lumps and now wish to 'get back to my roots.' i.e. value for money, bang per buck.
I'd love a page specifically for "oldies", or hands-off, rather than hands-on.
Are us old bu66ers not deserving?
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noc231073
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| posted on 29/10/11 at 09:57 PM |
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As being a locost forum most of the guys I am guessing are hands on guys.
We cant afford not to be !!!
As paying someone else to do it is just not an option.
So I would be quite lonely in the hands off club !!
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Cheffy
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| posted on 29/10/11 at 10:31 PM |
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Hi bobinspain,
If you read through a lot of the threads on here you'll find there are people on here with all levels of experience, from the complete novice
(like myself) to serious experts.
What you will find as well, is that there are very rarely patronising comments from the 'experts' to those of us who are novices. On the
contrary, you will always find helpful advice, and any number of people will admit that they would not have got as far as they have with their builds
if it had not been for the helpful people on this site.
In short, I think you will find all the help you will ever need on here, whatever your level of mechanical skill.
Hope that helps some,
Mart.
Farts are like Rock'n'Roll. You love your own but you hate everybody else's. Lemmy, Motorhead.
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Dingz
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| posted on 30/10/11 at 12:20 AM |
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Hi Bob in spain, before you go too far look on the Rhocar site link and read Stewarts postings re
his car and trying to get it registered in spain 
Phoned the local ramblers club today, but the bloke who answered just
went on and on.
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bi22le
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| posted on 30/10/11 at 01:31 AM |
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I have a few friends who are tool iliterate. i think the main difference between them and me is confidence from no consequence. From that you get
practice and expetience.
i am literatly fearless now when working on my car and would attempt anything. the thing is though i am not a mechanic and have not done much
mechanical work on cars, its just the mentality i have.
When i was a kid i was allowed to try and do anything. fix or dismantle or modify. It really shaped me as a person.
the thing to do is try and repair already broken and weathless stuff.
when you get your car you will have to do stuff yoirself. your along drive from their garage
Track days ARE the best thing since sliced bread, until I get a supercharger that is!
Please read my ring story:
http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/forum/13/viewthread.php?tid=139152&page=1
Me doing a sub 56sec lap around Brands Indy. I need a geo set up! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHksfvIGB3I
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bobinspain
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| posted on 30/10/11 at 02:54 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Dingz
Hi Bob in spain, before you go too far look on the Rhocar site link and read Stewarts postings re
his car and trying to get it registered in spain
Dingz u2u sent.
Bob.
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bobinspain
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| posted on 30/10/11 at 03:15 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by bi22le
I have a few friends who are tool iliterate. i think the main difference between them and me is confidence from no consequence. From that you get
practice and expetience.
i am literatly fearless now when working on my car and would attempt anything. the thing is though i am not a mechanic and have not done much
mechanical work on cars, its just the mentality i have.
When i was a kid i was allowed to try and do anything. fix or dismantle or modify. It really shaped me as a person.
the thing to do is try and repair already broken and weathless stuff.
when you get your car you will have to do stuff yoirself. your along drive from their garage
You're bang on the money.
I had a mate when I was back in Yorkshire who started tinkering with motorbikes when he was about 12yrs old. By 16, he could take 'em apart, fix
'em and reassemble them. He graduated to cars and took that confidence with him. He built me a Calvy Mitchel (which I financed) and made such a
good job of it the car took "Best in Show" at the 1st Alternative car Show at Newark 25 years ago.
He refused to be defeated by any mechanical problem and I recall him resorting to 'the hot spanner' on many occasions, particularly when
dismantling the rust-bucket MGB donor.
Regards, Bob.
[Edited on 30/10/11 by bobinspain]
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