Mopar Muscle Association UK

Went to a local show called Stonor Breakfast Club yesterday, with my son and a mate. A good turn out.
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Nice Espada .

I’d have one of those if it wasn’t for the fear of the maintenance bills.

Aston or CSL for me, I've been fortunate enough to drive both in the past, lovely things....

bit more on the garage, yesterday and today i've shuttered the floor area into 3 bays for concreting. i've dug and raked level the high and low areas of the first one behind the up n over door, the other side one needs filling in some more so i've added 2 dumpy bags of sub base to tomorrows order. the last one in the middle looks like once the highs are spread into the lows it'll be about right but the other 2 are first so we'll see how we go on thursday. it'll be nice if we can get it all done by the weekend so it can dry for storage rack making next week. at this rate i'll get my valiant in my 'old' garage before christmas, woohoo!
neil.

Watched a film called The Infiltrator on Netflix, it’s about Mexican drug cartels. Good film and a yellow Cuda is the star of the movie.
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yesterday terri and me levelled the 2 other 'bays' to be concreted by lunchtime which gave us all afternoon to concrete the outer 2. by almost the end of the first it was clear we weren't going to have enough ballast for all 3 so i decided to substitute a couple of shovels of the remaining bag of sub base to each mix to 'a' use that up and 'b' get more done. the stones are bigger of course but as long as the depth of concrete is more than the size of the biggest stones it's not an issue. once proven at the end of that first bay we continued with the mix in all of the second until we were done. now we could work out how much more ballast and cement was needed for the middle bay which is slightly wider than the other 2 by about 10". the reason for the bigger middle bay is simple, when i was shuttering them i used my 6' spirit level working off of the 'footings' each side. this left a bigger bay in the middle which doesn't matter as long as the tamping board is long enough. i've ordered the ballast and cement which won't be here until next tuesday so we'll get the last bit done wednesday, at least my back will have a chance to rest up .
neil.

Now come on, get back out there and float it, you won't want to be kneeling on it like that....

it's only for storage and parking, i'll be working in the garage next to my house.
neil.

Yeah yeah, just wait till you knock that big box of screws off the shelf and have to go crawling around after them.....

Seriously though, I'm just envious of all that space

Dom66 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 24, 20 11:00 am Seriously though, I'm just envious of all that space

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i've only built it to make room to work in the workshop i've built (and added to, twice!) next to my house. and the shed between the house and workshop that's racked and full too, that will be a utility room once i insulate it and knock through into the hallway. it seems never ending
neil.

picked terri up this morning and we finished the floor in the new shed. still had to get more ballast, 2 mixes short of finishing. had to shoot up to jewson and get a dozen bags in my car (the transit would've been more sensible but it's full of chevy truck). all done now and friday we'll start filling the shed with stuff from my garage.
neil.

And THEN we'll see some progress on the Valiant ?

yep. already roped our ashley in for the fit up.
neil.

i didn't mention it but when we went to do the little bit of path my mixer blew the trip in my sister's house. not a problem, i borrowed a smaller one from my next door neighbour and got it done. i checked it out and the motor was fried. we borrowed a full sized one from terri's landlord to get the floor done so all good. in the meantime i looked at secondhand motors on ebay and they started at about £35 plus at least a tenner post. one on ebay was a clarke motor so i thought machine mart may do replacement motors and sure enough they do. £88 inc' postage and it arrived today. it's just a generic foot mount one so i had to weld up a new mounting bracket (adjustable to allow for belt wear/swaps) and wired it up. so the mixer now owes me £158 but has a new motor so i'm happy with that.
neil.

edit... just ordered some 12v led strip lights, i've got a couple of good big diesel car batteries so i'll wire them to a solar panel on the roof so i've at least got lights in there when the nights close in.