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Super clean Marauder in "not black".

#CarsAndCoffee Seaside #WeirdCarMastodon a custom ‘65 bug and a 1940 Mercury based hot rod for sale. Call Cherie at the number shown…

Anyway, the only way a project as large as the P5 can be at all manageable for me mentally is for me to break it into lots of tiny projects. I still think systematically, but everything is its own project.

So, although I still have things to do adjacent to it, I can call that little "put a radiator in the wrong end of a Rover P5" subproject done.

:)

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The completed assembly of the radiator in the boot of my Rover P5: radiator, trunk, fans, and fan shroud all fitted.

I'M SO FANCY

Funny thing is nobody's going to see any of this because the radiator is mounted at 45 degrees with this face angled down and I've spent way too much making this just so I can say "carbon fibre".

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A fan shroud for my rear mounted radiator, with two 10" fans mounted into it. The shroud will attach to the back of the radiator to ensure that the fans only suck air through the radiator rather than from everywhere around it; it makes it more efficient.

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Bagged Yaris sedan for your #SmallCarSaturday

I was going to move on to a new subject today but entirely coincidentally my brother, who is currently visiting Slovakia, yesterday sent me a supply of extra photos of lovely old Skodas. This is the 422 Tudor from 1930. Note that this car is right-hand drive. In those days Czechoslovakia drove on the left. These are from a small but exquisite Skoda museum my brother chanced upon in Trenčín.

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Blue 1930 Skoda 422 Tudor, front quarter view

Blue 1930 Skoda 422 Tudor, radiator grille and bonnet mascot detail

Fun spots on the road today:

- Black VW Golf Mk5 R32
- Yellow VW Golf Mk5 Pirelli edition
- burgundy eighties Toyota Cressida
- red Toyota Corolla Conquest liftback, early nineties
- red and white seventies Ford Bronco
- white late nineties Honda Accord with popup headlights

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Street View strikes again! I can't get a straight-on view of the driveway to be able to tell for sure, but I'm probably underneath the car. Second time a home I've lived in has been captured with work in progress on an E39 wagon—two different houses, two different wagons. #WeirdCarMastodon #WrenchEveryDay

Screenshot from Google Maps Street View of my house, a yellow stucco California Spanish storybook-style bungalow, with my blue 2003 BMW 5-series station wagon on the driveway, raised up on QuickJack portable lifts during my engine swap project.

#weirdcarmastodon entry for today

My lil thing in front of the 9 door Chrysler station wagon limo that lives down the street

They really are lovely and Matt said he prefers it to a four-cylinder Cayman, and considers it "a better Lotus [Emira]" #weirdcarmastodon

Matt Farah won #GVBC today with a client's #Alpine A110 😍 and I came home to a box of euro goodies, including an A110 🇫🇷 (very much a toy, not a model), but it was the SAAB 🇸🇪 convertible that prompted the whole #diecast purchase; couldn't resist an :alfa: on a flatbed 😂 MB for good measure 🇩🇪 #weirdcarmastodon

Gotta love the Darracq 200HP. Some say it was the world's first supercar, which isn't really true, it was a land speed record machine.

But what it is is a car with 200HP from 1905. Nineteenohfive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpHR1EFSQyE

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At this point, as far as I can tell, I have three escalating options. One, send the valve body out to be professionally rebuilt and tested (~$700). Two, replace all the solenoids, though as far as I can tell they are not a commonly known failure point (~$1200). Three, just replace the entire transmission (💸💸💸). I'm already way over budget on this project, and frankly, I'm getting pretty burned out on it. Might be time to walk away for a moment. #WeirdCarMastodon

Okay, I should never have touched the transmission.

After rebuilding the valve body, I sort of have reverse, but only sort of. I have to rev the engine up quite a bit before it starts to move, and it's very difficult to modulate and keep it moving.

I did get the car off my driveway the other day, but didn't get far. As soon as the transmission tried to go into fourth, it went into failsafe mode instead. I'm fairly certain low fluid isn't the issue. (Cont'd) #WeirdCarMastodon

Our next-door neighbors got a new-to-them Ioniq 5 and are, I'm guessing, donating their old Volt, and it's sharing a tow truck with some prime vintage van #WeirdCarMastodon #ItsVanTime

A view through our dining room window, over our neighbors' driveway and out to the street where a white circa-1990 Mitsubishi panel van is sitting on the back of a flatbed tow truck. The nose of our neighbors' silver Chevrolet Volt can be seen being towed off the back of the truck.

Another picture of pretty British cars from Wednesday’s MG club meeting, an MGA in front with a Jaguar E-Type and my MGB behind.

Everybody loves an E-Type, but an MGA is every bit as beautiful.

June 11, 2025. Farmington Hills, Michigan.

#MG #MGA #MGB #Jaguar #ClassicCars #car #cars #photography #weirdcarmastodon

Photograph of three classic British sports cars in a parking lot with modern cars in the background. A blue MGA is in front with a white Jaguar E-Type behind and a black MGB behind that. The photograph tilts to the lower right.

Is This Some Weird Guy’s Car Collection or an Insurance Fraud Dumping Ground?

There must be a good reason why a Lotus Esprit, Alfa 75, and other weird cars are rotting away at this abandoned American mansion

https://www.thedrive.com/news/is-this-some-weird-guys-car-collection-or-an-insurance-fraud-dumping-ground

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After I featured the Skoda Favorit the other day, @thomas_klopf asked me if I have a favourite Favorit. Being a sad car nerd, I do indeed have a favourite Favorit - and it's this, the prototype of the saloon/sedan version that never made it into production. Seen here at Techno Classica Essen in 2017.

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