OT(ish): Anybody after a cheap(ish) cage?

Andy Hewitt was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

See, that's progress for you.

Still a piece of piss I'd have to pay someone for, though...

 

Andy Hewitt was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

Heh. But that appears to sum up most of my self-propelled vehicles,
even those that were in supposedly good order when I bought them...

 

Indeed, saves mucho labour charges

Yes, but they aren't as expensive to fix as later boxes.

 

Andy Hewitt was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

Hmm. Got a name/address, mista?

 

A1 Motor Accessories, Catherine Street, St Albans - or about 100 metres
up the road from where I work.

It's one of those now rare old bits 'n' bobs shops, and he (Tony) never
throws anything away (being a tight old git), it's been there for at
least 40 years.

 

Nice old buses, those.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6? DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#16? FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19

 

Have you still got it Timo, and have you posted a pic anywhere?

Cheers,

Jon H.

 

Hmm pretty, does anything need doing, what mileage and service history does
it have? Any whereabouts are you again?

Cheers,

JH

 

*shakes head*

 

Aha! I've found a VW carb inna box(1) in the garage. Twin-choke
Pierburg, it is. Auto choke and everyfink. Interested?

1. And a set of GTi springs, a wiper mechanism ...

 

Ooooh, I may well be...... have to pop over with my carb to see if it'll
fit - you in this afternoon?

Hmmmm. Why not.

How much d'you want for it all?

 

You *still* haven't got the Cabrio running FFS
I dunno, I really don't.

Pip, sort 'im out.

 

Aye. Doing stuff, but I'll be about.

Come and talk to me, young maaan.

 

OK - catch you later - probably around 2.30-ish.

This is very disturbing ;-)

 

You only needed the autochoke side though

 

Yeah, maybe. Getting hold of either the autochoke bits or the manual
conversion kit is pretty tricky.

Eurospares and German&Swedish don't carry either in stock.... on back
order.

Seems that the 2B2/5 carb is regarded as trash these days and replaced
with a manual twin-choke Weber as soon as it goes wrong.

 

OK. I'll be about.

MWHID.

 

<emailed some time ago to the above address>

 

Sorry Timo, my c**k up, can you send to jon at cbug org uk?

Many thanks,

Jon

 

JH was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

Re-sent, again a few hours ago.