Made a little more progress with remaking my Rancho today. First picture is from this morning, the others are how it used to be. I probably won’t post a video; people just don’t watch them.

Either the new Jag prototype has more ground clearance than we expected, or my neighbour has zebras.

Went to the monthly Swansea Motor Club meet this morning to catch up with some friends. There were several really lovely cars, but I only took one photo. One. Photo. I really am useless at this social media thing. Sorry.

Mate of mine is listing this Mercedes 280SE if anyone is interested. Low miles, manual gearbox, it is a true #WeirdCarBS spec

Wow, I had no idea this prototype XJ-S still existed, never mind that it was for sale. Considering it’s from 4 years before launch, the changes to the production car are tiny. Bumpers, seats and dashboard, mainly.

Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet. Not sure this is the best, but Keith was clearly in the same mood that I’m in this evening.

Mine is supposed to be that colour too. As it is, it’s been roller painted with a 1960s ‘gloss’ blue that’s actually flatter than the proverbial pancake. Hopefully at some point I’ll respray it back to how it should be.

If you're wondering about the best way to transport a small car battery when you take it back to Halfords under warrenty, the answer is: in the footwell storage bin of a Megane Scenic! (And you can win this very battery transport system for £1 - link below)

I have been sitting in a French field all week devouring croissants in my 1980s Japanese Turbo Coupe and feeling no shame. Oh, and I have been to #LeMans

Ah yes that would be Harry, dear friend of mine and also owner of the stupid yellow Triumph 2500S "big Larry" that has gone in previous years

CVD's stuff is great. If you want a cool bit of original, hand drawn art featuring your pride and joy, make like the Four Tops and reach out!

New poster & t-shirt design: #Foryoureyesonly James Bond car chase storyboard. www.rjwcreativedesign.co.uk International or for more apparel www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1813...

We love Piazzas. Paging @blacktopmagazine.bsky.social, who owns this early one. Pictured at a meet-up organised by @hubnut.bsky.social before he was HubNut.

This is tonight, folks!

Merge two movies: The Purple Rosemary’s Baby of Cairo Last Tango and Cash in Paris Dances with Sea Wolves The Last King Kong of Scotland Wayne’s World Is Not Enough I wish they’d made a movie of the tv show, then we could also have had A Picture of Dorian Grey’s Anatomy

Very true, this. It doesn’t help that YouTube claims to pass 55% of ad revenue to creators, but actually it’s only 30% — certainly in my case, see photo. (YT support ignores all questioning of this.)

It’s ThrowbackThursday! Todays collections, 3/4 and side profile throwbacks are: #FordKA #CitroenVisa #RenaultTwingo Find all of these artworks and more apparel: t-shirts, mugs hoodies ect, on my website www.rjwcreativedesign.co.uk 1/2

Spotted a lovely 1990 Elk-test era Mercedes A140 today, still going strong. It even had wheel arches. Yeah, I know, right?

I got 7/10. I’m not sure if that’s embarrassingly high or embarrassingly low. We like this quiz.

This is *NOT* a Lotus - it's a Kia! The incredibly rare continuation build of the Elan, and one of possibly 2 in UK, and a car I was waiting for a missing part and a dry day to film for a long time! Video link in the comments

It’s ThrowbackThursday! Todays collections, 3/4 and side profile throwbacks are: #AustinAllegro #LotusespritS1 #TriumphDolomiteSprint Find all of these artworks and more apparel: t-shirts, mugs hoodies ect, on my website www.rjwcreativedesign.co.uk 1/2

“Today’s all about the qualifying show; tomorrow’s going to be all about the poncho.” #MartinBrundle #F1 #CanadianGp

My expensive new Dremel just died, under minimal load. I guess we can add Dremel to the list of ‘premium’ brands that are now Lidl-grade Chinese sh_t.

Welcome to The Norse Code

Found what is, quite possibly, the last undocumented K10 in the Greater North London area. No MOT since the pre-digital age, but a V5 change in 2012 suggesting long-term ownership. I doubt this will ever see another Domino’s Pizza or life outside the M25’s confines ever again… #weirdcarbs #k10micra

Us YouTube types* know how to party on a Saturday night. *said ironically. I don’t do this nearly enough to consider myself a YouTuber.

Well Merle is officially listed for sale now Will be sad to see him go but plans are coming in future. Message me if interested

Lovely present I got today from Ben @fourmarkstools A pair of planishing hammers in beautiful condition that will help me on the bodywork repairs of my E12. @fourmarkstools deals essentially with vintage and rare tools, so lookup on their insta page and ebay shop #carrestoration

Slightly increase a band: Full Body Wax 100 Home Counties Beat Pet Shop Youths System Build Sprout Emerson, Sea and Palmer Verydryport Convention

Some more pics from #EMWalhalla It was bigger than last year and so much variety 👌🏻😃

“Is that sheep road legal?” “No it’s on Shorn”

This’ll get @popup-breakdown.bsky.social all excited - check out the bodykit and the Centra Type 7s.

Ooff, an R5 Monaco in **3-door MANUAL** flavour! Not exactly cheap but just look at it.

We stock and make reproduction #TaxDiscs for your car and holders to put them in - miniphernalia.co.uk

Nope, real ones use GB still. Reject false idols

Apparently it’s #InternationalLeopardDay, so here’s two I spotted in the wild some years back.

Fun fact: Spiro Agnew is an anagram of ‘grow a penis.’

To anyone who lived in King's Heath, Brum, in 1984, and Dewsbury in the 90s and 00s: do you recognise this Midas? Can you remember who owned it? Trying to trace its history.

But it’s a great year for bluebells, so there’s that.

The #RoverSD1 was celebrated today at #Cowley. This Triton Green car was particularly striking if you pardon the pun - miniphernalia.co.uk

If you like Italian cars, mid engine sports cars, 70s cars and wedge shaped cars, then this Fiat X-1/9 is the perfect venn diagram of motoring for you! youtu.be/81W01LBJC-A

RX4!!! (Shouldn’t some sort of #WeirdcarBS klaxon go off at this point?)

I’m declaring today’s Rancho skirmish won, although a little more battlefield clean-up wouldn’t go amiss. The original Simca steel is very thin here, even where it hasn’t rusted, so there was a lot of chasing of holes.

Pick up the nearest book, turn to p. 42, and post the second sentence: “Note: Take great care not to scald yourself with hot coolant during this operation.”

Non-car content: There was a rather fine old GEC CRT television at the tip today, which I think some of my BlueSky friends might appreciate.

@grandthriftauto.bsky.social has just published his brilliant and traditional NEC oddities video 😃👌🏻 youtu.be/_bAVFjXQPKE?... #weirdcarbs

Just going to leave this here

This is a lovely thing, owned by a proper chap. It's also red and clearly VERY sporty. If you fancy a slice of rocking horse poo, and being mobbed by #weirdcarBS folk every time you arrive somewhere, then you really should buy it.

Here’s a familar sight to anyone who remembers driving on a UK motorway in the 1980s — a mirror full of Ford Granada that’s WAY closer than you’d like.

BARN FIND. I trailered up the Granada the other day in readiness for literally sending it to Coventry. It’ll be heading there soon to have a replacement Cologne V6 2.8 fitted, and hopefully I can then put it back on the road.