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Keep Your Eyes Open For Retro Ford Mag

The October issue of Retro Ford mag is out on Thurdsday. You’d better run out and buy it because the van is being featured. Chris from the mag came up a few weeks ago for the shoot. The day was pissing it down and we couldn’t use the original location I’d found near the centre of Leeds.

After a bit of head scratching, we came up with a place on the Leeds ring road that used to be a second hand car dealers. It was called Route 2 near to the JCT600 Porsche dealers. The place is run down, and there was a canopy that we could use. As soon as we’d parked up a security guard came out to see what we were doing. After we’d explained everything he was quite happy to let us continue.

After a couple of hours there we drove into the centre of Leeds on the A58M to block traffic while Chris drove next to me and the photographer hung out of the window to take pictures. The only ‘beep’ we got was on the final run when the person behind Chris got a bit frustrated, so we both dropped it down a gear and floored it!!

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Scotch Corner Meet

Every month or two Capri owner Andy Ellis organises a meet at the Scotch Corner hotel. These have usually been on a Saturday and I’ve not been able to get to them, but the latest was on a Sunday so I managed it.

It took about an hour to get up there, and it was a glorious day, so enjoyed the 70 mile blast up the A1. At the meet was Dave and Tom (Mk14Dr and Pyeman from OldSkoolFord.co.uk). I’d not seen Pyeman since the Classic Ford show in June so it was good to catch up. He was a bit surprised at the cost of soft drinks in the hotel bar though. Two pints of Coke cost £6!
Most of the cars there were Capris, but there were some interesting ones, including a couple that had been in Classic Ford mag.

Anyway, enough chat, here are the pictures:

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It keeps happening…

..but I’m not classing it as a breakdown because I was on my drive. The engine seems to have a habit of shaking bolts loose. It has happened with a couple of bolts that hold the bellhousing to the engine.

But twice now, the starter motor bolts have been shaken loose so the starter pops out of its hole. You can usually tell when it’s happening because the starter gets progressively louder over a period of days before it pops out completely. But this time it did it just the once. I’d been up to Toys R Us with my daughter to get a birthday present for someone and it got louder. Came home. Then later I was going out in it, and it popped out, and I was left with a loud grinding sound.

I need to get under there to tighten them up again, but it’s raining…

Note to self. Get some Loctite.

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