Lol that sort of thing used to be my philosophy, when I was a teenage driver. I once drove home from Aberdeen in the winter with no main beam; I started home by just holding the stalk in the flash position but I soon got fed up of driving like this so I rigged up a bungee to keep the stalk pulled forward. When someone came the other way I had to push and hold it to turn the main beam off...
I once bodged a radiator cap on my mate's Transit when we were out working, from four Pepsi cans and some underlay! I cut the concave bottom out of three of the cans and dropped them into the radiator filler (no header tank) with a layer of underlay between each. I cut the bottom two inches off the last can, cut slots up the side, rammed it over the top and wired it on with some lockwires. Got us home no bother...
Ahh, Anth's van...Was a resttrap and no mistake. The battery way so f***ed he obtained a truck battery from the lorry yard next to his dad's lockup, stood it on the floor of the pbuttenger footwell and just permanently wired a set of jump lead cables to the van electrics under the bonnet. Unfortunately he fed them through a nasty hole in the bulkhead which rubbed the insulation away on the positive, which caught fire when a load of us were headed down to Monsters of Rock in 1995...
Sorry, this turned into a bit of a tale... :P It really was a f***ed up shed of a van though.
-- Abo
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parking initiativeHa!! More pandering to the disorganised motorist allowing them to cause inconvenience to others. New phone parking scheme launched Drivers in central London and on a busy west London road will be able...
