DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

fcd911 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 02, 2023 6:18 pm Yes, in fact I checked and reset the points gap before the event.

Did you check the ignition timing and re-set it if necessary after adjusting the points?
JW

I could do with another bucketful of adrenaline like this just now!





JW

Who? Me????
(Not so!) Sunny Somerset when we’re not chasing around the country competing.

JW

hot66 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2023 7:38 pm My dad used to have one just like that

The tractor and implement system that revolutionised farming in the late 40’s and 50’s!
JW

hot66 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2023 7:44 pm Some more for you if you like that kind of thing

My uncle had the bigger Allis Chalmers WF that came over in 1942 on the American Lend-Lease scheme. It was the only tractor on his farm until the early 1960’s

This is our latest classic purchase, built on 28th November 1949



It’s a rolling (and mowing and harrowing!) restoration
JW

Isn’t that just fabulous!
JW

All arrived safely yesterday.
Thanks Thomas!
JW

911hillclimber wrote: ↑Thu Oct 12, 2023 9:11 am I've never had so many old mileage cars ever before.

...................and your cars have never had such an old driver before!

JW

Even this wouldn't fit... Citroen My Ami, as seen in our local car park last week. Tourist. Nobody in Cornwall would own a car that does 28mph max and has a range of 46 miles... :lol: Unlikely to be a tourist, it would take the first week of your holiday to get to Cornwall, and then you'd have to s...

But the hole is separate from the louvre pressing…….

JW

911hillclimber wrote: ↑Sun Sep 24, 2023 7:24 pm Looks like a modern hillclimb paddock to me.

But that is what is likable about the hillclimbs, it is grass, it is full of club root motorsport and many of the people look like that!

Yep - same people, just 30+ years older

JW

Drive to the hillclimb hampered all the way by Saturday traffic, it gets worse.. A few pics of cars there; https://i.postimg.cc/g0Bg4zXb/P1080790.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/K80fvG53/P1080791.jpg Bill (kirklands904) climbing Shelsley Walsh in our 914/6 in his 85th year. 😎 His own 904FF is still not re...

No roll cage?
I thought it was going to be your “rallying “ exploits from yesterday!

Hi Dave,
Check and if necessary change your engine and gearbox mounts as well, if there’s excessive movement in those it can also spoil the gear change.
Cheers
JW