Tag Archives: My Old Smoker
Well, the Mini failed its MOT.
With all the work that has been done to him, what with welding plates into both sill and the floor, Rex rebuilding the top of the engine and all the other bits and pieces I’ve done I am very surprised. He didn’t fail on any of that.
He did fail [...]
Having washed the now nearly-ready for MOT Mini this afternoon I took the camera out and snapped a shot of him basking in the afternoon sunlight.
It wasn’t until I was posting a thread on the Mini Club Forum that I really looked at the picture.
Look how shiny he really is! The reflection on the [...]
That was the line thrown at me by my wife after I had changed to head down the garage. Following some success with Goat’s welder a couple of weekends ago, I went back to do some more on Wednesday last week. The welder wouldn’t feed the wire. Bugger. With some embarrassment [...]
All the best ideas happen with the influence of alcohol. This was just such an occasion. We were camping in the New Forest last September and one of the Mini Club members thought it could be fun to go to Ireland for a tour of the Guinness factory. I’m not a lover [...]
Today was the annual Miniworld Action Day at Castle Combe Circuit near Swindon in Wiltshire. As My Old Smoker is off the road and I needed to get a few parts to fix him we took my Mum’s Mini to the show instead.
With a two and a half hour (uhuh, 2.5 hours, two stops [...]
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