PeteStupps

What area are you looking at, out of interest? Gumtree seems to be the place to find garage space near me around south London.

Really? I'm surprised. I think it's ridiculous to see cars driving around in blazing sunshine with their lights on. I understand it's the compromise for preventing people driving in the dark with no lights. It just seems to me that the more idiot-proof they make the world, the more idiotic we all become.

Hi Karen, i've shared this link to the 1300 group on Facebook. I expect there will be some takers for the parts catalogue and workshop manual (I've already got both myself). Condolences and thanks for posting the advert. Pete

We also had that pleasure. Saved me finding my torch in the glove box

Not the answer you are looking for but it's not too taxing to clean up and rebuild the original master cylinders. Hardest part is ejecting the piston assembly from the bore - I managed to force mine out using air pressure from a foot-pump. New rubber seals and aluminium lids are available

Pedantic Pete here: you would of course have to put your meter in series with the fuse, rather than across it, to measure the current 🙃 Come on John, it's a 48hr endurance event! And an alternator takes up less space than a spare windscreen, as mentioned elsewhere... This year's run was the first of my 3 attempts which didn't result in a dead dynamo. I've always carried a spare in the boot since it failed on a holiday in Wales in 2017. I'm still not going to convert to an alternator though - too stubborn and have built up a collection of dynamos now.

Blindingly intense headlights are the bane of the night-driving sections. If you're driving behind someone and notice your dip-beam is illuminating their head and the top of their car, do us a favour and adjust your frigging lights down. As an example I present the cover photo from the RBRR Banter facebook page. Nice photo but look at the beam spread along the hedge. Way too high for dipped.

You had me worried for a minute there Tim but now I see what you mean. Think we topped 50,000 rpm at one point

Nice one Jos, which route did you take through Scotland on Saturday?

Not a very exciting video, but it's the only one I took on my Go-Pro before chucking it in the boot and forgetting about it! Leaving Knebworth on Friday evening. May be of interest to @yorkshire_spam as his car takes centre stage

Resurrecting this thread for the fuel-economy anoraks among us. Be interesting to know what mileage others recorded on the run. Team 101 took the A9 'diversion' south through Scotland for fear of being washed away down the A82 through Glencoe. Odometer says total RBRR mileage was 1920 miles, but tracking my route on Google Maps tells me it was 2119 miles. Either way I'm very happy with fuel economy, which is either 40.6 or 44.5 mpg. Which seems a bit ridiculous when we were cruising a 70 on motorway sections wherever possible, and hooning around the country lanes otherwise.

Good topic Sam. And good work solving your problems on the run. My trusty Spitfire unexpectedly conked out on a single-carriageway section of the A303. Sudden and total engine death, but we managed to roll onto the verge. I was awake enough to realise it must be an ignition fault and checked for a spark at the points - there was none. Turned out the wire from coil to points had fatigued inside the insulation and was going high-resistance or open circuit when wiggled. There was enough slack to cut off the fatigued part and bodge together a crimp terminal for the Delco dissy points - although my first attempt earthed out on the distributor body after about 20 yards so we had a bit more fun getting off the road and into safety again. Tools used: multimeter, side-cutters, pliers, crimping tool (not really necessary but had one in the boot) Parts used: one ring crimp terminal and a half-inch of heatshrink borrowed off Alex Pedley - thanks Alex! Was quite satisfying as it was a very quick diagnosis, and the fix got us the remaining 110 miles back to Knebworth. And I finally discovered what had been causing the low-rpm misfire!

Not as bizarre as the geese but the funniest thing for me was the toilet transport at Popham airfield. Worth negotiating those bloody speed bumps to get a white-knuckle ride on this thing. Driver was very confident in his abilities, or maybe just had no regard for human life.

I see a couple of people have just joined the whatsapp group this morning - it's a bit quiet now of course!