Quite right, Michelle. The UK is currently basking in sweltering heat and Pete was seemingly unaware that old, thick grease is so monumentally sticky especially in heat like today. Now, he's one third my age and - you're quite right - us older folk have accrued the wisdom of our years. Thanks to sit...

Just been helping my neighbour untangle nylon string wrapped around his ride-on mower. The underside of the cutter housing had been liberally coated with thick black grease and Pete was bewailing the fact that he'd have to drive to Halfords for some hand cleaner. Fear not, I cried; put a pile of sug...

Congratulations on continuing to expand the spares service, Derek. I wonder when that seal was introduced; my early Mk1 didn't, to the best of my knowledge, ever had one fitted. I'd have thought its presence would have encouraged the build up of silt at the central "summit" of the scuttle at the poi...

So pleased that the event was successful - sometimes organising meet-ups like these can feel like herding cats! Well done to all for supporting Peter.

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Just a reminder that tomorrow's the Cofton Park show; the weather forecast looks good enough, so I hope Pete's endeavours will be well rewarded by a good turnout.

On my right-hand MK1 the numbers were stamped onto a thin steel plate about a couple of inches long by around three-quarters of an inch wide, which was positioned on the edge of the scuttle just to the left of the windscreen wipers' motor before being anchored by one spot weld at either end and then...

Sod's Law strikes again. Just received a long-awaited appointment from the consultant's secretary at the JR hospital for - wait for it - Saturday 18th April at 2:15 You couldn't make it up. Anyhoo, may the sun shine on Crofton Park and your A40s.

Um, I think the mileage was something like 122,000 miles when she came to me in 1966, so another 8000-odd over the next eight or nine years sounds okay. Bar has just put her finger on my numerical error - my statement regarding the early mileage should of course read "hundred thousand" rather than j...

Built in October '58, I got her in '66... so, nearly in her twenties by the mid-seventies Dave.