Title: a sad day for the parry household Post by: chugga boom on 02 July, 2009, 08:09:46 PM well its a sad day for me today, i'm officially leaving my integrale ownership status, totally gutted to see it go but lack of space forces its sale :'( dianna if your reading send me an lmc membership form to pass on to the new keeper
Title: Re: a sad day for the parry household Post by: SteveGales on 02 July, 2009, 08:45:41 PM Sorry to hear that James.
Is the car staying in the U.K? I know a lot are heading back to Europe due to the exchange rate :( regards Steve Title: Re: a sad day for the parry household Post by: chugga boom on 02 July, 2009, 09:21:45 PM yes its stayin in the uk, nice fella from bath came to see it today, just won it on ebay so hopefully he'll keep it recons he's wanted 1 for yrs
Title: Re: a sad day for the parry household Post by: lee69 on 02 July, 2009, 09:47:32 PM yes its stayin in the uk, nice fella from bath came to see it today, just won it on ebay so hopefully he'll keep it recons he's wanted 1 for yrs It's not that Harvey again adding to his fleet again? Title: Re: a sad day for the parry household Post by: chugga boom on 08 July, 2009, 07:02:44 PM well today was the big day, john"s (the new owner) plan was to catch a train at6am this morning and be with me by 10am, at 9am he phoned me to say he was going to be late.........he was stuck in south wales as the train had gone on fire!!!!! anyway cutting a very long story short he arrived at wrexham station at 2.30pm, my dad collected him and the deal was done , HOW GUTTED WAS I WATCHING MY BABY DRIVE AWAY :'( as much as i didnt really use it and didnt think i'd miss it its strange now its gone, 8yrs i owned it for and regret selling already, oh well look on the brightside funds for all my other projects!!
Title: Re: a sad day for the parry household Post by: lancialulu on 08 July, 2009, 08:00:11 PM James
Reckon getting drunk is a good start to mourning!!! See you at the AGM? Tim Title: Re: a sad day for the parry household Post by: sparehead3 on 08 July, 2009, 08:25:55 PM James,
Pass on my details and please let him know about the Bristol Area meeting ... nice to see another integrale down near Bristol :) Steve Title: Re: a sad day for the parry household Post by: chugga boom on 11 July, 2009, 09:08:57 PM disaster!!!!! john had the car 2 days and succesfully blew it up BIG TIME!!! rod through block!!!, bear in mind i'd owned this car for 8yrs, serviced every 3000km since i've owned,drove perfectly down to bath and the next day,then suddenly just blew up, spoke to 2 specialists (both never heard of grale rods just giving up with normal road use), got my own oppinion so has my dad and another well known lmc members opinion whats yours??
Title: Re: a sad day for the parry household Post by: fay66 on 12 July, 2009, 04:39:07 PM disaster!!!!! john had the car 2 days and succesfully blew it up BIG TIME!!! rod through block!!!, bear in mind i'd owned this car for 8yrs, serviced every 3000km since i've owned,drove perfectly down to bath and the next day,then suddenly just blew up, spoke to 2 specialists (both never heard of grale rods just giving up with normal road use), got my own oppinion so has my dad and another well known lmc members opinion whats yours?? My opinion for what it's worth ::)I have two thoughts. 1/. missed a gear and over revved it, is there a rev limiter on an integrale? 2/ And in my opinion more likely, selected wrong gear when changing down with immediate over revving, and bang. Brian 8227 8) Title: Re: a sad day for the parry household Post by: rogerelias on 12 July, 2009, 09:11:23 PM Me thinks Thrashed ::)
Title: Re: a sad day for the parry household Post by: Chris5090 on 12 July, 2009, 09:54:46 PM Me thinks Thrashed ::) I'd second that. ::) Though we could just be being unfair. It could just be a genuine (all be it rare) Conrod or Big End bolt failure? ??? Title: Re: a sad day for the parry household Post by: chugga boom on 13 July, 2009, 08:55:26 AM thanks for opinions, basically you have all said the same as others and i think missing a gear is probable, rev limiter ...NO IDEA!! i never went over 6k as there is really no need to, turbo runs out of breath at about 5.5k so its time to change up, absolutly sick as a pig about whats happened but thanks for your opinions they reasure me that this is NOT MY FAULT!!!
Title: Re: a sad day for the parry household Post by: rogerelias on 13 July, 2009, 11:05:31 AM Glad that the person is a decent person, a similar thing happened to me a few years ago. I sold a Beta Spider to a guy from London who rang me one evening about the car, i told him all about it, been to Le Mans and back without a problem, etc ,etc, i told him where i lived ( miles away), he said that he would think about it. Telephone call at 6am, to say he had driven from London and was in the next village to me, i collected him. we went for a drive , i let him drive the car from cold, anyway off we go ,and he is nearly red lining the engine , when i said pull over , i'll drive back, you can,t drive it live a modern car etc. Anyway he bought the car, paid cash, and off he went, 4 hours later i got a call from him saying he was on the motorway and the and the car had blown up, and what am I going to do about it, my reply was ,spend your cash, and enjoy the rest of the day, as you thrashed the car, 8) never heard another word. SOME PEOPLE ???
Title: Re: a sad day for the parry household Post by: DavidLaver on 13 July, 2009, 11:20:40 AM Why do they call it "common sense" when there's so little of it about? David Title: Re: a sad day for the parry household Post by: chugga boom on 13 July, 2009, 09:32:59 PM Glad that the person is a decent person, a similar thing happened to me a few years ago. I sold a Beta Spider to a guy from London who rang me one evening about the car, i told him all about it, been to Le Mans and back without a problem, etc ,etc, i told him where i lived ( miles away), he said that he would think about it. Telephone call at 6am, to say he had driven from London and was in the next village to me, i collected him. we went for a drive , i let him drive the car from cold, anyway off we go ,and he is nearly red lining the engine , when i said pull over , i'll drive back, you can,t drive it live a modern car etc. Anyway he bought the car, paid cash, and off he went, 4 hours later i got a call from him saying he was on the motorway and the and the car had blown up, and what am I going to do about it, my reply was ,spend your cash, and enjoy the rest of the day, as you thrashed the car, 8) never heard another word. SOME PEOPLE ??? I'LL TAKE A LEAF OUT OF YOUR BOOK!!!! creased laughin here at your responceTitle: Re: a sad day for the parry household Post by: rogerelias on 13 July, 2009, 10:29:07 PM No problem James, I found out my name had been changed over the weekend, alot of people kept saying "your impossible". ??? i<m going to stick to roger , easier to spell, Lovely Gussie by the way, would love you to take me out in it one day ::)
Title: Re: a sad day for the parry household Post by: chugga boom on 14 July, 2009, 11:12:45 AM any time roger, you can have a go yourself if you want
Title: Re: a sad day for the parry household Post by: rogerelias on 14 July, 2009, 01:52:48 PM Thanks James ,will speak to the diary, and do lunch at Sue pub ;)
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