a sad day for the parry household

[chugga boom]

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

[SteveGales]

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

[chugga boom]

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

[lee69]

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?

[chugga boom]

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!!

[lancialulu]

James

Reckon getting drunk is a good start to mourning!!!

See you at the AGM?

Tim

[sparehead3]

James,

Pass on my details and please let him know about the Bristol Area meeting ... nice to see another integrale down near Bristol

Steve

[chugga boom]

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??

[fay66]

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
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[rogerelias]

Me thinks Thrashed

[Chris5090]

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?

[chugga boom]

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!!!

[rogerelias]

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, never heard another word. SOME PEOPLE

[DavidLaver]

Why do they call it "common sense" when there's so little of it about?

David

[chugga boom]

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, never heard another word. SOME PEOPLE

I'LL TAKE A LEAF OUT OF YOUR BOOK!!!! creased laughin here at your responce