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Speaking of classics, i just got myself a bike, a late 80s Minsk 125. It had been standing outside for some time now, under a cover. I heard it had something wrong with the carbuerator, which i belive is because it has no damn airfilter. It has spark however, so the dyno works. The engine turns too. All the cables are rotten to shit, so right now it has no brakes or anything like that.

I plan on getting a fresh set of cables and a new set of everything that is made of rubber on it, besdes the wheels. The wheels are fine, they inflated with no leaks, rolled on the trailer with no problems.

Anyone has any experience with vintage bikes? What should i do first to get it in shape until summer?

Got a 3-gear engine with everything working, from 1988. Not period correct, but the closest thing i could get from the same manufacturer. Runs great, in fact it ran for a minute so damn great it caught fire.

>>17540

>Be me

>Security guard, just lost last car in accident

>Need a new car now, insurance checks come in, want something….new, kinda sporty; a fixer-upper.

>Craigslist.png

>See a 1985 Jaguar XJ-S HE

>She looks beautiful, curvy, sporty. European.

>Looks up XJ-S specs

>V12 Engine, for 4 grand

>TooGoodToBeTrue.mov

>Go and check her out

>Some hick kid owns it; wine red, gray bucket seats, she starts right up…fucker put flowmasters in for exhausts, she sounds pissed, like she wants to come out of her yard prison. To top it off? Round quad headlights, she looks like Christine's British cousin.

>Kid talks some bullshit story about going to college, I want her checked out so we find a mechanic

>Next Saturday, we go to a mechanic, get her checked out, oil leaks, shit like that. Doesn't seem too bad. Turns out the real reason the kid wants it sold is his black girlfriend who wants a Minicooper. Lol

>She needs new tires, turns out hick-boy's been trying to Deja-vu this old Brit around his neighborhood.

>FuckIt.bitcoin

>Pay for $400 dollar Goodyears

>I now own a British Sportscar, I am the midlife crisis my dad never wanted.

>less then a month later, shit starts.

>The bitch decides not to start one day

>OhFuckAlready?

>Call up mechanic; mechanic ops out

>Fuck

>Don't trust just anybody with my car, too many scammers in town to trust. Start going through my own personal list of mechanics; I might not be smart enough to change the oil, but I sure as shit know who I trust to change the oil.

>Almost everyone is chicken shit and fucks off as soon as they hear the word "Jaguar"

>Even call a few places who claim to specialize in British cars, and classic British cars

>British Classic Car place cuts me off as soon as I say "Jaguar"

>"NOOOPE, SWORE TO CHRIST I'D NEVER TOUCH ONE"

>"But you're a British car place you say?"

>"DONT MATTER"- click

>Half the town's acting like this fucking car climbed into their bed, fucked their sister, raped their mother, shot their dog and didn't even have the god damned common courtesy to make coffee in the morning.

>I know V12 engines are bullshit to work on, but fucking hell is it not a combustion engine?

>Finally get a place who claims to specialize in Jags, especially older ones.

>More desperate than a whore in the second hour of mass. Go to them

>Wait 2 fucking months just to hear back from them, get a massive bill from the motherfuckers, 1200 dollars; turns out the Electrical Sending Unit died.

>The owner's on the phone worrying about stupid shit. The rugs being old, specific license plate screws, shit like that

>"Anon, I put in new license plate screws, that'll be an extra 25 bucks for them"

>Two fucking screws that I didn't even ask for

>You gotta be shitting me, joker.

>Want so badly to grab this Jamie Hyneman looking motherfucker and restring her Alternator belt with his guts.

>"I didn't ask for that tho"

>"Well you see, we felt that an official Jagua-"

>"I just need my car to run, I think it's more important that it runs than it has fancy screws"

>He almost immediately backtracks.

>"Weeeelll, this time it's on the house. Can you pick her up at 3 tomorrow?"

>Go there to pick up glorious Thatcher-mobile. See at least 3 E-Types in the back mechanic shop.

>ShouldComeHereAfterClosing.pdf

>After many break downs, bullshit fixes and months later (turns out the dumb hick fuck didn't even put the right kind've battery in it so that fucked the alternator), we finally find another mechanic who's not a rapist.

>Older guy, business fuck, but respectful.

>Had to get a valve head gasket fixed, he owns 2 Jags. we start talking in his office. At this point, I've had this gloriously curvey, expensive and greedy Thatcher-mobile for 1 year now.

>Wows him with knowledge I've acquired about the XJ-S during this time. How it was originally meant to replace the E type, how it was hated but went on for 21 years, the prince of darkness Lucas, etc.

>Turns out this old dude used to sell E-Types when he was my age, even sold XJ-S' and was a manager at a Jag dealership when he was 35

>Dude's like 64.

>IGotRespectForHim.gif

>Get bill for ThatcherMobile, jaw fucking drops.

>$500 bucks, now keep in mind, for every little thing for this car I've been paying like a fucking grand and up, so seeing this is more relieving than getting rid of a hemorrhoid in July.

>Pay the bill, shake the man's hand. Look at my old Jag. She may be a bitch, and no one may want her, she may have cost me a lot, but I'd rather no other car.

>Daily drive her still, people think I'm fucking crazy. Maybe I am; but there's no feeling in the world like being behind the wheel of your own car

>Well except for pussy maybe

>>17995

Here you go, 700+ pages on what to do for these cars.

>>18485

Not to play devil's advocate but people want to upgrade their current products because they're functionally better (at least supposed to be) and to cut back on the frustration dealt with them, simple as that. They'll probably be some left for those weirdos anyway.

>Youtube has thousands, if not tens of thousands of videos of people smashing obsolete tech.

It's fun to destroy stuff (until 5 minutes pass or you're infantile) and previous paragraph.

>The worst one I ever saw was a TV camera from the '60s somebody had managed to get a hold of, of which a collector told him was 1 of only 2 known left to exist and was worth a five-digit figure easily, and the guy filmed himself smashing it to pieces with a golf club.

Now that's just straight-up brainless and nihilistic.

>Buildings too - particularly those made in the Victorian era are being destroyed as we speak.

Or they keep the exterior untouched but gut the inside and (((modernize))) it with plastic, glass, and stainless steel that the blank white light will reflect off of painting the room an emasculated subtle blue-gray as you sit in your IKEA chair at your IKEA desk i.e. the Reichstag and Battersea the latter being turned into a plaza with an Apple HQ and luxury apartment complex.

>>18485

I should not have read this post so early in the morning. Not only are there channels that destroy old shit, but new shit as well, with no reason. Just to be an asshole.

>This is society's attitude not just towards cars, but towards anything historic that had a practical purpose.

The idiotic ideas to further ruin Noter Dame, by adding "modern" touches to it. I don't understand whats so hard to get that it should just be rebuilt the way it looks, but I guess that's the point. They want to take it and find a way to fuck it up. "make it a homeless shelter" or "make a garden" Yeah how about fuck you. Destroying history should be met with beatings. This isn't the past where burning down the Great Library was making some sort of retarded point. And the Lighthouse of Alexandria was never saved.

And while there are people out there set out to destroy don't forget plenty of people also restore cars and other things too. I've been watching a few restore channels where people fix up old things to look new again. From old pistols to a Nintendo. People out there still care.

>>18488

Tell me that's a joke. They're not really going to turn it into that, are they?

>>18501

Modern touches? More like a hard juicy slap on the ass, if (((the Vatican))) actually did decide to burn it down for money you know they used Pakis or maghrebis to do the deed. Also I think the fire is a popular myth, retarded rulers (niggers as time progresses) of Egypt kept banning intellectuals until the library wasn't cared for and finally there wasn't much left in it.

>plenty of people also restore cars

Yeah but more often than not they supe or nig them up instead of restoring them to stock condition, every fucking video of a Volkswagen A1 and A2 platform is slammed and niggered. Also it's not a joke and is worse than I thought, they're redoing the smokestacks and are making the exterior glass, https://batterseapowerstation.co.uk/.

>>18501

>Not only are there channels that destroy old shit, but new shit as well, with no reason. Just to be an asshole.

It's funny to them. Early this year RLM, which many of those who browse /tv/ will be familiar with, bought 2,000 vintage Star Wars action figures and immersed them in a large vat of acetone. Nothing of true value was destroyed, but I'd wager it has fucked the second hand market for those figures on an unimaginable scale.

>And the Lighthouse of Alexandria was never saved.

The crusades were a mistake. The whole of Europe should have just declared war on the bastards instead and split the countries into their empires

The Lighthouse stood for hundreds of years growing slowly decrepit, and then they pulled what was left down. There are no traces of it left, and the lighthouse currently masquerading in its place is a fucking joke compared to the original. The closest you can come to it these days is the Citadel of Qaitbay, which uses the Lighthouse's stone in its construction. Problem is that's now a historical landmark in its own right, so you couldn't just demolish it and rearrange the stone back into its original form.

The same thing will happen to the Pyramids, I fear. I reckon they have perhaps 100 years left before they too start to fall apart. And instead of rebuilding them to how we remember them or restoring them to their original gold-plated construction, they'll probably dismantle them and build a commemorative smaller pyramid in the area which they once stood, using as much original stone as possible. By far the biggest problem we have are moralfags who believe everything should be left as it were. Otherwise we'd probably have a fully rebuilt Colosseum that could host all sorts of events by now, instead of the giant smashed china cup it currently resembles occasionally putting on a charity concert or whatever every now and then. Because the very idea or notion of "restoration" is sacrilege to them. Thus it's "better" to have something that could collapse at any moment over something that's structurally sound but only has 75% of its original material remaining.

It's why rusted shitheaps of cars from the pre-war era that are visibly falling apart by the second sell for digits unthinkable for clean, robust restorations. The only known surviving Toyota Model AA in the world was a Russian spoil of war that was used as a farm mule for 60 - 70 years and had its entire drivetrain replaced with a truck's, including the engine, which had a new grill crudely built where the original used to stand. It will now slowly rust into a pile of brown metallic dust in some museum as nobody dares to restore it.

>>18504

Newsflash; regardless of what you do with a car, whether you daily drive it hard or keep it as a garage queen, eventually you are going to need to restore it. The air will always have some moisture in it. Metal will always have some impurities in it. Rubber will always liquidize. Unless you manage to create a perfect vacuum, you can never leave a car alone else it will, given enough time, become a pile of rust. Even Corvettes will eventually rot - just look at the sorry state of (((Peter Max)))'s collection. These were each mint condition, meticulously hand-restored or low-mileage, unblemished examples depending on the year as part of a VH1 promotion. They were given to a regular Joe under the knowledge that there was no way he'd be able to afford their upkeep, rather than the way I'd have done it - give 2 to 15 lucky people. And then that kike kept rumoring an "art project" (which would have ended up in them having horrendous paintjobs applied to them and cheerleaders constantly stomping on the backseat if you've read the story) that never came to fruition.

>And while there are people out there set out to destroy don't forget plenty of people also restore cars and other things too.

That's true, but the main point I have is it's far easier to destroy than to build. You go to forums and most restorations that don't have constant cashflow attached to them take about 2 years to complete, provided they don't go on hiatus. There was a story that was well-covered about a guy who found his dad's exact TVR and was doing well with the restoration until his wife divorced him. Had that not happened, he was probably 3 - 6 months away from completing it. 5 years later it's still not done, and his last post was in 2017. Nobody knows what happened to it.

With regards to Battersea, it should never have been shut down. Nuclear energy is the only viable future for clean power. Chernobyl and Fukushima only happened due to being the worst-case scenario of a pre-existing worst-case scenario. The former was forcing the power plant to undergo conditions that it would never encounter in the real world on a flawed RBMK design, with backup diesel generators that couldn't supply feedwater quickly enough. Fix any of those three conditions and it would not have happened. But of course, that was enough to propagandize the idea that nuclear power plants are totally unsafe and should all be shut down.

>>18485

>describes a fetish that I have in a negative light

I f-feel personally attacked ;_;

click spoilered mp4 if you want to see some of the extent that the fetish reaches, those cars are herpas that cost like $50 individually or something but they make lovely crunching sounds under those heels

Reminds me of when my older sis used to bully me~ no bully pls

>>18508

You deserve bullying

>>18508

Why would do this

>>18508

>>18502

My limited understanding is the power station is unused right? I feel like they could have done something good with it that doesn't involve modern art being jizzed on it. Something useful maybe. All my knowledge about the thing is the cover of Animals.

>>18504

It's pretty depressing. From dust till dust, but an effort should always be made to save things from our past. I've always had a interest in the 7 wonders and the only one left crumbles.

>>18508

What a colossal fucking waste. Hope that uncultured Stacy gets ran the fuck over multiple times when the bitch least expects it. Apparently that's a "sacrifice", meaning someone sent all those cars willingly. How fucking cucked do you need to be to waste that much money on something that could bring so many others joy? I've always been more of a Hot Wheels man myself, but there are people who like those Herpas and Oxfords and other small 1/76 or 1/87 models, and that thundercunt probably destroyed a good $200 worth.

>>18512

Now this is interesting, 8 columns from the Temple of Artemis went into the construction of the Hagia Sophia I always swore it was spelt Sofia - guess that's the Mandela Effect for you meaning that's yet another building which has parts of an Ancient Wonder inside. It does amaze me with sadness though that the Pyramids are the last of their kind. How in the space of 1,500 years we went from 7 complete Wonders to the remnants of just 1, to the extent that we don't even know for sure if the Hanging Gardens of Babylon even existed.

>>18508

I take comfort knowing at least the modern world didn't kill 6/7 of them and we still have a lot left in Europe as long as none of that's destroyed too with diversity. I know this far of topic from cars.

>>18567

>Czeckia

Not to insult you, but literally nobody uses that term. Don't let the government force a non-organic name that none of the people like onto your country. Matter of fact, more people use Czechoslovakia than Czechia.