Hello all
My name is Jeremy, 49-ish from just north of Milton Keynes. I have a wife & 2 married daughters. I'm a chemical engineer (or was, once) and work in the cement industry.
I was born in Merseyside but my family joined the £10 migrant exodus in the late 60s so I spent many years in Perth & Melbourne. Like most poor students at the time, I got the hang of using a spanner fixing such gems as a Chrysler Valiant AP5 with a slant-6 engine, two Type-3 VWs with air-cooled flat-bed rear engines and a Renault 12 that I had to start each morning with a hammer.
In 1988 I got my first company car and managed to keep my hands clean at the company's expense more or less until last year. I left the co. car scheme and bought a 98 Elite 2.5V6 on eBay in allegedly pristine condition. Then I had it converted to LPG. My objective, comfortable but relatively cheap luxury. Anyway, "pristine" in some eBay seller's dictionary has the same meaning as "renovator's delight" in the real estate industry. Having changed the timing belt and tensioners (100k and never previously touched, that could be pristine I guess), the cam covers, the DIS pack, the tyres, the HT leads, the aux belt etc, its finally relatively satisfactory.
Again, congratulations to LB66, MarksDTM, TheBoy and RMcB for getting the site up & running so well.