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General Car Chat / Re: Pick your favourite.
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The 1970 Jenson is a steal for around £40000 to £50000.
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It really does look much better, but BMW are not about to fit them as standard. That would be an extra £10,000.
Chav my zorsts.
In photo one I thought they looked on the large side but in photo two they look great. Looks like a proper M car now.
Passed car test Feb. 1978.
Passed mine in 1969.
Yep, almost a fossil.
Lord Opti bought a cheap Chinese self propelled thing at the end of last summer, and he's probably used it a few times by now so will be able to give a review.
It had a beer can holder! Which is all you need to know!
Parker Brand petrol mower with drive and a large 53 CM cut.
About £300 on Ebay but shop around and I reckon you can find one for £100 less. I believe I paid £190 ish.
Can't fault it for the money other than being glacially slow.
Chinky 173cc 4 stroke lump seems OK.
This one M'lud?
https://www.parkerbrand.co.uk/17-self-drive-petrol-lawnmower
Maybe you could get it remapped to give it a bit more Oomph!
Had a look around a few places, and quite liking this
https://www.charlies.co.uk/stihl-rm253-t-self-propelled-petrol-lawnmower.html
I dont want too big.
I dont want a fabric collection 'box'
Felt comfy to use and decently made.
It is now difficult to start, the pull handle feels like its going to fall of at the next pull every time.
Ok....it did fall off at the next pull
2 metal 'weights' plastic riveted on....or were....no chance of a start now
From memory the Suffolk Punch shares the same engine as the Suffolk Colt so opens up another spares avenue. The recoil starter is held on by three nuts and once removed exposes the metal parts that fling out to engage the starter and then spring back. The spring, cord etc is straightforward so I assume the fling out bits have come adrift. If you can't find a replacement and you're feeling brave, you can knock up a bracket to fit the flywheel slots and start it with a drill. You just need to be very quick at removing the socket once it starts.
The carb is straightforward as you've probably already found out but both of these models were prone to fuel tank tap leaking. If you know someone in a machine shop, both the footplate (cutting edge) and blade can be sorted. We used to remove the blade (chain driven) and stick it in a lathe with a running centre. You could always tell when one of us was doing it by the ping ping ping as the cutter touched the cylinder blade.
Yes the pawls have come off, one 'could' go back on, other has sheared, Ive not found a similar enough one yet. I'll not be going down the drill route.
If I could get gaskets, carb be ok. Or a replacement may work if they fit. dunno.
Either way, time, and need to cut the grass are against me.
No final decision yet.
May continue to play with the old one in the background, but need something that works and is appropriate for what I have.
Lord Opti bought a cheap Chinese self propelled thing at the end of last summer, and he's probably used it a few times by now so will be able to give a review.
It had a beer can holder! Which is all you need to know!
I've often thought that Jay Leno would be a good bloke to have a pint with.
I wonder what the topic of conversation would be
I know, pick a car make, but lets sit in one while we chat.
It's Lord Opti, so the topic would be 19 year old blondes with big tits!