SO what did you you do with your Stag today?

[LAMBRETTLAD]

lovely car .............

cheers The GEM

[mike@thenook]

Looks gorgeous - even though it's yellow

[Ian F]

DSC_0224.jpgLove the wheels, got similar 15" on my Stag. All a matter of (dis)taste?🤐🤐

ian F

[RobinLegin]

It was till this evening 4 weeks since my green machine had been exercised. That V8 burble is just a wonderful noise. Management and dogs came too as we drove across middle beere moor and on through Corfe and up to to the Scott's Arms at Kingston.
Also found a solution to the gap at the top of the A post where the window and soft top meet. Simples.
However still finding it difficult to solve the squeaky passenger door when opened or closed. Tried PTF lubricant without success.
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[StagJonno]

Nice shade of green, Nigel. Lovely motor.

Jonno

[jakesmig]

Went service crewing to the McRae Stages rally at Dunkeld yesterday. Dopey driver rolled his Mk2 Escort, he and shotgun both ok but car a mess. Stag is 8 weeks on the road after restoration works & took it past the rally scrutineering sound check, 87dcb''s at idle & 107 at 3500 rpm, after that it just gets loud

Need to put on rear silencer boxes methinks.

[mole42]

Took my Stag on the inaugural Pegasus Charity Classic Car Run around the coastal roads near Weston-super-Mare and up Cheddar Gorge. Lots of fun, about 100 miles, wrong-slotted three times (I blame the course notes!).

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[mike@thenook]

Gave the old girl a jolly good polish with Autoglym rapid detailer and drove to the Warren classic car event at Danbury - I've never seen so many truly wonderful cars in one place and on such a beautiful day too.
The mix of old and new was endless and the overall value of cars there must have run into hundreds of millions .
Still of course the best car there for us was our Stag and on leaving having just seen a real 60's Mustang leave several feet of rubber on the road as he accelerated away from the exit I thought "why not" - floored the pedal and off we went in a cloud of smoking rubber and cheers from the bystanders!i earned a lot of points from my son on this - I think he called me a real lad

Definitely in the diary for next year!

[HersnotHis]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]41911[/ATTACH]Love the wheels, got similar 15" on my Stag. All a matter of (dis)taste?����

ian F

Imho on your part yes!. I accept people have a different opinion on these wheels but why do minilite replica owners keep having to promote their IMHO distaste? Do they feel guilty??

H

[KOY 23]

I'm not sure that you do accept other people's opinions, why do you keep repeating your well documented dislike for bonnet flutes as you call them, black cars and of course Minilites, you should meet Jeff as he has all three. The advantages given by Mike the Nook on the other thread are facts, not opinions. Had I not had incurable vibrations from my Stag wheels, I would not have changed them.

[susiedeer]

Imho on your part yes!. I accept people have a different opinion on these wheels but why do minilite replica owners keep having to promote their IMHO distaste? Do they feel guilty??

H

No, I am entirely sure that I agree that "each to his own" but I do accept that all are welcome to their opinion; I love my Minilite (15") replicas, they are balanced and cost less than re-furbishment or replacement and sorted out imbalance and look great without effort and I could find tyres that made the correct rolling dia to help towards a correct speedo reading.
I still have our originals and they will be re-furbished during the winter but unfortunately the tyres will be the most difficult part to choose to get the best alternative to fit the wheel arch correctly and meet the correct diameter.
I am unsure if I will re-fit the originals (once refurbished and endlessly rebalanced) as the new minilite ones, once I picked the best tyres to "fill" the wheel arches (as the XAS originals probably did but the original tyres are unfortunately now unavailable except at a crazy price and probably past their sell-by date) as the originals. And they (the minilite copies) are to my taste in my opinion, I feel they complement Stanley wonderfully.
But each to his own; by the way do you have the correct aluminium alloy wheel nuts to make the whole ensemble fully original (or some of the stainless ones where they don't fit correctly)?
Cheers
Andy

[mopoole]

Went to Barrow Hill yesterday for their grand re-opening gala. Those not in the know, Barrow Hill is the last functioning locomotive roundhouse which has just had a £1.25m lottery refit. On the way, up came 00000 on the speedo, now have a VERY low mileage Stag. 2017-0923 BARROW HILL_0000d.jpg

Select band of cars there, just 2 Stags, a couple of Triumph saloons, a Morgan and a 1936 Daimler2017-0923 BARROW HILL_0002d.jpg

Also there were Flying Scotsman and Tornado
All in all a grand day out

[mopoole]

Forgot the photo of the engines2017-0923 BARROW HILL_0006d.jpg

[jakesmig]

Imho on your part yes!. I accept people have a different opinion on these wheels but why do minilite replica owners keep having to promote their IMHO distaste? Do they feel guilty??

H

I've got minilites on mine, I think that is the first time I've ever mentioned that, and I can't remember once having mentioned an opinion either way relating to standard Stag wheels, but then I'm not generalising.

John

[Jeff]

I'm not sure that you do accept other people's opinions, why do you keep repeating your well documented dislike for bonnet flutes as you call them, black cars and of course Minilites, you should meet Jeff as he has all three. The advantages given by Mike the Nook on the other thread are facts, not opinions. Had I not had incurable vibrations from my Stag wheels, I would not have changed them.

Looks like mine, guess I'm not the only one that likes black and Minilite replicas, shame it hasn't got bonnet louvres.