Nice photo of my Corrado at Tatton Park VW Show 2026 from yesterday.

Just when I think I'm making progress with my polo g40 restoration, my Corrado VR6 decides it wants some attention. This time by springing a leak. New parts arrived today so will hopefully get it back together tonight. I'm at the Scouthead & Austerlands Motor Show in it on Sunday.

Playing Dungeon Keeper 2 the last few nights. Fans of the first one always seem to slate this but I think it's unfair, yeah it's not as good as the first one but it's still pretty damn good. #RetroGaming

Unphased meetup in Rochdale yesterday. First proper outing for the Corrado this year. This is the first time they did a meetup at this location but hopefully they'll continue as it was very good even though it rained a bit.

An exciting Saturday afternoon reassembling and bench testing my windscreen wiper mechanism.

Had a mooch about on the moors on Saturday morning in the sun

getting the waterpump and alternator off the corrado turned out to be quite easy. Slacken engine mount bolts and jack the side of the engine up and there's loads of room. Meanwhile, rebuilding the gearbox for the polo. The challenge there is keeping it all clean!

getting the waterpump and alternator off the corrado turned out to be quite easy. Slacken engine mount bolts and jack the side of the engine up and there's loads of room. Meanwhile, rebuilding the gearbox for the polo. The challenge there is keeping it all clean!

Some of the highlights from Autoculture 2026 at Doncaster Racecourse today.

I seem to have a problem with buying new cars all the time. This one can't even be driven on the road 🤣 Nice bit of obscure racing history though.

Awesome, the cold start misfire on the Corrado is fixed! Culprit was a collapsed tappet. No real way I could work out to test my theory other than just replacing the tappets but it's worked. Very happy that I don't have to wait ten minutes for it to warm up before I can drive it anymore.

Re-discovering a 90s classic, Dungeon Keeper. Hugely addictive and with a dark sense of humour you just don't get in games any more. #RetroGaming

my engineering tipp-ex coming in handy again

doing some bits on my Corrado VR6 engine while it's off the road for winter. Replacing noisy tappets (suspect non-genuine ones when the engine was rebuilt before my ownership), leaky cam cover gasket and might as well get the injectors cleaned & tested while the inlet is off.

This year's Christmas Lego set. Built it quite quickly as my six year old son kept wanting me to do it while he was doing his own Lego sets. Very impressed with the detail on this but I wish it was silver like an actual delorean rather than mostly grey.

Polo G40 restoration now has it's body panels back on!

Urgh, only ready salted crisps left in the house. Does anyone actually like ready salted to the point they'd choose them over actual flavours? It's like crisps Maud Flanders would choose

I saw a rumour earlier on that the great Gary 'mani' Mounfield had passed away. Sadly it has turned out to be true. For me, the best bass player with some of the best bands ever most notably the Stone Roses. youtu.be/0xBzYsE4y1k?...

Primal Scream - Kowalski (Official Video)

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Debian trixie is at it's .2 release now so thought it was time to upgrade my desktop computers at home and at work. All good apart from the usual NIS & NFS throwing a hissy fit on my work computer which happens every time, it sorted itself out after just waiting a while for the initial reboot.

I've been replaying Command&Conquer: Tiberian Sun for the first time since the early 2000s after I found out I can run it on my Macbook using WINE. Love those bomber helicopters.

I cleaned my keyboard keys in my ultrasonic cleaner and put them on a car drying towel. It looks like someone has ran over Wordy from Look&Read

Weekend in the Lake District. Visited the Retro-Zone Museum in Keswick. Lots of toys & computers from the 80s. Lot of stuff that me & my sister had as kids. Great to look around and chat with the staff and other people in there about Sinclair computers, the best Amiga games. www.the-retro-zone.co.uk

Shaw and Crompton Classic Car Show highlights from yesterday.

A new way of recording A chain round the neck #FallFriday youtu.be/zNG392kcpEY?...

The Fall - Bury

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I thought Etsy was just for arts and crafts stuff but turns out it's ok for car parts too. 3d printed headlight adjusters fitted to the Corrado so the headlights aren't flapping around anymore. The smashed up bits are the remains of the old adjusters, one of them crumbled to pieces completely.

Some recent work on the polo g40 restoration. Bottom end built up and fixing up wiring looms ready to rewrap. Had to do the looms in the front room because no room in the garage, Gemma not impressed but at least I'm not in the garage.

Last day of holiday in Salou. My five year old son enjoyed some karting yesterday. Going to look into doing it regularly next year when he's six, local track does intro sessions for six year olds. Do we have the next Lewis Hamilton on our hands 😂

Awesome photo someone took of my Corrado VR6 at VW Festival this weekend just gone

Got the back end of my Polo G40 restoration onto some wheels for the first time in a long time. Feels like progress.

Replaying some of my favourite levels in Syndicate Wars last night. I think it's the best in the Syndicate series. Many will disagree and say the first is the best but I think this one just captured a Blade-Runner feel with the visuals and music perfectly. #RetroGaming #Retrocomputing #DOSGaming